February 14, 2008

How to make Pretty Links for your Blog

In this tutorial, you learn how to enhance the link appearance on your WordPress blog. Using simple CSS, this post covers what you need to know in order to pretty up your blog in 4 simple steps.

Have you noticed the little “8″ gracing every link on our site? We styled our links this way in order to distinguish them from the other content. It’s also a branding issue - our mark appears with every link on the page ;)

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We did this using simple CSS. You also need to have the image (or icon) to use this feature. You can easily apply this “enhancement” to your own blog, too.

As we’re running a WordPress powered blog, we will show you how we added this feature to Vibr8bros.com.
This is how we did it: Read on…

February 11, 2008

Top 18 awesome Stock Sites on the Web for Photos, Vectors, and Flash

Us designers are of special blood. We need food - yes, yes, we also ingest “normal” food like everybody else (at least that’s what we should do), but more importantly, we need food for our creative brains. And of that we need a lot. In fact, the nature of our jobs makes us depend on valuable resources we can build upon, tweak, implement, use, modify, adjust, slam, bawl out. Kinda.

This is where resources come in handy. Every designer we know has their own collection of resources, either big or bigger, and spends a lot of time searching for pictures, images, fonts, vectors, videos, and other stuff.

In this post, we’ll give you Vibr8bros’ top Photo, Vector and Flash stock sites on the web. The post also contains some affiliate links. But be warned: knowing where we get our stuff from doesn’t necessarily make you a good designer. It can make things easier for you - but awesome resources don’t give you the knowledge and skills you need to become an awesome designer. You’ll have to stick around on our blog a lil’ longer for that ;)

Let’s get it on then, shall we? Read on…

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