10 Useful Tips For Debugging and Troubleshooting in Programming

With a shiny new file open in the text editor and not a line of code written, every new project seems full of possibility and promise. Several thousands of lines of code later, that same project can seem weighed down by bugs that make adding new features a pain, and drain the enthusiasm of programmers.… Continue reading 10 Useful Tips For Debugging and Troubleshooting in Programming

10 Ways Of Giving Your Website The Retro Look

A few days ago, I was watching the The Artist, a 2011 movie shot in the style of a black and white silent film, which got a lot of critical acclaim and won seven Oscars. While the movie deserved all the accolades it received, one of the reasons for its popularity was that it took people… Continue reading 10 Ways Of Giving Your Website The Retro Look

10 Advanced Photoshop Tutorials for Lighting Effects

There is an open area in Photoshop to experiment with some amazing effects. You can play with any image in Photoshop creating some Lighting Effects which can be used in your upcoming print or web design. This article provides some Advanced Photoshop Tutorials for Lighting Effects.   Advanced Glow Effects Show me the light –… Continue reading 10 Advanced Photoshop Tutorials for Lighting Effects

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

Featherweight UI – A free, vector based and retina ready UI kit for web designers

has released Featherweight UI – A free, vector based and retina ready UI kit for web designers. Every element is vector based, retina ready and distributed through layers. Text and colours are easily editable. This kit is completely free for use for personal or commercial projects. The font used is Lato Normal, available from Google Web Fonts for online… Continue reading Featherweight UI – A free, vector based and retina ready UI kit for web designers

Free Download: Flattastic UI kit

Give your flat design a boost with this Flattastic UI kit, designed by Vlade Dimovski, free to download and simple to use. The PSD is properly layered, with intuitive naming, making modifying it for your own projects a synch. The design features four pairs of complimentary colors perfect for any flat design: bittersweet, which is #FC6E51 and… Continue reading Free Download: Flattastic UI kit

How To Create a Set of Vector Weather Line Icons

Stroked line icons really complement a flat interface style with their minimal and basic appearance. Let’s take a look at building a set of stylised vector icons of our own. We’ll base them on the weather to allow us to create a set of consistently styled icons that would be a perfect match for a… Continue reading How To Create a Set of Vector Weather Line Icons

Tutorial: How To Build Input Fields with Tag-Style Item Blocks

Many newer social media communities and web applications are pushing the boundaries of interface design. Form inputs have changed a lot over just the past 4-5 years. One such feature is the tag select input field, where users can enter tags which appear as block items within the field itself. For this tutorial I want… Continue reading Tutorial: How To Build Input Fields with Tag-Style Item Blocks

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

Applying Categories, Tags and Custom Taxonomies to Media Attachments

Have you ever been frustrated by the fact that WordPress doesn’t let you assign categories or tags to your images or uploaded media?  Imagine how useful it could be: you could create dynamic galleries of images from specific places or of specific types (landscapes, abstracts etc.), or you could create listings pages for sites with… Continue reading Applying Categories, Tags and Custom Taxonomies to Media Attachments

6 Free Customizable Retro/Vintage Logos & Emblems

Quickly and easily create yourself a retro/vintage style logo with these 6 free customisable insignias. Open up the file, edit the text and you instantly have a trendy emblem for some fun branding or cool apparel merchandise. Every one of these logos/emblems has been constructed in Photoshop to allow for full customisation. All the text… Continue reading 6 Free Customizable Retro/Vintage Logos & Emblems

20+ New FREE WordPress Themes from August 2013

For this monthly installment, we are going to showcase more than 20+ new free WordPress themes that were released in July 2013. As developers continue to take up the challenge of creating brand new themes for WordPress, we gathered the best and newest among them and presented them in one convenient post that you can… Continue reading 20+ New FREE WordPress Themes from August 2013

45+ Flat Web Design Examples For Your Inspiration

Flat web design is a real trend buster right now, and this comes with good reason! Not that long ago the use of 3D effects, textured surfaces, light and gradient effects were trending elements in web design. However, with the changing times so comes new trends within web design. The tendency right now leans towards… Continue reading 45+ Flat Web Design Examples For Your Inspiration

Design & Code – free PSD theme by Diogo Dantas

Diogo Dantas has released Design & Code – free PSD theme, simple, minimal and clean that can be used as personal / startup portfolio. Features: – Multipurpose Template – Flat Design – 3 Colors Available – Full Layered – 5 Pages – 960 Grid System based Preview Download Diogo Dantas

30 Movie fonts you can download for Free

Fonts are one of the main elements in creating a good web design. Creative, clear and bold fonts are required for capturing the attention of the viewers and engage the clients with it. Fonts play a vital role in conveying different messages. The font styles that have become extremely popular among the designers are the… Continue reading 30 Movie fonts you can download for Free

Dashes, Quotes and Ligatures: Typographic Best Practices

Typography has become a hot topic, often used referring illustrative typography or custom lettering. At its core, however, typography is simply the skill of setting type. Several centuries ago, this meant composing every paragraph by hand, character by character, before locking it into a form and printing it on a letterpress machine. For much of… Continue reading Dashes, Quotes and Ligatures: Typographic Best Practices

60 SEO Services Icons

SimpleIcon has released 60 SEO Services Icons, this set contains 60 SEO Services icons that can be used for designing and developing websites, as well as printed materials and presentations. Features: – Available in: EPS, AI, SVG – 3 Different Styles – Fully editable – Easy to change colors and adjustable to any size Preview… Continue reading 60 SEO Services Icons

The Future of User Interfaces

We are web designers and developers. As obvious as our work is (we build interactive media applications) there’s a deeper meaning to what we do. We analyze design problems and explore different concepts to solve them. This also means that we think of the communication between a device and the user. We develop that communication.… Continue reading The Future of User Interfaces

20 Useful CSS Snippets Which Can Help You A Lot

CSS is extremely used when it comes to web development because it helps creating a lot of things with ease. Using CSS means that you will not only be able to create a great web site but it also means that you can optimize it very well. If you combine it with HTML5 and jQuery… Continue reading 20 Useful CSS Snippets Which Can Help You A Lot