Web Site Designers

In this post we are glad to present to you yet another freebie: the Website ROI Calculator, a free Google Spreadsheet created by Anders Hoff specifically for Smashing Magazine and our readers. Of course, the tool is absolutely free to use in private as well as commercial projects.

Is your website doing the job you are paying for it to do? The Website ROI Calculator (ROI being “return on investment”) can get you started with setting goals and following them up in order to make the most of your website. The calculator can be used throughout the website’s lifespan, from planning to termination. Update the figures in the calculator at set intervals in order to see how your website or campaign is doing, and take action depending on the results.

   A beautiful and elegant icon set is an asset to any good web design. Creative use of an icon set can help make or break the overall look of the design. Freebie design components, especially beautiful icon sets can be found in nearly every designer’s toolbox, or if not already among their tools, then [...]

   Blog-O-Folio is a free 2 column WordPress Theme suitable for any and all of your corporate, portfolio or personal blog needs. With a wide variety of tunable theme options and functionality to merge your portfolio with the blog, it is now ultra easy to maintain your blog and portfolio at the same time. Blog-O-Folio [...]

   Getting the right look for your client’s projects, as well as your own, is one of the key make or break elements to your website creations. When users land on a site, an immediate impression is made, and we always want to make sure it the right one. Pulling this off on a budget [...]

   Tumblr is getting popular day after day because of its flexibility, power and simplicity. Tumblr is a blogging platform through which you can share your content, images and videos with the world even when you are on the go. This is because it empowers bloggers to post and customize their content from a web [...]

Choosing a well designed newsletter can provide any marketing campaign a great deal of success. Here are excellent examples of some of the best free HTML newsletter templates that you can use without spending a fortune. No matter how you’d like to update your customers about a particular product or simply want to share some [...]

No one can deny the importance of Adobe Photoshop and the role that this amazing software plays for the designing industry. For a graphic designer, PSD files can come very handy because they can easily edit, modify and customize these files according to their own taste and desire. For this post, we’ve gathered an exclusive [...]

Every designer aims for high quality resources to use for their work. Usually, this takes a lot of time to search for and collecting the best ones isn’t always easy. In today’s post we’ve prepared a roundup of a showcase of over fifty different Photoshop brushes as well as a couple of actions and styles. [...]

When used well, patterns can be a great way to add an extra element to your designs that take them to the next level in terms of aesthetics. Creating your own repeating patterns is one way to go about this, but it’s not always something you want to spend a lot of time on, especially [...]

Design templates help build an identity for any particular website. Since the techniques are changing very rapidly within the industry, one must be updated all the time. Many designers download the pre-built CSS templates to explore more. At many stages, designers seek help in the form of inspiration that would help them get back to [...]