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

Turning Design Ideas into Reality: Brainstorming, Wireframing, Prototyping

Starting a new project is in a lot of ways the hardest part. It’s the only stage of development that you’re turning nothing into something. Luckily, there are proven methods to reduce the “empty canvas” syndrome. We’ll talk about the best ways to handle the early stages of brainstorming and concepting and how it translates… Continue reading Turning Design Ideas into Reality: Brainstorming, Wireframing, Prototyping

Best of SVG 2014: Icons, Tools and Resources

With mobile devices taking over the world, so to speak, new technology for making websites and apps look pretty on mobile devices continues to emerge and evolve. One of those awesome mobile technologies to arrive on the scene in recent years is that of SVG or Scalable Vector Graphics. SVG takes vectors a step further… Continue reading Best of SVG 2014: Icons, Tools and Resources

Freebies – 10 Vector Xmas Cards as AI and EPS

I’ill like these free vector Christmas cards. 10 Free Vector Christmas Cards Created by Freepik; Exclusively Available Here Exclusively here, you can download ten vector Xmas cards in a variety of formats. Each card is contained in a zipped archive. This archive offers two versions of the respective Adobe Illustrator file, the raw one and… Continue reading Freebies – 10 Vector Xmas Cards as AI and EPS

Everything you need to know about WatchKit

Getting Started with WatchKit WatchKit allows you to develop a companion Watch app of your iPhone app. Unfortunately you cannot develop standalone apps for the Apple Watch. Yes, that is unfortunate, just like the first version of the iPhone we expect this to change in the near future. Watch apps are accessible from the home… Continue reading Everything you need to know about WatchKit

Exciting PSD Mockups for Apple Products

Designer Ledger – A web design blog for designers by designers Apple products have definitely established a strong hold in the market since their arrival. They have a way of making their software handling as easy and user friendly as possible. They have achieved their goal by making their softwares extremely simple so that the… Continue reading Exciting PSD Mockups for Apple Products

iDevie Weekly Freebies (week 50) #2

Freebies for designers is a series where we regularly post some great, super useful freebies on a weekly basis. In our weekly collection we will be sharing all types of stuff including mockups, templates, icons and much more. Here is a collection of 15 freebies for this week. Register Form Photo Frame PSD Mockups Dashboard… Continue reading iDevie Weekly Freebies (week 50) #2

Prepare Your Website for Christmas – Free WordPress Christmas Plugins

Now that December has arrived we can start getting prepared for Christmas time, we have been buying our presents and our decorations will be going up later this week in our house. What if you wish to decorate your WordPress site for Christmas ? There are a few reasons for doing so – if you… Continue reading Prepare Your Website for Christmas – Free WordPress Christmas Plugins

What is Macrotypography?

Understanding macrotypography can be useful in making websites, specifically in making websites readable. Macrotypography involves the combination and arrangement of all groups of texts within a web page. While microtypography involves small details such as the glyph, kerning, tracking and capitalization of letters and words, macrotypography involves the arrangement of paragraphs. Microtypography deals with legibility,… Continue reading What is Macrotypography?

Best Practices for Creating Fullscreen Website Backgrounds

The artistic use of fullscreen backgrounds has become a large part of the web design lexicon. Many different layouts from landing pages to agencies and social networks have used this feature with great success. It’s a fantastic way to draw attention while simultaneously branding a company or project. In this post I’d like to cover… Continue reading Best Practices for Creating Fullscreen Website Backgrounds

28 Website Mockups using Fullscreen Images

Let’s face the facts: anything that takes up the entirety of your computer screen is going to draw some attention. Fullscreen images have been used in backgrounds and slideshows for quite a few years now. But ever-improving Internet connections have allowed for much larger images that relate better to content on the page. This style… Continue reading 28 Website Mockups using Fullscreen Images

28 Free Online Tools & Resources for Web Designers

With the increasing popularity of web design there are more online resources available no than ever before. In the past we’ve covered top design tools that included both premium and free options. But since most designers would prefer to use free tools that $ 0.00 price tag is much more useful and in-demand. In this… Continue reading 28 Free Online Tools & Resources for Web Designers

15 Top Notch Collaboration Tools for Your Creative Projects

Are you daunted or put off by the prospect of project management? You shouldn’t be. Think of it rather as an opportunity. Start-ups have more to prove than large companies. They have to build a reputation and not lose credibility, which is why your web design or development practice needs teamwork to deliver great products.… Continue reading 15 Top Notch Collaboration Tools for Your Creative Projects

5 Must Know Things About SEO in 2015

For most of the readers here search engine optimization is not their major area of expertise. Yet we’re all in digital marketing, and we hear now and then that Google has rolled out a new update (possibly with the name of yet another animal), or that a popular SEO tactic has been labeled as harmful.… Continue reading 5 Must Know Things About SEO in 2015

SVG Loaders – Loading icons and small animations built purely in SVG

SVG Loaders is a set of Loading icons and small animations built purely in SVG, no CSS or JS. Usage Download or bower install svg-loaders <img src=”svg-loaders/puff.svg” /> An icon’s color can be manipulated by changing the fill attribute in the SVG file. <svg fill=”#fff” width=”140″ height=”64″ viewBox=”0 0 140 64″ xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2000/svg”> All SVG files… Continue reading SVG Loaders – Loading icons and small animations built purely in SVG

Top 10 Joomla portfolio templates for creative professionals and agencies

There are literally hundreds of Joomla templates available on the internet. In this article I look at top 10 templates for the creative professionals as well as for creative agencies. I hope you enjoy these as much as I have. 1. Wunderkind – One Page Parallax Joomla Template If you are looking for a template that is… Continue reading Top 10 Joomla portfolio templates for creative professionals and agencies

How To Create a Christmas Jumper Pattern in Illustrator

Last week I shared a collection of free seamless knitted Christmas jumper patterns for my readers to download and get their design in the festive spirit. A few of you guys were interested in seeing how they were made, so today I’ll be showing you the techniques I used to build them. Don’t worry if… Continue reading How To Create a Christmas Jumper Pattern in Illustrator

18 Cool Things You Won’t Believe Were Built Using CSS

Contrary to popular belief, CSS is not only used to provide basic style for a web page in order to make it look more attractive. There are plenty of other things that one can do with CSS as well. With the ability to create animations and interactions, CSS along with HTML and Javascript allow web… Continue reading 18 Cool Things You Won’t Believe Were Built Using CSS

Droidicon – Over 1600 Beautiful Icons for Android

Droidicon provides over 1600 customizable icons, 25 ready-made social badges and more! Droidicon makes it super easy to add icons and badges to your app. All of the social badges are already styled. Just add them to your app! Or you can customize the icons however you want. You can also add strokes, transparency, and… Continue reading Droidicon – Over 1600 Beautiful Icons for Android

iDevie Weekly News (week 49)

This is our popular weekly design news post where we share our favorite design related articles, resources and freebies from the past week. New Resources & Tools Andy.scss, an open-source collection of useful SASS mixins. Sticky-Kit, a jQuery plugin for making smart sticky elements. Furtive CSS, a lightweight, mobile-first, CSS micro-framework. Magic Mockups, a web-based… Continue reading iDevie Weekly News (week 49)

15 Tools That Will Change How Your Web Design/Development Team Collaborates

If you’re in charge of a small creative agency, don’t make the mistake of thinking that there is no need for careful project management. You wouldn’t believe how many collaboration and market advantages arise if you just pay a little attention to the details of your teamwork routine. Don’t think for a second that you… Continue reading 15 Tools That Will Change How Your Web Design/Development Team Collaborates