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Lord, where is my creativity?

By Adrian Rodriguez • Aug 25th, 2008 • Category: Features

If your a designer like me, you may experience this question very often, “Lord, Where is my creativity?”
As a designer you are usually required and expected to have a good, creative, and imaginative mind, but that’s not always every designers strong area. Yes, sometimes you have a splurge of creativity flowing in your brain whenever [...]



TheGdfc forum Update!

By Adrian Rodriguez • Aug 4th, 2008 • Category: Features, TheGdfc News and Updates

TheGdfc will be performing a forum update this morning. If there are any problems, please don’t hesitate to email, us at adrian(at)thegdfc(dot)com. You can also follow any updates to the site or forum on Twitter via
http://twitter.com/TheGdfc
it’s just for news and updates and no chatting. In the meantime the forum may not work and the old [...]



The Social Web: Distraction or Interaction

By Adrian Rodriguez • Aug 3rd, 2008 • Category: Lead Story, Technology, Uncategorized

One thing I know is that I am a social geek. I love to talk and chat with others. Whether online or in real life, that’s just who I am. And in these days, socializing through the net is everything. From
Compared to Myspace and Facebook, Twitter, Socialthing and Pownce make socializing simple and easy. [...]



TheGdfc Magazine: Be apart of it!

By Adrian Rodriguez • Jun 30th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story, TheGdfc News and Updates

Want to be a part of our very first magazine? A Christian Design Magazine? Check out the hot topic on the forums and see if you want to be a part of an awesome opportunity.
As designers we stumble across many websites containing news and articles about the latest design trends, software, websites and more, but [...]



True Faith: Where do you draw the line?

By Adrian Rodriguez • May 29th, 2008 • Category: Christian Life

22 And one thing more: Prepare a guest room for me, because I hope to be restored to you in answer to your prayers.
Philemon 1:22
While Paul was in prison he wrote many letters, one of which went to Philemon. While Paul was in prison, locked behind gates, bound for death he wrote, “Prepare a guest [...]



Sponsor Spotlight: Causekeepers - Make your passion known!

By Adrian Rodriguez • May 29th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story

Causekeepers.com is a website dedicated to making your passion known, from cancer awareness magnets to cute Teddy Bears.
Causekeepers helps make your passion known through promotional products and is partnered with HUGE companies like WalMart and Dillard’s.
Causekeepers is backed by a wonderful Christian Owner: Donnie Lafferty who I have come to know very closely. He and [...]



Adobe Labs CS4 Beta Downloads

By Adrian Rodriguez • May 27th, 2008 • Category: Design and Layout, Lead Story, Software, Web Design, Web Development

Adobe has released it’s betas for the newest line of Adobe CS4 software at http://labs.adobe.com/
As a Graphic/Web Designer/Web Developer this opportunity is a great turnout. I would encourage you to get this while you can.
Dreamweaver is a web development software that allows you to create amazing websites either by hand or using one of it’s [...]



Interview with Donnie Lafferty of Causekeepers

By Adrian Rodriguez • May 18th, 2008 • Category: Interviews

I recently took the time to interview Donnie Lafferty from Causekeepers. Here is what we got to talk about:
When did you first start CauseKeepers and why?
[Donnie Lafferty] We started CauseKeepers in 2004 while working at a coatings company that specialized in painting, screen printing and pad printing of parts for various industries. [...]



The Photoshop Anthology-Sitepoint.com Free Giveaway

By Adrian Rodriguez • May 15th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story, Web Design, Web Development

Sitepoint.com is giving away their free book, “The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips & Tricks,” to anyone and everyone.
This is from the site:
“SitePoint’s first full-color book, The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques is brimming with tried and tested real-world Photoshop solutions that will add impact to your next web [...]



GDFC Forums back up

By Adrian Rodriguez • May 6th, 2008 • Category: TheGdfc News and Updates

The forums, the very foundation of this site is back up and running. Thanks to God and all the people he provided to help us, we can now once again enjoy each others fellowship. I have to say, I am not embarrassed to admit, that I messed up within the update system, and therefore will [...]