On a recent search for a new typeface for a project I came across the free font called Anke Sans, I really loved it and added it to my collection. I wanted to also bring you some of the other fonts I came across, some of which are both free and not free to download.… Continue reading 15 Stylish Fonts For Your Next Project
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15 Free CSS JQuery Tabs Plugin And Tutorials
CSS jQuery tabs plugin and tutorials helps you to create tabbed navigation and improve usability and browsing experience. Jquery tabs are easy to use. CSS jQuery tabs plugin make helps you to create simply tabbed interface by using simple coding techniques in HTML and CSS using the specific functionality of jQuery, while in tutorials we… Continue reading 15 Free CSS JQuery Tabs Plugin And Tutorials
25 Amazing Icons In PSD Format
Designer Ledger – A web design blog for designers by designers Icons are used in all softwares, websites and user interfaces and they work better in some places instead of words. They look very attractive and give the overall layout a touch of finesse. Their colors and illustrations are very appealing to the users and… Continue reading 25 Amazing Icons In PSD Format
45 Search Box PSD Designs For Free Download
This time we are presenting for you a fresh collection of 45 attractive search box PSD designs that you can download for free, at times, search boxes are overlooked by the visitors because of their simplicity and unappealing designs. If this is the problem you are facing then we will encourage you to take a… Continue reading 45 Search Box PSD Designs For Free Download
4 Tools to Build an Amazing Website
You pride yourself on your ability to code websites by hand, shaking your cane at these upstart web designers who rely on HTML editors and even the dreaded WYSIWYG tools. However, even the best from-scratch developers benefit from some designing tools. You want to work smarter, not harder, and tools can help you get your… Continue reading 4 Tools to Build an Amazing Website
Free Beautiful UI Elements For Your Next Web Application Design
Web app development has gone from strength to strength over the last 5 or so years. From frameworks like Ruby on Rails and Django for Python, it’s never been easier to get into coding web apps. But one thing that’s always been time consuming (at least for me) has been building out the UI. HTML… Continue reading Free Beautiful UI Elements For Your Next Web Application Design
Designer Toolbox: 10 Fresh Fonts For Your Collection
On a recent design project I was on the search for some new fonts to use, I usually bookmark or download my favourite fonts I come across in order to keep my font collection fresh and increase my choices. Today I wanted to share some of the lovely fonts I recently came across, hopefully you… Continue reading Designer Toolbox: 10 Fresh Fonts For Your Collection
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
5 Web Design Mistakes of Small Businesses
It’s happens many times that you have decided to put lots of money and time into building a better web presence for your company. But the final result you see from all efforts and money is no growth in traffic or business from the new website. Before you or your company should launch a new… Continue reading 5 Web Design Mistakes of Small Businesses
Showcase of Fresh iPhone App UI Concept Designs
There’s so many great looking apps in the works it’s difficult to keep track of the amazing concepts designers are constructing. This post showcases over 30 inspiring iPhone app designs from the past few weeks, all of which boast great interface designs for interesting apps currently in the works. There’s a few similarities that could… Continue reading Showcase of Fresh iPhone App UI Concept Designs
A Web Designer’s Typographic Boilerplate
I like to use a typography.css in my projects; a separate file which houses all the basic structural typographic styles I’ll need. A lot of what’s found within it is obvious stuff (heading sizes, for example) but it also contains less obvious things which I don’t want to forget. Let’s work our way through the… Continue reading A Web Designer’s Typographic Boilerplate
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 Design – The Next Step Forward in the Evolution of Web Design
Flat design is nothing but simplicity put into practice. The fact that simple shapes such as rectangles and circles are being preferred over gradients and drop shadows shows that the tide is in favor of simplicity. A case in point is the new design of the Windows Phone and the Windows 8 OS Metro UI… Continue reading Flat Design – The Next Step Forward in the Evolution of Web Design
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
20 Timesaving Web Design UI Freebies
Across Dribbble and Behance designers are creating some awesome UI kits, often providing their UI kits for free download. Today I have put together a pretty awesome collection of free UI kits you can download and use in your next design project. UI kits are a great way to speed up your design process and… Continue reading 20 Timesaving Web Design UI Freebies
20 Absolutely Best Web-Designs For Inspiration
It’s always nice to browse some nice and clean websites coz it is a good way to get inspiration for your next projects and also to see how designers are delivering clean designs. In this post we’ll showcase “20 Absolutely Best Web-Designs For Inspiration” that we make them best in our judgment, have a look… Continue reading 20 Absolutely Best Web-Designs For Inspiration
The Creation Process of “Urbanized” Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the process of creating this “Urbanized” photo manipulation in Photoshop. The concept behind this work is that human is increasing living in a confined urban space and being consumed by the endless expansion of the cities. I used 3 elements in this manipulation to represent the theme “Urbanized”:… Continue reading The Creation Process of “Urbanized” Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
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
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
Logo Design Guidelines
Design a logo and a visual identity goes way beyond the free form and artistic side of what most people think. There is all the rational part including proportions, scaleability optical adjustments and reproduction that has to be thought in order to create an efficient and well design logo. The visual design guidelines will provide… Continue reading Logo Design Guidelines
25 Free User Interface Web Elements
Free PSD web user interface design elements sets to create full websites. These Web User Interface Kits contains hundreds of useful web elements, buttons, icons and much more to create modern style websites. Psd web elements will guide you to design your websites easily in Adobe Photoshop. All web element kits are professionally design by best graphic… Continue reading 25 Free User Interface Web Elements
Adobe Illustrator CS6 Shortcuts Cheat Sheet
Illustrator is a very important tool for designers and creative professionals. And no matter how familiar you are with it, there are always some shortcuts you could learn to be more productive. This is why you will love today’s exclusive Adobe Illustrator CS6 cheat sheet that the good people at ZeroLag have put together for WDL. How to… Continue reading Adobe Illustrator CS6 Shortcuts Cheat Sheet
Create an Awesome Single-Page Website
Not every website needs to be complex or include multiple pages of content and information. Sometimes one page is enough. But just because you are creating a website with only one page, does not mean that it will be easy. Developing a single-page layout can require just as much thought and planning as some more complex… Continue reading Create an Awesome Single-Page Website
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