40 Resources for Getting Started with jQuery Development

Each year a new batch of young web developers are jumping into the field head-first. Often times frontend web development is the easiest barrier to jumpstart learning. HTML/CSS work is quite simple, but delving into JavaScript provides a deeper realization of general programming topics. These include functions, loops, variables, along with an understanding of how… Continue reading 40 Resources for Getting Started with jQuery Development

20 Free and Premium Pagination Plugins

Want to create a usable pagination for your blog or website? You’re in the right place! We selected 20 clean and free and premium pagination plugins with user-friendly designs. You don’t have to be a web designer to upgrade your website with one of these cool pagination plugins. Here they are: If these 20 free… Continue reading 20 Free and Premium Pagination Plugins

10 Tips for Building Wireframes With Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator is experiencing a come-back in the world of web design. Not only is SVG becoming commonly used online, but more and more designers are using vectors for wireframing. The following tips will help you make the most of Illustrator as a wireframing tool. Wireframing is about working rapidly and iterating quickly. The aim… Continue reading 10 Tips for Building Wireframes With Illustrator

Pictaculous – A Color Palette Generator via Email

Ever wondered what colors to use with an image? Just email a picture to Pictaculous, and they’ll send back some color suggestions. Simple as that. There are many tools out there that will analyze the colors of an uploaded picture, but the beautiful thing about Pictaculous is you can snap pictures from your mobile device,… Continue reading Pictaculous – A Color Palette Generator via Email

Why a Responsive Web Design Will Help You Get More Visitors

If you don’t have a responsive web design, then chances are you’re missing out on a lot of potential visitors and customers. You may even be losing some. Here’s why a responsive web design will help you get more visitors, and how not implementing this design could be handicapping your business: You cater to mobile platforms… Continue reading Why a Responsive Web Design Will Help You Get More Visitors

Showcase of Useful Bootstrap Tools For Web Developers

The popularity of Bootstrap tools has been greatly increased in the past few years because of the awesome features they offer such as add-ons, pre-styled modules of library and so on. The responsive framework in the Bootstrap tool helps you keep your website transparent, thus making it more appealing. Moreover, since these Bootstrap tools are… Continue reading Showcase of Useful Bootstrap Tools For Web Developers

28 Free Adobe Illustrator Tutorials for Designers

Designer Ledger – A web design blog for designers by designers Adobe illustrator is a most commonly used software for designing great vectors and for other purposes as well. It’s being common doesn’t mean that it is as easy to use or master. There are many similarities in adobe Photoshop and adobe illustrator tools but… Continue reading 28 Free Adobe Illustrator Tutorials for Designers

20 Powerful Red Color Websites

Designer Ledger – A web design blog for designers by designers Colors can have a very powerful effect. When different colors are used according to their significance they elicit favorable response and can move an audience deeply. Red is a very powerful color depicting strong emotions and it can definitely grab the desired attention. Whenever… Continue reading 20 Powerful Red Color Websites

20 Top-rated Premium Responsive WordPress Theme

WordPress theme is one of the most popular and useful resource for any online showcase. We today present a collection of 20 Top-rated Premium Responsive WordPress Theme. Kreativen – Responsive Creative WordPress Theme Accio Responsive WordPress Onepage/Regular Theme ARKOS – WordPress Responsive One-page Patti – Parallax One Page WordPress Theme Eden – Retina Multi-Purpose WordPress… Continue reading 20 Top-rated Premium Responsive WordPress Theme

6 Extremely Crucial Choices That Determine Your Freelancing Future

Ultimately, freelance web design is all about choices. The choices you make as a freelancer will determine your business success or failure. The best course for a freelance web designer is to proactively plan how you will approach each choice. You can always change your approach later if you feel that something is not working… Continue reading 6 Extremely Crucial Choices That Determine Your Freelancing Future

5 Adobe Photoshop Common Mistakes

Adobe Photoshop, one of the most popular computer-based software, has fans and users spread all over the world. Many of them think to be able to use the program in the best way possible but, they may be committing some common and easy-avoidable mistakes. In this article I have listed some errors that are generally… Continue reading 5 Adobe Photoshop Common Mistakes

