My Favourite Illustrators From Creative Market

I guess I should start with saying this is not a sponsored post or anything of that nature, it is simply highlighting some of the insanely cool work of some of the illustrators I came across on Creative Market. Creative Market is a relatively new platform where designers and developers can upload and sell their… Continue reading My Favourite Illustrators From Creative Market

40 Free Fonts for Flat Design

Flat design is one of the hottest web trends of 2013. Even before it was featured in the latest iOS redesign, many designers were already smittened with the simplistic and minimalistic design that is flat design. It is a combination of colors and typography having no use of textures, fancy 3D effects and drop shadows.… Continue reading 40 Free Fonts for Flat Design

15 Cool Infographics For Web Designers and Developers 2013

Today the use of infographic is popular to convert any large and in-depth information and data into graphic visual representations that are easy to understand and much interesting to read. The use of infographics is common today in newspapers, magazines, business presentations, studying statistics, understanding maps, educational fields, etc. to interpret data. But it has… Continue reading 15 Cool Infographics For Web Designers and Developers 2013

Building a Prelaunch “Coming Soon” Site with WordPress

While you might be tempted to keep your site offline prior to its completion, or hold off from creating a web presence until your product or service is ready, it might be a better idea to create a coming soon page to use during your prelaunch phase. Even you if think your site or project… Continue reading Building a Prelaunch “Coming Soon” Site with WordPress

15 Useful and Effective jQuery Lightbox plugins

jQuery is powerful and feature riched JavaScript library with nice event handling system, thus favorite among web designers/developers. Writing and using JavaScript is always a fun with jQuery for developers. jQuery and its plugins have made it possible to make web pages look appealing and user friendly. JQuery Lightbox plugins are used to overlay images… Continue reading 15 Useful and Effective jQuery Lightbox plugins

jQuery Easy Dropdown for Styleable Inputs and Menus

EasyDropDown is a jQuery plugin that effortlessly turns humble elements into styleable drop-down menus for use in forms or general UI/navigation. It’s like Chosen but with only the essential features: clean, semantic markup, form & validation compatibilty, full keyboard control with textual search, inner-scroll for long lists, degradation to native UI on touch devices. Requirements:… Continue reading jQuery Easy Dropdown for Styleable Inputs and Menus

45+ Free GUI Sets For Your Web and App Projects

Free GUI set are in high demand there days. A lot of web designers experience an increasing competition and everyone work hard to become the best of the best. With thousands of skilled designers online it is essential to stand out from the crowd and know how to work smarter than your competitors. Having the… Continue reading 45+ Free GUI Sets For Your Web and App Projects

25 Innovative Resume Designs to Impress your Recruiter

Resume is a comprehensive document where an individual mention his educational qualifications, skills, fortes, experiences and all other information that is relevant to an employer. These are the first point of contact between potential candidates and an employer who is seeking the service of a qualified professional. Therefore, your resume ought to be different from… Continue reading 25 Innovative Resume Designs to Impress your Recruiter

30 New Free Graphic Resources for Web Designers

The Web often surprises us with beautiful and useful free stuff. In the last 2 months, I took on the task of compiling the newest free, high-quality web and UI design resources I could find that feature the latest design trends (flat UI, long shadows, iOS 7, minimalism, etc.). I would like to share my discoveries with… Continue reading 30 New Free Graphic Resources for Web Designers

Create a Sparkling, Glitter Portrait From Stock in Adobe Illustrator

An innocent vector portrait based on a stock image from Photodune became a battleground of sparkles and glitter. As requested, people wanted to see a portrait tutorial which used a lot of glitter! Who was I to not take up such a challenge? In today’s tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a… Continue reading Create a Sparkling, Glitter Portrait From Stock in Adobe Illustrator

20+ Brilliant Premium and Free Adobe Muse Templates

In this post, we have compiled a list of truly brilliant premium and free Adobe Muse templates. If you haven’t already heard it, Adobe Muse is a component of Adobe Creative Cloud that during the first quarter of 2013 gained 479,000 new subscribers. It is becoming an incredibly popular way of building websites and for the… Continue reading 20+ Brilliant Premium and Free Adobe Muse Templates

