Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 31 July 2014

Great con­tent found by Pariah and shared to the design and cre­ative com­mu­ni­ties on social media.

  • 5 Ways To Make Your Emails Stand Out From A Cluttered Inbox
    EMAILS DON’T HAVE TO BE A SHOT IN THE DARK. WITH THESE TIPS YOU’LL NOT ONLY GET YOUR EMAILS READ, BUT THEY COULD LEAD TO SOME BUSINESS, TOO.
  • 3 UX Mistakes That Make Sites More Hackable

    DREW DAVIDSON OF ÄKTA POINTS OUT SIMPLE DESIGN IMPROVEMENTS COMPANIES CAN MAKE TO PREVENT SECURITY MISHAPS.

  • Create a Vanity License Plate in Photoshop (Tutorial)
    In this Photoshop tuto­r­i­al I’ll show you how to cre­ate a cus­tom van­i­ty license plate using a few basic Photoshop tools a piece of ref­er­ence mate­r­i­al and some cre­ative lay­er stylings.
  • Self-Published Authors Make A Living – And Sometimes A Fortune
    Weinberg says there is still a strong finan­cial case to be made for pub­lish­ing books the old-fashioned way, but there are now many well-known inde­pen­dent authors who have made a for­tune self-publishing online.
  • Designers: 5 Reasons Why You Can’t Get More Projects

    Are you a free­lance design­er who is strug­gling to find work, or qual­i­ty jobs that will allow you to grow your career? Or maybe you’re look­ing for full time, in-house design work, but just can’t seem to land the per­fect gig you want.

  • 10 Surprising Social Media Facts You Never Knew
    Did you know that Twitter has six dif­fer­ent net­works? Did you know that the best day for engage­ment on Facebook is Friday? Did you know that Pinterest has spe­cif­ic themes for cer­tain days of the week?
  • How to Free Up iCloud Storage Space

    Apple offers 5 GB of free iCloud space to every­one, but you’ll run up against that stor­age lim­it soon­er than you’d think. Device back­ups, pho­tos, doc­u­ments, iCloud email, and oth­er bits of data all share that space. 

  • Lifetime Access To Over 5,000 Adobe Authorised Training Videos For $79, Ends Aug 7

    Like it or not, only one com­pa­ny monop­o­lis­es the dig­i­tal cre­ativ­i­ty appli­ca­tion sphere, and that’s Adobe. Photoshop and Illustrator are just two of Adobe’s widely-used industry-standard appli­ca­tions, so it helps to ful­ly under­stand them if you’re even slight­ly involved in the field. Train Simple is an Adobe-authorized tutor, and for a lim­it­ed time, you can grab life­time access to all 5000 of their train­ing videos for just $79.

  • 20 of the Best Free Portfolio Themes for WordPress

    If you want to cre­ate a web­site to share your work online, then you have to check out our favourite free port­fo­lio themes for WordPress. All of these WordPress themes are designed for port­fo­lio web­sites, and they have great fea­tures like respon­sive lay­outs, fea­tured image slid­ers, par­al­lax effects, mason­ry lay­outs, Font Awesome icons, Google Fonts, Bootstrap inte­gra­tion, WooCommerce com­pat­i­bil­i­ty, thread­ed com­ments, and more.

Curated by Pariah Burke