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14 print inspired websites

For years, I’ve continuously read how print is a dying industry and how print designers are in danger. It’s hard to argue, when many big name newspapers and magazines of the past see more readership online than in print. It’s even harder when many of these magazines and newspapers cease printing altogether to go full-blown… Continue reading 14 print inspired websites

50+ Great Resources for Finding Design Freebies

No matter what kind of task you have or problem you need to solve, it is often a bad strategy to start from scratch. In the design space, it is a common approach to look for ideas and inspiration and to collect a sizeable toolbox of design elements to kick start a project and test… Continue reading 50+ Great Resources for Finding Design Freebies

10 Useful Resources of HTML5 and CSS3 Generators

HTML5 and CSS3 are two great languages to code a website. Here in this article I provide some great resources of tools which generate the HTML5 and CSS3 code smoothly and you can learn a lot from these resources.   CSS3.me CSS3 Gradient Generator CSS3 Previews CSS3 Maker CSS3 Cheat Sheet (PDF) CSS3 Color Names… Continue reading 10 Useful Resources of HTML5 and CSS3 Generators

10 Best of HTML5 Tools for Web Designers

Want to build a website without needing to write any code? We select the 10 best website builders to choose from. Looking for a website builder? There are a multitude to choose from, so which is the best? Well, for a start, you’ll be looking for a website builder that can create your website in… Continue reading 10 Best of HTML5 Tools for Web Designers

Cloud Apps For Designers

Great web design is about efficiency, team work and communication. Whether you?re part of a tiny startup or a major conglomeration, you?re sure to have deadlines, clients and a market to work with. Cloud apps are great tools when it comes to keeping on top of things: your designs, feedback, communication with clients, even your… Continue reading Cloud Apps For Designers

Type & Grids: Free Responsive HTML5 Template

Today, we are pleased to introduce Type & Grids, a free responsive HTML5 template by Jeremiah Shoaf. It looks great on all devices, including desktops, laptops, tablets and phones. All of the content resides in a single HTML file, so setting it up is super-simple. Its extensive customization options set Type & Grids apart from other templates… Continue reading Type & Grids: Free Responsive HTML5 Template

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

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