Design Shard, More Than Just A Web Design Blog

Whether you’re a noobie with Photoshop or a web design veteran, Design Shard has something to offer you.

Design Shard is a web blog that provides resources for web designers. On the blog you can find program tutorials, design tips and tricks, inspiration, exposure, and links to other valuable resources. There is a veritable wealth of information on this blog to help grow your artistic abilities and expand your online web pages and businesses.

Instructive posts teach users how to blend form and style to create dazzling websites. Video tutorials guide visitors through both simple and complex techniques in programs such as Photoshop and Illustrator. These tutorials aid in web design and structure, giving you the skill and capability to build it all on your own.

Design Shard shares artist collections and other tantalizing designs through the blog, bringing inspiration to you in the form of a showcase. Through the artwork posted and various external links available on the site, designers in need of encouragement can find that spark of creativity they are looking for.

The blog also offers advice on how to increase traffic to your website and build a better business through improved web design. Through the blog you will learn how to save money with better design, how to gain exposure, and how to maintain users by guiding them effortlessly through your website with elegant design as their handrails.

Best of all for designers is that Design Shard offers exposure to anyone willing and talented enough to participate. You can become a guest author on the blog, offering your own stories and advice to the community. Every guest author is given permission to promote their own websites and design work. Design Shard also has a Flickr group where community members can sign up to showcase their own artwork. The idea behind this is to give everyone a shot at displaying their own work while building a resource for others to become inspired by. This is probably my favorite aspect of the site.

The community is thousands strong and growing as more discover this gem. This is a great website for anyone that has a passion for web design or creativity in general. The content created by the website and its guest authors is interesting and informative. It would be great if new blog posts were more frequent (there are only one or two new posts every week), but most everything else about Design Shard is wonderful.

It would be a shame for anyone interested in the web design industry or creative field to miss out on Design Shard. The abundance of tools and resources is impressive, but the enthusiastic community and inspiring works are priceless.