20 Free and Exciting CSS3 Libraries, Frameworks and Tools

A lot of additions and enhancements have been done to CSS in CSS3. Designers used to create simple animations using jQuery or Javascript but CSS3 has changed all that due to all the new and exciting features added to it. It has become a lot easier to explore details and play with the designs using CSS3. Due… Continue reading 20 Free and Exciting CSS3 Libraries, Frameworks and Tools

WP_Query Arguments: Status, Order, and Pagination

In this part of the series on Mastering WP_Query, you’ll learn about some of the arguments you can use with the WP_Query class, namely those for status, order, and pagination. You can use these arguments to fetch scheduled posts from the database, to query attachments, to amend the way posts are ordered and what they’re… Continue reading WP_Query Arguments: Status, Order, and Pagination

Slide-in Content Filter Powered by CSS and jQuery

A well-designed filter is a powerful tool users can take advantage of. It is actually an essential feature if your website has lots of content, distributed across different categories. For an e-commerce, it is a way to increase conversion rates by reducing the time needed by the user to find what he’s looking for. Building… Continue reading Slide-in Content Filter Powered by CSS and jQuery

Posts, Pages and Post Types

In this part of this series on WP_Query, you’ll learn how to use WP_Query to query for posts, pages and custom post types. You can query for specific posts and pages or you can run a query to return posts of one or more post types. A Recap on How Arguments Work in WP_Query Before… Continue reading Posts, Pages and Post Types

Top Ways to Use Icons in a Web Page to Enhance Content Presentation

Content is the king in the web world. But if you don’t present even a good content in a proper way, it will not be able to attract the attention of the viewers. So, it’s important to arrange the content of a web page in the perfect manner. And only then you can expect it… Continue reading Top Ways to Use Icons in a Web Page to Enhance Content Presentation

Free Valentine’s Day Icons from FreekPik!

Our friends at FreePik.com, have provided us yet another icon giveaway. This time, it’s a FREE Valentines Day Icon Pack. These graphics are in flat style, and come in both PNG and SVG files. There are 100 individual icons to choose from! We think you will just love these icons when you see them. Here… Continue reading Free Valentine’s Day Icons from FreekPik!

30 Amazing Portfolio Designs

There are hundred of thousand programmers, designers, writers and even developers in every continent. Sometimes it is hard to compete with other professionals, especially when you are a freelancer. But somehow you need to find a ways to attract customers. One of the way is to create a portfolio website. The key is to make… Continue reading 30 Amazing Portfolio Designs

20 Free HTML5, CSS3, UI Kits and PSDs for Designers

There are many resources available online for designers to speed up the website designing process. Some of these resources are free and most aren’t. These resources may include creative HTML5 and CSS3 PSDs and UI kits, color and palette generators and many other different things that together form a wonderful website. Searching for and spotting the… Continue reading 20 Free HTML5, CSS3, UI Kits and PSDs for Designers

20 Free AngularJS Resources & Tutorials

While jQuery is easily the most popular open source JavaScript library there are many competitors. Among the many alternatives I want to focus on AngularJS. As a designer it can be tough getting into JavaScript because it might feel a little bit like programming. Getting past the initial learning curve is tough but worthwhile in… Continue reading 20 Free AngularJS Resources & Tutorials

Inspirational Examples of UI Style Guides

According to Wikipedia, a UI style guide is a ‘set of standards for the writing and design of documents’ and that it ‘ensures consistency and enforces best practice in usage.’ All very true. But what it neglects to mention is how inspiring UI style guides can be just to look at and get lost in.… Continue reading Inspirational Examples of UI Style Guides

Collection of Fresh Design Freebies – January Edition

From improving the appearance of checkboxes/radio buttons and equipping your next project with a solid flexible foundation to a wonderful set of vibrant flat style icons and magnificent glossy skeuomorph UI pack, our January collection is full of superb freebies that can serve both as inspiration or as time-saving downloads for your future and current… Continue reading Collection of Fresh Design Freebies – January Edition

