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.



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

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.

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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

Showcase Of 50 Best Inspiring Gaming Websites

A great listing of gaming websites. By Gustavs Jurisons

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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

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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

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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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Three Days in Seattle

Dan Cederholm holds forth on the virtues of coffee and CSS3 at An Event Apart.

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.

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

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

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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

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Coding a Band Website Created in Photoshop

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

Best of the Web – December 2009

A great collection of various articles, tutorials and more from 2009. By PSD Tuts+

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

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

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

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Research Logistics

A crash course for designers and stakeholders. By Demetrius Madrigal

Five Simple but Essential Web Usability Tips

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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