40+ Blog Web Design Examples

When it comes to blog web design there is no rights and wrongs in regard of style, layout and colors. As blogs are often highly personal the design tends to reflect the persons individual taste, interests and preferences. In the examples I have listed below you can see how different a blog can look depending… Continue reading 40+ Blog Web Design Examples

10 jQuery Lightbox Plugins

jQuery is a powerful tool for web designing. It can transform a web page to an entertaining and high quality. Today we collect some wonderful lightbox plugin with many variations. These lightbox plugins became very popular because it is very easy to implement. Quick & Simple LightBox Plugin For jQuery – Boxer Boxer is a… Continue reading 10 jQuery Lightbox Plugins

Simple Loading Spinners Animated with CSS3

Before CSS3 transition, we see loading spinners in flash website, and then AJAX component with animated GIF. Besides, animated GIF, we have seen VML & Canvas spinners too. Now, we have pure CSS animated loaders/spinners created with just HTML markup and CSS3.   Spinkit has a collection of good looking CSS spinners:   SpinKit uses… Continue reading Simple Loading Spinners Animated with CSS3

20 Best Opencart Themes For Online Store 2014

Best opencart themes 2014 which helps you to open online store or ecommerce website in just a few minutes. Thes opencart themes has all required features. OpenCart is considered to be one of the most stable and potential platforms on the market. You just simply need to install it, select your theme add your products… Continue reading 20 Best Opencart Themes For Online Store 2014

It’s a Wild World Series: Stunning Photographs of Animals

Not so very many years ago, we had no idea what a Meerkat was unless we lived in certain areas of South Africa, even then, you had to go into the desert to see them. Nowadays, with the technological progress of both television and photography we are far more informed about animals in the wild.… Continue reading It’s a Wild World Series: Stunning Photographs of Animals

Using WordPress for Web Application Development: Features: Sessions

In this series, we’re taking a look at how it’s possible to build web applications using WordPress. Thus far, we’ve talked about how WordPress is a foundation (rather than a framework), its architecture, how we need to conceptually think of it when approaching it especially coming from other languages, and then we began talking about… Continue reading Using WordPress for Web Application Development: Features: Sessions

Elegance and Refinement of Mobile Interfaces based on Blurred Backgrounds

Being a basic photo effect for a long time, blurred backgrounds only recently have become a quite popular tool among web designers that had noticed its remarkable ability to help elements to stand out. Such approach rather readily, unobtrusively and quite naturally gives due prominence to content, icons and graphics that are placed on a… Continue reading Elegance and Refinement of Mobile Interfaces based on Blurred Backgrounds

10 Online Applications To Help With File Management

Managing file is a necessity of today’s world because we have to deal with the great amount of different types of files on a daily basis – be is documents, images, photos, multimedia, etc. therefore, it is important to have a system where you can manage all of your files without any hassle. Today, the… Continue reading 10 Online Applications To Help With File Management

Icons in the Modern Age

The number of icons we see on daily basis is amazing. They are everywhere around us, both online and offline. We love to use them. They enhance the aesthetic of our sites and can provide a better user experience. Sometimes however, we forget the reason behind using an icon, and that’s when it becomes easy… Continue reading Icons in the Modern Age

Using Color Psychology to Create an Effective Price Table

Whenever we start any new design project, we’ll usually sit down with the client and discuss all the relevant project details with the client. If you’re lucky, your client will have a relatively clear idea of what they want to achieve and perhaps even the functions and features they want for the site. However clients… Continue reading Using Color Psychology to Create an Effective Price Table

Understanding the Composite Parts of Your Design

In this article we’re going to look at a simple analogy which will illustrate effective ways of communicating through design. Once we’ve established the idea, we’ll take a look at some familiar examples to drive the point home.   The analogy we’re going to look at is The Fourier Transform, an intruiging mathematical tool named… Continue reading Understanding the Composite Parts of Your Design

11 inspirational flat design contact us page

The recent article on flat design login page was well received. This is a follow up on the same idea, which is showcasing the use of flat design in different parts of the website. In this article, we are focusing on flat design for the contact us page.  Arguably, this is one of the area… Continue reading 11 inspirational flat design contact us page