17 CSS3 Transition Plugins & Tutorials To Create A Single Page Website

Here is another collection of some CSS3 tutorials and this time, we are focusing on creating transition effect for creating a single page website. In the recent times, we have seen that single page websites have greatly increased the user experience by reducing the unnecessary loading time of duplicated page contents. So, without any further… Continue reading 17 CSS3 Transition Plugins & Tutorials To Create A Single Page Website

Important tools you need for cross brower testing

There are a multitude of browsers that you can find right now on the market and, as a developer, you have to make sure that you test the site you created on as many as possible. However, you simply cannot test all existing browsers on all possible platforms, this is close to impossible. Because of… Continue reading Important tools you need for cross brower testing

20 Informative Graphic Design Infographics I’ve Come Across

You may have known someone who only reads books with pictures. Illustrations make the most boring literature come alive. Images make reading a lot more enjoyable. Why do you think children’s books are filled with vibrant, engaging pictures? Nowadays, graphics and illustrations on text are elevated to another level. The cyber world calls data with… Continue reading 20 Informative Graphic Design Infographics I’ve Come Across

20 Free Bootstrap Templates

Bootstrap is a for creating exciting websites. It primarily consists of HTML and CSS based designs and occasionally JavaScript extensions are also made available. It include templates based on HTML, CSS and sometimes JavaScript for forms, buttons, typography, navigation bars, and all the other features that are combined together to make one impeccably designed website.… Continue reading 20 Free Bootstrap Templates

WP_Query Arguments: Taxonomies

So far in this series, you’ve learned how WP_Query is structured and what its properties and methods are. Now we’re looking at the various arguments you can use with WP_Query and how you code them. WP_Query has a large number of possible arguments, which makes it extremely flexible. As you can use it to query… Continue reading WP_Query Arguments: Taxonomies

Surprising Yourself with Ideas Out of Nowhere

Idea: the origin of the best and worst moments of your life. Everything we cultivate comes from a single idea. The sumptuous dinner you plan to cook tonight? That’s a yummy idea. The trip you want to take with your partner? That’s an exciting idea. The business you want to be a part of? That’s… Continue reading Surprising Yourself with Ideas Out of Nowhere

Snabbt.js – Fast animations with Javascript and CSS transforms

snabbt.js is a minimalistic javascript animation library. It focuses on moving things around. It will translate, rotate, scale, skew and resize your elements. By including matrix multiplication operations, transforms can be combined in any way you want. The end result is then set via CSS3 transform matrices. snabbt.js is built to be fast. It will… Continue reading Snabbt.js – Fast animations with Javascript and CSS transforms

Squire – An HTML5 Rich Text Editor

Squire is an HTML5 rich text editor, which provides powerful cross-browser normalisation, whilst being supremely lightweight and flexible. It is built for the present and the future, and as such does not support truly ancient browsers. It should work fine back to around Opera 10, Firefox 3.5, Safari 4, Chrome 9 and IE8. Requirements: HTML5… Continue reading Squire – An HTML5 Rich Text Editor

Icons in Web Design: Tips, Resources, and Examples

Modern icons have become a staple for every digital interface. They can help organize content, they’re generally lightweight and even play mp3′s. No wait that’s iPods… well even iPods have a use for icons because they’re a quick visual method to convey information.   The field of web design has been using icons since before… Continue reading Icons in Web Design: Tips, Resources, and Examples

Free Download : Sage PSD Template

This is a Flexible multi-purpose portfolio PSD theme designed and released as a freebie by Serge Mistyukevych. It has different homepage layouts, color variations, multiple portfolio/gallery options and other pages. It works perfectly for any creative studio, personal portfolio or agency. The template consists of well-organized components that are easy to modify. All components and… Continue reading Free Download : Sage PSD Template

10 Best free WordPress themes January 2015

Inspired Magazine Inspired Magazine – creativity & inspiration daily A little while ago, I did my own research to find out what’s the average number of theme downloads from the official directory every week. The number turned out to be 380,000. That’s quite a lot if you ask me. And if we look at it… Continue reading 10 Best free WordPress themes January 2015