How to Create a Magical Christmas Snow Globe in Photoshop

Learn how to create this fantasy Christmas scene with Photoshop. You will use a variety of brushes and images in order to achieve a pleasant final result. Let’s start! What you’ll be creating In this tutorial you will create a winter fantasy scene. In order to follow this tutorial you will need Photoshop CS3 or… Continue reading How to Create a Magical Christmas Snow Globe in Photoshop

25 Free Business Cards PSD Templates – Print Ready Design

Free download latest business cards print ready PSD templates, these business card templates are available in Photoshop PSD format for personal and commercial usages. We’ve gathered 25 beautifully designed business cards, perfect for any type of business, photographer’s and creative designers. All business cards files are well organized, available in CMYK Colors with 300 DPI high resolution, vector shapes,… Continue reading 25 Free Business Cards PSD Templates – Print Ready Design

Original and New Free Typefaces To Stir Up Your Typography

Behance is one of the greatest places compared with other galleries of online portfolios where you can get brand-new original fonts that are available for free. Of course, most of them are presented in one or two styles and in one or two weights without matching italics, non-distressed version, with character map limitations etc., however… Continue reading Original and New Free Typefaces To Stir Up Your Typography

The Effective Use of Gradients on Website Landing Pages

Recently the use of gradients in web design has been increasing, and gradients are used for a number of reasons. Firstly, they are now easier than ever to implement with the advent of CSS3 styling attributes including gradients. Another reason to use gradients is for visual effect, especially if your site is image-light. Gradients are… Continue reading The Effective Use of Gradients on Website Landing Pages

20 Feature-Rich Premium Newsletter Templates

Newsletters are a very important tool in internet marketing and brand promotion. They can increase your readership, improve your online presence and even bring you money! If you have a well-designed, content-rich newsletter, then your chances of succeeding are higher. We selected 20 feature-rich premium newsletter templates with great designs, which will help you in… Continue reading 20 Feature-Rich Premium Newsletter Templates

Preview Prototypes on iOS8 with Frameless

Frameless for iOS 8 is the browser that gets out of your way. It’s made for designers and developers who need an easy way to preview prototypes on iOS devices. No browser chrome and no status bar. Gestures control browser history and reveal the keyboard. You can swipe, tap with three fingers or shake the… Continue reading Preview Prototypes on iOS8 with Frameless

50 Most Useful jQuery Plugins from 2014

Today, we have the 2014 edition of our top 50 jQuery plugins of the year. They are the 50 jQuery plugins that we feel are the most useful, most innovative and most time-saving solutions to many of the modern design and development issues you may have. Just to help you find exactly what you are… Continue reading 50 Most Useful jQuery Plugins from 2014

35 Finest UI Tools Every Designer Should Know

User interface designs continue to evolve tremendously. To stay ahead, it is crucial for a UI designer to keep themselves updated with the latest trends, resources, and technologies that are being used to design fantastic user interfaces. Since the ‘interface’ is the first thing a user notices of a website, it demands a lot of creativity. Essential… Continue reading 35 Finest UI Tools Every Designer Should Know

UXPin offers a faster way to create interactive website or app prototypes using Photoshop or Sketch

While Photoshop and Sketch enable you to prepare static mockups of websites and apps, those tools don’t help you go to the next step of design – interactive prototypes. Well until now, that is. Here at Creative Bloq we're big fans of UXPin, an app for animated prototyping with no coding knowledge required. So we're… Continue reading UXPin offers a faster way to create interactive website or app prototypes using Photoshop or Sketch

20 Great Examples of Subtle Motion in Web Design

Two modern technologies of CSS/JS animation and HTML5 video allow designers to add awesome motion effects to their web designs, common examples being large background videos or web elements that move into place. These effects don’t always have to be so obvious though, which today’s featured websites prove. Subtle motion and animation can really enhance… Continue reading 20 Great Examples of Subtle Motion in Web Design

Get the Best Out of Your Best: 25 Finest Premium WordPress Themes

The saying ‘You get what you pay for’ applies perfectly for the finest premium WordPress themes. These themes are packed with plenty of features that help you in creating all sorts of websites on WordPress. There are thousands of great themes out there but finding the one that will match perfectly with your need seems… Continue reading Get the Best Out of Your Best: 25 Finest Premium WordPress Themes

