Weekend knocking at our door … the week just flew by. How were your days?
Ok my friends, let me write down what nice things I found lately. I will start with a very delicious article, about Chocolate websites that just look amazing. The collection is published by SmashingMagazine, a blog I’m sure most of you are very familiar with. In the same idea, here are 40 tasty restaurant websites for your inspiration. They look good, right?
Another post to inspire you is published by WebDesignerLedger, 40 blog designs. So if you’re looking to refresh your blog’s image or thinking about creating a new one, you’ll find nice things here.
I will end this blog post with a very interesting article, about influence on the web, but especially about the people that “have it”. Lisa Barone, which I admire because I have a lot to learn from her, divided the influencers in five categories (or as she calls them types): the social butterflies, the thought leader, the trendsetter, the reporter and the everyday customer. Hope you’ll enjoy this as much as I did.
Hello friends, how are you? Enjoying the summer? Thinking about this season came the idea of creating the photo slideshow for today: long exposure photos. Water, gorgeous landscapes, dreamy mood … this is what I saw in this pictures.
Be prepared to be swept away!
I used Classic thumb-view (premium template) because it’s a simple template that I thought matches the pictures perfectly. The size is 500 x 400 px, but I recommend you to view the slide show in full screen, you’ll see why.
I like Fridays after a nice, busy and interesting week. Don’t you? Ok, let me get straight to the point, links that I think you should visit.
We all listen to music, right? On our way to work, at work, when practicing a sport, driving, even when we go out somewhere in the evening… Related to music is this article Add Music To Your Workflow To Improve Results. So more than entertaining, music can create a mood that can be perfect for what you do at your job. It can also give a greater impact to your presentation. Do you agree?
What’s happening online right now? Group buying, big interest in location, mobile ads, mobile payments and setting a social media policy since more and more companies are interested in this new form of communication and marketing. These are the 5 social media trends that Mashable is talking about. Interesting.
It’s time for a new episode on “Tuesday is for photos”. Now I didn’t pick a theme as I usually do, but a photographer that draw my attention. I found Dan (aka Durango99) this morning on Flickr and I just had to share his amazing photos with you. The colors are incredible and they create such a great warm feeling … Mesmerizing, that’s the word to describe what came out of his hands.
If you’d like to see more photos of Dan click here. Believe me you’ll wander around for a while … I sure got lost browsing his images.
I used Simple fade as my template (it is a premium template) and 500 x 400px size, perfect for this blog.
Good news! On Friday we added dozens of beautiful fonts for you to use when you create new banner ads. Log in to BannerSnack and start using them!
In the same day, we re-introduced the old (but improved) banner templates along with hundreds of brand new ones. You can get inspiration or start creating amazing banners from these templates, just change you logo or the images with your personal ones.
This week is almost ending … so fast. We had a great and busy week, launched 4 giveaways (for more details check out this blog post) and we were working hard to finish a huge collection of banner templates. If you are already a member, you received a newsletter with the announcement that the templates are live. If you are new here, log in to BannerSnack and you should see them in the section called “My banners”.
How was this week for you? Busy, interesting, sunny?
Let me get back to what I came for, interesting links to share with you. Would you like to browse through a fascinating collection of ads from the 2010 World Cup ?
For the web designers out there, discover 76 free vector resources that 1stWebDesigner found very useful. I’m pretty sure you will like them too. Also for you, 10 resources for inspiration. I think you know some of them, hope some are new and that you are ready for a little exploration.
Do you write a blog? Perhaps for your company, like I do or a personal blog. I found a very helpful article that might interest you, 5 Do’s and Donts for blog coverage.
And to end this blog post in a nice way, I’ll invite you to view a dessert photography collection. Hope I made your weekend a little sweeter.
