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Art & Design Inspiration Fix for March 16th 2012

The Art & Design Inspiration Fix pulls together a collection of my favourite graphical images that I’ve come across over the past week to give you a fix of creative inspiration. This week we have designs from Franz Jeitz, Pawel Durczok, Like Minded Studio, Marko Purac and Chris Parks.

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Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.130

 Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.130

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Free Google Analytics Dashboards and Custom Reports

As part of their announcement about improved custom report and dashboard sharing, Google have released several custom reports and dashboards for Google Analytics users to install.

If you’re a blogger you’ll want to check out the basic blog dashboard and the engaged traffic advanced segment.

If you manage an ecommerce site, then the daily ecommerce report and the mobile ecommerce dashboard will be useful additions. And any website owner will find the site performance dashboard useful.

I, personally, have not found myself to be too adept at creating really useful dashboards and custom reports in Google Analytics, and so I’ve found any templates like these that are created by experts to be most useful.

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 Free Google Analytics Dashboards and Custom Reports

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Adobe Illustrator Tutorial: Creating a Tattered Parchment

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Top 10 Free Online Blogging Platforms

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How To Create a Dirty Typographic Blackletter Design

In today’s tutorial we’re going to create a typographic blackletter layout full of character with dirty textures. We’ll begin by creating the layout in Illustrator before importing everything into Photoshop to bring the design to life with colour, tone and weathered textures.

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Web Tooltip Design Showcase

Tooltips are a useful way to present additional, context-sensitive information about an element on a web page, such as a hyperlink. As tooltips continue to become more common as a means for users to interact with web page elements, the need for good tooltip design has become more important.

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This collection of 40+ tooltip designs showcases the different approaches that web designers are taking for tooltip design and highlights the range of options available for styling this popular UI element.

View the tooltip design gallery.

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Add a Backup to Embedded Tweets in WordPress

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Around this time last year, I showed you how to embed tweets in WordPress
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Cool Websites and Tools [March 11th 2012]

 Cool Websites and Tools [March 11th 2012]Check out some of the latest MakeUseOf discoveries. Most of the listed websites are FREE or come with a decent free account option. If you want to have similar cool website round-ups delivered to your daily email, subscribe here.

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Themify Responsive Theme Giveaway for Members

This week Themify has arranged a giveaway of their fantastic responsive WordPress themes for Access All Areas members. The three winners can choose from any of the themes from Themify, including the awesome new responsive ecommerce theme ShopDock. Members, log in to find out more.Themify build premium WordPress themes that …

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40 Humorous Photo Manipulations

 40 Humorous Photo Manipulations

In this post we have collected some humorous imagery that we know will make you laugh. Many of the Read the rest of this entry »

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Lasting Impressions: Unusual Business Cards That Will Definitely Be Kept

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25 Tried and Tested Retro & Vintage Photoshop Actions

There’s an abundance of Photoshop actions available that allow you to quickly transform your photos with a retro or vintage effect, the problem is choosing the best actions from this vast collection. Over 40 Photoshop actions were downloaded and tested to create this showcase of the best freely downloadable retro and vintage actions.

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It’s sometimes difficult to compare actions when they are all applied to different images, so I downloaded and tested each retro and vintage themed action on this generic photograph. Compare this original with the effects below to find your preferred Photoshop action. Don’t forget, if any of the previews look too vibrant or intense, you can always tone down the effect by applying it on a duplicate layer then reducing the opacity.

Vintage Actions by love4art

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The Challenge of Responsive Images

 The Challenge of Responsive Images

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Art & Design Inspiration Fix for March 2nd 2012

The Art & Design Inspiration Fix pulls together a collection of my favourite graphical images that I’ve come across over the past week to give you a fix of creative inspiration. This week we have designs from Andreas Preis, Paddy Donnelly, Nik Holmes, Giampaolo Miraglia and Radim Malinic.

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