Design

30 Essential Tools for Web Designers

July 1, 2009

For designers nothing can be more handy than effective and time saving tools supporting their creative process. Of cause dependant on the specific needs free web-based tools can significantly help you accomplish tasks such as color selecting, color palette, creating own and unique fonts, editing images, and testing typography. In this article tripwire magazine presents [...]

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20+ CSS Data Visualization Techniques

June 25, 2009

In this article you will find more than 20 unique and worth knowing CSS Data Visualization Techniques. The techniques show in this article reallt takes CSS to a new level and even if you’re not going to visualize data you may get inspired from investigating them.

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40 Must Have Cheat Sheets for effective Web Designers

June 25, 2009

As a follwoup on the article 40+ Essential Front End Web Developer Cheat Sheets it is now time to deliver a similar package to Web Designers. Creating Web Designs isn’t easy at all as it is first of all a creative process. To get the creative process started it may be a good idea to [...]

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35+ Logo Inspiration With Clever Use Of Symbols

June 13, 2009

Quality logos encompass companies branding identity into one tiny graphic and in some cases vision and strategy is contained as well. That is why Logos are so important and inspirational to investigate. Good designers put significant effort into creating logos and it is an iterative process where multiple design ideas are created and presented. Good [...]

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25+ Extensive List of Essential Pop-up Window enhancements

June 10, 2009

This article provides an extensive list Essential Pop-up Window enhancements that any web developer should be aware of. The article will mainly but not only focus on lightbox pop-up style solutions that have become incredibly popular. Did you ever wonder who invented the lightbox pop-up technique? I think I tracked down the source of the [...]

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Using Photoshop Styles to create awesome web2.0 effects in no time

June 9, 2009

What is a Photoshop Style? A Style in Photoshop or Layer Style, is a range of layer settings and options. So when you choose to add to a shape, could be some text, for example a drop shadow, a gradient and some stroke, you have effectively created a new Style. If you create a really [...]

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9 Stunning must have Nature Wallpaper resources

June 9, 2009

Beautiful images of remarkable nature landscapes or spectacular plants can make most people fell happy and allow some to be lost in their own thoughts dreaming to be there and fell the air, the smell of the flowers etc. Having these images waiting to be admired on the desktop behind all your windows where work [...]

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60+ Really awesome Typography Showcases

June 7, 2009

There are indeed many ways in which designers can use typography to deliver a message or a specific emotion. The fonts used and the way the text is organized can be turned into a art work itself and as you will see below it is only the fantasy and imagination of each designer that defines [...]

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16 Crucial Webdesign and Usability Best Practice Compilations and Tools

June 4, 2009

In this article I have compiled a list of what I currently think is the best guidance you get on Do’s and Don’ts for Web Design and Usability. Some state that content is King and it is to some extent right. On the other hand good content presented in a really bad way will be [...]

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26 Essential CSS Submit Button Enhancements

June 3, 2009

Typically a press on a web page button indicates that a user is making a decision of some kind. Buttons are for that reason very important elements and they need to be well integrated with the overall design, easy to spot and use. Styling of buttons is typically achieved using CSS and graphic elements but [...]