6 Amazing Posts From Web Design Blogs

Team SocFX's web design style is not always the best flavour. That being said, I thought I'd open up your horizons and inspire you with some of the Internets best design-blog posts..

These folks below are a must read as they never post.. just to post; and each article they write is a well thought out plan of art. Maybe one day SocFX will be up there with them? Enjoy.

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Hongkiat

This is a great post with loads of resources for PhotoShop to enable quick web 2.0 logo creation.

How Web 2.0 Logos Are Drawn

Ever wonder how these guys draw their Web 2.0 Logos? Sometimes its nice to learn from others, build up the basic skills and start your own creativity from there.

In this Photoshop tutorial, I’m going to reveal you some of the nice Web 2.0 logos, how you can draw their logo exactly the same (well, not really 100% though) with Photoshop.

Read more: Web 2.0 Logos

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DesignInformer

Believe it or not, DI is only a few months old and has already captivated many designers including myself with their great content.

Drastically Improve Your Designs

Design is everywhere. We see it in on billboards as we drive down the street. When we go to a restaurant and look at the menus, we see it. When we sit down on our couch and watch television, it’s visible on the commercials, advertisements, and even the movies and TV shows.

Read more: Drastically Improve Your Designs

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Webdesignerdepot

Now this was a hard choice being that there are so many great/popular posts over at WDD.

12 essential rules to follow when designing a logo

The logo is the face of any brand — the very first impression — so its design is extremely important.

When executed correctly, a logo is a powerful asset to your client’s brand.

However, creating an effective visual representation of a brand requires much more than just graphic design.

Like any line of work that involves a set of specific skills, logo design requires plenty of practice and experience for it to be successful; knowledge is definitely power for any graphic designer.

For this reason, we have outlined 12 essential rules to follow in order to design an effective logo.

Read more: 12 Essential Rules to Follow When Designing a Logo

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Theprodesigner

TheProDesigner always constructs a gripping post and knows exactly what we want to read. From inspiration, to down-right hilarious articles, it's all there.

29 Photoshop Mistakes To Learn From

I really do love this stuff. I probably shouldn’t but it’s just too cool. So I have put together another list of Photoshop disasters that could have been avoided with just a little bit of extra care.

Be sure to check out the related posts for more great Photoshop material

Read more: 29 Photoshop Mistakes

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SixRevisions

SixRevisions is a quality source.. for resources. In this post they show some (50) of the top, up-n-coming design blogs of 2010 and is a great post for meeting new design friends. Alas I'm not on the list so if you do pop over there, be sure to let them know you heard of the post from SocFX, please.

50 Fresh Design Blogs You Should Be Reading

The last year or two has seen a dramatic increase in the amount of new design and development related blogs breaking out in to the community. In this article, you will see a list of fresh and new design blogs worth subscribing to and reading. Our goal here is to help you discover a few sites that you might not have heard of before.

Of course, we’ve left out the staples and the big boys such as Smashing Magazine, Abduzeedo, et al. because you’re likely already familiar with them.

Read more: 50 Fresh Design Blogs You Should Be Reading

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1stwebdesigner

First of all, a great big congratulations to 1WD as they are just over a year of blogging and have already made a big impact in the web design niche They got this recognition simply by posting the highest quality, and targeted content.

40 Promotional Design Sites To Submit Your Related Links

Since I use social bookmarking/voting sites to promote my articles a lot, I thought I might share these sites with You too – I know if You submit every article in each of these sites regularly, You’ll get many new and regular readers in short time period. I, for example, got 4,000-5,000 unique readers everyday using this method. Of course, there is also much more small and useful tips, but I think I’ll do that kind of article a little bit later.

And I know, there are few another similar articles, but at least for me, I want my own list, showing the more and less useful sites for me in diminishing order. Not all of sites are just for design related articles, but I couldn’t not to include those sites too, since they create so much traffic for me.

Read more: 40 Promotional Design Sites To Submit Your Related Links

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Each month I'll write a new post with another unique set of amazing posts from the web design arena. I hope you've enjoyed this post as much as I have creating it.

Louis