Weekly News for Designers Week 8

New Resources & Tools Bricks.js – A blazing fast masonry layout generator for fixed width elements. Imperfect Buttons – “Hand-Drawn” border effect on buttons with CSS border-radius. 30 Projects in 30 Days to Learn Swift – A self taught project to learn Swift from Allen Wang. Editor Color Schemes – A collection of color schemes… Continue reading Weekly News for Designers Week 8

29 Of The Best Minimalist Icons For Web Design Projects

77 Essential Icons Line icon freebie Weather Icons The Nice and Serious UI Icon Set City Icons Tourism icon pack (free) Icon Set 350 Free Icons 100 Free Icons Random Stuff Iconset vol 3 Free Icon Set LINE ICON SET Meecons 1.0 Mini Material Free iconset Vol1 Freebie Icons set Outdoor Icons Startup – 150… Continue reading 29 Of The Best Minimalist Icons For Web Design Projects

Counting Word Frequency in a File Using Python

Ever wondered about a quick way to tell what some document is focusing on? What is its main topic? Let me give you this simple trick. List the unique words mentioned in the document, and then check how many times each word has been mentioned (frequency). This way would give you an indication of what… Continue reading Counting Word Frequency in a File Using Python

35 Free Magazine Template Designs

If you’re thinking about launching your own magazine but dont have time to design, here are 35 best magazine template designs created using Indesign & Photoshop that have been neatly designed by talented designers. All you have to do is to upload your text, change the font style the way you like it, and you… Continue reading 35 Free Magazine Template Designs

How To Choose Colors For Websites

Color schemes Although I will be criticized for skipping the basics, it is better to skip writing about why RGB is for web and CMYK is for print and other similar notions. Instead, I will jump directly to things that not everyone knows. For example, color schemes. In color theory, a color scheme is the… Continue reading How To Choose Colors For Websites

50 Best Free PSD Mockup Templates

Useful free PSD mockups, design templates to showcase your creative work in modern way. The best 50 Free PSD Mockup templates created by professional designers. All mock-ups are easily edited via smart-object in Photoshop (detailed step by step help is included). Just place your artwork and it will be automatically transformed to a realistic mock-up with all… Continue reading 50 Best Free PSD Mockup Templates

Weekly News for Designers (320) – Material Design CSS, Flexbox Editor, Wordexpress

New Resources & Tools MJML – The only framework that makes responsive-email easy Materialize – A CSS Framework based on Material Design. CSSGram – A tiny library for recreating Instagram filters with CSS filters & blend modes. Plain Email – An app concept for efficient one-touch email processing. Wordexpress – A WordPress project that uses… Continue reading Weekly News for Designers (320) – Material Design CSS, Flexbox Editor, Wordexpress

An Example of AJAX with Vanilla Javascript

Following on from our introduction to AJAX, here’s an example which uses the XMLHttpRequest API to initialize an AJAX request. AJAX Example Have a look at the following basic structure: <div> <img src=”http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/Einstein.jpg” alt=”Einstein”> <button id=”request”>Learn more about Einstein</button> <div id=”bio”></div> </div> Also, consider the related visualization: Here’s what we want to happen: when we… Continue reading An Example of AJAX with Vanilla Javascript

Navigation Inspiration For Mobile User Interfaces – 57 Designs

Statistics concept Yik Yak × Android 2016 Tap Bar Animation Cloud Apps Backup Menu Interface Time tracking app Swiiish app Thumbnail Navigation Pebltree Collaboration on mobile Piart Bright and modern iOS menus Profile Animation Mobile Payment Android Version Social calendar app mobile Music Ink Project: Stats widget Home & Side Menu Screen Porsche Game and… Continue reading Navigation Inspiration For Mobile User Interfaces – 57 Designs

Weekly News iDevie (week 5)

This is our popular weekly design news post where we share our favorite design related articles, resources and freebies from the past week. You can sign-up to our awesome weekly newsletter for some more amazing design articles, resources and freebies. New Resources & Tools voxel.css – A new, lightweight 3D CSS voxel library. Performance Budget… Continue reading Weekly News iDevie (week 5)

Frustrating Points for Web Developers

Web developing is one of the most important steps while developing a website. This particular activity is very tough as there are huge numbers of technologies that are used for the same. The web developer needs to find out the exact type of developing tools that will help to develop some of the best compatible… Continue reading Frustrating Points for Web Developers

250 High Quality Vector Web UI Icons

Vector Web UI Icons Every designer who has spent many hours mocking up web pages, mobile apps or app icons will tell you how important it is to have a reliable set of re-usable, editable and uniform GUI elements that they can rely upon for the initial rapid prototyping stage of any project. What are you waiting… Continue reading 250 High Quality Vector Web UI Icons

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

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

Migrating Your WordPress Database: A Database Primer

When it comes to working with WordPress-based projects, arguably one of the most frustrating or tedious aspects of deployment is actually getting the databases across your environments in-sync with one another. Sure, there’s something to be said for using test data in development, user data in staging, and actual data in production, but there’s no… Continue reading Migrating Your WordPress Database: A Database Primer

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

Inspirational Showcase of iPhone App Website Designs

Websites for iPhone apps are amongst the best for discovering new trends, inspirational designs and clever effects. Their job is simply to promote and describe the purpose of its related app, which leaves the designer plenty of room for experimentation. Today’s web design showcase is a collection of some of the best app websites around,… Continue reading Inspirational Showcase of iPhone App Website Designs

Conceptual Photography: 37 Imaginative Photos

Beautiful photography can touch your heart. The following incredible examples of Conceptual photography showcase of talented photographers who trying to convey a message or concept. Conceptual photography is a type of conceptual art – is a photography genre in which the artist makes a photograph of a concept or illustrates an idea. Usually the conception of the… Continue reading Conceptual Photography: 37 Imaginative Photos

30 Free Colorful Vector Background Graphics

There are some colorful vector background graphic designs out there which are great for design inspiration, and sweet to use on your website background and other graphic design works. Vector Background having a good and suitable color theme on your Vector Design Background will give users a pleasing user experience while surfing through the designed. Colorful vector… Continue reading 30 Free Colorful Vector Background Graphics

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

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

Long Shadow Flat Icon Set by Simon Rahm

Time for another freebie! We recently published a post about the emergence of a new trend called Long Shadow Design. As a follow up to that, this freebie contains a long shadow flat icon set as designed by one of our readers Simon Rahm. Simon, a 16-year old student from Austria, emailed us that he… Continue reading Long Shadow Flat Icon Set by Simon Rahm