Webydo’s developers must be on steroids. The community-driven development process sparks more innovation in a few months than other companies find in their whole lifetime. The latest feature announcement promises the availability of one of the hottest trends in web design today, Parallax Scrolling. And it promises to deliver it code-free and with pixel-perfect accuracy.… Continue reading Full Throttle Development: Website Design Software Webydo Goes Parallax – Participate in The Closed Beta (Invite Only)
Category: Design
Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.
How To Make Your Graphic Design Practices Sustainable
2014’s hottest trends in graphic and web design revolve around reducing visual clutter and minimizing work for users. A new frontier in design, though, is going to be reducing pollutants and minimizing environmental waste. Hopefully, your design firm is already aware of the need to reduce your environmental impact. Reducing waste is necessary for every… Continue reading How To Make Your Graphic Design Practices Sustainable
11 Inspiring Minimalistic Web Designs
Here at WDL we love to browse the web for good stuff to show you. It’s always great to see how designers put together different layouts and ideas. Minimal websites can be very inspiring when designed properly. Having the ability to develop a nice website with good UX and interface with a minimal approach is… Continue reading 11 Inspiring Minimalistic Web Designs
Captain Icon: Fantastic Free Set of 350+ Flat Icons in Many Formats
Mario Del Valle from Valladolid in sunny Spain simply loves to create. In his own words, he was passionate about drawing since he was a child. Lately he also became eager to share. He sat down in front of his digitizer and started to come up with ideas for a huge free icon set. Lots… Continue reading Captain Icon: Fantastic Free Set of 350+ Flat Icons in Many Formats
What Should New & Inexperienced Designers Be Learning?
Today I’m speaking to those just getting started in design. Maybe you just graduated from design school, or you’ve read through all the fundamental lessons offered here and on other design blogs, and you feel you’re ready to start taking on clients. Or maybe you have a couple of projects under your belt and you’re… Continue reading What Should New & Inexperienced Designers Be Learning?
Darkness That Feeds Your Mind: 20 Black Joomla Layouts
Behind the color of black there are lot of different emotions. Some think it is the color of evil. Some think it is the color of emptiness. Some think it is the color of love. Black is all of those things. Today we are talking about pre-made Joomla templates that are designed in black and… Continue reading Darkness That Feeds Your Mind: 20 Black Joomla Layouts
What Makes The Perfect Blog Post [Infographic]
Webmasters and bloggers alike are always trying to improve their blogging. Each post has to be perfect before they publish it. It has to have the right amount of nice looking images, a certain number of links to back up your sources, and it has to be engaging to your audience. We do this so… Continue reading What Makes The Perfect Blog Post [Infographic]
Don’t Forget to Cover Your Client Side!
By making sure that your application is tested, you are able to reduce the amount of bugs you find in your code, increase the maintainability of your application, and design well structured code. Client side unit testing presents different challenges than server side testing. When dealing with client side code, you will find yourself struggling to… Continue reading Don’t Forget to Cover Your Client Side!
Pragmatic Landing Page Can Create Enjoyable Experience
The Petersham Nurseries is an online store dedicated to an internationally-prized garden center has been nominated and recently received the title “Site of the Day” from the respectable Awwwards’ jury. The site was rated far above average and got quite impressive numbers in all presented factors that cover design, usability, creativity and content. So, what… Continue reading Pragmatic Landing Page Can Create Enjoyable Experience
5 Great Examples of Minimal Websites
Minimalism is a design style that emphasizes simplicity and the removal of surplus elements in a design, stripping it down to its basic elements, colors, shapes and textures. This style was overlooked in the early dot com days of the internet, but it has now become very popular in website design. The fundamentals of minimal design in… Continue reading 5 Great Examples of Minimal Websites
Create a Simple Subscription Web Element in Adobe Illustrator
What You’ll Be Creating This piece focuses mainly on the Appearance panel, so you will only need four rectangles and a tiny circle to create the background, the main shape, the subscribe button, the text field and the tiny x button. You will learn how to create pixel perfect shapes using the Snap to Grid… Continue reading Create a Simple Subscription Web Element in Adobe Illustrator
35 New WordPress Themes Perfect For Photographers
You do not need to be well versed in WordPress or be a software developer to create your WordPress powered portfolio site. A majority of WordPress powered themes nowadays allow you to quickly build, customise and manage your portfolio and blog items all without needing to touch a line of code. Today I wanted to get together… Continue reading 35 New WordPress Themes Perfect For Photographers
Introduction to WordPress App Themes
