Kamis, Januari 19, 2012

Infographics for Web Designers: Information You Ought to Know

Infographic is a great way to turn the most boring data into the most comforting graphic, which is much easier for reader to digest. As web designers have to deal with pixels and code almost everyday, it would be overwhelming to look at more data and references which are filled with hypnotic words and numbers.


designers infographics Infographics for Web Designers: Information You Ought to Know


We understand how your eyes feel when they are suffering from sleep induction, and this leads us to compile 43 informative infographics that are relevant to web designers. While some of them are data like current state of the internet or social media, others contain useful knowledge which can also be used as a great reference sheet. So come take a glimpse, enjoy them and grab them! Digesting data and knowledge has never been so fun with infographics!



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Freelance to Freedom


An epic infographic that applies well to both web designer and graphic designer. Really scared me as it plotted down all my freelancing experience, and I hope you reached the last stage.


freelance to freedom Infographics for Web Designers: Information You Ought to Know


Colors


Color is deadly essential to a website as it not only defines the focus of a web page but evokes the emotion of the site, and in most cases it even represents the branding of a company’s website. Here we collected 6 infographics for you to know about color theory, how color affect purchases, colors of the top web brands, etc.


Color Theory


Basic color theories summed up in 1 infographic, which can be a handy reference sheet.


color theory Infographics for Web Designers: Information You Ought to Know


How Do Colors Affect Purchases?


Color is crucial factor to generate a good amount of sales, and this infographic shows you why.


colors affect purchases Infographics for Web Designers: Information You Ought to Know


Color Of The Year 2010


Beautifully designed infographic that presents the favorite color for year 2010, picked by 1000 people from 137 countries.


color of year 2010 Infographics for Web Designers: Information You Ought to Know


Colors Of The Top 100 Web Brands


A detailed infographic that reveals powerful colors of the web which are colors implemented by major internet companies in their branding.


top 100 web brands colors Infographics for Web Designers: Information You Ought to Know


Colors Of The Social World (Wide Web)


Based on the data provided by Themeleon, this infographic shows the color preference of Twitter users when it comes to their profile design.


colors of social world Infographics for Web Designers: Information You Ought to Know


Colours in Cultures


Color usage for 84 subjects from different cultures such as American, Chinese or Japanese, plotted in one comprehensive infographic.


colours in cultures Infographics for Web Designers: Information You Ought to Know


Decision Making


A decision can decide whether you work for client for free and suffer like hell, or not. Being able to make correct decision is vital to a web designer’s success and infographics below can help you carve out the path of the success.


Do You Need A New Logo?


Do you need a new logo? This infographic can help you get the answer.


new logo decision Infographics for Web Designers: Information You Ought to Know


How Would You Like Your Graphic Design


Extremely truthful infographic to show your client what their design would be with their (mostly impossible) needs.


graphic design decision Infographics for Web Designers: Information You Ought to Know


Should I Work For Free


A perfect guide for designer and freelancer to decide which project you should work for free, just follow it and you are free from trouble.


work for free decision Infographics for Web Designers: Information You Ought to Know


So You Need A Typeface


Here’s a helpful guide for you to choose a suitable typeface for your current project.


typeface decision Infographics for Web Designers: Information You Ought to Know


General Survey


General survey is a collection of useful infographics that either entertain or assist you in certain decision. You can either check out the difference between web designer and web developer to determine which species you belong to or perhaps consider to raise your charge by hour based on the data from the survey, ‘All You Need To Know About Web Designers’.


State Of The Internet: Summing Up 2010


Well designed infographic revealing the current state of the gigantic internet.


state of internet 2010 Infographics for Web Designers: Information You Ought to Know


All You Need To Know About Web Designers


Distribution of age, gender, education, charge per hour rate or probably all you need to know about web designers.


all about web designers Infographics for Web Designers: Information You Ought to Know


Web Designers Vs. Web Developers


An interesting infographic that puts web designer and web developer into comparison, with a sense of humor.


web designers web developers Infographics for Web Designers: Information You Ought to Know


Search Engine Optimization


The content is indeed the key component to top search engine indexing, yet Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the catalyst that speeds up your success. Infographics collected below will show you what SEO is, and how to do it effectively.


