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Saturday, May 9, 2015

Create Self-Hosted Dribbble Portfolio with Dribbbox

Dribbble is a popular website to in the design sphere where you can share your WIP projects, designs, mockups, and even freebies. In return you will get feedback and criticism from fellow designers which is good to push your design up to the next level.

If you want to personalize how you display your portfolio, you can display the shots under your own domain. To help you with that, you can try out Dribbbox.

Dribbbox is a library that helps us display Dribbble shots under our own domain, will none of the hassle. Let’s take a look at how you can setup Dribbbox for showcasing your works of art.

Dribbbox Installation

I assume that you have your domain and a server setup; a shared hosting should work just fine. Otherwise, you can run a local server if you dont have one. If you need instructions on how to set up a local server with AMPPS, read about it here.

Download the ZIP package, and upload the content to the server. Include the index.html, the config.js, and the assets folder.

Open the config.js and specify the username to retrieve your portfolio from Dribbble.

In this case, I am using Thoriq Firdaus’ portfolio for the demo. Here’s how you retrieve the portfolio.


dribbbox.config = 
 dribbble_username : "tfirdaus",
 short_description : "A world class designer wanna-be.",
 email_address : "tfirdaus@helloworld.com"

Save it and refresh the page.

It’s really that simple, isn’t it?

Your Portfolio on Dribbbox

The setup is simple. You have three columns. Your contact details are at the far left in a static side bar. Your Dribbble shots are in the middle scrollable column, and on the right, is where viewers can see your project in full view, one at a time. The setup is perfect only as a display which means the public won’t be able to give you feedback like comments or likes. They won’t be able to share your work either.

Dribbbox has been optimized for view on mobile devices. When the website is viewed on mobile, the layout as well as the HTML of the DOM tree will be reconstructed through mobile.js. Specify the viewport width of which the mobile.js should take place in the index.html.


(function() 
 var s = document.createElement("script")
 s.src = "assets/js/" + (matchMedia("(max-width: 414px)").matches ? "mobile" : "desktop") + ".js"
 document.head.appendChild(s)
)()

Conclusion

Dribbbox is a handy library to show off your Dribbble shots under your own domain name. It is very intuitive to work with even if you do not know JavaScript; simply add your username and (optionally) your email address, and you are all set. If you don’t like the default presentation, you can further personalize the appearance through CSS.

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Create Self-Hosted Dribbble Portfolio with Dribbbox

Thursday, May 7, 2015

Create Self-Hosted Dribbble Portfolio with Dribbbox

If you want to personalize how you display your portfolio, you can display the shots under your own domain. To help you with that, you can try out Dribbbox.

Dribbbox is a library that helps us display Dribbble shots under our own domain, will none of the hassle. Let’s take a look at how you can setup Dribbbox for showcasing your works of art.

Dribbbox Installation

Download the ZIP package, and upload the content to the server. Include the index.html, the config.js, and the assets folder.

Open the config.js and specify the username to retrieve your portfolio from Dribbble.

In this case, I am using Thoriq Firdaus’ portfolio for the demo. Here’s how you retrieve the portfolio.

 dribbbox.config = dribbble_username : "tfirdaus", short_description : "A world class designer wanna-be.", email_address : "tfirdaus@helloworld.com"

Save it and refresh the page.

It’s really that simple, isn’t it?

Your Portfolio on Dribbbox

 (function() var s = document.createElement("script") s.src = "assets/js/" + (matchMedia("(max-width: 414px)").matches ? "mobile" : "desktop") + ".js" document.head.appendChild(s) )()

Conclusion

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Create Self-Hosted Dribbble Portfolio with Dribbbox

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

25 Tools for Dribbble Lovers

Dribbble is the ultimate sandbox for designers — a place where you can learn from the best creative professionals coming from diverse fields and regions of the world. Typography, illustration, art direction, web design, branding, and many other types of projects are displayed in inspiring shots that anyone can access for free. Obsessed? You’re not alone.

As if introducing us to incredibly talented designers wasn’t enough, Dribbble has also set aside a special section for creative teams, where you can learn best practices from companies like Dropbox, Instagram, Squarespace, Facebook, Evernote, and Mailchimp. (We’re also there, come say hi.)

Dribbble

The site has become so popular that some savvy innovators have created companion tools to help you make the most out of your Dribbble experience. We found 25 impressive resources:

Freebbble

Find 1000+ freebies made by Dribbble designers. Freebbble lets you filter design assets by type & license (including Creative Commons). If you need icon sets, PSD mockups, UI kits, and illustrations make sure to take a look.

dribbbletools

Tindddle

Tired of swiping to find the man/woman of your dreams, only to end up heartbroken? Tindddle is Tinder for design inspiration. Sign in with your Dribbble account and start falling in love with amazing work. You know the drill: right to like, left to skip. You’ll be dating a great-looking vector in no time.

dribbbletools

Drubbbler

This handy tool helps you schedule Dribbble shots, much like Buffer does with tweets or Facebook posts. Stay organized and never miss a chance to share your best work.

