Design

50+ Cheat Sheets for Building WordPress Themes and Plugins

August 17, 2009 Wordpress

WordPress needs no introduction. It powerful, highly popular and have a huge community providing loads of free and premium themes and plugins. Still you may fell like creating your own themes or plugins could be fun or a way to get the functionality and look and fell you need. It is not that hard to [...]

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25+ Awesome Slider Techniques NEED TO HAVE for any Web Developer

August 13, 2009 Development

Animated sliding effects can if not used wrong or to much add excellent dynamics and uniqueness to websites. They are often seen as components that give access to multiple featured articles in an elegant and very space optimized way. Generally sliding effects are created using CSS and Javascript and typically javascript frameworks like jQuery and [...]

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150+ Duffy & Partners Logo Showcase, 25 Years Design Time-Line and the Designed Life Story

August 12, 2009 Inspiration

In celebration of 25 years of business, Minneapolis based Duffy & Partners (one of the most renown and internationally recognized design firms) has created a gallery showcasing logos from 1984 to the present. The slideshow on the Duffy website (select 25 years in the top left menu). The logos are awesome I believe and it [...]

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60+ Excellent Fresh User Submitted Links

August 6, 2009 Inspiration

Readers at tripwire magazine daily submit links and short descriptions to highly relevant and worth investigating articles. User links are normally JUST PUBLISHED articles and have gone through a check to be relevant for designers and developers. This is a round-ups providing latest user links submitted. See all user submitted links here A great thanks [...]

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35+ Essential Web Design Resources on Best Practice, Tips and Techniques

August 3, 2009 Web Design

I have previously created large lists of tutorials on how to create web designs fx. 160+ Mega Web Design Tutorial Roundup and Essential Web Designers Guide on PSD to HTML/CSS. While articles like these are clearly focussed on the techniques needed for creating the design in fx. Photoshop and make it ready for being sliced [...]

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50+ Top Free Icon Resources and Icon Sets for Web Designers

August 2, 2009 Icons

Images talk a lot more than words do, and as Icons are images specifically designed to deliver a message they are simply great at it. For that reason Icons can be really handsome when you’re designing a web site or a blog and can kick start or support the creative process. There are thousands of [...]

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55+ Designers and Photographers Ultimate Earn Money Online Guide

July 30, 2009 Business

Whether you’re a professional designer, web-developer, photographer or just doing some design work as a hobby you may be able to earn some money by selling your work online. In this article tripwire magazine present with 50 online services that you should check out if you have created unique designs, taken amazing pictures etc. that [...]

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30+ Essential Javascript Framework Supported Navigation Techniques

July 29, 2009 Development

Navigation is key to any web site or blog. Good and user friendly navigation making it easy for your visitors to get around fast is simply one of the most elemental elements of web design and development. It is possible to create user-friendly horizontal or vertical navigation menus using CSS and there are hundreds of [...]

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155+ Mega CSS Roundup of Tools, Tutorials, Cheat Sheets etc.

July 25, 2009 CSS

In this article you will get access to one of the largest collections ever of CSS Tools, Tutorials, Cheat Sheets etc. You may have seen some of these before but here they are all put together CSS is a key part of web design and it is really essential for web designers and developers to [...]

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How safe are Web-safe Font Families really?

July 23, 2009 Design

I recently stumbled on this article 16 Gorgeous Web Safe Fonts To Use With css and I think it is very simple but still a really good overview. I decided to take it a bit further and add a few more elements to the concept, css preview of most used css font families as we [...]

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