Jewish Web Design

This is my first installment of free PSD’s that I plan to upload. I have decided that it’s time to actually give back to the world after all the taking I have been doing.

It’s amazing how many artists give away their hard work for free, and don’t get nothing back for it. So first of all I would like to give a shout out to my favorite 2 designers.

Aaron Ovadia – A very talented Graphic Designer who happens to be one of the first to offer web 2.0 buttons on his website/blog. Thank you dude!

Deziner Folio – Another talented designer with exceptional photoshop skills. I use his Web 2.0 Gradients and Web 2.0 Styles on a daily basis; In fact this PSD below is based on his web 2.0 styles. Thanks a lot!

Back to Buttons, This file has 42 individual PSD buttons that can be edited in Photoshop then used in Dreamweaver, Flash or Frontpage. Each button consists of 2 or 3 editable & re sizable layers that can be stretched to virtually any size and changed to any color style.

These buttons can be used with CSS to produce stunning and web-complient buttons. To see a quick tutorial on how to turn these PSD Buttons into Proper flexible CSS buttons see DynamicDrive’s Sliding Door CSS. You can also try using a Mouseover/Hover Effect.

PSD: Free Direct Download

File Includes: 6 Orange PSD Buttons, 6 Green PSD Buttons, 6 Blue PSD Buttons, 6 Gray PSD Buttons, 6 Yellow PSD Buttons, 6 Purple PSD Buttons, 6 Red PSD Buttons - All of them are based on a black glossy theme. Each color has Rounded and square buttons that can be used as submit buttons, go buttons, search buttons and virtually anything else!

I will post more buttons in a few days.

Comments & Critique welcome.

Free PSD Buttons by Yakov Vershubsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License.

Download Free Jewish Fonts - I have compiled a list of free Jewish fonts you can download. You can use these Jewish TTF fonts and Jewish Unicode Fonts on your Mac or PC. All of these Jewish Fonts are absolutely free to download.

These fonts can be used in Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark, and other Adobe Products as well as Microsoft programs.

Graphic Designers use this jewish fonts to make Jewish Designs while programmers may use these Israeli fonts for Programming and Scripting.

Israeli Type designers made these fonts available for free so you can use it in your work.

Next week I will post some Jewish Looking Font, Basically English fonts that look Jewish.

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I have compiled a short list of the best free graphic design resources on the web with a short description for each.

DeviantArt

Deviantart is a very popular website among Graphic Designers, Photographers, Poets, Artists and more…You can make a portfolio, ask for critique, browse submitted art, comment on other peoples work and download lots of free things like Desktop Wallpapers, Fonts, Icons, Skins, and various other bits of useful resources. There are many talented artists there and they are very friendly too.

PSDtuts

PSD Tutorials is generally regarded as one of the leaders in photoshop tutorials, i personally visit the site at least once a week and usually learn something new. They have tutorials on how to make Vista looking menus, gold text, 3d art, and much much more. Check it out.

DaFont

DaFont is basically a free font database, they have 1000’s of free fonts for all kinds of work especialy Famous Fonts like Harry Potter, Coca Cola etc… I suggest you bookmark it.

Click below, Theres much more.

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Running a blog, writing quality content and maintaining your search rankings is not an easy task for a one man band. Us bloggers don’t have a team of SEO experts taking care of our blogs, we are forced to do it ourselves. It is very difficult to be first on Google for common search terms, but if you have a Specialty blog like Jewlab, then you will find it easier to be first on Google for less common keywords.

I have put together a few tips based on my own experience that I believe everyone should follow, It will almost guarantee better placement for your blog, especially if paired with quality content and constant updates.

The first rule in blogging is to constantly add quality content, You need to write at least one post a week to be considered a good blog. The posts have to be relevant to what your blog is about, and they have to be very keyword rich.

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Jewish Addons for Firefox and Hebrew extensions for Fire Fox are out there, but they are sometimes hard to find. I have compiled a list of the most popular Jewish widgets and Jewish addons and Extensions for Firefox and other applications.

