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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

8 Tips For Promoting Your Dev Skills

Many front-end developers possess the creative and technical skills that clients are looking for, but don’t get noticed because they don’t have much exposure or reputation to demonstrate to potential clients. Some carry the idea that their area of work is in such high demand that clients will simply come to them – but this… Continue reading 8 Tips For Promoting Your Dev Skills

Sketching and Your Design Workflow

Once you’ve finished working with your content – great news! You get to start thinking about the actual design. But not so fast – don’t jump onto a computer straight away. If you talk to designers, most of them will tell you that it’s a massive part of their workflow to firstly sketch out any… Continue reading Sketching and Your Design Workflow

Hey, Event Apps: Why So Serious?

Over the past several years event apps have been soaring in popularity, and it’s easy to understand why. The event details you need are accessible on the go and not reliant on a WiFi connection. Plus, these apps make event organizers’ lives easier by making it easy to manage event logistics and monitor and report… Continue reading Hey, Event Apps: Why So Serious?

Interactivity Is King

There is no way to deny that fact static pages just don’t cut it anymore. With every company combining social media profiles with their standard websites, designers are discovering more and more that creating a successful site means embracing interactivity. Internet users view countless websites each day, so as a brand you need to figure… Continue reading Interactivity Is King

Top 30 Recent Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Have you ever used the Illustrator tool by Adobe? If yes, there is some real great news on for you. Adobe Illustrator has come up with some real amazing tutorials that you must go through this year. They are specially meant for the new version of Adobe and, gauging some new Illustrator talent on board.… Continue reading Top 30 Recent Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Learn Something You Didn’t Know Today

I’ve been working with print media for a long time. Understand that I’m not a designer, but as an editor who’s worked closely with designers in the past, I have a decent working knowledge of using InDesign — enough to get me in trouble, but not enough to layout a magazine. The other day, I… Continue reading Learn Something You Didn’t Know Today

20 High Quality Website Templates For Free Download

Templates are great source to learn and allow a great insight into a certain effect or style. For a designer, developer, photographer or any other business the website of their own is the best place to showcase their skills and services. Thanks to many kind and generous designers / developers, high quality web templates are… Continue reading 20 High Quality Website Templates For Free Download

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)

55+ Twitter Bootstrap Templates – Want a Future Proof Website?

Bootstrap templates are responsive website themes build upon the highly popular framework called Twitter Bootstrap. These templates have won a lot of popularity and for a good reason. Aside from providing unique add-on features, these templates retain the native functionality of Bootstrap.

How to Work More Efficiently With MiniBridge

Sooner or later, you are bound to have a lot of design files stored on your computer. Managing these files is an essential task that you will have to perform, otherwise, you will have trouble finding your files at a later date. While the Finder and Windows Explorer are great for managing your files, they… Continue reading How to Work More Efficiently With MiniBridge

10 Powerful Responsive Lightboxes

Lightbox has always been one of the great method to display images without having to refresh a page. Nowadays, with the booming of responsive websites, lightboxes also have evolved to adapt nicely with the trendy responsive layout. Here we have 10 responsive lightboxes. Its modal window resizes itself to fit into the window viewport. We… Continue reading 10 Powerful Responsive Lightboxes

10 Awesome Responsive Websites for Your Inspiration

The Benefit There are also several good benefits of using a responsive design website layout, below are some of them: Responsive design is SEO-friendly You’ll have a single URL for all content, this would mean faster load times which will enhance SEO efforts. Furthermore, Google and Bing endorse responsive design according to this article. It’s… Continue reading 10 Awesome Responsive Websites for Your Inspiration

20 Great Tools For Testing Your Website’s Usability

A site’s usability determines its effectiveness. If it loses the battle for usability, it won’t be able to attract a high amount of website traffic and suffer from increasing abandonment rates. In the cut throat world of the internet, such websites have no reason to be online. This is why designers must focus on building… Continue reading 20 Great Tools For Testing Your Website’s Usability

35+ Powerful Admin Panel Templates – Want Full Control?

In this post, you will find an admin panel template collection. It is composed of more than 35 useful admin panel templates that have lots of powerful features. Some of them have advanced visualizations and great charts while others are Ajax loading and have error pages that are fully customizable. Other features that you should… Continue reading 35+ Powerful Admin Panel Templates – Want Full Control?

25 Free Professional PSD Web Templates

Free PSD templates are very helpful for designers, developers, bloggers and anyone who wants to make a website. Normally web designers create Photoshop PSD website templates as the first step before start coding HTML and CSS to create a web page. Here we have gathered 25 hand picked premium quality website PSD templates for free… Continue reading 25 Free Professional PSD Web Templates

30+ Web Design Gallery Websites – Looking For Inspiration?

Web design gallery websites provide developers and designers creative inspiration for their own projects. By collecting the best web designs all over the internet, such websites serve as a key spot for fresh creative ideas. In This post, I have featured more than 40 examples of web design gallery websites that you can use for… Continue reading 30+ Web Design Gallery Websites – Looking For Inspiration?

35+ Incredible Photoshop Metal Brush Sets

For graphic designers having a large variety of brushes, such as Photoshop metal brushes, in the toolbox is a must! Though Photoshop comes with a set of basic brushes, most users need to extend the range of brushes in order to use Photoshop professionally and do great stuff faster. In order to be able to… Continue reading 35+ Incredible Photoshop Metal Brush Sets

45+ Websites with Floating and Fixed Position Navigation Designs

Great looking and user-friendly navigation is one of the most important aspects to get right in web design. Web designers have invented many different ideas to help users find what they are looking as efficiently as possible. Still the most used approach is one or two drop down menus placed at the top of the… Continue reading 45+ Websites with Floating and Fixed Position Navigation Designs

10 great web tutorials on pixel perfect design

Below you’ll find bet 10 tutorials on pixel perfect design available on the web.   Pixel perfect design is something of a lost art, you know. Mostly because it’s an incredibly laborious and long work; it’s a technique that requires dedication, effort and an almost obsessive level of attention to detail and not many designers… Continue reading 10 great web tutorials on pixel perfect design