25 Free Retro Fonts for Designers

February 16th, 2010 Posted in Freebies by Peter Olexa

Fonts are an essential component of any designer’s repertoire.  Fonts are what can tie together a design, a logo, a template and create a coherent branding image.  Fonts can make or break a product advertisement, and they are often very difficult to choose.  Fonts come in all shapes and sizes, and all sorts of styles, from futuristic to grunge to retro.

In this post, Peter Olexa has kindly rounded up and shared 25 excellent free retro fonts for designers to use.  Whether you’re a web designer, advertising designer, or just a hobbyist, these fonts will definitely come in handy during future projects.

Hopefully you find these fonts useful, and let us know what you think in the comments.  As always, sharing on your favorite social networking and subscribing are appreciated.

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10 Free Professional PSD Web Templates

January 28th, 2010 Posted in Freebies by Eric Shafer

Not everyone has the time to develop their own web templates in Photoshop, and not everyone can afford to hire a designer.  When that happens, most of us turn to looking for free templates.  Unfortunately, many free templates aren’t of high quality, and therefore aren’t very useful to learn from, or to use as a website.

In this post, we here at CreativeFan have rounded up 10 of the absolute, hands-down best web templates that you can download.  There are no weak links here, each template is of incredibly high quality, and if you’re a designer, you might even learn a thing or two.

Hope you like the templates, be sure to read the usage policy for each, and have fun!

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16 Powerful Image Optimization Tools to Enhance Website Performance

December 14th, 2009 Posted in Freebies, Tools by Eric Shafer

Image optimization is crucial for any website.  Non-optimized images are bloated, take up bandwidth, and actually drive away web traffic.  Many users won’t wait for a site to fully load if it takes more than a few seconds.  In today’s competitive web, no one can afford to lose visitors for any reason, so we’ve gone around and rounded up the 16 most powerful image optimization tools, to help enhance your website performance and save you some bandwidth.  These tools are so easy to use, it makes optimizing your images easier than not optimizing them.  There’s even a great Wordpress plugin for optimizing images, since most blogs have to worry about image optimization. Hope you find them useful!  If they are, please Digg this post and share it with others.  Also, don’t forget to subscribe so you get all the best tools and tips straight to your inbox!

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63 of the Best Free Online Tools for Designers and Developers

December 9th, 2009 Posted in Freebies, Tools by Eric Shafer

Designers and developers need all the advantages they can get in today’s competitive market.  Whether you’re working for a Fortune 500 company, a hot new startup, or just freelancing for yourself, odds are that you use and need a variety of software.  Not everyone can afford to spend exorbitant amounts of money on a tool they might only need once, so luckily, there are tons of free tools on the internet.  The problem with free tools is that many of them are unreliable, and the good ones are hard to find…until now.

In this post, we’ve gone around and spent hours making the ultimate roundup, 63 of the best free online tools for designers and developers.  Whether you’re formatting code, editing images, or having a virtual meeting, these tools will help you get the job done right, and hassle free.

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24 Free Professional Wordpress Photo Gallery Themes

November 23rd, 2009 Posted in Blogging, Freebies by Eric Shafer

Wordpress is an incredibly easy to use content management system.  It is also very versatile, able to function as a blog, e-commerce site, or photo gallery.  Many photographers have elected to use Wordpress to host their photo gallery sites, and with good reason.  However, finding a quality free theme for a Wordpress photography site is a bit more challenging, as many of the themes provide either mediocre functionality, or are visually unappealing.  That’s why we made this post, to make your lives easier.  In this post, you’ll find 24 free, professional looking, premium-like, functional themes for Wordpress photography blogs.  Simply click the thumbnail, and you’ll be taken to the download page for that theme, and you’ll be up and running in a flash.  Did we miss a theme?  Let us know in the comments so we can add it to the list!

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