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For this Friday I thought you might like some inspiration, just to make the weekend fresh and nice. Do you have interesting plans for the next two days? We’d like to hear about them.

Here it is what I want to share with you …

55 beautifully blue web designs to inspire you and bring a little freshness. I am pretty sure you will like the collection  that Gisele Muller put together.  Here it is.

Another article posted on WebDesignLedger, 50 inspiring examples of hand drawn elements in web design. I noticed that hand drawn elements ( fonts,  illustrations, icons or navigation menus) are quite a trend this year. I think they enrich the design and make it more friendly, like a familiar place, don’t you think?

You have to see these awesome photos made by Ben Heine, I won’t tell you any more … pencil vs camera.

To end this inspirational blog post I suggest you to browse though a big list of web design projects that inserted slide shows in a very nice manner. If you have clothes to sell, or electronics you can add a nice slideshow and let your visitors discover your products. To view the examples, click here.

See you next week, till then make sure you’ll have a lot of fun.

Hello again! Did you spend an awesome week? For us, the week passed really really fast and everything went well.

So let me tell you what I found interesting around the web:

A showcase of beautiful navigation designs. I hope you’ll find them useful for your current and future projects. The collection made by the guys at Smashing Magazine is very inspiring, just look at it and tell us what you think.

Need some cool social media icons? I could recommend these, from Isometrica.

Have you heard about sleeveface? It’s an interesting phenomenon all over the Internet. I’m pretty sure you’ve already seen some sleeveface photos somewhere on the net. Here’s a big collection of sleeveface photos, that Web Designer Depot put together.

8 things about email that we  should all take into consideration to ease the way we communicate  through this medium. It’s a blog post with tips that perhaps you already know but perhaps don’t always apply in everyday email interactions.

To end this short article, I’ll let you watch a gorgeous gallery of landscape photos. Enjoy!

How are you, friends? Hope you’re all doing well and had a nice week. I have a few things to share with you, things I think you might find interesting. Let me know what you think about them.

You all know Zappos’ story on how they raised a company using social media. Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos, an early adopter of Twitter talks in an interview about the four categories of his tweets (Inspire, Connect, Entertain and Educate) and about the importance of happiness both personally and organizationally. Read the interview here. I found it inspiring.

Just a few tips to make a better or an interesting profile picture, posted on Mashable.

Do you own a startup? Or perhaps you are planning to start a small business? I’m pretty sure you will find these six principles of a sustainable startup very interesting. My favorite is number 2.) “It takes teams to build a Sustainable Startup™”. Do you agree?

A lovely tool to play with and a challenge for your business or personal brand, from Outspoken Media. Do you remember the famous Google ad “Parisian love“? Now you can create a similar story about you or your company.

And a little inspiration to end the week posted on SixRevisions, the blog of a dear friend: 60 beautiful clean and light web designs.

What did you find worth sharing? I’m very curious to see.

Til next week, have a great time and spend it with special people. Hugs!

It’s Friday again my friends, how was your week till now? For us, it was great because yesterday we released an ebook that kept our minds busy lately.

The ebook’s title is  25 Best Practices In Banner Advertising and it was written to help you dramatically improve the way you advertise online and create successful banner ads. You can download it for free from BannerSnack Blog and share it with whoever might benefit from reading it, tweet it, post it on your blog. We would be deligthed.

Ok now, let me tell you what I found interesting this week:

Twitter want’s to be better looking and they announced that the interface will be redesigned, I discovered a sneak peek photo posted on Mashable. New stats will be displayed on profiles: average number of tweets per day, for how many days you’ve been on Twitter, percentage of @replies recently. Perhaps there will be more new interesting things, we’ll wait and see.

Did you know how brands are using social media for real world action? Here are 6 ways explained by Daniel Stein, a digital marketing and consumer engagement expert. This blog post will answer the question “What to do with Twitter and Facebook to help my business/cause?”

Typography is an integral part of design, an important part I could say. Do you agree? Then you’ll find this article writen by SixRevision very interesting: A basic look at typography in web design.

Before I end this post, I want to leave a great source of inspiration Breathtaking photos from National Geographic contests. I’m sure you will like it.

Wish you an awesome sunny weekend!

***Image credits Patrick Gage

Hi again lovely people! How was this week for you? We have two reasons to be very happy: first, that spring is here and second because we launched a new product >> PodSnack. So happy that we could sing a song … well play it on a playlist.

Enough with us, let me share with you some interesting links that I think you will like.

Joshua Johnson writes about 10 ways to make your customers love you. I’m sure you know a lot of things from his list but they are so important that sometimes we need to review them. His article was a good way to start the week. Loved it.

Are you a designer? Or an aspiring one? You should check this awesome list of design related ebooks. Valuable content.

Also for you, talented guys, we have another list: Social media design tools, an article that was posted on Mashable. See how the autors came up with the blog post  “We’ve talked to the experts about what they use for inspiration, collaboration, and getting down to the business of design in a social media world.”

Have you seen this video that got a lot of designers enthusiastic about a new feature in Photoshop?  People tweeted about the video, wrote tons of comments and post it on a lot of blogs. It is a promise that something magic will happen soon in the most popular image editor, something that a lot of photoshopers expect because it will make their work much much easier.

Here is a brilliant piece of information if you want to know how to spread the word about what you do or sell Social Media Cheat Sheet.  It gives the answer to a very important question (also for us) “How do I know which social media sites to use?” Don’t you think this is a gold mine? It puts order in my mind. Thank you Drew!

A little inspiration for this weekend? I thought so … 66 mind blowing photo manipulation art.

To end this blog post I’ll just add a little eye candy: photos that celebrate the beauty of India. Color, mystery, contrast …

Hope you will have a beautiful and full of energy weekend, just like the first days of springs.

*** image credits Alliesnaps

image credits kwerfeldein

Did you lovely people had a great week ? Here, at SnackTools, we had a busy one. Yesterday we published our first Facebook application, a fun quiz for photoshoppers.  Also we are preparing to launch a new web application that will help your audio files conquer the web. Working hard on that, as I told you in a previous article.

This is the first post of a “Friday links” series we’re planning to publish on our blog. We’d like to share with you what got our attention during the week. Hope you will share your favorites too.

Want to start a new company and test the waters? Write down your ideas, show it to all the smart people you know and ask ask ask what do they think about these ideas. “You’ll be surprised how much you’ll learn” says Chris Dixon. Asking potential customers, big company employees, VCs and entrepreneurs is a very important step you must do.

There are millions of web sites out there and among them, some that are huge and that we all know. They changed the internet. Just think about it … Google extended his arms into almost every aspect of the Internet, Twitter changed the way we communicate, YouTube made it possible for us to view and share video online and now it’s the second largest US search engine. These are only few of the sites mentioned in the list. Worth taking a look.

Do you know which are the most tempting software startup categories? I’ll let you discover them here.

Need some photography inspiration? This is a short “tip post” where you can find lots of interesting photos and great communities of people interested in the art of photography.

Amazing pictures of lighthouses, perfect for the weekend, they’re just like a breeze of fresh air.

This is what we found interesting, what are your favorite links? We hope you nice guys have a killer weekend! Hugs