Month: February 2014

Engage Your Community Using Web Design

As we enter further into 2014 a few things are becoming more apparent than ever before. The world of marketing is moving so much faster and has become viral on digital and interactive levels. The social media boom and the internet has truly changed the face of the world, so much so that if any… Continue reading Engage Your Community Using Web Design

Getting Started With Android Studio

Android Studio has come a long way since its first stable build was released in 2014. It is completely free to use and has long been the official and recommended tool to develop apps for Android devices. Android Studio is a huge and complicated application which can be intimidating for beginners. I have already written… Continue reading Getting Started With Android Studio

20 Clean & Modern Free Web Layout PSDs

Are you looking for some top-notch free web layout PSDs? Then you have come to the right place. What we have for you is 20 clean PSD templates that resonate with professionalism and have all been designed with the latest web trends. They are all free (a couple requiring a tweet), all fully-layered, and all… Continue reading 20 Clean & Modern Free Web Layout PSDs

New Generation of Presentation Tools

Open Source, Embeddable, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3 These tools clearly show the power of Open Source and the new freemium SaaS business model. All you need is a browser. Any browser, any operating system will do. No vendor lock, as the enterprise guy would say. You can download your results as PDF, but the main use… Continue reading New Generation of Presentation Tools

35 Best HTML5 Development Tools To Save Your Time

Are you running out of time? Want to save your time without compromising on the quality of your work? Here is the solution for you. Have a look at this collection of 35 best and most useful HTML5 development tools that not only save your time but also improve your productivity as well. The introduction… Continue reading 35 Best HTML5 Development Tools To Save Your Time

Minimal is the New Black: 20 Fresh Free WordPress Themes from January 2014

Continuing with our monthly series, today we bring you a new edition of the most recent and beautiful themes available. All our new entries sport a minimal style, which is undoubtedly growing in popularity. In order to improve their websites’ speed, to ensure that visitors focus on content and – not least – granting a… Continue reading Minimal is the New Black: 20 Fresh Free WordPress Themes from January 2014

80 Free Vector Graphics Every Designer Should Have

Sometimes designing your own graphics from scratch can be a timely and daunting task, and going to the professionals can be very costly. In this post the team at Designrfix have hand picked an amazing collection of well designed free vector graphics that we do think are worth mentioning…for example; Banners, Business Cards, Icon Packs… Continue reading 80 Free Vector Graphics Every Designer Should Have

The Ultimate Guide to Adjustment Layers – Color Balance and Selective Color

In this tutorial, we are going to have a look at the Color Balance and Selective Color adjustment layers in Photoshop. They work by balancing the percentage of primary and secondary colors in your images and can be used to fine-tune your colors. Although Color Balance and Selective Color are not used as often as… Continue reading The Ultimate Guide to Adjustment Layers – Color Balance and Selective Color

13 New Romantic Free Fonts

Download romantic fonts free for your lovely designs. All sweet and romantic love free fonts for commercial-use, you can use these fonts for love letters, cards, posters, logos, badges, blog websites and etc. In this collection we include a large variety of hearts and great romantic style fonts for design lovers in 2014. Today we gathered a high quality… Continue reading 13 New Romantic Free Fonts

11 showcase sites to get your user interface design inspiration

There are many galleries online that showcase the best in web site designs. As we move towards a more interactive web, we need more than just beautiful aesthetics. Designers and developers need to look for user interfaces, specifically different types of user interactions designs, to inspire them on how to design websites that users can… Continue reading 11 showcase sites to get your user interface design inspiration

The Yin and Yang of Web Design: Pure Black & White

It is quite unusual to find website home pages that feature absolutely no other color than black and white – there is usually a call-to-action button, the company logo or social media buttons that have some color. Even in printed media simply black and white is unusual these days. Today we have scoured the internet… Continue reading The Yin and Yang of Web Design: Pure Black & White

Free Vector Pack: Polygonal Hearts

Still feeling unsure about your sweet designs for Valentine’s Day? Worry no more, for we here in YTD have partnered again with our friends from Freepik to give you another awesome set of vector graphics for your last minute design needs this love month!Today’s featured pack consists of 10 polygonal hearts in vector format that… Continue reading Free Vector Pack: Polygonal Hearts

Open source alternatives to illustrator, Balsamiq and other designer/developer tools

Open source is now a well known concept whereby the developer of the code will release it to the public for typically zero cost. This has greatly benefited the community in a couple of ways including giving us free alternatives to expensive software such as illustrator.  There is of course a trade off in using… Continue reading Open source alternatives to illustrator, Balsamiq and other designer/developer tools

Responsive Images: Still Waiting for a Standard? Try Rwd.Images.Js Instead!

Responsive Images is a topic far from resolved. Will it be the picture element as proposed by the W3C or will it be the srcset attribute as proposed by WHATWG in the end? No matter what time will bring, responsive images are a problem that needs to be solved today and not sometime in the… Continue reading Responsive Images: Still Waiting for a Standard? Try Rwd.Images.Js Instead!

9 Sketch Features You Should be Using

Sketch is a graphics application for designers, lending itself very nicely to the world of web design. If you’re new to it, you may not be aware of some of the tricks Sketch has, hidden under the surface. Today I’d like to run through some top tips to speed up your design workflow.

Best Examples Websites Featuring Flat Illustrations

2013 is drawing to close here. But yes, some the trends this year introduces are still in. One of them is Flat designing style. It saw the peak of popularity in 2013. We don’t know if it will be same for 2014 but here we are showcasing Best Examples Websites Featuring Flat Illustrations. So, flat… Continue reading Best Examples Websites Featuring Flat Illustrations

New HTML5 Responsive Templates

Creative and modern design Multipurpose responsive templates suitable for small and large businesses, portfolios, agencies and personal websites. HTML5 templates available in different layouts like parallax landing page, psd templates  and one page templates with fully layered PSD files. All psd templates are designed with modern look and feel while keeping in mind to make it user friendly UI and… Continue reading New HTML5 Responsive Templates

5 Reasons Your Resume Should Be Web Based

We have moved well into the digital age, yet when it comes to applying for jobs we still submit an archaic representation of ourselves, an A4 piece of paper. Our resume is the first and often only view a potential employer gets to see of us. So it better be damn good. Sadly, the traditional… Continue reading 5 Reasons Your Resume Should Be Web Based

Create a Music Player on Android: Project Setup

Android smartphones usually come with their own built-in apps to listen to music. However, you might not like all of their features. What if instead of downloading a third-party app, you could create your own music player in Android? In this tutorial series, we will create a basic music player application for Android. The app… Continue reading Create a Music Player on Android: Project Setup