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I came across this wonderful minimal blog design recently and managed to talk the designer into writing a tutorial on how he created it. You can also download the PSD file at the end of the tutorial.

You can see the final result here (click to enlarge):

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During current economical times, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to find and secure good clients. A “good” client is one who plays on time and presents his/her needs in a precise, and efficient manner. That’s why freelance designers need to work on their marketing a bit more to secure better clients, and this is where blogging comes into the mix.

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1. 
   Growldesign.co.uk
   Freelance portfolio of Hertfordshire, UK’s web designer Jenna Smith, a well rounded code specialist with all of these in her skillset; PHP, MySQL, XML, XSLT and jQuery -”yea-a open source!”
2. 
   Awayback.com
   One of my favorites this week, Freelancer – Amrinder’s site, who’s self-described objectives include building “technically intelligent, visually impressive and freely creative websites”!
   If the portfolio site is any indication, then yeah I’m feeling the “visually impressive” bit, nice work.
   Note to self: start using some sIFR, it looks just excellent here in the headings.
   Typography overall very nice.
3. 
   Phunkn.com
   Phunky-funky, talented Creative Director -Jason Chieng’s site.
4. 
   NickHand.net/
   Graphic design from the far North of Alaska, Nick’s site utilizes an expansive grid and some Flash header treatments. The flash is a bit sluggish here, and as a result not very smooth tweening action, but it could just be my machine. Anybody have a 1Gb chip of old sdram laying a round, give me a yell …
5. 
   SpaceColorado.org
   Space exploration from the mile-high city Denver, Colorado.
6. 
   Indent.co.za
   Innovative bold geometrical layout, with a sci-fi futuristic console vibe.
7. 
   ConsiderOpen.com/
   A Seattle web design portolio, further proof that “Seattle still Rocks“.
8. 
   http://www.tourtracker.com
   A new AOL brand website hit the streets this week, this one a great new music and concert resource TourTracker offers a whole host of original content and user submitted articles and inside-scoops about your favorite recording artists, as well as Tour Dates and ticket information for huge national tours as well as the pub down the street, incredible. Mubs confides in me he was spending some time in Manhattan, NY the past couple of weeks helping build this site. Thanks for turning me on to this one Mubs, it Rocks! Everybody get out and catch some live music, you know you want to.

Quote of the Week:

“Believe in your dreams, for they can only take you to a place once unimaginable … ”
-Jason Chieng’s site

That’s about it for this week, happy Independence Day to anyone residing in the United States, Mubs in NY, and David B. from over at LogoPond down in Cajin country N’awlins, Lous’iana, and Simon across the other big pond at the reins of Stylegala. Shout-outs to all my friends scattered across the “Creative Planet” also, and enjoy the weekend, you know I will.

Peace out!

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Smashing Magazine, or rather its users have created 45 beautiful header designs that you can use for free.

38 of Smashing Magazines users contributed over 100 designs, which were then whittled down the top 45. The designers have provided details on their designs, along with their intentions, and some examples of how the headers could be user. Nice to see that you can download the PSD files used to create the headers, so you should be able to adjust the headers to your needs.