posted on Monday, June 13, 2005 11:34 AM
by
Jonathan Hodgson
Logo Design Trends
Over on Graphic Designs USA they have an interesting feature on logo design trends this year. They compare groups of similar logos from various different companies.
When looking for some website design inspiration there are a number of great sites I like to visit, for example TemplateMonster and CoolHomePages. Some of the templates available on these sites look totally professional and amazing; the difficult part tends to be following a great homepage design with the lower level content pages.
If you are after some photos for a site then GettyImages, Corbis, the free Stock.xchng, or even a search Google Images are good places to start; although don't forget to check the copyright and usage terms.
Next if you need to "fake" text for the layout, then Lorem Ipsum can generate you a few words to a few paragraphs of dummy text. But I'd agree with Jason Fried from 37signals on using real content when finalising designs with business sponsors.