ClassyCountdown – jQuery Plugin to Create Circular Countdowns

ClassyCountdown is a jQuery plugin written by Marius Stanciu – Sergiu, a plugin that allows you to easily create clean circular countdowns. It is fully customizable and includes 12 themes, which can be modified and it uses HTML5 canvas for rendering the circles. This jQuery plugin is distributed under the MIT license. Enjoy! Demo &… Continue reading ClassyCountdown – jQuery Plugin to Create Circular Countdowns

Improving Design With Quick Usability Tests

To see how users behave in a natural environment, it helps to use remote usability software to record the screens and the voices of test participants. This lets you hear them thinking out loud and see every click. While focus groups and field studies help you understand user opinions and natural product use, remote recorded… Continue reading Improving Design With Quick Usability Tests

Skyline: Evolving CSS Architecture

Skyline helps you create a design system for your website. It encourages a well thought-out CSS architecture, and enables you to develop a reusable and maintainable codebase. The starter kit provides a solid CSS architecture that acts as a scaffolding to support your unique design system. It promotes object-oriented CSS, written in SCSS using BEM… Continue reading Skyline: Evolving CSS Architecture

When Launching a New Website: Avoid These Four Simple Website Mistakes

Having a website is essential for just about every business these days. Not only is it expected, but it helps improve your image and your accessibility for customers. Putting together a website doesn’t have to be complicated, but it isn’t just a snap and to go project either. It takes work. Businesses often tend to… Continue reading When Launching a New Website: Avoid These Four Simple Website Mistakes

7 Reasons Why You Should Choose Ruby on Rails

During the last ten years, Ruby on Rails has grown to become an increasingly popular solution for building web apps. In our rapidly changing technological environment and shaky economy, RoR can speed up the development process and help companies save time and money. Today, the knowledge of Ruby can land you great jobs – there… Continue reading 7 Reasons Why You Should Choose Ruby on Rails

15+ Parallax Web Designs

As technology advances, the cut-throat nature of online marketing gets increasingly brutal. The demand for transparent, conveniently communicated information, both visually captivating and instantly rewarding, is uncompromising. Don’t despair, parallax scrolling is about to become your knight in shining armor. It offers the dynamic of 3D illusions, creating depth by layering images, then scrolling the… Continue reading 15+ Parallax Web Designs

Top 20 New High Quality Freebies for December

Everybody loves new high quality freebies, as they help designers save time, stay inspired and work a lot faster than usual. We looked for the best new freebies on the web and selected 20 of them. These great freebies will help both web and graphic designers. You can download and use them in your own… Continue reading Top 20 New High Quality Freebies for December

Android Lollipop: Developers Must Adapt to These 3 Radical Changes

With the release of Android 5.0 Lollipop, one of the most radical design overhauls of the Google’s mobile operating system, the new era of the Android is being rolled out. The latest OS is set to bring a raft of new changes, updates, and features that are sure to change the way you have ever… Continue reading Android Lollipop: Developers Must Adapt to These 3 Radical Changes

Integrate Images from Your Instagram Feed to Your WordPress Site

Instagram apps and web platforms for photo and video sharing. If you have a WordPress site, you might be wondering how you can embed Instagram photo galleries and integrate images to your blog. To help users integrate their photos to their blogs and websites, Instagram has released a public Application Programming Interface (API). It is… Continue reading Integrate Images from Your Instagram Feed to Your WordPress Site

20 Tools To Get You Started With Web Development

Creating a website may sound complicated and tedious, but there are a lot of tools out there that can make your task a lot easier. It’s important to have a good presence online both for businesses and organizations or causes, this is why all the tools and services available for helping you create a website… Continue reading 20 Tools To Get You Started With Web Development

Top 40+ Web & Mobile GUI Templates from 2014

Today, just as we did last year, we have compiled a comprehensive collection of the best free web and mobile GUI templates from this year (2014). As you would expect, the vast majority of the templates have been designed in a flat-style, but after this years release of iOS8with it’s elegant ‘line-style’ UI, and the… Continue reading Top 40+ Web & Mobile GUI Templates from 2014