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| Designing Awesome Brochure:Huge List Of Tips, Tutorials and Inspirations Posted: 20 Jul 2010 02:00 PM PDT
TIPS1. Express Originality and creativityFirst step for designing a brochure for your business should be the knowledge of what information you are going to express in it. You can use advertising material of other business similar you yours in market, find out what attracts you, review in detail the information they have provided in their brochure, note down the main points which you think will help you in designing brochure for your business. One important thing here is, get ideas from various sources but don't be a copy cat, try to use your own creativity in the design of brochure and always be original. 2. High resolution images are crucialIf you are looking to design a professional looking brochure layout then you should concentrate on the selection of right high-resolution images. Using high-resolution images in your brochure won't make it blurry or pixellated, if it does then your brochure will look very awkward and can hurt the image of your company or brand. If you want exact sharpness, then your images should be at least 300 dpi which can be found very easily from the internet most of them are either free or inexpensive as compared to your budget. 3. Simplicity is the ultimate sophisticationDesign and layout of any brochure is the key to attract audience; so in this regard I prefer to have a neat and simple design which looks more elegant than others designs which are filled with lot of images and text decoration. Here you should follow the rule of "LESS IS MORE". Brochure should be brief also and mentions only main points and then you can use contact menu to have close and personal conversation with your customers to give them better impression of your company. 4. Use captivating colorColors should be managed according to the theme and vision of what you are trying to express in brochure. You should have seen brochure having different colors in them which make them spicy but on the other hand some brochures are only designed in black and white color which also looks elegant. But the thing is it doesn't matter how many or less colors you should use in the design, what matter is the way of presenting them, which looks beautiful. Develop attractive color combination which is an expensive thing but worth every penny of it. 5. Use neat fontsAs your brochure have to express very huge amount of information about your business in a small piece of paper you should use neat and readable fonts. That doesn't means you have to use simple and non-appealing fonts; there are many serif fonts which have both the neatness and stylishness. Diversity is a good thing but not in this matter of selecting fonts. You should not use more than 3 font types in your brochure if your want to have attention of readers. You can change the style for headings and paragraph but stick to same font style as it increases the viewer's comprehension of your brochure. 6. Highlighting is the keyThere should be some objectives behind the printing of a brochure for your company, you should mention them in headlines and use different styles like Bold or ITALIC to make them prominent and stand out from other elements on the page. If you have some trademark motto of your company then place it on the page where it can be visible to others very easily and decorate it with fancy borders. Things like that can make a huge difference in the gorgeousness of your brochure. 7. Utilize a ProofreaderAfter you have worked your head off in designing all the necessary things for your brochure; your handwork would be a waste if it has spelling mistakes, design flaws and incorrect information about your company which can lead you to reprinting of your brochure and increasing your business fixed cost. To avoid this situation you should use a proofreader, which should be professional and independent and ask him to comment freely what he thinks about the layout and the text provided in your brochure. You should pay attention to his feedback and correct any mistake he pointed out. You can use three to five people to have a correct and accurate feedback. 8. Use a Professional PrinterLast step in the designing of a brochure is its printing which is also a significant and crucial step. You can use your office printers or contact professional brochure printers. It all depends on your budget; if you have a high budget then you can use professional service for this purpose on the other hand if you have a low-budget you can do it in your home or office. I would recommend you to spend some extra money on this part because if you have every thing right other than the printing then all of your spending would be waste. So get services from a professional printer which provides excellent result as well as it in labor intensive as it can fold and labels the brochures automatically. TUTORIALSAfter reading the above described tips you must have got a basic idea what should be delivered and expressed in a brochure. Now have a look at some tutorials to create spellbinding brochure for your business. 1. Design a Ready to Print Brochure in Photoshop2. Creative Brochure Design Tutorial in Adobe Photoshop3. Brochure Design Tutorial4. Corporate brochure style5. Create and Print a Brochure with Photoshop, Indesign and UPrinting.com6. Create a Stunning Car Showroom Brochure7. Trifold Brochure Design Tutorial8. Designing a Brochure CoverINSPIRATIONSHere we have featured 50 beautiful and graceful brochure designs ever created for your inspirations. You can get an idea of what kind of brochures should be designed to have attention of all the customers and stakeholders. Population 0SELECT brochureSimplicityStudio MIKMIKPicked by Six:: CCC AW10 Teaser :::: Encounterfest07 Brochure ::Epson epSITE2008 CalendarJesusRevolution Conference BrochureAnchure brochureBrochure by EmtgraficoBrochure by Glu2brochure by ~osleembrochure cultural events2009brochure design by deepikaharoraCenter for Women in Law no.2Class’net brochurecondom brochureDA / self promoDeep Funk Records BrochureEGO brochureTripShake Brochures!Gauge Magazine 11mdis open house 08 brochuresFogoForum Properties BrochureBina brochureHuning Trade BrochureWHP 2010 Epic AwardsIDENTITYILI BrochureSea Breeze Vacation Home brochureKYCS brochureLake Shore BrochureLiricaSony Vaio CatalogMSC BrochureNick CaveOrso SignPak Qatar Product BrochureTeatrul De Magie BrochureThe ConquerorTruth BrandingTVNZTypography BrochureBabeHoteis RealVistula for Porsche BrochureWired BrochureIn the end we like to thank you for your time at 1WD. Any review or suggestion about the article? Mentions in your comments :).     |
