Hi folks, we are gearing up to make a big announcement. At this point all I can say is "Design Quotes is evolving". We are very excited about this evolution and will begin posting regularly about the development of this evolution. While we can't be specific about what we are doing just yet I can say that are looking for two amazing WordPress developers to help us evolve. The candidate criteria will likely give you a bit of an idea as to what we are planning.
In order of importance the ideal candidate should be based in Melbourne have experience with:
- BuddyPress implementation and customisation
- wordpress template development
- custom wordpress plugin developnment
- javascript
- database design
If you, or anyone you know has this sort of experience, we want to know! Spear the word and share this post, the application form is below:
Since promoting Business Catalyst to our community of designers and developers we have had a pretty good response. Many have said that it is the backbone of their business model. This means there are enough designer and developers to start quoting on Business Catalyst specific projects. As such, we have built a landing page to try and capture the businesses out there looking for Business Catalyst Specialists. The Business Catalyst Developers and Designers page is expected to start bringing in leads in the next month. We are also talking with Adobe about further cross promotion.
If you haven't already checked out our Business Catalyst Partner Program, take a look now. You can get a free account to see what it's all about and as a member of Design Quotes you get a generous discount on their premium plans.
Here is a very interesting sounding event at the Victoria design festival, State of Design. At Design Quotes we are all about bringing in the work. We understand that designers use us as just one of many tools to get new work. Marketing one's own business is still important which is exactly what this talks is all about.
As designers we are often so caught up in the making of objects that we forget to market them properly. This seminar looks at some of the strategies and tactics that designers can employ to put themselves out there.
To learn more, check out the event page:
http://www.stateofdesign.com.au/Festival/Search/Design-Victoria-Get-Noticed-Its-Called-PR-Darling
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Icon Finder is an impressive database of free icons with an intuitive search and browse interface. Icons are categorised by sets which helps to maintain a consistent theme when designing a website interface. There is a massive set of social media icons as well as many others. A very useful resource.
This is just brilliant. The sales process of winning new work is a delicate process. Many creative agencies are small boutique operations of a a few designers playing a bunch of different roles. This helps to make the sales role a little more turn-key, consistent and measurable.
“Proposable makes generating professional-level proposals a cinch,” says Gube, “and it has reporting features to analyze the performance of your proposals. It was created for salespeople, but as a designer, being a salesperson is a huge part of the gig, whether you’re freelancing or pitching a design idea to your managers.”
We all do it. When we start a fresh website interface design project, we start sketching out our ideas. Which is an important step which ultimately saves time. However there are elements of sketching an interface that are usually the same each time. These free templates help streamline the interface sketching process, saving even more time adding value to your project.
4. A Zoomable jQuery Image Gallery Called jPhotoGrid
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It's another jquery image gallery, but this one is a little different and kinda neat. It takes a list of images and turns it into a grid where individual images are zoomed to the fore with a click. Good for catalogue type websites or portoflio websites. You can see a demo of the gallery in action.
Marvelous! More and more websites are integrating web apps. One of the most common requirements of a web form is geographical location data. This nifty database provides us with every country, place and city plus additional statistical information about each location such as timezones, populations and capitals.
The data comes in tab-delimited + utf-8 formatted text files and can be downloaded as a whole or per country.
This provides a simple was to quickly check how a website will render in various web browsers and their versions.
Sydney Design 2010
14th International Design Festival
31 July – 15 August
Sydney Design 2010 is seeking expressions of interest from organisations, groups, individuals and businesses engaged in design and the creative industries to be part of the 2010 festival program. Sydney Design invites submissions across a range of programs including exhibitions, workshops, talks, forums or symposiums, industry events, installations, interventions, digital projects, children’s programs, markets and competitions.
To submit an event or project, complete the Expression of interest form and return to Nicole Bearman
by Friday 26 February 2010.
Links
http://www.sydneydesign.com.au/sd09/leading-story/be-part-of-the-sydney-design-festival-program/