dribbbletools

Give ‘N’ Go

Now this site boasts some serious coding skills! Give’n’Go turns the best Dribbble shots into CodePen pens (animated combinations of CSS, HTML & JS).

dribbbletools

Folllowing

Want to follow your favorite Dribbble designers on Twitter? Folllowing connects with your Dribbble account to pull their Twitter handles and help you spread the follow love.

dribbbletools

CMD Space

Creating an online portfolio is essential these days. Instead of struggling with complicated software, use ⌘+SPACE to instantly create a professional-looking portfolio with work that you’ve already created. Don’t repeat yourself; launching an amazing site to display your work is a couple of clicks away.

dribbbletools

Dribbbox

This tool promises a self-hosted, always up-to-date, completely free portfolio that feeds from your Dribbble shots. To do so, Dribbbox gives you a tiny .zip file with all the necessary HTML, CSS & JS to power a modern portfolio site. After filling in a simple configuration file, you are ready to host your portfolio & share your very best work with the world.

dribbbletools

Dribbbleboard

Loving Dribbble, but wishing it looked more like Pinterest? Check out this infinite scrolling board for trends and fresh ideas.

dribbbletools

Psddd

PSDDD makes it easy to find freebies that speed up your workflow. Pulling all Dribbble shots tagged with “psddd”, and going through a manual selection process, this site displays the very best of free design assets.

dribbbletools

GitHub

Code can be extremely powerful & Dribbble incredibly inspiring. Combine the two and you get over 400 GitHub repositories of people building innovative projects. Definitely worth taking a look.

dribbbletools

Color Pickers

Combining colors can be a headache. Nathan Speller came up with an algorithm to help you pick better color combinations based on the palettes that are trending on Dribbble.

dribbbletools

Dribbble Scripts

Fell in love with the Dribbble logo? Designer Stephen Coles created a collection of fonts that can help you get close.

dribbbletools

Nibbble

So you can’t really stop Dribbbling. We get it. Nibbble allows you to access the best content in the site wherever you go via your iPad or iPhone.

dribbbletools

Pick n’ Roll

This app is committed to making Dribbble browsing fun on the iPad. Share shots and take a look at what other designers are creating, all while on the go.

dribbbletools

Inspired Shots

Trim the fat and only look at the most popular Dribbble images on Inspired Shots.

dribbbletools

Playboook

Dribbble meets Instagram. Get inspired by talented designers, comment and show appreciation for their work. This one can get addictive.

dribbbletools

LockerRoom

We all know what happens when you find an amazing shot on Dribbble. Screenshots? Bookmarks? Please don’t email yourself a copy-and-pasted list of links. Instead, use LockerRoom to save, find & download your faves in one spot.

dribbbletools

Bbbrowser

This fun grid displays the newest shots from everyone on Dribbble, and refreshes every 24 seconds. See the latest designs all in one place, including GIFs. It’s like Christmas on your computer.

dribbbletools

Balllin’

A beautifully-designed iOS client to view Dribbble submissions from around the world.

dribbbletools

Who Drafted Who

Who invited your favorite designers to post their work on Dribbble? Look into the who’s who of Dribble connections.

dribbbletools

Play by play

It happened: someone created a courtside announcer that makes the Dribbble community feel like a basketball game. Browse shots by “players” you follow, popular shots, shots from everyone, debuts, and your activity stream.

dribbbletools

Nibbble Screensavers

Nibbble is a Dribbble-powered screensaver for OS X. Dreaming of Dribbble all day long? Allow your computer to nod off and see Dribbble too.

dribbbletools

Benchwarmer

Keep the inspiration going all day long with this useful Google Chrome extension. As soon as you open a new tab, Benchwarmer will feast your eyes with the latest shots from your following feed, popular, debuts or everyone.

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Full Court Shots

View the best Dribbble shots without the extra shiny features. No frills, no fuss.

dribbbletools

Dribbble API

Last but not least, the Dribbble API. Now that you’ve seen all the great tools above, go and build something yourself and make the world a prettier place.

dribbbletools

Go To a Meetup!

We proudly sponsor and attend Dribbble meetups. Take a look at their calendar and RSVP to meet hundreds of inspiring designers.

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25 Tools for Dribbble Lovers

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

55 Best Dribbble Freebies of December 2014

Dribbble, ever since it has begun the journey has been serving us all with the best freebies posted by designers and creative artists. There is hardly any designer or creative genius who is not acquainted with the one of the most popular community for designers. From newbie to professional designers, each one when done with the designing makes sure to post the same on the Dribbble to get feedback, to let other designers use their design in big projects and much more.

What we do here is that each month we look for best of the rest designs that are lately posted on Dribbble for you all to check as opening up all the pages to check out what’s in there is one time consuming job. This is an ongoing process that we do at our end and come up with the monthly compilation of best Dribbble freebies.

Without further adieu, let’s begin checking out our this month’s best Dribbble freebies of December 2014.

55 Best Dribbble Freebies of December 2014

1. Freebie : App Landing Page Design

2. Freebie: Black & Turquoise Ui Kit

From NAS, this is a freebie UI with black and turquoise color theme.

3. iOS PIN User Interface

This is a recreation of the Enter Pin screen on iOS 8 for learning purposes by Maximlian Hennebach.