A Visual Guide To SEO


A great reference for those who just started to dive more into SEO.


seo visual guide Infographics for Web Designers: Information You Ought to Know


Understanding Google PageRank


Google PageRank is an ever-changing algorithm, yet we can find some of its traits from this infographic.


understanding google pagerank Infographics for Web Designers: Information You Ought to Know


The Essential Do It Yourself Guide To Successful Linkbait


As most results of linkbaiting are often less satisfying, this infographic teaches some essential steps to achieve effective linkbait.


successful linkbait guide Infographics for Web Designers: Information You Ought to Know


Article Optimization


Instructional infographic with step by step guide on optimizing an article for search engine indexing.


article optimization Infographics for Web Designers: Information You Ought to Know


Typography


Same with the color, typography is one of the most important aspect to web design, especially for this year as it is predicted by most famous web designers to have a big influence to web design. ‘Periodic Table of Typefaces’ and ‘Most Common Fonts by Operating System’ act as helpful references for your typograhy related studies and works.


Periodic Table of Typefaces


Carefully designed with the same categorizing concept of traditional periodic table, this masterpiece lists out 100 of the most popular and influential typefaces nowadays.


typefaces periodic table Infographics for Web Designers: Information You Ought to Know


Most Common Fonts By Operating System


A pretty long list showing most popular fonts by operating system which is a good reference for setting fallback fonts for your website or projects.


common fonts by operating system Infographics for Web Designers: Information You Ought to Know


User Experience


Although User Experience cannot be considered as ‘design’, it plays a vital role on smoothing your site visitor’s experience thus avoiding them slipping away. ‘Good Information Design’ and ‘Fastest Ways To Lose Customers’ are insightful infographics that explore this field.


Good Information Design


As there are lots of different views for good information design, this infographic explores the key components to form a good information design.


good information design Infographics for Web Designers: Information You Ought to Know


Fastest Ways To Lose Customers


Probably everything you need to know to avoid losing potential customers.


fastest ways to lose customers Infographics for Web Designers: Information You Ought to Know


Web Technology


Web technology has evolved a lot since last year with the introduction of HTML 5, H.264 video format, WordPress 3 and plenty more web browser updates. Since it would be overwhelming to know them all by documentations with full of terms and words, infographics below can help you to understand these technologies in a more visual and comfortable way.


HTML 5


Detailed introduction about HTML5, with a few comparison to Flash.


html 5 Infographics for Web Designers: Information You Ought to Know


Semantic Web


Semantic is a term that often confuse web designer, this infographic explains the concept of the semantic web effectively with comparison method.


semantic web Infographics for Web Designers: Information You Ought to Know


The Anatomy Of A Perfect Landing Page


A must-see infographic for web designers to build an effective landing web page that actually attracts users.


perfect landing page anatomy Infographics for Web Designers: Information You Ought to Know


Performance Comparison Of Web Browsers


As different web browser has different capabilities, this infographic acts as a good reference on showing the difference of capabilities for major browsers, which are also rarely mentioned in common web articles.


browser performance comparison Infographics for Web Designers: Information You Ought to Know


Apple, Flash and H.264


A full introduction about the famous issue, Apple drops Flash and embraces H.264 video format.


apple flash h264 Infographics for Web Designers: Information You Ought to Know


How Cookies Work On The Web


Still can’t understand how cookies work? Here’s an infogprahic with relaxing images to tell you what web cookies are, and how they work.


how cookies work Infographics for Web Designers: Information You Ought to Know

[Freebie] “BiZ” Business Website PSD Templates

This exclusive freebie is a pack of 5-page business website templates in Photoshop format. The design uses a clean, slick and professional look throughout the templates especially designed for website selling products/services. The design is also ideal for your business or corporate needs.


biz business website psd template [Freebie] BiZ Business Website PSD Templates


The design comes in 5 templates: Home Page, About Us page, Services page, Portfolio page, Image Pop-up page and Contact page. All the pages are fully-layered PSD files, and are neatly organized in folders for easy identification and necessary editing of logo, text and graphics.



