The definition of urban has taken on many connotations over the years. From its basic definition: of, relating to, or designating a city or town; living in a city, or characteristic of or accustomed to cities (aka citified), to its more secondary meaning: dominated by a racial minority, there is a lot of confusion out there as to what exactly it means to be urban.
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Have you ever turned down a freebie that was beneficial to your WordPress website?
We hope not! That’s why we make a strong effort to provide our loyal readers with freebies related to WordPress whenever we can. Finding free items to use for your website, besides the typical free theme or plugin, can be tough. More so, finding free items that are reliable, secure, and usable make the hunt for freebies even more difficult.
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- Design Features. Explore Photoshop patterns, background textures, fonts, and design tools for creating your own personalized doodles.
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Photography has always been crucial to a well-designed website. However, with so many tacky stock images available, it can be tough to find imagery that enhances your website.
Fortunately, there are plenty of websites out there offering website owners free (and beautiful looking) stock images. Forget the days of adding a cheesy-looking clip art image or a commonly used stock image on your website. Some of the free images I am going to share with you are so stunning, you may find it hard to believe they are free.
As a graphic designer, I’m completely in love with all those lovely handwritten scripts and calligraphy fonts you see all over the Internet these days. Chalk art, flourishes, modern scripts – the trend is fierce, and I’m diggin’ it!
I am an amateur calligrapher. I love destressing at night with some tunes on Pandora, a glass of wine, my dip pen and ink, and writing a gazillion practice sheets. I’ve wanted to start getting more involved with my calligraphy and finding practical ways to use it daily. So that’s why I’ve created this awesome set of 30 free calligraphy elements for your website. All useful blog-related words are written in a fancy handwritten script and then turned into images for you to use however you’d like. These images could be used for titles in your sidebar, featured images, or Pinterest posts… the options are endless.
Need some vintage country photos for your next project and can’t get out of the city? We’ve got you covered!
This royalty-free, filter-friendly stock photography set features some beat-up, rusty cars, a boat graveyard, a doorway that’s seen better days, and a forgotten tree in the distance of a golden wheat field. It’s nature. It’s American, through and through.
Technology has transformed the concept of the remote office. We haven’t been able to make the leap yet into complete, primarily because of our dependence on high-speed internet and our huge desktop workstation setup, but the guy in this image seems to have the right idea.
Continuing in our free stock photography series, this photo bundle is all about boating and life at the marina. While Evan and I dream of someday having a sailboat, a trip down to the marina when visiting his hometown provides a little snapshot of the maritime culture, enough to go on for now. The thought of days spent reading books, toes dipped into pristine water with the catamaran bobbing somewhere in the Caribbean doesn’t sound like a half-bad retirement (that is, of course, sans the insane depreciation, continual upkeep and maintenance, cabin fever that’s bound to happen sooner or later, isolation and creepy pirates). 😉
Photography was a passion of mine long before getting into the design world. When we started the company, our first purchase was a Nikon D300, and we took it everywhere, snapping images of the shoreline in the Redwoods, cows munching in a field, and pheasant hunts on the prairie in middle America with my family. We even started a street-style photography blog in Portland – one of our first forays into the blogging world. I found it easy to snap the images but not so easy to approach random strangers and ask them to hold still and SMILE! while I clicked away. So, instead, we moved on to nature and still-life photography.
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