
Monday, January 04, 2010
Beautiful Post Thumbnails: Top Examples & Best Practices
Your blog post thumbnail will play a big part in how your users see your website, and how they navigate it. A well designed post thumbnail can really engage your visitors and help encourage them to explore your website.


Labels:
examples,
Graphic Design,
inspiration,
quality
10 Keys to Growth as a Designer
One of the most significant challenges that designers face is the need for continual improvement and development. By Steven Snell
Labels:
clients,
designer tips,
essential fundamentals,
knowledge,
learning
The Best of 2009 in Flash Web Design
Flash design may have started a long time ago in the digital timespan, but it has breached yet another plateau. Now Flash has not only a foot hold, but a serious comeback in the mainstream.
By Paulo P.
By Paulo P.
Labels:
flash,
flash design,
inspired flash creations
Take Your HTML Tables to a New Level with JavaScript Frameworks
With basic HTML tables, the structure and the way the table are presented inherits the native html style. By Pixel Art
Labels:
html,
javascript,
jquery,
tables
CSS Techniques
CSS is the best thing to happen to the web since Tim Berners-Lee. It’s simple, powerful, and easy to use. But even with all its simplicity, it hides some important capabilities. Ask any designer, and they’ll tell you that the majority of their code headaches are caused and ultimately solved by CSS. By Tim Wright and TJ Kelly
Labels:
css,
techniques
30 Fresh AJAX Tutorials And Techniques
Using AJAX on websites and applications is pretty much taken for granted nowadays. Users expect it. By Paul Andrew
Showcase Of Modern Navigation Design Trends
The navigation menu is perhaps a website’s single most important component. Navigation gives you a window onto the website designer’s creative ability to produce a functional yet visually impressive element that’s fundamental to most websites. By Jacob Gube
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Jacob gube,
navigation,
showcases
Three Days in Seattle

The complete schedule for An Event Apart Seattle 2010—including A Day Apart with Jeremy Keith and Dan Cederholm—is now available online for your listening and dancing pleasure.
Labels:
an event apart,
css,
events,
web design,
web standards,
zeldman
Friday, January 01, 2010
10 Quick Tips to be Efficient With Photoshop
10 quick and useful Photoshop tips that will help you during the design process! By Nikola Lazarevic
Labels:
layers,
photoshop,
smart objects,
styles,
techniques,
tips
Adding Depth with Pixel Perfect Line Work
A pixel is a single point in a raster image. Computer displays are capable of showing millions of these at a time. So how can one lone pixel have an impact on a web design? By Henry Jones
Labels:
depth,
design,
pixel,
raster image,
technique
Headers and Footers that Grab You Coming and Going
Headers and footers are always a big concern in web design. These two powerful sections of a website hold great importance and are always something to worry about when designing a page. By Gisele Muller


Labels:
creative,
footers,
headers,
user interface,
web design
Coding a Band Website Created in Photoshop

In Part 1 of this tutorial, you learned step-by-step how to design an awesome band website in Photoshop. Now in Part 2, you’ll learn how to take that PSD and turn it into clean, working XHTML/CSS code. By Shannon Noack
Labels:
coding,
how to,
photoshop,
psd,
step-by-step,
tutorials,
website,
website layout
Best of the Web – December 2009
A great collection of various articles, tutorials and more from 2009. By PSD Tuts+
Labels:
downloads,
font design,
inspiration,
photoshop,
text effects,
tutorials,
typography
Interface Design Inspiration | 30 Impressive Ways to Design Sign-Up Page/Form
In most online business the revenue of the site solely depends on the registered and active users and Making the visitor of your site to sign up isn’t easy, nobody likes to fill in forms. By Dzineblog
Labels:
layout,
user experience,
web design,
web forms
A Discussion on Hourly Rates in Web Design
One of the hardest parts of starting out into full or part time web design is setting fair prices. By Build Internet
Labels:
hourly rates,
web rates
5 Steps to Building Social Experiences
Nowadays everyone wants social in their sites and applications. It’s become a basic requirement in consumer web software and is slowly infiltrating the enterprise as well. So what’s a designer to do when confronted with the requirements to “add social”? By Erin Malone
Labels:
design,
Facebook,
interfaces,
layout,
social,
social experience,
Twitter
Research Logistics
A crash course for designers and stakeholders. By Demetrius Madrigal
Five Simple but Essential Web Usability Tips

The web has become a part of our lives. Folks from all walks of life, from upscale parts of New York to dirt road villages you probably will never hear of in Burundi, are all a part of what we call "the internet". By Brujo Owoh
Labels:
consistent,
layout,
organization,
structure,
usability,
user interface,
web design
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