Popular design news of the week: November 21, 2016 – November 27, 2016

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers.  The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however,… Continue reading Popular design news of the week: November 21, 2016 – November 27, 2016

Every Designer Should Know Dieter Rams’ Design Principles

Dieter Rams’ design motto, “Weniger, aber besser” (“Less, but better”), has inspired many industrial designers in the past 50 years. Among them is Jonathan “Jony” Ive, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Design, who gave the world the simplistic yet refined designs of Macs, iPods, iPads, and iPhones. Rams believed that understanding people is the key… Continue reading Every Designer Should Know Dieter Rams’ Design Principles

Clemo: A free PSD template for companies

Clemo is a free website template for companies and agencies featured by a unique and modern style. The package includes 10 hi-res pages based on 1170px Bootstrap grids. Free PSD designed and released by Illia Nesterov. Download freebie Posted on April 4, 2016 in Free PSD, Website templates and tagged agency, templates, websites.

Create A Little Easter Egg in Your Website with Dom-Animator

Web developer is not boring, sometimes we like to sneak in some funny comment, interesting variable names, hidden features or hidden images some where in the website, hopefully someone will notice it and have a good laugh. Here we have a nifty Javascript library called Dom-Animator. You can use it to show small ascii animations… Continue reading Create A Little Easter Egg in Your Website with Dom-Animator

Illustrating the Web: deconstructing the trend

Illustrations are taking over the Web. Designers are creating websites with everything from full-screen illustrations to hand-drawn divots that are used throughout projects. It’s a trend that’s likely to keep growing because illustrations make a design feel custom (even if it’s not). Here’s how to make the most of them in your design. Website illustration… Continue reading Illustrating the Web: deconstructing the trend

Enfold – Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme – 4519990

Enfold is a clean, super flexible and fully responsive WordPress Theme (try resizing your browser), suited for business websites, shop websites, and users who want to showcase their work on a neat portfolio site. The Theme is built on top of the fabulous Avia Framework and offers support for the WPML MULTI LANGUAGE plugin, just… Continue reading Enfold – Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme – 4519990

15 New HTML5 Web Templates (PSD & HTML)

Modern HTML5 website templates are completely responsive coded with HTML5, CSS3 and Bootstrap by the professional team with significant experience in web development. Responsive HTML5 templates are perfect for landing pages with multi-pages and onepage options. All web templates are easy to customize and hundreds of icons can be added dynamically and also by utilizing shortcodes. These website templates are suits for… Continue reading 15 New HTML5 Web Templates (PSD & HTML)

Prep Your Website for the Holidays With These Awesome Design Elements

With the winter holidays being just around the corner, every webmaster should consider prepping up his website for the big days. Sprinkling a touch of festive beauty is an essential part of boosting the user experience. Creating an appealing website which speaks to the audience through visual elements is a tough job when you’re working… Continue reading Prep Your Website for the Holidays With These Awesome Design Elements

Beyond Responsive for a True Mobile Friendly Website

Responsive web design has earned itself a spot in the collection of most widely used web related buzz-words joining the ranks of Web 2.0, animated GIF, flat design and skeuomorphism. Its prevalence in the world of web design is due to its popularity as the top choice for creating mobile ready websites as shown by… Continue reading Beyond Responsive for a True Mobile Friendly Website

25 Light Website Designs Which Make Perfect Use of White Space

Any web designer will tell you that white space is extremely important in order to have a beautiful, clean and user-friendly website design. That is why we selected today 25 light website designs which make perfect use of white space. Analyze these light website designs, see how white space is used in order to enhance… Continue reading 25 Light Website Designs Which Make Perfect Use of White Space

20 Minimalist PSD Website Templates

Minimal design is all about white space and creating breathing room to let minimal content really shine and give the user’s eyes a place to rest. So here are 20 minimalist PSD website templates that remove all unnecessary design elements to create something usable without clutter. IDILI Halcyon Days Website PSD Square Free Landing page… Continue reading 20 Minimalist PSD Website Templates

A Useful Guide To Designing Website Footers

In order for any website to be truly successful, there are many different aspects that need to be considered and put into motion. For instance, aspects such as visual design, the consistency of your brand, and overall usability are all things that can determine whether or not a user is truly happy with your website.… Continue reading A Useful Guide To Designing Website Footers

Free Download : Clean One Page Website Template (PSD)

This is a one page PSD template designed by Mike Taylor.The template is clean and elegant and perfectly suits for business companies, corporate agencies, building company, restaurant, medicine, real-estate, freelancers, mobile app, organizations, online shop, personal portfolio, creative minds, blogging and for landing pages as well. Download

UX Tips for Mastering Your Next Website Redesign

Businesses can change a lot in just a couple of years. 24 months ago, mobile represented about 10% of all internet traffic. Today, it’s jumped to 25%, and Google has rolled out ranking changes that prioritize mobile optimized websites on search engine result pages. Buyers have changed, as well. Today’s website visitor expects a different… Continue reading UX Tips for Mastering Your Next Website Redesign

15 New Responsive HTML5 CSS3 Website Templates

Creative HTML5 templates for any business or portfolio website. Unique and responsive HTML5 templates are perfect for landing page with great typography. All web templates are easy to customize and hundreds of icons can be added dynamically and by using shortcodes. These website templates are suits for business websites, Photo Studio, Freelancers, Portfolio Theme, Personal, Restaurant, Medicine,… Continue reading 15 New Responsive HTML5 CSS3 Website Templates

Using Color Theory to Improve Website Accessibility

There are tons of articles and guides about color theory and its importance for every web designer. Colors are really essential in design and may even influence people’s behavior in many cases. Thus, web designers usually check their website colors are suitable for the overall website style and that they create a good impression for… Continue reading Using Color Theory to Improve Website Accessibility

Custom Grid Design for Structured Website Mockups

The best print and digital designers are those who can master the use of grids. In many cases it’s possible to forego the grid, but you’ll generally create higher-quality work if you learn the rules of grid structure and composition. Grid design is one of the most important components for structuring layouts. Websites use grids… Continue reading Custom Grid Design for Structured Website Mockups

Awful Website Navigation Mistakes You Should Avoid

A website’s navigation is one of the most important elements in a site’s design. Visitors need to use navigation to make their way through the website and find the information that they are looking for quickly. If the navigation is confusing or if it trips up the user in any way, you run the risk… Continue reading Awful Website Navigation Mistakes You Should Avoid

Subtle and Transparent Gorgeous Website Designs with Gradients

Gradients, welcome back. Although it seemed that they had gone forever and without a trace, as practice shows, history always repeats itself, and material design, flat style and iOS8 inspired patterns have prepared the fertile ground for it. As a result, one cannot but agree that there is a rise in popularity in this direction.… Continue reading Subtle and Transparent Gorgeous Website Designs with Gradients

Accessibility for Modern Responsive Website Layouts

The older methods of web design have fallen by the wayside to make room for HTML5/CSS3 design. Unfortunately when you’ve become ingrained with older design techniques it can be difficult to extricate yourself from the outdated workflow. But modern usability centers around responsive design and requires more attention to detail. The following design tips are… Continue reading Accessibility for Modern Responsive Website Layouts

10 High-Quality PSD Website Templates Free to Download

You can start your website using a free and quality website template. Today we collect some pre-designed and fully customizable free high quality PSD website template. You can edit colors, fonts, background, images and anything you want to change. So just check out the license / terms and conditions of each website template before download… Continue reading 10 High-Quality PSD Website Templates Free to Download