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Guidelines for Building Touch-Supported Website Layouts

It should come as no surprise that people love to pass the time in waiting rooms by fiddling on their smartphones. These little devices have become a technological gateway to a library of applications and a sprawling metropolis of websites. This means a whole lot of people are visiting websites on the smallest screen imaginable… Continue reading Guidelines for Building Touch-Supported Website Layouts

Create Free and Trendy Icon Sets with FreeIconMaker

While designing a website or a web application, you can’t deny the importance of web design tools that help to simplify your tasks and complete your project on time. FreeIconMaker.com is the first free online icon maker that allows you to create your own templates and share them with others. In this article we will… Continue reading Create Free and Trendy Icon Sets with FreeIconMaker

20 Must Have Tools For Creating And Maintaining Your Website

As a web developer or designer nowadays can be both stressful and rewarding. Rewarding because your services are some of the most sought after ones in the current market and stressed because the expectations of your clients seem to increase with each passing day. It’s clear that we no longer need plain, functional websites, but… Continue reading 20 Must Have Tools For Creating And Maintaining Your Website

Use Geometry As Your Key Tool for Building a Website

Today you could hardly ever be successful online, if your website is not unique, trendy, and interesting. Year after year, new trends appear, designers find new elements to use in order to turn common things into astonishing art pieces. Now we are talking about geometry use in contemporary website design field. Grids and columns are… Continue reading Use Geometry As Your Key Tool for Building a Website

10+ Tips for Using Pinterest to Drive More Traffic and Exposure to Your Website

There are all kinds of social networks and websites where you can get involved, gain exposure for your work, and even send traffic back to your website or blog. Probably the most difficult part is deciding which social networks justify the time and effort, and managing to use those networks effectively without being tied to… Continue reading 10+ Tips for Using Pinterest to Drive More Traffic and Exposure to Your Website

Are You Making These 14 Common HTML5 Mistakes

HTML5, the latest standard for HTML and a candidate recommendation of the W3C, was definitely a blessing for web developers. It has not only allowed them to make their markup more search engine friendly, but also helped them get cut off on HTTP requests and create a better user experience. Despite all HTML5 has to… Continue reading Are You Making These 14 Common HTML5 Mistakes

The Problems With Flat Design and How to Solve Them

Flat design has made a huge name in the designing world by completely taking over the graphic design in a short period of time. The biggest interface to go flat was Windows 8 but, it was also left behind when Apple released its iOS 7 in summer 2013. With the launch of Apple’s iOS 7,… Continue reading The Problems With Flat Design and How to Solve Them

Tips for Getting a Web Design from Illustrator into the Browser

Scenario: someone hands you an Illustrator document with their latest web layout and it’s your job to convert it into working HTML and CSS. Let’s take a look how you can do that. Note: The aim of this tutorial is not to perfectly recreate the design for web use. Instead, we’re going to use it… Continue reading Tips for Getting a Web Design from Illustrator into the Browser

How to hyperlink in Photoshop

As we all know, hyperlink is that which links image/text to another place either in the same document or different document or address. It’s pretty useful when you want to show more information. Follow the steps provided in this tutorial to create hyperlinks in Photoshop. Steps to hyperlink in Photoshop: 1. First of all, open… Continue reading How to hyperlink in Photoshop

How to Easily Use Google Fonts in WordPress

The CSS3 @font-face rule and services like Google Fonts have really opened up the doors for people to be more creative with web typography. Google Fonts has over 630 fonts available to choose from, and in this article, I’m going to show you an extremely easy way to use them in your WordPress site –… Continue reading How to Easily Use Google Fonts in WordPress

How to Effectively Validate a WordPress Website

Validation is undoubtedly one of the most important aspects of good web design. And in a content management system like WordPress, you need to be careful about your HTML & CSS both in your theme and your content. In this tutorial, we’re going to talk about validating a WordPress website. Why Validate a Website? Or,… Continue reading How to Effectively Validate a WordPress Website