Since the templates are all ready for slicing, you can get them coded with appropriate modifications to fit your business needs.


These business website PSD templates are created by GraphicsFuel and released exclusively for Hongkiat readers, so you can use them for your personal or commercial purposes. Redistribution without permission is prohibited.


Preview of “BiZ”


Let’s take a look at what’re included:


Home Page:


biz home page [Freebie] BiZ Business Website PSD Templates


About Us Page:


biz about us page [Freebie] BiZ Business Website PSD Templates


Services Page:


biz services page [Freebie] BiZ Business Website PSD Templates


Portfolio Page:


biz portfolio page [Freebie] BiZ Business Website PSD Templates


Image Pop-up Page:


biz image pop up page [Freebie] BiZ Business Website PSD Templates


Contact Page:


biz contact page [Freebie] BiZ Business Website PSD Templates


Download

All 5 Photoshop PSD files are included in the following single zip file.


6 Simple & Effective Ways to Speed Up Your Mac

We are all impressed with the smooth running of the Apple Mac OS X as we compare with the contemporary Windows OS like Vista or Windows 7. However, there are times when your Mac might be slowing down as you put in more stuffs in your hard drive and work the system hard. That is perhaps a good time to evaluate where the bottleneck could be and clear it.


speed up your mac 6 Simple & Effective Ways to Speed Up Your Mac


In this post I’ll be sharing tips I found useful in speeding up the Mac. While most of the tips do not cost you extra bucks, they also help you to clean up your Mac to not only make it run fast like cheetah, but also keep it as powerful as lion. So spend some time to get really well with these tips, then you’ll be smiling happily as you run your Mac smoothly!


If you are not only looking to optimize your Mac but also seeking to optimize your workflow in Mac, below we’ve got posts with 200 useful applications introduced to you!




And you can discover more about Mac in Hongkiat!


1. Clearing Your Desktop


Your desktop plays a part in how long it takes for you to boot the system because it’s the first screen that it has to load up. As much as possible, try to keep it simple by minimizing the number of icons from the dock and clearing up the amount of files you can see. You can either delete them or put them into folders so that the operating system doesn’t have to waste additional resources to load them upon starting your computer.


mac desktop 6 Simple & Effective Ways to Speed Up Your Mac


Doing this will take the toil away from your memory, especially if you’re using an older Mac system. This will not only ensure that your boot time will be shortened, but also improve the performance of your Mac in general.


2. Managing Startup Items


When you install some applications, they automatically configured your startup setting such that these applications would be loaded up when you boot up your Mac. Depending on your usage, such a setting can either make it convenient for you (if the first thing you want to do when you boot up is to use that application), or slow down the booting time with no additional convenience for yourself.


login items 6 Simple & Effective Ways to Speed Up Your Mac


Leaving such applications can also draw some valuable resources away from your Mac such that it slows down the system. As much as possible, try to remove those which you rarely use. For Mac OS X Lion’s user, all you need to do is go to System Preferences > System > Users & Groups > Login Items, and uncheck the application(s) you want off from the startup.


3. Cleaning Up the Hard Drive


Mac operating system actually utilizes whatever free space you have on your hard drive as ‘virtual memory’, which plays a significant role in the performance. In other words, the more data you have in your hard drive, the lesser the amount of memory you would have for the smooth running of your applications. The obvious solution to a slow-running Mac operating system is to free up hard drive space to make room for the ‘virtual memory’.


monolingual 6 Simple & Effective Ways to Speed Up Your Mac


I’m sure you know where to begin when you’re cleaning up your hard drive, such as emptying your Trash, removing rarely used applications, etc. Alternatively, you can also remove languages that you don’t use through programs like Monolingual. This would save at least several hundred megabytes of disk space. It may not be much, but why waste resources?