40+ Best CSS Galleries to Showcase Your Websites

Finding the Best CSS Galleries to Showcase Your Websites can sometimes be tricky if you don’t know where to look. Web design galleries offer designers and developers creative inspiration on their own designs. We have compiled this collection for the best css galleries out there. Now don’t get us wrong, we obviously know there are hundreds if not… Continue reading 40+ Best CSS Galleries to Showcase Your Websites

Photoshop Plugins you Won’t be Able to Live Without

To help make 2014 the most awesome year for you yet, here is a collection of amazing Photoshop plugins for you. I’m not saying you should download them all as they do a variety of things but browse through these to find some cool and, most importantly, time saving plugins to help you be that… Continue reading Photoshop Plugins you Won’t be Able to Live Without

50+ Pricing Table UI Element PSD Templates

50+ Pricing Table UI Element PSD Templates, these Pricing Table UI Element are all high quality PSD files which will help inspire you and help you learn how to edit and create your own Pricing Table UI Element PSD Files. These Pricing Plan Boxes are especially designed for the websites which are indeed of web… Continue reading 50+ Pricing Table UI Element PSD Templates

30 Grey & Silver Website Layouts for Design Inspiration

Choosing a great color scheme may often become a rigorous choice on each web project. You want to make sure the colors fit with the branding, and hopefully don’t overpower the content. Grey and silver are often portrayed as dull – and at times pushed into the background. Well in this article I want to… Continue reading 30 Grey & Silver Website Layouts for Design Inspiration

38 WordPress Tutorials for Hacking Custom Functionality

The WordPress core has been updated frequently by a team of well-educated developers. This has lead to many advances so even theme designers can greatly enhance the user interface. When searching in Google you can find a lot of tutorials related to WordPress, bbPress, and BuddyPress customization. In this post I’ve organized 38 niche-specific tutorials… Continue reading 38 WordPress Tutorials for Hacking Custom Functionality

20 Under Construction Page Design Inspiration

In this post, we are going to take a closer look at the under construction page design, which you can use in your website or as an inspiration. Getting your site online even when you are still designing your web pages is a sound marketing technique. Actually, this will not hinder you, if you are… Continue reading 20 Under Construction Page Design Inspiration

Tips on Using Inkscape’s Fill and Stroke Options

Fill and Stroke is the heart and soul of Inkscape – it’s all just lines and nodes until some style is applied. In this quick tip, we’ll check out some of the best stuff Fill and Stroke has to offer!   1. Fill Colors in Inkscape Step 1 There’s four main types of Fill styles… Continue reading Tips on Using Inkscape’s Fill and Stroke Options

Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML: Adding a Loop – Part 4

Tutorial Details Software: WordPress Difficulty: Beginner Completion Time: 1 hour  Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 In the first three parts of this series, you learned how to prepare static HTML for WordPress and to create a theme by splitting your HTML file into a set of template files and editing the stylesheet.… Continue reading Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML: Adding a Loop – Part 4

QubeAdmin Pro Admin Theme – Ready To Spice Up Your WordPress Admin Area?

Have you ever been bored with the default look of the WordPress admin dashboard and want to change it? You might think that this would need a lot of coding experience (surely it does!), however, are new type of themes built to automate this process start to hit the market. If you work with web… Continue reading QubeAdmin Pro Admin Theme – Ready To Spice Up Your WordPress Admin Area?

The Building Blocks of Designing UX For Kids

Designing for kids is a unique and challenging situation for any UX professional. While many principles and practices span across all ages, there are many issues which arise exclusively when dealing with children. In this introductory article we’ll look at kids and the specific issues that they bring about. We’ll also examine some guidelines, constraints,… Continue reading The Building Blocks of Designing UX For Kids

13 Awesome Minimalist Web Designs

The year 2013 has passed. But it still has left some trends like minimalist web designs. And in the New Year, this is going to be the very popular trend. Minimalist web design is an art & the challenge for designer. Want to know “How”? Find here- with these 13 awesome minimalistic web designs. Minimalist… Continue reading 13 Awesome Minimalist Web Designs