April 2012 - Designbeep

7 WordPress Hacks You Might Find Useful For Your Blog

Wordpress comes with many useful features but depending on your needs you can make your wordpress blog more functional and dynamic.This can be done by adding piece of codes in your theme files.
Wordpress snippets allow you to change or add many functions to your blog.Thankfully,there are many people out there releasing new wordpress hacks.In today’s post,we are featuring wordpress code hacks which you might find useful for your blog.But before customizing your theme files,do not forget to backup your files,especially functions.php file.

Giveaway:10 Free One Year Hosting Accounts From Zyma

Designbeep and Zyma announce the inception of their new giveaway. Win a Web Hosting Account for 1 Whole Year from Zyma! Up for grabs are 10 web hosting accounts with unlimited web space. This is a giveaway that you simply don’t want to miss . Read on to see how you can win this excellent prize.

Artist Of The Week:Tony Ariawan

Tony Ariawan is a digital artist based in Jakarta, Indonesia.Tony never attended any traditional design school but he is one of the best self taught i have seen in my life.He is always inspired by female body and he blends it with shape,light and bright colors.
Tony currently works as a freelance graphic designer.If you want to work with you can find him on;

Collection of Free and Popular Sci-Fi Fonts for Designers

We continue to share free fonts with you.This week,we have gathered free sci-fi fonts or let’s say futuristic fonts.These kind of fonts are very popular among movie posters,media logos,ultra modern designs and space themed designs.Sci-fi font styles have hard edges and geometric lines so they may not fit every design concept.If you want to add a futuristic feel in your designs then these kind of fonts are the right fonts.
The below sci-fi fonts are all free however please check out the license agreements for commercial rights.(Background image)

Must Read Articles of The Week #11

This is a weekly post where we bring together great articles you might have missed.All these hand picked articles are for web designers and developers and we are sure you will find many useful yet innovative articles in this post.Enjoy!!!

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #69

There is no limit for inspiration and when it comes to webdesign this is much more unlimited. As usual we continue to showcase beautiful and interesting webdesigns that we came across during the week.Hope you like this week’s collection too.

35 Creative Logos With Clever Use of Clouds

Logo is a symbol that represents your brand,it’s like business image.Logos make big impact on how people view your company.One of the most important function of logo is to win the trust of your market.So a creative,unique,memorable and well thought logo design is very important for business owners.

This week’s logo inspiration is based on clouds.Clouds are widely used in design industry so in logo design too.We’ve rounded up brilliant 35 logo designs that feature clouds.

30 Cool Wallpapers for Typography Lovers

Desktop computers and laptops are the partners for most of the people and they spend a lot of their time in front of them.When you switch your computer,the first thing you see is your desktop wallpaper.A beautiful wallpaper is a way to express your uniqueness and personalize your computer.So why not change your boring wallpaper?
As a typography lover i always use typographic wallpapers on my desktop and i regularly(once a month) change my desktop wallpaper.In today’s post we have gathered typographic wallpapers for your delight.Feel free to download the below wallpapers.

40 Free High Quality Leather Textures for Designers

Today,i will be sharing a freebie set to use in your future design projects.These are really high quality leather textures which you can download for free.Leather textures are being used in a wide range of design projects either in web design or graphic design and they are very popular in design projects. Leather textures give a very appeal to the eyes and can be used as backgrounds,photo overlays,styles.
So if you are in graphic design industry, with help of a few tools you can edit and do a little photo editing, even if it’s about adding textures. But if you are thinking of taking it to the professional level, then you must look for the best laptop for graphic design work available in the market that fall under your budget.

Here is a collection of free leather textures.Although most of them are free for commercial use,please do not forget to check for license agreements if it is changed or not.

Friday Urban Typography Inspiration – Sydney

Urban typography showcase is one of our weekly posts.Every Friday we are featuring inspirational typography examples from a city.If you are a real typography lover , you always notice typography examples like shop signage,road signs etc. in your city and if you want your photo to be published here just send it.This week’s typography showcase comes from Sydney.Enjoy!!!