Gmail RTL Firefox Extension

“The extension adds the direction buttons, that are currently available only in the Hebrew & Arabic Gmail interfaces. Direction buttons allows you to write in Right-To-Left and Left-To-Right manners”

This hebrew gmail addon was created for the sole benefit of being able to write and read hebrew in gmail using Firefox

Keywords: Hebrew Gmail, Hebrew Gmail in Firefox, Firefox right to left, Firefox rtl, firefox ltr, Hebrew Gmail Firefox Extension

Sifrei Kodesh Search for Firefox“Search the Hebrew texts of Tana”ch, Mishna, Talmud Bavli, Talmud Yerushalmi, Tosefta and Mishna Torah.” Combining the power of Firefox, Google and the Mechon Mamre text library, this extension allows you to search the Hebrew texts of Tana”ch, Mishna, Talmud Bavli, Talmud Yerushalmi, Tosefta and Mishna Torah. You can search as broadly as all of these sources or as specifically as a single book of Tana”ch, a single tractate of Mishna or a single set of Halachot of the Mishnah Torah. The extension includes an onscreen Hebrew keyboard to assist those who do not know the Hebrew keyboard layout and/or do not have Hebrew input support on their machines. (You can use this keyboard to copy and paste Hebrew text into other things also).keywords: Sefer Firefox Extensions, Torah Firefox, Hebrew Firefox, Jewish Firefox, Search Hebrew Books, Search Seforim, Search sefer in firefox,

Hebrew Keyboard for Firefox“Allows typing into phonetic Russian, Ukrainian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Hindi Davangari, Hebrew, Mongolian, greek… transforming translit into the choosen language…”This seems to be a very cool Hebrew Firefox Addon, Although I haven’t tried it yet it seems to have only positive feedback. Typing hebrew in firefox is not an easy task so this addon will deffinatly help you type Hebrew or Ivrit in Firefox.

Hebrew Calendar for Firefox “Show the Hebrew date in your browser’s status.. “The reviews are not so great but it is still a worthwhile extension for Displaying the Hebrew Date in Firefox. So if you are looking for a Hebrew Date Firefox addon, you should try it.

Keywords: Jewish Date for Firefox, Hebrew Calendar for Firefox, Firefox Hebrew Calendar, Zmanim for Firefox, Israeli Calendar for Firefox, Jewish Calendar for Firefox,

Bluehost web Hosting - Well, Not really Jewish Web Hosting - But Web Hosting nonetheless. Several Friends have asked me to refer them to a good hosting company to host their websites. I have done my research and I have come up with the best Hosting Company to use.

BlueHost.com

$6.95 a Month is a bargain compared to most other Hosting Companies. With every signup you get a FREE Domain Name for life! In addition you can add as many accounts as you like to a single account. So lets say you have 32 Clients, Each Paying you $5 a month hosting, you make $160 a month, or $1920 a year While you are Paying less then $7 a month which comes out to less then $83 a year!

BlueHost.com has an Awesome Support staff that will do almost anything for you, Including Domain Transfers, Domain Activation, and other forms of Technical Support.

I have listed all The Features BlueHost.com offers below.

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I am a very big fan of Mozilla Firefox. I love it for many reasons but the thing I love most about Firefox is the ability to add Plugins, Addons, and Extensions. Most of the addons are user contributed - Yes there are people out there who dedicate their time to making the web a better place & making it easier for guys like me to go about their daily lives.

I have compiled a list of the Top 8 Firefox Addons for Web Designers.

I hope you find it useful

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For Jewish Web Designers & Jewish Graphic Designers everywhere - Hebrew Fonts have always been an issue, especially when using Photoshop. So, I have uploaded the fonts I currently have on my system. From Alef to Taf you will find every Jewish Font & Hebrew Font I Currently have. I hope I’m not infringing on any copyright laws, (I got these fonts legally off a public domain - I don’t remember where)

Some of the hebrew fonts included in the zips are:

• H_Hameiri [ttf]
• H_Hadasa[ttf]
• H_Hazvi [ttf]
• H_Hebrew[ttf]
• H_Jerusalem[ttf]
• H_Narkisim[ttf]
• BN Pinky
• BN Cloud
• BN Anna

And hundredes of other hebrew fonts & jewish fonts!

I have 2 Different folders attached to this post, Hebrew Flip Fonts & Hebrew Fonts.

Hebrew Flip Fonts

Hebrew Fonts

I have made a small compilation of Jewish Feeds, Jewish calenders and other Jewish web accessories.

Lets start with OnlySimchas’s Mazel Tov Anouncment feed

There are a few options on the page, but I like this one the most:

You can customize it by changing the colors, dimensions, url etc.. You can share it Via Igoogle™, Myspace­™, Blogger™ and other social sites. »Grab it here

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Download Free Jewish Stock Photos. I have several thousand jewish themed images sitting on my harddrives from my days as a Studio Manager. I decided, it will do more good in your hands then in mine. Feel free to use them as you wish for commercial or non-commercial use - all i ask is that you include a linkback and/or a simple photo credit.

Credits can look like this:
[Photo Credit: Yakov Vershubsky] [Photo Credit: www.jewlab.com]

This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

For high resolution versions of the above images (2.5mb - 5mb), feel free to contact me at yakov[at]jewlab.com

For More Jewish Stock Photos Click Here