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
34 Well-Designed Signup & Login Forms
Modern web design trends have evolved from archaic despots of fixed HTML4 layouts into the realm of parallax animation, flat graphics, and responsive layouts. This transition has been accompanied by a growing attachment to interactive websites with user profiles. So it should come as no surprise that login & signup forms can be seen everywhere… Continue reading 34 Well-Designed Signup & Login Forms
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
iDevie Weekly Freebies (Week 50)
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. Icon Set Material Design UI Kit iPhone… Continue reading iDevie Weekly Freebies (Week 50)
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
The Best 20 Tools for Web Development
Over the past few years the web development community has steadily increased its numbers. Due to the creativity and resourcefulness websites have become increasingly interactive and diverse. It’s complicated enough with all the different devices that now have access to the Internet to make a website that will look good and function properly across platforms.… Continue reading The Best 20 Tools for Web Development
20 Free Web & Mobile PSD UI Kits 2014
User Interface is th most important part of any design as it is responsible for making the first impression of any software. Here the amazing UI kits enter the picture and make the lives of all the designers much easier. There are infinite numbers of PSD UI kits available for mobile softwares and website designs.… Continue reading 20 Free Web & Mobile PSD UI Kits 2014
4 Free Seamless Knitted Christmas Jumper Patterns
I’ve been busy with my virtual knitting needles and crafted 4 free Christmas jumper patterns for your designs to wear this season. Each design is based on the popular ‘Fair Isle’ knitting style with lots of tiny red and white stitch-like graphics making up intricate festive patterns. The download contains patterns for both Illustrator &… Continue reading 4 Free Seamless Knitted Christmas Jumper Patterns
Emotion As A Framework For Design
The beginning of any web design project is the hardest part. As a web designer, I sometimes get lucky and have some really solid inspiration that feels like it’ll be enough; it’s the kind of inspiration that’s strong enough to help you get started on a new project and enough to sustain you through all… Continue reading Emotion As A Framework For Design
15 Fresh Free Fonts for Designers
GDJ always keep our readers up-to-date with fresh graphic design resources, especially about the fonts. In this post, I’ll be featuring collection of free fonts for designers. So what are your waiting, go and check out all of them and download the ones you like most. Norse Free Font Font Download Linotte Free Font Font Download… Continue reading 15 Fresh Free Fonts for Designers
25 Free Gesture Icons Packs for Your Mobile App
Finally, you are ready to put a new mobile app on the market. Surely you expect it to take the audience by storm. As we all know, people buy not only the product but also its packaging. So without a well-thought-out presentation, chances are, it simply won’t do. Presentations of old won’t do either, neither… Continue reading 25 Free Gesture Icons Packs for Your Mobile App
30 Beautiful Blue Websites for Design Inspiration
This week I thought it would be interesting to check out a showcase of blue websites. The clean and fresh characteristics of this colour make it a popular choice with web designers, with light cyans being particularly trendy in the modern web design scene. Evolve Wealth Sparkbox Squares Conference Underbelly Creative Co. Bay Street Biergarten… Continue reading 30 Beautiful Blue Websites for Design Inspiration
Schema – A Modular, Responsive Frontend Framework
Schema is a modular, responsive, front end framework to easily and quickly help you jumpstart your process in building complex interfaces for the web right out the box. Schema comes fully equipped with the capabilities of creating familiar experiences across multiple viewports. From a desktop monitor down to a mobile device, Schema’s 12-column grid provides… Continue reading Schema – A Modular, Responsive Frontend Framework
20 Best Free Bootstrap WordPress Themes
Bootstrap is a great framework with very powerful features, ideal for letting web developers create high quality responsive, Bootstrap templates. Bootstrap websites have flexibl layouts and look great on all mobile devices. Bootstrap templates work on popular publishing platforms like WordPress and Joomla too. We selected today 20 best free Bootstrap WordPress themes for you to choose from.… Continue reading 20 Best Free Bootstrap WordPress Themes