Comment styling is an often-overlooked part of blog design. After all, they’re at the bottom of the page, not seen until visitors already have an impression of your site, and they’re really there for function more than anything else. Why invest a lot of time in styling them and making them really stand out?
But good comment styling can set your designs apart from your competition. Taking the time to design your comments, and your comment form, can make a huge impression on your regular visitors. It subconsciously implies you care about their opinion and want them to engage in discussion on your site. Below you’ll find some best practices and examples of creating a beautiful commenting system on your next blog design.
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Today for the very first time in hongkiat.com, we are releasing stock photos. The collection is made up of 45 high quality fruit photos and they are all free to download with no strings attached.
You can use these photos in all sorts of individual or commercial project without any restriction. However, you may not be able to resell, hotlink, re-distribute or make profit out of these photos. Please link to this article if you find these photos useful and would like to help spread a word.
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Good news for designers. Our friend Stefan from Artbox7.com is feeling extremely generous today and has decided to play a small Santa role on hongkiat.com this December.
Artbox7 is a site with lots of designers’ collectibles – icons, vectors and Photoshop brushes. Winners of today’s contest will be able to access Artbox7 and get the things needed for your design, absolutely free.
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Back when Mickey Mouse was drawn by Walt Disney in 1928, it was all pencil and paper, and the frequent use of the ever dependable eraser. More than 80 years has passed and yet we still see Mickey Mouse cartoons all around the world.
That 80+ years has also brought advances in computer technology and software which now allows us to move away from the pencil, paper and the ever dependable eraser, to advanced drawing applications and input (drawing) devices. In this edition/article, we’ll be featuring the best 40+ tutorials on drawing cartoons with Adobe Illustrator and we hope it would expand your creativity and imagination to be the next Walt Disney.
Here are some related post you might be interested:
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First of all, we’d like to thank all readers who had participated in the Billings Mac application contest. It’s an upsetting task considering the fact that we can only choose 3 winners out of more than 250 interested commentators.
Anyway, we have good news for participants who did not make it, or readers who came to know about the contest after it’s closed. If you are still interested in getting Billing application, you can now buy it at a discounted rate.
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Bright colors can scare off a lot of web designers, especially when you use a few of them together. It takes more care and precision to create a design that uses eye-popping color well, without being overwhelming or looking amateurish. And if you’re combining contrasting colors, extra care needs to be taken to prevent your design from being jarring.
The blog designs featured below make excellent use of bright colors. Most use multiple colors together, though a few take a more monocromatic approach. Some are set against dark backgrounds; others are set against white. And in case you don’t want to jump into an original design like these, there are a number of blog templates at the end that use similar bright color schemes.
Here are more examples of beautiful blog design we’ve previosly showcased:
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Vintage-inspired designs, when done well, can end up looking even more current and relevant than an entirely new and modern design. Whether it’s only taking inspiration for your typography, color scheme, or other elements, or whether you create a design that would feel entirely at home in the 1950s, 1920s, or any point before, using vintage and retro styles can be fun and challenging.
Below are forty designs inspired by retro, vintage, and antique elements. They range from campy to completely professional, and everything in between. Use them as inspiration for creating your own vintage designs.
Here are more retro and vintage related articles we’ve previously published:
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There’s an ancient Chinese proverb that says "工欲善其事，必先利其器"; the direct English translation means "In order to do a good job, once must have a good tool." When it comes to the design industry, the tool is Photoshop.
Photoshop is truly a designer’s best friend. It is used to design almost anything, be it icons, websites, photo enhancements, etc and the list goes on. In fact, in one of our earlier post "Stunning Apple Concept Design", most of the gadgets were created with Photoshop too. It’s never a tough job learning how to create a gadget when you know the basics and the next thing you probably need is – good tutorials in conversational tone.
Here’s a list of 31 wonderful Photoshop Tutorials that gives you step by step tutorial how gadgets are created. Full list after jump
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