| 50 Exclusive Commercial Business And Corporate Wordpress Themes Posted: 20 Jul 2010 03:00 AM PDT
1. inFocus ($37)inFocus is a Powerful Professional Premium WordPress theme. It comes with an impressive fully customizable jQuery homepage slider with 3 different staging effects. Whether you're a WordPress pro or just a beginner, this theme has you covered. With a huge custom back-end area you have complete control over the look and style of your theme. Add images to your homepage slider, add as many sidebar widgets as you like, pull in your latest tweet from Twitter and much much more, all without having to touch a single line of code! For your convenience inFoucs comes with 10 skins to choose from. Click on color name below for a full preview. Also below is a full list of inFocus's features. Some features:
2. Display 3 in 1 ($42)Display is a Wordpress theme, best suited for business and portfolio sites. It comes with a fantastic 3D Image slideshow that can be controlled from your backend with a custom tool. The theme has a huge wordpress custom backend (8 additional Admin Pages) that make customization of the theme easy for those who don't know much about coding or Wordpress. Display also has 3 fantastic skins to choose from. Some Features:
3. Unite ($37)Unite is a merger of crisp design and powerful communication. It takes a clean, organized approach to presenting content so it's easier to find what you want. This is a premium WordPress theme with 5 pre-made skins including a dark theme and textured background theme. The theme is easy to modify and ready to be up and running out of the box. The PSD files included have been customized to allow fast skinning. Some features: 4. Luxury ($32)Luxury is a clean, feature packed Wordpress theme designed to make your life easier. You can check out video tutorial how to set up custom home page. Some features: 5. Prosto ($37)Prosto is a professional developed, clean designed Wordpress Theme with powerful CMS features. That is well suited for personal portfolio, blog, or any kind of business website. Easy to customize with extended admin panel for any kind of users. You can simply control your theme look and content without any special knowledge. Setup layout and choose custom sidebar for each page. Make unlimited portfolios in 3 different layouts that is give you a great flexibility and much more. Some features:
6. Centita ($27)Centita is Wordpress Theme with minimalist and elegant look that suitable for your professional corporate website, easy to customize and rich of features. Some features:
7. Pandora ($32)Pandora is a WordPress Template, designed to promote anything from a corporate business to a portfolio site. Some features:
8. Hyperion ($37)Hyperion is a clean and stylish Wordpress Theme well suited for any business, portfolio, blogger, or anyone needing a beautiful website. Hyperion comes with 3 jquery slideshows, many page templates, 3 widget areas, over 80 theme options, and 6 color styles, 2 custom widgets for your Twitter feed and Flickr images. 9. BossPress ($32)BossPress is a Wordpress theme which is suitable for web developers, designers, photographers and small corporates. Some features:
10. Barely Corporate ($32)Barely Corporate is a clean Wordpress theme that couldn't be more easy to use. With a beautiful exterior and a backend that gives you ultimate versatility and freedom, Barely Corporate will have your website up and running in no time. It may look similar on the outside with just a few visual tweeks, but on the inside it's the smoothest Wordpress theme you've ever used. The main goal was to give you the maximum amount of control, but at the same time not throw a million options and meta boxes in your face. Barely Corporate's new framework will truly allow you to get that new website up and running for you or your client successfully without all the hassle. Some features:
11. Realist ($27)This is woking right out of the box. Make your own property listings that can be searched, and filtered. This is a property website ready to go! Some features:
12. Universal Business ($27)Widgets loaded template with an extremely easy configuration of the homepage, header, footer, sidebar and many others. You can launch a nice an clean customer's website in no time. Our goal was to create a template that you will be able to use for any client you have, no matter if you are creating a car business website, hotel website or website for carpenters. You can use it for your own company as well. Some features:
13. Vision ($37)Vision is a Wordpress theme designed with corporate businesses in mind. It has a custom CMS integrated into the Wordpress administration area that allows you to build a fully functional professional website in minutes. The theme is also well suited for online portfolios and blogs. Some features:
14. BVD – Beautiful Website Design ($37)The WP version of very popular BVD – Beautiful Website Design. Any modern web browser will make this theme work with no issues! PC or Mac system does not make the difference as well. Some features:
