Win Two Premium Gallery-Style WordPress Themes!
Posted Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 in ContestsWe are excited to announce another great contest exclusive to Design Snack. Our sister site, Theme Snack, providing premium WordPress themes, has given us three(3) developer licenses to give away on Design Snack. These include Foliotastic, a unique and great looking portfolio-style theme; as well as Phototastic, a photo-centric gallery-style theme. Continue Reading
Design Snack Feedback Contest!
Posted Monday, February 22nd, 2010 in ContestsDesign Snack is looking for some great, honest feedback about our features, benefits and our website in general. We really want to focus our efforts in the next update push and want to know what you want to see. To make this request as successful as possible, we’re offering a $15 Apple iTunes (music, movies and apps) gift card to the top 3 comments, suggestions, etc. Continue Reading
The Smashing Book: An In-Depth Review
Posted Saturday, February 6th, 2010 in Design, ReviewsUnless you’ve been huddled in a corner for the last few years, you may have stumbled into a little website called Smashing Magazine. All sarcasm aside though, Smashing is one of the most popular and fastest growing websites in the design community. It has become a source of inspiration and education to thousands of designers and developers—beginners and professionals alike. Continue Reading
Our Favorite New Flash-Powered Sites
Posted Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 in Design, FeaturedThere has been an influx of great Flash-based website submissions coming in lately, and I wanted to take some time to showcase a few of them. Whenever I start to think Flash websites are a dying breed, websites like this come out and force me to think otherwise. Continue Reading
Phototastic: A Premium Photography WordPress Theme
Posted Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 in Design, Favorites, WordPressThemeSnack — our sister site — announced the availability of Phototastic, a new premium WordPress theme for photographers, designers, illustrators and any other creative people wanting to show off their work in a highly visual way. Phototastic’s sleek and modern design allows users to showcase their work on a beautiful, interactive canvas. Continue Reading
Five Brilliant & Beautiful jQuery-Powered Sites
Posted Thursday, November 19th, 2009 in Design, FavoritesJavascript has been around for many years now. But with the explosive introduction of fantastic new frameworks like jQuery, MooTools and Prototype, there are some amazingly creative designers & developers out there that still find new and exciting ways to use it. Continue Reading
Featured Designer of the Week: Otterball
Posted Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 in FeaturedA member since April 2009, Otterball has built up quite a nice portfolio over the past several months. With a modern but texture-rich style, all of their designs are clean, easy to use, and layered with depth. Continue Reading
Your Portfolio Items shall not be Deleted!
Posted Sunday, November 15th, 2009 in UpdatesWe quickly noticed after launch that if we are going to allow you to build a portfolio on Design Snack, your items should stay in it, even if they don’t receive the required positive feedback. Continue Reading
Featured Item of the Week: Ecoki
Posted Sunday, November 8th, 2009 in FeaturedFrom its unique and clever logo to the wonderful textures and shapes thrown all about, Ecoki (http://ecoki.com) has all the right elements of great web design. Creativity, color, structure, functionality, usability, and more. Check out some screens below and then go vote it up! Continue Reading
Six of our Favorite Design Galleries
Posted Monday, November 2nd, 2009 in FavoritesLet’s be honest, Design Snack isn’t the only great gallery site out there. There are a lot of them—like a whole lot. While we certainly can’t showcase all of them, we’d like to give kudos to some of our top favorites. We picked these 6 galleries based on design aesthetic, quality of content and overall usability. Continue Reading
