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Insight Into The Supporters Behind Our Design Blog – April

timothyblake — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:59:48 +0000

I thought it would be a good idea to take out some time to thank our sponsors for helping support Design Chair throughout April, their support is immensely appreciated.

Over at Design Chair we currently charge only $10 per ad which last 30 days. $10 for an ad is not a large sum it’s just so we can still be capable of pumping out the best and freshest design tutorials and resources, without worry of finding money to support our over head costs such as paying for hosting etc. We are always welcoming new sponsors who may be interested within advertising their website, services or even sponsors who just want to help support the site.

Here’s an insight into the company’s which are currently supporting design chair.

Heart Internet

With many features other web hosts charge for free at Heart Internet, our unlimited hosting and powerful dedicated server hosting are the logical choice for webmasters of all sizes. Our market leading reseller account has been designed with web designers and developers in mind, offering a completely white label and customizable reseller hosting environment.
Heart Internet customers have a real impact on our business and products with over 1,000 customer ideas and suggestions implemented to date. Using the feedback form within their control panel hundreds of suggestions are sent every week and we read every single one of them.

Vector Pack

Vectorpack.net, a small design studio providing high-quality stock vectors and design elements. Our young and passionate designers are very glad to present you their hard work that stands behind these very detailed and professional looking vectors. Our intention is to always maintain a very high quality standard so as to make our vector art the best solution for all your design needs.

Wait

Wait.co.uk is a brand new, content writing service based in the UK. We offer content writing services for UK web site owners, developers and site designers who simply haven’t got the time to write their own content. This then gives web site owners and designers more time to dedicate their efforts to making money from their projects.

Would you like to become one of sponsors? Here’s how.

Check out Buy Sell Ads Page and you check out our current ad zones which we have available to purchase, and can have your ad live on Design Chair within a few minutes.

Do You Enjoy Awesome Design Tutorials ? Join Us On Facebook

timothyblake — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:00:52 +0000

Communicating and sharing high quality design resources with our readers over at Design Chair is high in our list of priorities. We thought it would only be right to create a second home for Design Chair readers where we can share even more design tutorials, articles and great freebies.

Join us on facebook and become part of Design Chair facebook community. So why not press little gray button below. :

Introducing Design Blog Design Chair and New Redesign

timothyblake — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:53 +0000

Design Chair has been running for a through months now and its only right that we match good content with a good design, therefore we have decide to give Design Chair A make over by applying some tweaks here and there to our old design to make a more fresh appealing design for our users.

If this is your first time coming across Design Chair it’s the perfect website for designers offering daily Photoshop and illustrator tutorials also high quality design resources such as brushes and vectors.

Old Redesign

This is just a short refresh to remind you of what Design Chair use to look like before we undertook a redesign of the site.

The New Design Chair

This is what the new Design Chair currently looks like.

1. Logo

The logo on the first Design Chair was floating about 300px below the top corner, we decided to place the logo on the top left corner therefore so it’s the first image which the user will see once they visit Design Chair and try to make the logo instantly recognisable to user by applying a glow to it to make it stand out a bit more.

2. Changed 3d flags

We use to have 3d flags which where a range of different colours for each 3D flag dependent upon what category it was it would be a different colour. We now decide to keep all the colours for headers displaying categories the same colour and instead we use small icons to represent what specific category is i.e. if category is Photoshop a small Photoshop icon.

3. Background image

The background was a dark black before which after I felt didn’t quite work with the colour combination. We experimented with various types of different colours when looking for our new background and decide to go with this blue grey colour then applied some Photoshop filters to the background to make it look less generic and a bit more unique.

4. Post previews background image

Post previews background image was a bit poorly designed last time but the new preview image is a big improvement minimalistic simple look with a drop shadow under the preview image.

Looking for Design Chair sponsors

Our main focus on Design Chair isn’t to make huge amounts of money but we have a few advertising spots at cheap rates just in order to cover hosting costs which would be great to help support Design Chair to help it grow bigger and better. The advertisement spots can be brought directly from buy and sell ads.

A Sneak Peak At The New Photoshop CS5

timothyblake — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:00:22 +0000

The new Photoshop CS5 is scheduled to come out next year in 2010 and like most designers I can’t wait until it comes out. The new Photoshop looks very promising with a range of new features which adobe have implemented into the forthcoming Photoshop.

This video is Gareth Hallnzm sharing what he would like to see within the new Photoshop CS5 and also the other adobe program within the CS5 suite. Sneak peaks also of the new photoshop CS5 features and tools.

A Video By Gareth Hallnzm Sharing What He Wants To See In The New Photoshop

A Sneak Peak Of The New Features

This is a great video which showcases what new Photoshop CS5 will be capable of doing.

This video is a look at the new and improved spot healing and fill tool.

Will it live Up to the hype ?

The new photoshop deferentially does look very promising but will it live up to the hype? leave a comment to share your thoughts on the new photoshop CS5.

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Thanks To Our Sponsors And Readers For Their Support

timothyblake — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:02:13 +0000

A post dedicated to our sponsors and readers for their support with our blog Design Chair. Since we launched our blog section for Design Chair we keep getting great positive feedback from our readers so we would like to say thank you and watch this space for more great content.

Thanks to our sponsor Heart Internet

A special thank you to our Sponsor, Heart Internet’s which is a Reseller Professional account is every Internet professional’s dream. Specially tailored for web designers, Internet integrators, web hosting resellers and developers, their Reseller package includes unlimited web space, unlimited bandwidth and the ability to host unlimited domains at no extra charge!

How you can become a sponsor

To become one of our sponsors its pretty simple and can be done via our buy and sell ads page which gives you more detail on sponsors/advert spots available on Design Chair. The perks of becoming one of our sponsors are that you will be featured on two sites for the price of one.

How to check out our latest sponsors

To check our latest sponsors and the valuable services which they offer its really simple all you need do is click our sponsor spots in the sidebar of the site.

New Design Blog Launch Design Chair The Blog

timothyblake — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:41:05 +0000

Welcome folks to the launch of Design Chair The blog, we have been playing around with idea of creating a blog for Design Chair now for some time.

Design Chair the blog we have loads of ideas planned for it, our main focus is to share with our readers useful design resources as well offering tutorials, freebies, articles, design news, and inspiration.

Keeping up to date

We have a lot planed for Design Chair from now to 2010 to not miss out on any content published on Design Chair the blog you can be kept update by the following.

Let us know what you think ?

Stayed tuned to Design Chair and watch this space.