15. Real Estate ($27)Real Estate Theme is a professional Wordpress Template, that is suitable for real estate type websites or for showcasing your work and/or products. The Real Estate Theme comes with an easy to set up "featured" image slider (with it's own admin options), a colour switcher with 3 colour schemes and a built-in contact form. Some features:
16. Silver Business ($32)SilverBusiness is a premium wordpress template designed for companies, products, or individuals. It provides great solution for small businesses, because it combines great corporate design with functionality of WordPress. It comes jam packed with a lot of features. This site will really make you stand out! Some features:
17. Web Lider ($32)WebLider is a Simple And Elegant WebSite Template. It is great to emphasize and present your products and your business. The theme is easy to customize- options settings are included. This means that the options (such as images in slider, pages to show etc.) can be set in admin panel, without the need to edit the code. The theme is widget ready. It has multiple dynamic sidebars for the different pages and widgets can be easy dragged and dropped into them from the admin panel. Some features:
18. C3 ($37)Beautiful theme with a complex and customizable WP framework on top of it. Taking aside the unique, massive back end CMS , that gives you almost unending possibilities of making changes for your needs we've added something that no one on Theme Forest has so far: One click auto install. Sit back, relax, drink your coffee, and watch how our work frame does its magic and auto installs the Creative Juice WP theme to the version that you see on the live preview. This theme requires php 5.0 Some features:
19. Centivio ($27)Centivio is clean web 2.0 style wordpress theme for business, company and corporate website. This theme comes with 10 color options for this theme for you can easily choose the color base on your business brand. Some features:
20. Durable 5 in 1 ($32)Some features:
21. Greatio ($32)Greatio is a Premium Wordpress Theme, best suited for Business, Portfolio, Interior and Architecture sites. It comes with some JQuery scripts which makes it better view. Also 7 color theme available (Red, Violet, Green, Blue, Orange, White and Wood). Some features:
22. TekNium ($22)TekNium is a clean modern business wordpress theme. Some features:
23. Koncept 10 in 1 ($32)This theme has all the popular and common features which used by the current trend sites and more over this site has a lots of features built and customized user friendly and easy loading less weight hand coded and full functionality. Works in all the major browsers. For more details see features list below. Some features:
24. Universum ($27)Universum is clean and modern template designed for companies, small business and individuals. It combines fresh modern look with great functionality. It is really easy to set – up and comes with in-depth help file. Purchase it now and impress your customers today. Some features: 25. New Sense ($32)NewSense is a Simple And Clean Business WordPress Theme. It's great for any business and is designed in corporative and modern style. The home page is designed to emphasize your products. The theme is easy to customize- options settings are included. This means that the options (such as images in slider, categories to show etc.) can be set in admin panel, without the need to edit the code. The theme is widget ready. It has a dynamic sidebar and widgets can be easy dragged and dropped into it from the admin panel. The theme also goes with 3 styles- blue, orange and green and it is very easy to change between each other from the admin panel. Some features:
26. Blitz ($32)Blitz is a premium business wordpress theme that suitable for business, company, corporate and portfolio. The design is clean and professional and comes with 5 color variations. Some features: 27. Complexity ($37)Complexity is a simple business and portfolio theme that is easy to customize and will get you or your client's website up and running in no time. It's everything it's name isn't, which is simple. This theme takes advantage of the power of Wordpress 3 with the use of custom post types, navigation menus, background image control, post thumbnails, and much more. Some features:
28. Web Explorer ($32)WebExplorer is a simple and elegant premium business WordPress theme. It's great for any business and personal sites. The theme is easy to customize- options settings are included. This means that the options (such as images in slider, pages to show etc.) can be set in admin panel, without the need to edit the code. The theme is widget ready. It has multiple dynamic sidebars for the different pages and widgets can be easy dragged and dropped into them from the admin panel. Some features:
29. Vivee ($32)Vivee is clean web 2.0 style web template that suiable for business, company, corporate and portfolio website. There are 7 color version of this template. Some features:
30. Small Business ($32)Small Business Theme is perfectly suited for business or portfolio site types. The theme has classic blog features as well as special portfolio section for displaying works or products. The built-in options panel (over 20 options), provides advanced theme customization to fit your or client requests. Update 1.4 brings support for Wordpress 3.0. The theme is backward compatible with Wordpress 2.9 but I highly encourage you to upgrade to Wordpress 3.0+ version as theme setup is much easier, only 4 steps! The new custom menus are supported and there is support for Google Analytics as well (or any other script/html that you want to add before end of the page). There is also jquery.easing plugin file permission fix that was causing trouble with slider. Some features:
31. Vanilla ($27)Vanilla Wordpress CMS Website Template is best suited for corporate, Business and Personal websites along with Blog facility Some features:
