Month: February 2014

Time Saving Synchronised Browser Testing

When you’re making responsive websites, there’s a lot of tweaking and testing to do. BrowserSync makes your workflow faster by synchronising URLs, interactions and code changes across multiple devices. It’s wicked-fast and totally free. Your scroll, click, refresh and form actions are mirrored to browsers while you test. Browsers are automatically updated as you change… Continue reading Time Saving Synchronised Browser Testing

20 Portfolio Websites to Boost Your Design Inspiration

When Designers want to describe himself about his potential and creativity they need a high quality and well-designed portfolio. It’s important to show your talent to your visitors and clients. The portfolio website can be a strong marketing tool and people must interest in your service. This article 20 Portfolio Websites to Boost Your Design… Continue reading 20 Portfolio Websites to Boost Your Design Inspiration

“Startup Design Framework” Website Builder Review

The Startup Design Framework is advertised as a tool primarily aimed at start-ups who are looking to build a better website for their organisation or project. While it’s not a WordPress-specific tool, those looking for a different approach to making websites should find it interesting. The framework has been developed by the Designmodo team and… Continue reading “Startup Design Framework” Website Builder Review

Lean UX – How to Apply Lean Principles to User Experience Design

The process of putting together a good user experience design has always been talked about as a deliverables-based practice where bureaucracy, specification documents, wireframes, mockups and site maps took the center stage. This deliverable based practice, meaning that everything, each step of the process, has to be delivered with proper timing and documentation, witch often… Continue reading Lean UX – How to Apply Lean Principles to User Experience Design

Free Font Of The Day : Elisabeth

      Here we also aim to help designers to find free yet high quality resources whether for your web design projects or graphic design projects.Who doesn’t like freebies? Well,although we bring together free font collections time to time we decided to share a free font everyday and today’s free font Elisabeth comes from… Continue reading Free Font Of The Day : Elisabeth

How to Create Five Simple Hover Effects for Your Navigation Links

This is a quick tutorial about creating simple hover effects that would be best suited for links within a navigation. The reason for this is that these might be too much when done inline within a paragraph but that is only a word of caution – if you want to apply these to your normal… Continue reading How to Create Five Simple Hover Effects for Your Navigation Links

15+ Free PSD Freebies You Should Have Right Now!

There has been a design trend going on for the past few years and it’s moving towards simplicity. Flat designs are a part of this trend. We searched the web and selected 20 free PSD freebies you should have right now! These are the newest freebies on the web, every designer should have! Check them… Continue reading 15+ Free PSD Freebies You Should Have Right Now!

Embed an Interactive Panoramic Photo with jQuery Panorama Viewer

As a traveler and a photographer myself, I have always been disappointed with the way we share our panoramic photos. Most of the time, highly detailed panoramic photos are skewed down so that they fit the website layout, making it impossible to enjoy the photo or as Derek Zoolander once said, “What is this? A… Continue reading Embed an Interactive Panoramic Photo with jQuery Panorama Viewer

20 Popular jQuery Plugins That You Can Configure Without Any Coding

In this post, I have collected some popular jQuery plugins that can be configured in less than a minute! Really. They can be easily implemented by selecting the plugin options that you need by using my easy-to-use Bitconfig user interface.  So, what is Bitconfig and how can it help configure jQuery plugins? Bitconfig is a… Continue reading 20 Popular jQuery Plugins That You Can Configure Without Any Coding

Fn.js – Encourage Functional Programming Style

fn.js is a JavaScript library built to encourage a functional programming style & strategy. fn.js aims to support functional practices over performance or established conventions. In order to guide you on the right path, fn.js internals force avoidance of side effects, object mutation, and function state. fn.js runs in the Node.js or in the browser… Continue reading Fn.js – Encourage Functional Programming Style

Responsive Design Frameworks: Just Because You Can, Should You?

Responsive design is about building a website with a grid-based layout, images that resize and media queries, as described by Ethan Marcotte. After Marcotte defined the technique, responsive design frameworks began to emerge that incorporated these principles. Mostly based on CSS and JavaScript, many of these frameworks are open-source, free to download and quickly customizable.… Continue reading Responsive Design Frameworks: Just Because You Can, Should You?