With the increasing growth rate of WordPress powered websites, the need for WordPress themes is rising. Multi-purpose themes are becoming highly popular among website owners. Many existing themes are built mainly to address blog functionality. But with the growth of WordPress web application development, we are in need of specialized themes for different purposes. These… Continue reading Introduction to WordPress App Themes
How to Deal with Web Design Clients You’ve Never Seen
“I could never work for someone I’ve never met.” My friend was discussing my freelancing career with me and she couldn’t imagine working for clients she’d never met in person. But freelance web designers and other freelancers do it all the time. Many freelancers connect with their clients primarily through the Internet. Their clients might… Continue reading How to Deal with Web Design Clients You’ve Never Seen
The Gap between UI and UX Design – Know the Difference
Do you know that UI and UX are not the same concepts? Surely, they are closely connected, even mutually penetrated and rarely exist without each other. Would you like to study the differences between UI and UX design in detail? This article will give you such an opportunity. We believe that it is impossible to… Continue reading The Gap between UI and UX Design – Know the Difference
15 Useful Bootstrap Tools and Generators for Web Developers
Bootstrap tools are popular for awesome features like Add-ons, micro-libraries, and frameworks. Bootstrap tools make web development faster and easier. All Bootstrap tools designed according to professional requirements. This article contains 15 Useful Bootstrap Tools & Generators for Web Developers. Bootply Bootply is integrated with other popular Bootstrap plugins, micro-libraries and frameworks. Bootstrap Arrows jQuery… Continue reading 15 Useful Bootstrap Tools and Generators for Web Developers
Working with Type on a Path in Illustrator
What You’ll Be Creating In this quick tip tutorial, you will learn how to add Type on a Path in Adobe Illustrator. This is handy for logos and badges. So let’s get to it! Text Around a Circular Path Let’s start with the badge scenario. The first thing you need to do is create a… Continue reading Working with Type on a Path in Illustrator
20 Best Free UI Kits with Amazing Designs
Free UI kits are very useful to designers. UI kits usually contain buttons, inputs, button groups, selects, checkboxes and radio-buttons, tags, menus, progress bars and sliders, navigation elements and more. Here you’ll find free PSD GUI sets for web apps, websites, dashboards and even mobile! We’ve searched for the top best free UI kits you can… Continue reading 20 Best Free UI Kits with Amazing Designs
11 Inspiring Typography Focused Web Designs
We all know that typography is a very important element of a good design. And even though we love layouts with beautiful images, it’s always inspiring to see some minimalist type-based sites, like the ones we will show here today. The designs we have here show that type is not only an important element but… Continue reading 11 Inspiring Typography Focused Web Designs
The Effective Use of 3D Elements in Web Design
With the current, huge trend of flat design, we don’t see so many 3D elements used in web design these days. Perhaps you can take the creativity out of design, but it is difficult to take the creativity out of the designer, and flat design doesn’t offer many opportunities for amazing creativity, so we are… Continue reading The Effective Use of 3D Elements in Web Design
20 Professional and Free Online Website Builders
Do you need a professional website and lack the design or developing skills? No problem! There are plenty of great, free online website builders you can use. You can create your stunning website in just minutes! We selected 20 free online website builders just for you! Create your new website today! WiX Create a free… Continue reading 20 Professional and Free Online Website Builders
Examples of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVGs) in Web Design
SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) images offer web designers a flexibility with imagery they have not previously known. Now compatible with all current web browsers and most mobile device platforms, here is another technique that is threatening the popularity of Flash. SVG images are small in file size and they scale pretty much to any size… Continue reading Examples of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVGs) in Web Design
Design Dilemma: Are You the Right Person for the Right Job?
You show a prospective client your portfolio. They like it, hire you and the project starts. You deliver sketches and then, after everything is approved, the finished design. The client then informs you the solution didn’t meet his/her “vision” and refuses all offers to adjust the work to meet his/her vision. Final payment and further… Continue reading Design Dilemma: Are You the Right Person for the Right Job?
8 useful free psd for wireframes kits
Wireframe kits are a common way to prototype our design before commencing the actual design production. Rather than starting everything from scratch, you can always use a psd wireframe kit to kickstart the whole brainstorming process. This not only saves times but can relieve some of the repetitive wire framing work that one has to… Continue reading 8 useful free psd for wireframes kits