32. Andromeda ($37)Andromeda is a clean theme with functional CMS and unique features. A massive pack of backend CMS options was created for this product to give you full control while creating and editing the site and its features. The main idea behind this theme was to create a something clean and simple, useful, nice looking and easy to modify. Some features:
33. Transformer ($27)Transformer is a (CMS) wordpress theme that includes all the needed features that would give your website a great look with many administrative options to help you customize as you wish. For example, you can choose one of two scrollable styles and manage scrollable options like effects, speed, autoscroll and much more. Some features: 34. Colosseum ($37)Colosseum is the ultimate fusion of wordpress, creativity and great futures. This premium theme can be used for just about anything, from corporate websites to personal portfolios. It uses a lot of advanced css3 and jQuery effects, yet it still works on browsers that don't support it. Some features: 35. Freshfolio ($32)Freshfolio is a Wordpress theme with a clean interface and awesome jQuery custom slideshow perfect for use with portfolio and business websites. Some features: 36. Corporate Folio ($27)CorporateFolio is an elegant theme aimed at companies who need a quick and serious web presence setup. The homepage is perfectly suited to showcase your services, previous work or products while the blog is there to publish important company news and promote engagement through it. Some features:
37. Explict ($37)Some features:
38. Kinetic 3 in 1 ($37)Kinetic Template has been designed to suit any kind of wordpress site. It comes with 3 color schemes at the moment, 2 Image sliders and several page templates. The theme provides total control over your content and lets you decide how you want to show your site's content to your visitors. However, author is always open for suggestions for more features or designs. Some features: 39. Good Business ($37)Good Business is a very clean Premium Business Wordpress theme. It can be use for 1 or 2 column layout. Has a beautiful sidebar navigation and breadcrumbs of every inside page for you to easy to navigate. Good Business comes with an impressive fully customizable jQuery and 3D slider, it has a 6 color style variation. This wordpress theme is fully customizable and well documented. Whether you're a WordPress pro or just a beginner, this theme has you covered. With a huge custom back end area you have complete control over the look and style of your theme. Some features:
40. Podium ($32)Podium is clean and elegant business wordpress theme that can be switched as business, corporate, portfolio and blogging theme. there are 7 skins option available, also two slideshow type (3D and jQuery slideshow) and two homepage layout. Some features:
41. Novatorix 10 in 1 ($37)Novatorix is a Wordpress Theme, best suited for Business and Portfolio sites. It comes with a fantastic 3D Image slideshow that can be controlled from your backend with a custom tool. The Theme has a huge wordpress custom backend (7 different option pages) that make customization of the Theme easy for those who don't know much about coding or wordpress. Some features: 42. Aurora ($32)The Aurora WordPress version is author's best project ever! Business site, Blog and Portfolio in one. Layout is designed for companys which love celan, crispy and professional designs. Each page was designed step by step with details. The package contains 6 full pages with 10 color schemes! Some features: 43. Furu ($37)Some features:
44. Dabbe ($27)Some features: 45. Good Waves ($32)Goodwaves is a neat business and portfolio wordpress theme built to help you present your company, service or product in the easiest and most convenient way. It has an awesome 3D Image slider as well as some jQuery goodness to spice things up. The theme comes with an easy to understand and configure wordpress backend panel for quick customization and installation Some features: 46. Avisio ($37)Avisio is a Wordpress theme that takes advantage with all the amazing new wordpress 3 features and is best suited for Portfolio and Business Websites. It has the ability to create unique skins right from your backend without the need to edit anything within your CSS files whith just a few mouse clicks and also offers the option to install content automatically when setting up the theme, so it will look like the theme preview. Some features: 47. Awesome Press ($27)Some features: 48. Quambizz ($27)Quambizz is an ultra clean and easy to use wordpress theme which can be used for a corporate purposes or if you want to set up a portfolio or even if you want a web site to represent your application. Do you like a clean style then this theme will be perfect for you. The theme comes with 3 color styles, a PSD for the slider and a PSD for the portfolio image preview, and many more cool features such as a theme admin panel to set up the homepage, featured category, portfolio category and more. Some features: 49. Biz ($27)Biz Template is clean style wordpress theme for business, company and corporate website. There are 3 color option for this theme that you can directly choose via "theme options" feature in the admin area. This theme comes with 8 page templates with its own sidebar widget. The pages template are Home, About, Services, Blog, Portfolio, Contact, Extra1 and Extra2. Some features: 50. Crescento ($37)This site is best suitable for a business, Company, Blog, Portfolio, or freelancer Portfolio website as well. Theme works in all the major browsers, and has massive features to use for your next projects. For most of the part you can just follow the HTML with commented codes. The font used for the logo in case you are wondering is Myriad Pro, which comes with your Adobe Photoshop Installation. You can create new logo using the PSD file included. Some features:   |
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