4. Freebie – 80 Tiny Vector Icons

Designed by GraphBerry, this is a set of 80 tiny icons in vector AI and PSD file. Use these icons for your different web projects. All icons are in vector format and can be scaled easily.

5. Seo Icons

6. Peeps

7. Christmas Freebies

Christmas we all know has gone but then fervor is still on. Here is a nice Christmas freebie by Maria Shanina that you all will love.

8. Dashboard Free PSD

9. Freebie: Benefits App

This is a free benefits App by Fuxxo Works. There is a top navbar, below news bar then big scrollable banner, and below the sections, or products or categories and much more that gives it an overall appeal.

10. Icons For Web (Freebie)

This is an icon set for web design by Pavel Kozlov.

11. Free Dashboard UI Kit

Ennio Dybeli designed this kit and Vasjen Katro collaborated for Fabric Team to come up with the superb dashboard UI kit.

12. Freebie: Creative Minimal Business Agency Webpage Design

Ali Sayed designed this creative and minimal business agency webpage design for you all to check out and use if you wish to.

13. iPhone 6 Free Mockup

This nice looking iPhone 6 mockups lets users showcase their projects. It’s designed by Darius Dan.

14. Ekomers – FREE App Landing Page

From Bagus Fikri, here comes a visually appealing landing page for a web application.

15. Free Polygonal / Low Poly Background Texture

16. Freebie – Pattern Harvest of Hay Stacked in Spiral

From PicBasement.com, here comes a nice freebie that’s a pattern harvest of hay stacked in spiral. Users get free stock photos for commercial and personal use.

17. Free Penguin Illustration Vector

18. Psd freebie : MFD UI kit

Here is a nice UI Kit prepared by Thomas Budiman. It comprises of 12 widget elements. Download it easily and use it in your projects.

19. Freebie : Minimal eCommerce Web-Page Design

Designed by Ali Sayed, this is a free minimal e-commerce web page design that we believe is definitely worth checking out and downloading to be used.

20. 100+ FREE icons

100+ royalty-free Pizza Icons by Saturized will make you all drool over.

21. 12 Free Handmade Stamp Rings

Designed by Ian Barnard, this is a set of 12 handmade ink stamp rings in vector format. It is ideal for logo design as seen in my previous shot.

22. Free icons set from Shakuro

Here is an extra free icons set from Shakuro that you all will love.

23. Freebie: PixelBuddha Free Icons Bundle

24. A4 Bifold Brochure Mockup

Designed by Wassim, this is a free bifold brochure mockup template that anyone of you can download for free, edit and apply

25. 25 Free PSD Modern Buttons vol. 1

26. Dott – Free Business Template

This is a free business template showed up by GT3themes.com recently.

27. Nebula Dashboard (.sketch)

28. UIFrames

29. HTML website template

Gumba is a free and simple static website template by Rick Waalders

30. Android Lollipop Date & Time Pickers (PSD)

31. Freebie – Business Card Mockup

32. Simplified European Map

This is a free, minimalist European vector map by Balazs-Hegedüs Jozsef. You can use it for free!

33. Dribbble Client Concept

34. Free Psd Bi Fold Brochure Mockup

35. Weather Icons Freebie

36. AI Resume Template | Version III

This AI resume template by Georgian-Sorin Maxim looks stunning.

37. Urban Agency

Urban Agency by Brice Seraphin is a pixel perfect, fully editable .psd,100% vector shapes with organized layers and easily editable.

38. Snowflake UI Kit

39. CV/Resume/Portfolio

This is a CV/Resume or portfolio template designed by Ali Attarwala for you all to download for free and use.

40. Freebie – PSD Coming Soon Page

This is a PSD design of coming, launching soon page that is ideal for your upcoming website. Background included and free google font used link can be found in .txt file.

41. Designer Desk Essentials

Designed by Raul Taciu, here’s an awesome PSD mock-up that you can use to create custom hero images for your portfolio page, profile cover and much more.

42. 35 Free Bold Line Icons – “SASSY”

Sheik Gama Aman created this cool icon-set to give as a freebie.

43. Vastness – Responsive Blog Free PSD

44. Free glyph icons

These are the nice looking free glyph icons by Michal Kulesza. You can download them and use as you please.

45. Free Responsive HTML5/CSS3 Real Estate Home Page Template

La Casa is a free fully responsive html5/css3 real estate home page template that you all can download for free and use it in your upcoming design projects.

46. Icon Set (Sketch)

This is one presentable fully editable icon set by Mohammad Amiri.

47. Freebie – 4 Flat Hero Illustrations

From GraphBerry, here comes four flat hero illustrations that you all would love to download and use.

48. Free Minimal Cv Template

Designed by Wassim, this is a free minimal cv template in all popular formats including Word, Photoshop, illustrator (free) and indesign.

49. Freebie: 2 Photorealistic T-Shirt Mock-ups

From PixelBuddha, here comes a freebie to let you present your design in the best way possible with the beautiful, easy to edit and fully layered T-Shirt Mock-ups with innovative perspective favoring your work.