Logo is a graphical element that, together with its logotype (a uniquely set and arranged typeface) form a trademark or commercial brand. Typically, a logo’s design is for immediate recognition. The logo is one aspect of a company’s commercial brand, or economic or academic entity, and its shapes, colors, fonts, and images usually are different from others in a similar… Continue reading Logo Templates: 35 Custom Logo Design Templates
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Qards: Build Beautiful Websites Faster
Building websites is not a full-time job anymore. At least, it could be this way. Thanks to the evolution of technology and the strong desire to obtain quality results as fast as possible, now almost anyone can create beautiful websites. Why Qards could be the tool you need No matter the profile of the clients… Continue reading Qards: Build Beautiful Websites Faster
Posts, Pages and Post Types
In this part of this series on WP_Query, you’ll learn how to use WP_Query to query for posts, pages and custom post types. You can query for specific posts and pages or you can run a query to return posts of one or more post types. A Recap on How Arguments Work in WP_Query Before… Continue reading Posts, Pages and Post Types
WP_Query Arguments: Taxonomies
So far in this series, you’ve learned how WP_Query is structured and what its properties and methods are. Now we’re looking at the various arguments you can use with WP_Query and how you code them. WP_Query has a large number of possible arguments, which makes it extremely flexible. As you can use it to query… Continue reading WP_Query Arguments: Taxonomies
Create “Dark Scientist” Conceptual Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
In this tutorial, we will learn how to create an conceptual surreal photo-manipulation. We are going to learn the process of creating depth of field using a few advance tools. We are going to learn how to blend images so seamlessly that it would look like a single image using the Brush tool, the Eraser… Continue reading Create “Dark Scientist” Conceptual Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
Hummingbird: What It Means For SEO, and What It Does For Google’s Status
Content takes on new meaning with Google’s new algorithm, which is codenamed Hummingbird. In fact, Hummingbird takes into context not just content but how that content is written. As the latest salvo fired by the internet company to stay atop the web browser game, as was the case with previous iterations of algorithms Penguin and… Continue reading Hummingbird: What It Means For SEO, and What It Does For Google’s Status
Animated Border Menus
View demo Download source The other day I saw a really nice concept of a menu on the UI8 site. CreativeDash implemented that gorgeous concept and I instantly had some ideas for more effects involving border transitions but also with the desktop in mind. So today I want to show you how to create something… Continue reading Animated Border Menus
How Content Holds Significant Role in Web Design
There are countless websites in the world. But all are not successful. The main story of success is to follow some guideline for a website which not only acceptable among the audience but need some creativity. Sometime A beautifully designed website can be top of the page and also some content heavy with adaptive design… Continue reading How Content Holds Significant Role in Web Design
55 Fresh Examples Of Creative Single Page Website Designs
Displaying your work in single page design is a hot trend now days. You possibly cannot imagine what designers can do with single pages as modern age designers love to experiment with things and observe how people interact with their work. The best single pages are those that help you convey your message into few… Continue reading 55 Fresh Examples Of Creative Single Page Website Designs
An Introduction to Composition
Composition is about laying out all your ideas and design elements into a whole; composing your design. We’re going to combine all of the previous lessons that we’ve covered, and because of that it makes composition one of those really difficult aspects of designing anything. Creating a good composition will boost the users’ experience… Continue reading An Introduction to Composition
A Look Into CSS Units: Pixels, EM, and Percentage
Unit takes an important role for measuring and building things like a house, a bridge or a tower, and building a website is not an exception. There are a number of methods of measurements used on the Web, specifically in CSS, namely Pixel, EM and Percentage. In this post, we are going to run through… Continue reading A Look Into CSS Units: Pixels, EM, and Percentage
Quick Tip: Add a Progress Bar to Your Site
Since the advent of mobile, web sites are turning more and more into “apps”. Concepts that make sense for a locally running application are transferred to the web. One of these is the recent addition of “progress bars” to some of Google’s websites that show the loading state of the page. In this quick tip,… Continue reading Quick Tip: Add a Progress Bar to Your Site
Adding Space to Your Designs
Let’s get the basic stuff out of the way first. Whitespace isn’t simply a block of space in your design that has to be white. Instead, think of it more like structural “empty” space, where no extra elements, embellishments or other parts to your design are placed. A great example of whitespace – but still… Continue reading Adding Space to Your Designs
Flat UI Pro 1.2 Released
Today, we announce the long-desired release of Flat UI Pro 1.2. The main feature of this release is its support of Bootstrap 3.0, officially issued a few weeks ago. This was a long time coming because of issues and the addition of new elements/code. Thank you for your patience! Here are the most important changes:… Continue reading Flat UI Pro 1.2 Released
Sliding Horizontal Layout
Today we’d like to share an interesting layout with you. You might have seen it already on Skybox or on the website of Lotta Nieminen. It’s a layout where we see the main section in the middle and part of the previous and next section on the sides. The navigation reflects this view by showing… Continue reading Sliding Horizontal Layout
Learn AngularJS With These 5 Practical Examples
By now you’ve probably heard of AngularJS – the exciting open source framework, developed by Google, that changes the way you think about web apps. There has been much written about it, but I have yet to find something that is written for developers who prefer quick and practical examples. This changes today. Below you will… Continue reading Learn AngularJS With These 5 Practical Examples
Using Alignment to Improve Your Designs
Alignment is one of those things that comes hand-in-hand when working with grid systems. The subject of alignment isn’t simply a matter of choosing whether or not you want to align text or images to the left or right of a design (though those decisions obviously still matter), instead, we employ alignment to improve our… Continue reading Using Alignment to Improve Your Designs
Anatomy of a Perfect Sidebar – The Nuances of a Good Design
In the previous part of the series, we’ve gone through the definition and the importance of the “sidebar” element on WordPress blogs and checked out layouts with one, two, three and four sidebars (and no sidebars). In this second part, we’re going to see how to design a sidebar and order the elements – specifically,… Continue reading Anatomy of a Perfect Sidebar – The Nuances of a Good Design
30+ Stunning Joomla Virtuemart Templates
It is more and more common that web developers use solid and mature multi-purpose CMS platforms, such as WordPress, Drupal and Joomla, for building professional and easy to maintain websites, web applications and webshops. These solutions are interesting because they are easy to set up, they make it a breeze to publish content and further you… Continue reading 30+ Stunning Joomla Virtuemart Templates
A Collection of Beautifully Designed Coming Soon Pages
One of the main ideas behind the lean startup principle is that you validate your idea early. If you’ve working on a startup idea, or a new product or a service or app, the idea is that you get something you can show to the world to see what people say. Coming soon pages are… Continue reading A Collection of Beautifully Designed Coming Soon Pages
Dominating Bold Type in Website Design: New Examples
What makes great website design great? Your answer will definitely vary: advanced animations, spectacular captivating photos, uncommon video intros, high-detailed artistic illustrations, flawless execution of popular styles, creative solutions and much more – all these aspects depend on kind and purpose of website itself, but there is undoubtedly one thing that you find in common… Continue reading Dominating Bold Type in Website Design: New Examples
Create a slide-out footer with this neat z-index trick
In this short tutorial, we are going to create an interesting slide-out footer with a bit of CSS. Grab the zip from the download button above, open it in your favorite code editor and read on! The Idea The effect we are after, is to give the impression that the page lifts up to reveal… Continue reading Create a slide-out footer with this neat z-index trick
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