Rapid Prototyping for Web Design: Basic Tips and Resources

If you’ve never heard about rapid prototyping it can be defined by the two individual terms. “Rapid” means a speedy action taking place over a short period of time, and a prototype is typically the first model of a project. This process requires fast iterations of design to implement features, test how they work, and… Continue reading Rapid Prototyping for Web Design: Basic Tips and Resources

Quick Tip: Converting Photoshop Files to Code With Project Parfait

Project Parfait is a new tool from Adobe, currently in beta, which lets you open up any PSD directly in the browser to extract CSS, text and image assets from it. At the moment it only works on Chrome but Adobe plan to roll it out across all browsers as development moves on. Drag &… Continue reading Quick Tip: Converting Photoshop Files to Code With Project Parfait

The Art of Designing User Driven Websites

If you’re a woman, you probably know that when you go shopping to the mall, you have to enter every store at least once until you actually decide to buy something. If you’re a man, you probably never do this, unless, of course, you’re acompanying a woman. So, in this case, imagine how great it… Continue reading The Art of Designing User Driven Websites

Latest Text Effect Photoshop Tutorials (17 Tuts)

An another fresh collection of Text effect Adobe Photoshop tutorials. These amazing tutorials help to design awesome 2D and 3D text effects with basic and advance techniques. These tutorials giving your typography illustration a fresh touch with traditional and digital media, mixing patterns and textures to give your work outstanding spark. You can use illustrated lettering… Continue reading Latest Text Effect Photoshop Tutorials (17 Tuts)

20 Professional HTML Admin Templates

If you’re a web developer, then you must have created at least once some HTML admin templates for your clients. To make things a lot easier for you and to save you some precious time, we searched the web for some ready-made HTML admin templates for you to use in your next projects. These are all… Continue reading 20 Professional HTML Admin Templates

20 Best Online Courses Websites for Web Designers and Developers

If you want to learn everything about web design and web developing, then these best online courses websites are a great choice! Sure, you can start by following free tutorials online or reading how-to articles, but this can take a while and you may not get the results you are looking for. Online courses websites… Continue reading 20 Best Online Courses Websites for Web Designers and Developers

How Wearable Technology Will Impact Web Design

Remember how wearing a calculator watch back in the day made you feel like George Jetson or his boy Elroy? Technology has come a long way from spelling out naughty words (upside down) on your calculator. These days, you can make calls, record videos, check your health, and buy coffee from your smartwatch–and that’s just… Continue reading How Wearable Technology Will Impact Web Design

What Should New & Inexperienced Designers Be Learning?

Today I’m speaking to those just getting started in design. Maybe you just graduated from design school, or you’ve read through all the fundamental lessons offered here and on other design blogs, and you feel you’re ready to start taking on clients. Or maybe you have a couple of projects under your belt and you’re… Continue reading What Should New & Inexperienced Designers Be Learning?

What Makes The Perfect Blog Post [Infographic]

Webmasters and bloggers alike are always trying to improve their blogging. Each post has to be perfect before they publish it. It has to have the right amount of nice looking images, a certain number of links to back up your sources, and it has to be engaging to your audience. We do this so… Continue reading What Makes The Perfect Blog Post [Infographic]

5 Great Examples of Minimal Websites

Minimalism is a design style that emphasizes simplicity and the removal of surplus elements in a design, stripping it down to its basic elements, colors, shapes and textures. This style was overlooked in the early dot com days of the internet, but it has now become very popular in website design. The fundamentals of minimal design in… Continue reading 5 Great Examples of Minimal Websites

Prelaunch Checklist: 10 Things To Do Before Launching your WordPress Site

  Once you have your new site or theme finished, content has been checked and everything is good to go, there are a few more steps you should take to really get your site ready for visitors. I have launched many WordPress sites over the years and have a pre-launch checklist of various steps and… Continue reading Prelaunch Checklist: 10 Things To Do Before Launching your WordPress Site

11 Inspiring Typography Focused Web Designs

We all know that typography is a very important element of a good design. And even though we love layouts with beautiful images, it’s always inspiring to see some minimalist type-based sites, like the ones we will show here today. The designs we have here show that type is not only an important element but… Continue reading 11 Inspiring Typography Focused Web Designs