4. Monitor Your Activity Monitor


Sometimes you wouldn’t know what’s taxing your memory and slowing down the system in the process. This is where the Apple’s Activity Monitor comes in handy. You get to see the CPU usage, Random Access Memory (RAM) and virtual memory usage from the monitor, which the info will help greatly in optimizing your Mac!


activity monitor 6 Simple & Effective Ways to Speed Up Your Mac


When you notice that there’s a spike when you use certain applications, you can infer that these are the ones which are draining away your memory and making your system sluggish. That way, you can either choose to minimize your usage on these applications or make room in your memory like closing down other applications when you’re going to use them.


On top of that, the monitor lists down in details all the applications which are currently in use. You can see how much each application is eating up your CPU, real & virtual memory. You may choose to quit those that are consuming an awful lot of your system’s resources to speed things up.


If you need more explanations on the Activity Monitor, do check out this comprehensive guide.


5. Embrace Cleaning Utility Tools


Perhaps the most straightforward way to optimize your system’s performance is to run multifunction utility tool like OnyX. What it basically does is that it conducts system maintenance and cleaning functions to smoothen the running of your system. Temporary files stored as caches are cleared so that they don’t ‘jam’ up the performance of your system.


onyx 6 Simple & Effective Ways to Speed Up Your Mac


If your goal is to sustain a top-notch performing Mac, then such utility tools can be programmed to run as scheduled routines. This way, unnecessary files and browser history or any other cache files are regularly removed from your system so that it will run at its best most of the time. In fact, it is highly recommended that all Mac users do such consistent maintenance.


If OnyX doesn’t seem to cater to your maintenance needs, you can also try out others like CleanMyMac and MacKeeper.


6. Getting Hardware Upgrade


Worse comes to worse, if the above tips didn’t significantly improve your Mac’s performance to your liking, you can always consider purchasing hardware that would more or less guarantee a speed boost. This would, however, require you to throw money to resolve the issue, as compared to the previous tips which are all free.


Upgrading your RAM is probably the simplest way to ensure a faster computer. As compared to upgrading your processor, it is also much cheaper. If you only have one piece of RAM attached in your Mac, consider getting another one.


upgrade ram 6 Simple & Effective Ways to Speed Up Your Mac


At the very least, your Mac should have a 2 GB RAM minimum, and 4 GB RAM is recommended for web designer who run premium graphic editor like Adobe Photoshop which eats up a lot of memory and hard drive space. If you are using 2GB/4GB ram and still finds it running slow, consider getting an additional 2 GB RAM that would logically speed up the performance by 50%. Of course, this depends on how much memory your Mac can support, so ask the professionals before you proceed.


Another alternative is to get a faster hard drive or use a Solid State Drive (SSD), but they don’t come cheap. One way is to get the SSD to run only your operating system and other applications, while leaving the other data on your old hard disk. Here is a good site on how to set up a SSD drive.


That’s all from us! What’s your personal secret to speeding up your Mac?


Futuristic 3D Glass Portraits of Celebrities


Combining modern technology with more traditional art techniques is an interesting symbiosis that can produce magnificent results. A Miami-based Indian-American artist, NFN Kalyan, took his hand drawn artwork and used a laser etching device commonly employed to make holograms; the result was spectacular 3D sculptures that wow everyone who views them.



If you’ve seen The Cell (Jennifer Lopez’s ambitious acting attempt), you must remember the scene with the horse getting sliced into pieces. The method used for these sculptures is pretty similar. There are several drawings that have no meaning on their own. They need to be combined with the others present layers of a complex structure. With the right lighting, over 20 glass panels with drawings engraved on them using the laser become one picture, creating a realistic human face.


Kalyan’s choice of models is quite colorful, from famous NBA player Lebron James, to the Dalai Lama, to Barack Obama. The exhibition, entitled “Nature of the Beast,” portrays people that Kalyan finds interesting in some way.








While choosing the first African-American president of the United States or the Nobel Peace Prize winner seems quite obvious, some celebrities like Lebron James have intrigued the artist in a different way. The realistic effect of these portraits is truly astounding. When you’re in the same room with them, you almost feel like you’re standing face to face with a real person. If you love cool portraits, check out these colorful mosaic portraits created from old junkmail.


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