A Simple Look Into Adaptive and Responsive Web Design

The decision for a developer to use an adaptive or responsive web design is dependent on the intended use of the web page. In a short comparison, an adaptive web design is made to deliver content accommodating to the type of browser enabled. While a responsive web design is designated to fit the original web… Continue reading A Simple Look Into Adaptive and Responsive Web Design

Two-Factor Auth Using Authy

It feels like every day you read about a new security breach on a website, in many cases involving weak passwords. It’s a known fact that users are notoriously lax when it comes to choosing their passwords, so there needs to be a better way of providing secure logins to your site. That’s where two-factor… Continue reading Two-Factor Auth Using Authy

Create a Mysterious Scene with Planets

Preview of Final Results Tutorial Resources Stars – greenaleydis-stock Cosmos Package – resurgere-stock Field – f3rd4-stock People Brush – fiftyfivepixels Trees Silhouettes – kuschelirmel-stock Trees Silhouettes 2 – winerla-stock Bushes – redheadstock Step 1: Creating a new Photoshop file Let’s start off by creating a new Photoshop file. Create a new file with the following… Continue reading Create a Mysterious Scene with Planets

Make HTML5 apps with Sencha, part one

When it comes to creating mobile apps there are a variety of issues to consider, including the plethora of devices, screen sizes and platforms to cater for, plus the number of skillsets needed to target all the major platforms. For example, Apple iOS uses Objective-C, Android uses Java and a bit of C and C++,… Continue reading Make HTML5 apps with Sencha, part one

The Best Place for WordPress Devs to Get Design Work Done

Envato have recently launched a new service, currently in beta, called Microlancer. It’s a place where people can sell their creative services, or get creative work done. What’s Microlancer? The difference between Microlancer and other freelance job sites is that every Microlancer service is sold at a fixed price. Services are also generally smaller jobs… Continue reading The Best Place for WordPress Devs to Get Design Work Done

New Premium Responsive WordPress Themes

Many Premium WordPress themes are created so that they can earn money. A lot more effort goes into designing these themes and also most of the times premium themes use many features and elements that give a great platform to provide content through the web pages for the web owners. Moreover many times Premium web… Continue reading New Premium Responsive WordPress Themes

Creativity Fine-Tuning: Best of Flickr Group – Vol. 81

Welcome to the 81st volume of “Creativity Fine-Tuning: Best of PSD Vault Flickr Group”, which is a showcase I run regularly here on psdvault.com featuring some fantastic, highly-creative design works in the PSD Vault Flickr Group. Hope you enjoy those works as much as I did and find them inspirational! Meanwhile, if you have some cool… Continue reading Creativity Fine-Tuning: Best of Flickr Group – Vol. 81

Design a Roll-up Banner Stand in Photoshop

For many web and digital designs, the designer’s intent is to make the viewer feel like they’re visiting in person. Not every interested customer can physically visit your storefront, conference, event, or sale, so it’s important to invite them and accommodate them online. One way to achieve this is to allude to items they might… Continue reading Design a Roll-up Banner Stand in Photoshop

Web Design Trend Showcase: Big Video Headers

Following on from my recent showcase of websites featuring full screen videos, today’s post looks at the sub-trend of big video headers in web design. HTML5 and jQuery make it easy to add dynamic video content to your site without bogging down the browser with Flash. This means designers can start to play with video… Continue reading Web Design Trend Showcase: Big Video Headers

Create a Simple jQuery Image Lightbox Gallery

When building your own WordPress theme, there are a number of items to consider. One such page element is a dynamic image gallery, either using a lightbox or some type of sliding panel. Both of these user interfaces mesh nicely into the content of an article. Since they can both work on typical websites it… Continue reading Create a Simple jQuery Image Lightbox Gallery

Top HTML5 website builder to make html5 website without coding

Here are the top 5 HTML5 website builders for 2013. The best thing about all of them is that they don’t require any coding skills for the average user to build a HTML5 website.   This will allow anybody to create a website that can be displayed well on different devices, from laptops to mobile phones.… Continue reading Top HTML5 website builder to make html5 website without coding

45+ Flat Web Design Examples For Your Inspiration

Flat web design is a real trend buster right now, and this comes with good reason! Not that long ago the use of 3D effects, textured surfaces, light and gradient effects were trending elements in web design. However, with the changing times so comes new trends within web design. The tendency right now leans towards… Continue reading 45+ Flat Web Design Examples For Your Inspiration

40 brilliant InDesign tutorials

Adobe’s digital publishing platform InDesign has a ton of features which enable you to create everything from stylish brochures to eye-catching posters; newsprint publications to unique screenprint work. Here we’ve rounded up 35 great InDesign tutorials which walk you through a variety of design projects. You’re sure to find something here to stretch your skills… Continue reading 40 brilliant InDesign tutorials

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.193)

If you would like to receive our daily updates and keep up to date with the latest and greatest articles and resources from the design community, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or by subscribing to our RSS feed. Looking Into the Future of Sass by Hugo Giraudel Step-by-Step UX Improvement by Matt… Continue reading Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.193)

5 Things to Never Say to Clients

Pitching to a new client can be challenging for a variety of reasons. Designers must walk a fine line that entails winning the client without compromising their own needs and values. The willingness to do whatever it takes to make the potential client happy seems like a great attitude and a noble, prudent approach, but… Continue reading 5 Things to Never Say to Clients

Build a Mini Image Gallery Slideshow using Galleria

After searching through countless blog posts I have been looking for a really great image gallery slideshow. Something that could be added into WordPress and made as an easy publishing solution. This lead me onto Galleria which is a beautiful open source responsive image slideshow using jQuery. In this tutorial I want to demonstrate how… Continue reading Build a Mini Image Gallery Slideshow using Galleria

Modern UI kit for web designers by Aykut Yılmaz

Aykut Yılmaz has released Modern UI kit for web designers that you can download for free. So, you can design visually interactive and appealing user interfaces with this awesome free kits. This UI kit is available in PSD format for easy modification. They can be used to design and mock-up web, app and software user… Continue reading Modern UI kit for web designers by Aykut Yılmaz