25+ Stylish and Trendy Free HTML5 CSS3 Templates

Over the last two years there has been great work has been done in web-design and development using HTML5 and CSS3, too many new things and tricks are used and introduced by designers. We can see all inspiring websites developed in HTML3 and CSS3 on world wide web and also many developers love to share… Continue reading 25+ Stylish and Trendy Free HTML5 CSS3 Templates

26 Web Design Tutorials for Learning New CSS3 Properties

Over the past few years a number of prominent CSS3 tutorials have been published online. These are perfect for beginners who don’t have a lot of experience coding webpages. But developers who do have that experience may also find the more detailed articles quite insightful. Take a look over this collection of posts related to… Continue reading 26 Web Design Tutorials for Learning New CSS3 Properties

Freebie: Flat User Interface Kit (Vector PSD)

Yes, we do have yet another flat UI kit for you guys. And yes, we do love them! Today we have an impressive UI kit from Canadian graphic designer Johnny J. There are a total of 25 UI elements included in the kit including buttons, pagination, form elements, widgets, pricing tables, sliders, and much more.… Continue reading Freebie: Flat User Interface Kit (Vector PSD)

How to Create Super-Detailed Wildlife Illustrations

Highly detailed and accurate illustrations of animals and plants have a long and distinguished history, extending back through the western era of exploration. While initially these artworks served mainly to record new species in the absence of portable and effective photography, they were also appreciated for their artistic merit and attracted interest from admirers outside… Continue reading How to Create Super-Detailed Wildlife Illustrations

Visual Identity and Branding Series : CIN

Creating an attractive visual identity is paramount to developing a memorable brand that will be remembered. With the development of the internet, even the smallest web sites now have their own logo, corporate (or web site) colors, and aspects that can make them stand out from the crowd. Because of the level of global competition,… Continue reading Visual Identity and Branding Series : CIN

How to Create a Portfolio from Scratch with Sproute

Sproute is a hosted framework for rapid development of web applications. It allows you to easily define dynamic data and comes with lots of useful features out of the box such as user accounts and security. This tutorial will show you how to build your very own online portfolio using Sproute: a hosted environment for… Continue reading How to Create a Portfolio from Scratch with Sproute

4 Common Mistakes You are Making on Your Website and How to Fix Them

Your website is your most vital online tool. When visitors click on your homepage, it’s often their first opportunity to interact with your brand. If you’re not getting results, you’ve probably made some major—and pretty common—mistakes on your site. Fortunately, it’s often easy to correct such problems. By employing a few simple measures, you can… Continue reading 4 Common Mistakes You are Making on Your Website and How to Fix Them

30 Excellent Responsive WordPress Themes (FREE)

Today we share 30 New Free WordPress Themes with premium quality! All templates are responsive and works straight out-of-the-box! Beautiful modern designs and with parallax scrolling! Free Responsive WordPress Themes DW Timeline (Timeline-style blogging theme) DW Timeline Download Page → Hemingway (Two-column theme for blogging) Hemingway Download Page → Wilson (Blogging theme) Wilson Download Page… Continue reading 30 Excellent Responsive WordPress Themes (FREE)

Five Useful Things You Can Do With Adobe Reflow Right Now

But First, Some History Edge Reflow is a relatively new program from Adobe, having been announced in 2012 and released in February 2013, with the elevator pitch of enabling you to “Design the responsive web” and “Create beautiful responsive designs”. The tricky part is that right now you can’t actually use it directly to create responsive websites, only responsive designs. This… Continue reading Five Useful Things You Can Do With Adobe Reflow Right Now

10 Free Vintage Style Illustrated Light Ray Vectors

As vintage style logos and emblems have become increasingly popular I’ve noticed the use of hand illustrated sunburst elements on all kinds of retro inspired designs, so I decided to play around and produce a set of my own to give out my readers. Download this free set of 10 illustrated light ray vectors to… Continue reading 10 Free Vintage Style Illustrated Light Ray Vectors