Web Site Check List

This is a really good Web site check list for Web designers.

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INSPIRE – A Publication from the Adobe Experience Design Team

I ran across this site today for the first time. I guess I live under a rock. I found some of the content very interesting and wanted to pass the link along. Happy reading.

Visit Inspire!

Foldfactory — Design Community & Cool InDesgin Plugin

Get your fold on! Foldfactory.com is a FREE educational e-community for Graphic Arts professionals. Tap your inner folding fanatic with our videos, ideas, tips, software tools, resources and inspiration. Members receive our “60-second Super-cool FOLD of the WEEK” e-video.

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These folks also offer a killer InDesign plugin that helps you set folds for your next brochure project called FOLDRite. Just think how many times you have to measure and setup your guides when this thing can do it for you with a click of a button. Very cool!

Learn more about this plugin

Freelance Design Marketing Association

Are you tired of wasting time and money marketing your freelance design business — with little or no results?

Are you exhausted by trying to constantly “shout louder” than other designers to get your marketing messages heard — and responded to?

Does it make you mad to see other “so-called designers” who do bad work and don’t have any real talent or skill, make more money than you?

If you know that you can and should be making more money in your freelance design business, things can be different for you.

How?

6-figure freelance graphic designer and website designer, Jeanna Pool, is sharing her secrets for marketing your freelance design business successfully so you can make the “executive level” I.N.C.O.M.E you deserve.

Seeing that there was a need to help freelance designers market their services successfully, Jeanna founded the Freelance Design Marketing Association.

The association is the FIRST and ONLY association of its kind…dedicated to teaching freelance graphic designers and web designers how to market their services successfully, attract more clients consistently and build the business and I.N.C.O.M.E of their dreams.

Find out all of the details here!

US Copyright Reference Table

Use this helpful chart when researching whether a particular public domain item can be used (or when it might become available).

50 Terrific Social Sites for Web Designers

There seems to be a social site for everything-music, health, art, you name it. But did you know there are also many for web designers? Read on, and check out these 50 sites that are great for web design social networking.

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Use These Secret “Public Domain” Photo and Illustration Resources for Your Next Creative Project(s)

Here are some little known, quality public domains (that means free) photograph and illustration sites that can be used immediately for your current or upcoming creative business projects.

What does Public Domain mean exactly? A work is in the public domain if it is no longer protected by copyright. This means you can copy and use the work freely, including preparation of derivative works and use of images commercially without infringing or violating anyone’s rights.

There are so many stock photo sites on the web that it becomes difficult to keep track of all of them. But who has the time to hunt all these down?

If you visit the same ones regularly (anyone heard of istock?) it might surprise you to know just how much free quality public domain photos, illustrations are out there. It’s massive.

Although all of these sites have been reviewed as public domain please practice due-diligence in re-reading each websites terms of use.

Public Domain Sites

Open Clip Art:

http://www.openclipart.org

Print and Photographs Online Catalog:

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html

Karen’s Whimsy:

http://karenswhimsy.com/public-domain-images/

Library of Congress:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

Public Domain Media:

http://web4j1.lane.edu/libraryservices/mediainst/graphicsguide.html

United States Government Photos and Multimedia:

http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Graphics.shtml

United States Department of Defense:

http://www.defenselink.mil/multimedia/

Free Images and Sounds from Microsoft:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/default.aspx

Ebooks on the web:

http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/ft/EBooks.html

stock.xchng:

http://www.sxc.hu/

http://www.sxc.hu/info.phtml?f=help&s=8_2 (terms)

MorgueFile:

http://www.morguefile.com/

Pixel Perfect Digital:

http://www.pixelperfectdigital.com/free_stock_photos/

http://www.pixelperfectdigital.com/terms (terms)

Image After:

http://www.imageafter.com/index.php

http://www.imageafter.com/terms.php (terms)

Free Photos Bank:

http://www.freephotosbank.com/

http://www.freephotosbank.com/index.php?action=show&cat=terms (terms)

YotoPhoto:

http://yotophoto.com/