Detect Browser CSS Support With @supports Rule

Since browsers have their own decision of what features to include, we web developers frequently have to identify if the browser supports particular features, then we fill in the gap using Polyfills (if required). The popular way of handling this kind of situation is by using Modernizr but do you know that we can also… Continue reading Detect Browser CSS Support With @supports Rule

Beginning With WordPress: Editing the Look of Your Site With CSS

This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series Beginning With WordPress So, now that we have a child theme set up we’re ready to get make some changes to the look and feel of our site. What You’ll Need Web browser – I’m using Chrome Text editor – I’m using Text Wrangler FTP… Continue reading Beginning With WordPress: Editing the Look of Your Site With CSS

30+ Websites Offering Free Icon Sets For Download

Free icon sets of high quality can be really useful for busy web designers to speed up the creative process. Icons play an important role in blog- and website design for attracting the attention of visitors to specific content, menu items and so forth. While there are tons of premium icons available for anyone willing… Continue reading 30+ Websites Offering Free Icon Sets For Download

20 New Useful Free PSD Templates for Designers

Designers used to create some new PSD templates for every new design. To save time and see some good example they need some free PSDs to help themselves in their new projects. Today I collect 20 New Useful Free PSD Templates for Designers.   Blueprint Notice PSD Wooden Drawer Icon Minimal Clock Icon Retro Business… Continue reading 20 New Useful Free PSD Templates for Designers

30 Must Have Hot New Fonts

If you are a designer, the fonts you use influence the opinions of your viewers. Choosing the right font for a project is essential. Sometimes you want a font that’s easy to read. Other times you want a font that’s more fun or fancy. However, it doesn’t matter whether you’re a designer or even into… Continue reading 30 Must Have Hot New Fonts

Create a Simple School Teddy Bear in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial we will learn how to create a cute Teddy Bear and some school themed items. We’ll be using basic shapes and the Pathfinder panel, so you don’t need a graphic tablet or advanced drawing skills for making up such character. Let’s dig in! 1. Form the Bear’s Head and Face Step 1 Create… Continue reading Create a Simple School Teddy Bear in Adobe Illustrator

Inspirational Showcase of iPhone App Website Designs

Websites for iPhone apps are amongst the best for discovering new trends, inspirational designs and clever effects. Their job is simply to promote and describe the purpose of its related app, which leaves the designer plenty of room for experimentation. Today’s web design showcase is a collection of some of the best app websites around,… Continue reading Inspirational Showcase of iPhone App Website Designs

Conceptual Photography: 37 Imaginative Photos

Beautiful photography can touch your heart. The following incredible examples of Conceptual photography showcase of talented photographers who trying to convey a message or concept. Conceptual photography is a type of conceptual art – is a photography genre in which the artist makes a photograph of a concept or illustrates an idea. Usually the conception of the… Continue reading Conceptual Photography: 37 Imaginative Photos

20 Vector Tutorials and Free Vector Resources

Illustrator is important software in web design. To create beautiful logo designers need to know illustrator to create logo banners additional graphics. This article 20 Vector Tutorials and Free Vector Resources is useful to all designers.   Vector Tutorials Use Adobe Illustrator to Create a Clean Website Layout Adobe Illustrator Tutorial: Create a Detailed Restaurant… Continue reading 20 Vector Tutorials and Free Vector Resources

Incorporating Subtle Patterns and Minimalism into Web Design

Web design used to be about flashy, bright colors, attention-getters and flash animations that were full of movement and activity designed to be extremely noticeable. Front-end design standards have come a long way since those days, with flash quickly becoming a thing of the past and the professional standard for becoming more sophisticated than it… Continue reading Incorporating Subtle Patterns and Minimalism into Web Design

Choosing a Grid System

In the previous article, I introduced you to grid systems. With any luck, by now, you should have a good understanding of what they are and why they’re a good weapon to have in your design arsenal. Today, I’m going to explain about choosing a grid system – from creating your own, to working with… Continue reading Choosing a Grid System