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
Most Popular and Favorite Blogger Templates
Blogging, for many, is life. And when you are talking about life, you are talking about the way your life shows off to the general public. Your style, likes, dislikes, your favorites, least favorites everything that you do speaks “you”. So when we are putting blogging in the line with life, we see how blogging… Continue reading Most Popular and Favorite Blogger Templates
20 Best Free WordPress Themes
Holiday season is here and this year will come soon to an end. Web designers released a bunch of great, high quality, free WordPress themes last year, and we collected the best 20 to showcase in this post. Here are 20 Best Free WordPress Themes that we want to share with you now. Which ones are… Continue reading 20 Best Free WordPress Themes
45 Stunning Calendar Icon Sets For Free Download
As we all know that a unique icon set is the most essential component of any web or graphic design, and this is the reason why designers pay special attention when it comes to icon selection. Here, we are showcasing 45 stunning and amazing Calendar icon sets for your inspiration. These Calendar icon sets will… Continue reading 45 Stunning Calendar Icon Sets For Free Download
A New Era For Professional Web Designers, by Webydo
Webydo is a great example of online software as a service, a cloud-based service for delivering software functionality. In this case, the platform is a combination of a professional website design and hosting platform, with all of the software features presented via browser. The websites are created and hosted with Webydo resources. Sites on free… Continue reading A New Era For Professional Web Designers, by Webydo
Free PSD Template: Flat One Page Website
This week’s Freebie is a Free PSD Template: Flat One Page Website based on the Flat Design trend. Colorful Flat One Page is a multi-purpose website template, excellent for use with the popular Twitter Bootstrap, making it form the base of a creative Portfolio or Business Website Template. Designed by the team at Bloom Web… Continue reading Free PSD Template: Flat One Page Website
How To Create a Comic Style Text Effect in Illustrator
In today’s Illustrator tutorial we’re going to create a comic book inspired text effect your favourite superhero would be proud of. Learn how to create a basic 3D effect using the Blend tool and produce cool halftone patterns to give the design that retro screen printed appearance. These two techniques alone are crucial additions to… Continue reading How To Create a Comic Style Text Effect in Illustrator
Animating Personal Skill Bars With CSS3 Keyframes
This design technique is commonly found on personal portfolios or design studio websites. Skill bars represent a level of knowledge related to certain tasks – web design, illustration, branding, character design, you name it! Adding some fancy animations to these skill bars will provide a quicker connection to the viewer. In this tutorial I want… Continue reading Animating Personal Skill Bars With CSS3 Keyframes
Adding Localization to Tumblr Themes
In this episode of Tumblr Theming 101 we’ll complete the CSS for our video post type, which will involve using some principles from Fitvids.js. We’ll also look at adding localized theme strings, for multilingual support. Localization (Amongst Other Things) Alternatively, Download the video, or subscribe to Webdesigntuts+ screencasts via YouTube Useful Links Fitvids.js Fitvids.js… Continue reading Adding Localization to Tumblr Themes
15 Free CSS JQuery Tabs Plugin And Tutorials
CSS jQuery tabs plugin and tutorials helps you to create tabbed navigation and improve usability and browsing experience. Jquery tabs are easy to use. CSS jQuery tabs plugin make helps you to create simply tabbed interface by using simple coding techniques in HTML and CSS using the specific functionality of jQuery, while in tutorials we… Continue reading 15 Free CSS JQuery Tabs Plugin And Tutorials
Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML: Uploading Your Theme to WordPress – Part 3
Tutorial Details Software: WordPress Difficulty: Beginner Completion Time: 1 hour Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 In the first two parts of this series, you learned how to prepare static HTML for WordPress and to split your HTML file into a set of template files. You now have the beginnings of a theme,… Continue reading Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML: Uploading Your Theme to WordPress – Part 3