30+ Cool Logo Design Tutorials

Apr 19, 2009 Author: Rohin | Filed under: Blog, Photoshop, Web Design

Logos are special they tell your viewers everything about you in one blink. At that very special moment the brain registers that info, it’s crucial that your logo be ;

Memorable / Easy to Remember
Attractive Eye Candy ALWAYS helps
Unique and stands out from other sites/businesses

Why pay a designer $200-500 for a small simple logo that you can make yourself with some inspiration?

~ This is where I come in ~

I have compiled a list of 30+ Cool Logo Design Tutorials

1 – Euro 2008 Logo Design

Logo Tutorial Descrip. : “Hallo and welcome in making of the EURO 2008 Logo design. I thought it will a great idea to create this tutorial during the EURO Championship”

2 – Design a Print-Ready Beer Label in Adobe Illustrator

Logo Tutorial Descrip. : “Alright folks, it’s time to roll up the sleeves and get down to business with this full-featured Adobe illustrator CS3 tutorial. This one takes you from setup to production of a really cool beer label, although this could be useful for any bottled concoction of your choosing.”

3 – How to make an awesome logo

Logo Tutorial Descrip. : “In this tutorial, I will start and finish a logo while documenting the entire process. I encourage you to open up photoshop and follow every step, it will help you learn a lot more than just reading it.”

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50+ Refreshing Web Design Interfaces

Apr 8, 2009 Author: Rohin | Filed under: Blog, Web Design

There’s a million billion trillion ga-gillion websites out there all sporting different web design interfaces. If you’re a web designer trying to make your own website

then you’ll definitely need a damn good design to separate yourself from the rest of the websites on the Internet. Being unique is the first step to getting your own slice of Internet goodness.

Web 2.0 is all about the user so I whipped up a list of 50 amazing web interface designs from DeviantArt.


1	Portfolio VI
	Web Design Interface Description : “Classíque – meant to mean ‘classy’ more than ‘classic’. “


2	Barbroute Design V5

	Web Design Interface Description : A design portfolio featuring vector backgrounds and snazzy grunge effects.


3	Jog The Web Track Editor

	Web Design Interface Description : “Even the dumbest people on earth have to be able to understand how to use controls”

4	Bleeding Star Clothing Webpage

	Web Design Interface Description : “The feeling of the website shows a large part of my emotion everyday… the feelings of love and hate, happiness and terror, fantasy and nightmare all wound into one…”

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60+ Free Vectors Icons for Web Designers

Mar 28, 2009 Author: Rohin | Filed under: Blog, Freebies, Web Design

Finding decent hi-quality vector icons for free via google is kinda hard & annoying. My results mainly lead to sites that wanted to sell you icons. I don’t beleive in paying for things like that, especially when there’s an abundant amount of vector icons that are available for free.

So enjoy the list I have compiled of free vector icons. (Almost all of them have been checked to be used for commercial and non-commercial projects but double check while downloading) Also be sure to check out Vadex.NET for Programming needs

1	Vector Icon Name : Social Networking Vector Icons
	Icon Description : “Fed up with the same standard set of social icons for your blog or site? This set of six social icons (Digg, Twitter, Delicious, RSS, Reddit & Stumbleupon) are free to use on your websites and blogs however you wish! The icons are provided many different formats”

2	Vector Icon Name : Social Bookmark Vector Icons
	Icon Description : “12 freeware “iPhone-like” icons of Web 2 Social Bookmarks for use in blogs, websites, desktops, softwares. The Linux version includes .PNG files sized from 512X512 to 16X16 pixels. Great for Bloggers. Content: Blinklist, BlogMarks, Delicious, Digg, Feeds, Flickr, Furl, Magnolia, Newsvine, Reddit, Stumbleupon, Technorati “

3	Vector Icon Name : Smashing Vector Icon Set
	Icon Description : “The icons are available in resolutions 64×64px, 128×128px and 256×256px, in 32-bit transparency PNG. These icons can be used for a variety of purposes — in particular, in portfolios and in corporate designs.”

4	Vector Icon Name : 165+ Vector Icons
	Icon Description : “In 4 more colours. So, I suppose that makes 825 icons. As always, they’re free for you to use as you wish. “

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Promote Your Web Blog Using Unorthodox Techniques To Increase Traffic

Oct 23, 2008 Author: Rohin | Filed under: Blog, SEO, WordPress

SEO Ranting on the subject

Over the past month or so I have been searching for ways and techniques to increase traffic to my site. This included checking out already well known blogs such as ProBlogger but after reading those crazy e-books all the way to going to my local borders and reading books on SEO , taking advantage of Google etc etc.