Graphic/Web Design Blog

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1. How To Find A Graphic or Web Design Intern
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3. Writing Web Content for Search Engines
4. In Search of Better Search
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Noupe.com has featured over 40+ icon sets on their blog. From desktop icons to web site icons, all of these came from deviantART. Also, if you scroll through the comments you can find links to many other web sites with icon sets.

Pemaquid Communications, a Maine based design company posted a press release on Press Release Maine that they are creating custom Facebook Applications using facebook’s open architecture. According to Pemaquid Communication’s blog, they have already created a dynamic interface for local Maine band Lost on Liftoff.

Read the press release on prmaine.com:
Pemaquid Communications releases Facebook apps

Ever wonder how striped backgrounds are created? Most of them are created using an online stripe generator. This shouldn’t be considered cheating, and is really handy for new designers without the income to have software like Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator. For the veteran designer, this service allows more time to code pages rather than Photoshop a striped background.