12 Unique Freebie Graphics for Web Designers

New PSD and AI vector graphics are released online every day. Freebies have become a tremendous market themselves, gathering support from designers and developers alike. There are many freebie directories but it can be tough finding exactly what you need. In this article I would like to share a small collection of freebies which are… Continue reading 12 Unique Freebie Graphics for Web Designers

Beginning With WordPress: First Steps With Your New Website

Well… would you look at at that… a whole new WordPress site! Clever you! Have you logged in yet? If so, you might be sitting looking at the Dashboard wondering what the heck you do next…  so, let me help you with that! (Failing that you’re wondering what on earth a Dashboard is, that’s ok,… Continue reading Beginning With WordPress: First Steps With Your New Website

30 Free WordPress Themes

WordPress is a very popular blogging platform and many people choose to host blogs on it. This comes as no surprise since WordPress is a free platform and also very easy to comprehend. Even beginners can create a blog with a beautiful design and get the traffic they are hoping for if they take a… Continue reading 30 Free WordPress Themes

10 Useful Tips For Debugging and Troubleshooting in Programming

With a shiny new file open in the text editor and not a line of code written, every new project seems full of possibility and promise. Several thousands of lines of code later, that same project can seem weighed down by bugs that make adding new features a pain, and drain the enthusiasm of programmers.… Continue reading 10 Useful Tips For Debugging and Troubleshooting in Programming

Responsive Design / Retina Ready WordPress Themes

Responsive and Multipurpose WordPress themes with modern design are very flexible for all devices. Premium themes are more easily to customize with immense possibilities. All themes are 100% responsive, each element, shortcode, slider and fully responsive, you can disable/enable responsive mode from the theme options. Multi-purpose responsive design themes are best suited for magazine websites, blog websites, and users who want to showcase their work on a… Continue reading Responsive Design / Retina Ready WordPress Themes

Ornamental Nature – Websites featuring Handwritten Fonts

Hand drawn typography is no longer associated with doodles in average school workbook; it has firmly entrenched in print, graphic and web designs. Among all variety of adorned fonts that give opportunity not only represent content in the best light, but also play as a decorative tool – it is definitely undisputed leader. Unlike most of… Continue reading Ornamental Nature – Websites featuring Handwritten Fonts

CSS3 Menu Tutorial : Cool Bouncing Effects

In this tutorial I will show you how to create CSS3 menu with bouncing effect. In thisCSS3 menu tutorial we will use keyframes to apply bouncing effect on menu. With thekeyframes rule, you can create animation. During animation you can change the style as much as you want. As you know how important is menu navigation on… Continue reading CSS3 Menu Tutorial : Cool Bouncing Effects

A Journey Through Beautiful Typography In Web Design

First impressions are lasting impressions. Whether you realize it or not, your typography helps to create an experience for users before they’ve even read a word or clicked a button. Typography has the potential to go beyond merely telling a story — it shows the user who is behind the website and what you’re about. The treatment… Continue reading A Journey Through Beautiful Typography In Web Design

Applying Categories, Tags and Custom Taxonomies to Media Attachments

Have you ever been frustrated by the fact that WordPress doesn’t let you assign categories or tags to your images or uploaded media?  Imagine how useful it could be: you could create dynamic galleries of images from specific places or of specific types (landscapes, abstracts etc.), or you could create listings pages for sites with… Continue reading Applying Categories, Tags and Custom Taxonomies to Media Attachments

Perspective App Screen Mock-Up 5

A new perspective mobile app screen mockup with a transparent glass feeling reminiscent of iOS7 and its contextual screen visuals. Use the smart layer to show the different levels of your app UI.

Designing a Website Around Your Products

Branded website design is ultimately centered around two things: product and audience. Meaning, the site’s design needs to effectively showcase products in a way that will resonate with the target audience. Once a designer identifies where a brand’s product and audience meet, the visual problem-solving process becomes streamlined and simplified, and the site’s design becomes… Continue reading Designing a Website Around Your Products

12 signs that you’re a trendy designer

As designers part of our job is keeping up to date with what’s happening in the industry, one aspect of which involves keeping an eye on the latest trends. Although it should be noted that ‘keeping an eye on’ and ‘being part of’ are two very different things. The popularity of things like Dribbble rebounds just… Continue reading 12 signs that you’re a trendy designer

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

How to Design a Website for Worldwide Users

Want to take full advantage of the worldwide aspect of the web? It all begins with web design. The choices you make here can make or break your efforts to reach global markets. Aim to build in internationalization right from the get-go. It will save many a battle with multilingual content further down the line. Keep the… Continue reading How to Design a Website for Worldwide Users

Cardinal: A Small & Mobile First CSS Framework

Cardinal is a small, “mobile first” CSS framework with some useful default styles, scalable typography, reusable modules, and a simple responsive grid system. Cardinal provides a new approach to scaling web typography and layout across multiple devices. It places little emphasis on pixel-precision, but does not restrict its usage. Instead, Cardinal leverages modular scale, unit-less… Continue reading Cardinal: A Small & Mobile First CSS Framework

15+ Creative WordPress Themes For Photographers Released June 2013

In this article, we are going to show you more than 15 new WordPress themes for photographers that were released in June 2013. I have written about fresh WordPress themes earlier and in this post I decided to focus on theme designs for photography websites. If you are a photographer, artist or a creative person… Continue reading 15+ Creative WordPress Themes For Photographers Released June 2013

Roundup of Recent Free Fonts (+10 Premium)

Design is not only about grids and colors, it is also a lot about typography. A typeface can make or break a website or a poster, therefore we believe that finding the right fonts for your website is crucial.The times of Arial, Georgia or Helvetica might be closed to pass. In the past years designers… Continue reading Roundup of Recent Free Fonts (+10 Premium)

How To Compare Strings In PHP

During any sort of programming you will always get situations where you need to compare values with each other, if the values are boolean or integers then the comparison is simple. But if you want to compare strings or parts of strings then there can be more to the comparison such as case of the string you are comparing.

How to use the Gestalt principle in your web design projects

Web designers are constantly looking for new ways of improving their projects and therefore they are introducing in their works elements from mathematics, marketing, photography, psychology, and the list may continue. As far as psychology is concerned, the Gestalt principle is widely known among web designers since it relates so good to the field of… Continue reading How to use the Gestalt principle in your web design projects

Responsive Retina-Ready Menu

Today we will create a colorful Retina-ready and responsive menu inspired by the colors of the Maliwan manufacturer of the Borderlands game. The menu automatically changes to one of three different layouts depending on the browser window size: a “desktop” inline version, a two columns tablet-optimized version and a mobile version with a menu link to… Continue reading Responsive Retina-Ready Menu