Create an Illustrated Watercolor and Ink Photo Effect in Photoshop

Artists often ask how to apply watercolor and splattered ink effects to their images. While there may be some filters and effects out there that can automate this task, illustrating this by hand will give you the highest quality final result, as well as the most flexibility. In this tutorial, we will show you how… Continue reading Create an Illustrated Watercolor and Ink Photo Effect in Photoshop

Freebie: The Outlined Weather Icons Collection

This free weather icon set set has been created by Portuguese designer Gustavo Cramez. Each glyph has been designed with a modern ‘outline’ style and includes icons for every possible atmospheric condition. So if you are building a mobile weather app or if you are looking for some icons for your meteorological-related web site, then… Continue reading Freebie: The Outlined Weather Icons Collection

20 Effective Premium Newsletter Templates

Newsletters are an extremely important part of internet marketing and play a very important role in your online business. Whether you sell something online or just have a regular blog, email marketing is very important for creating leads and increase your customers/readership numbers. Today, we selected 20 effective premium newsletter templates for you to choose… Continue reading 20 Effective Premium Newsletter Templates

10 Free Retro Style Photo Effect Photoshop Actions

Retro Style Photo Effects, this is the latest! Download 10 files for free How to use Photoshop Actions Actions are small plugin files for Adobe Photoshop. They’re preconfigured recordings of a sequence of manipulations which are automatically applied to your own images with just a single mouse click. Download this set of RetroFilters and unzip… Continue reading 10 Free Retro Style Photo Effect Photoshop Actions

8 Scientifically Proven Ways to Increase Your Happiness

We can take charge of our happiness by choosing to engage in activities like physical exercise and performing acts of kindness to help us find happiness. The good news is that there are also several other scientifically-proven activities which when done habitually, can help us in our quest for happiness. After looking through many of… Continue reading 8 Scientifically Proven Ways to Increase Your Happiness

15+ Amazing Collage Photoshop Tutorials

Collages done in Photoshop are truly inspiring! A few days ago, while browsing the web, I discovered some really amazing collage Photoshop tutorials and decided to share them with you. These collages are incredible and very eye-catching! You’ll learn lots of new tricks from these tutorials and hopefully, you’ll improve your Photoshop skills. Here they… Continue reading 15+ Amazing Collage Photoshop Tutorials

A Complete Guide to Using WordPress Themes

Installing WordPress involves a series of steps. Installing WordPress successfully involves multiple steps and the first step in the series could be installing the WordPress on any local computer. Below are listed the step wise basics of WordPress installation which will make the process easier and fruitful for you. Installing WordPress on your Local Computer… Continue reading A Complete Guide to Using WordPress Themes

20 Of The Best Flat Design Templates

Site design is crucial because it can either appeal to the public, or fail to draw and secure their attention. So, which approach is more likely to get great results? Over the last months, flat design has been gaining more and more ground. It wasn’t just the leading trend of 2013, but continues to rule… Continue reading 20 Of The Best Flat Design Templates

Coming and Going Web Design Trends for 2014

Over the last couple of years we saw such a change in web design that it is unbelievable to anticipate what could possibly the next hot things. However, I have a few hunches of my own as to what trends will flourish this year and which ones will fade off. Let’s see if you would… Continue reading Coming and Going Web Design Trends for 2014

24 Award Winning Portfolio Designs That Follow Current Trends

The current trends that have really changed the whole concept of website design during the last few years seem to be set to stay at least for the coming year. We have seen the rise of trends such as vertical scrolling, flat design, retro or minimal color schemes, slideshows including animation or video and, of… Continue reading 24 Award Winning Portfolio Designs That Follow Current Trends

How To Create a Grainy B&W High Fashion Photo Effect

In today’s Photoshop tutorial we’re going to play around with various image adjustments to recreate the emotive style of high fashion black and white photography. Typically these photographs feature many of the characteristics of old school 35mm film, such as heavy film grain and low contrast. Follow this step by step guide to quickly transform… Continue reading How To Create a Grainy B&W High Fashion Photo Effect