Comics of the week #130

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.

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Comics of the week #130

Free download: 40 Exclusive Photoshop Patterns

We’re back with another great exclusive freebie for you. This one is a Photoshop pattern file (.PAT) which contains 40 beautiful textures that you can apply to your designs

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Free download: 40 Exclusive Photoshop Patterns

Atomicdust: explaining design process

A St. Louis design group announced a special gathering at a local design studio for a program entitled, “Educational Night: The Business of Design.” The evening’s program was hosted by a local design studio that is making leaps and bounds in the local and national scene, so it didn’t take long for the reservations to pour in until there were no more spaces to be had

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Atomicdust: explaining design process

Telling stories with your designs

Websites are incredibly versatile as a medium, to be used to display information and other content, and if well designed they can do this in an enjoyable way that’s easy for the reader to digest. This can be done through combining a site persona with an ongoing narrative, consistent throughout, which will all come together to create a ‘story’ through which you can deliver relevant content.

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Telling stories with your designs

Customizing the WordPress login page for consistent branding

Despite the consumer-focused nature of the WordPress content management software, an increasing number of larger organizations and even businesses are adopting WordPress to manage their site’s content — especially corporate blogs and customer outreach programs that take advantage of social media and interaction humanize a company’s brand. These larger organizations aren’t content to let their backend user interface be branded using WordPress logos and design cues; instead, they prefer to customize the software and ensure that all of their employees know that they’re working within the company’s structure and purview. It might sound complicated, but customizing the WordPress interface is actually pretty easy, especially when customizing the initial login screen that brings users to the traditional Dashboard homepage

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What’s new for designers, May 2012

The May edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, jQuery plugins, grid tools, CSS tools, WordPress resources, productivity and business tools, responsive design resources, and some really great new fonts. Many of the resources below are free or very low cost, and are sure to be useful to a lot of designers and developers out there. As always, if we’ve missed something you think should have been included, please let us know in the comments.

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Comics of the week #129

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Comics of the week #129

Free download: Media Black UI Kit (PSD)

Today we have another great freebie for you created exclusively for WDD by Grafpedia. This one is called the Media Black UI Kit and contains graphic elements suitable for any sort of media elements, such as video and audio players, along typical navigational items.It’s provided as a layered PSD file

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Free download: Media Black UI Kit (PSD)

30+ Examples of Facebook timelines

Over 500 million people use Facebook worldwide. It’s no wonder companies and brands are keen to make an impact using the social networking site with their respective pages. The new Facebook Timeline feature has been rolled out over the last few months for both profiles and pages.

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30+ Examples of Facebook timelines