Monthly Archive:
April, 2010
April 30, 2010 - 68 CommentsMobile,Photoshop,Popular,Vector
Apple don’t have any comprehensive pre-built GUI resources for app development, making it very hard to match the uniformed style of the iPhone or the iPad. You will need to create your own. To help streamline your iPhone app design and development, we have put together a fairly comprehensive collection of iPhone & iPad GUI [...]
April 28, 2010 - 28 CommentsGraphic Design,Inspiration
There are now only eight weeks left until the kick-off of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. This is the first time the greatest sporting event in the world is being held on the African continent, and promises to be an exciting exploration, of not only football, but of African culture, heritage and art. [...]
April 28, 2010 - 34 CommentsColor,Design Style Series,Inspiration,Web Design
A common misconception is that black is thought of as a color in the same way that red, blue, purple or even green are. In actual fact, black is the complete absence of all color and light, essentially making it the ultimate non-color. And as such, a certain element of caution needs to be taken [...]
April 27, 2010 - 10 CommentsGraphic Design,Inspiration,Tutorial,Twitter News,Web Design
We have slightly re-branded our weekly ‘Twitter’ design news, by simply dropping the Twitter from the title. Its not that we no longer like Twitter, we still love, it is just that we use a multitude of other sources as well, and we are not limited to only sharing via Twitter. Facebook and our Submit [...]
April 26, 2010 - 66 CommentsCSS,Inspiration,Popular,Web Design
With all the cool things that surround Javascript (especially with jQuery) its easy to forget that it’s possible to push pure CSS (with a touch of HTML) into an all singing and all dancing interactive site, with absolutely no scripting at all. The pure CSS techniques, outlined in this article, are neither new nor are [...]
April 23, 2010 - 7 CommentsWeb Design,Weekly Web Design Inspiration
This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week or so, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to comment and let us know what you think.
Ajax,CMS (Content Management),CSS,Javascript,Web Apps,Web Design
For the most part, Flash has always been the standard for showing video on the web (think of YouTube and Vimeo), supported in all browsers with the only exception being the iPhone and most recently, the iPad. But now, with HTML5, the new video tag is creeping into our lives and opening up many new, [...]
April 22, 2010 - 23 CommentsColor,Graphic Design,Web Design
Color is the perceivable characteristic of light; light is energy, so color is a form of energy. In 1666 sir Isaac Newton discovered that sunlight is a mixture of colors by noticing that when a ray of light passes through a prism it is dispersed into its seven constituent colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, [...]
April 21, 2010 - 24 CommentsAjax,Javascript,Tutorial,Web Design
Giving users the ability to interact with your web site is one of the key elements to its success. Allowing users to post a comment or response and socially sharing are two of the basic fundamentals of web interaction, another, maybe less popular, is giving users the quickfire option of grading or rating a post, [...]
April 19, 2010 - 9 CommentsGraphic Design,Tutorial,Twitter News,Web Design
This is our weekly Twitter Design News Round-Up, a collection of fresh design related resources, freebies and good reading articles that we have shared via Twitter and Facebook in the past week. If would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, [...]
April 19, 2010 - 34 CommentsFree Icons,Icon Design,Popular,Web Design
A small but often overlooked aspect of most ecommerce sites designs are the flat and bland payment options icons (Visa, Mastercard, Paypal…). From a usability standpoint the icons do need to be instantly recognized by the user, and you can understand why designers opt to use standard icon designs rather than being a little bit [...]
April 17, 2010 - 6 CommentsInspiration,Web Design,Weekly Web Design Inspiration
This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week or so, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers. Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to comment and let [...]
April 16, 2010 - 47 CommentsCSS,Web Design
CSS3 and HTML5 are two of the coolest things to come along within web design for a very very a long long time. Whats not to love? And the best thing of all? The major browsers are now catching up and giving support. Below you will find a collection of visually basic templates, but with [...]
April 15, 2010 - 51 CommentsWeb Design,Wordpress
Every week dozens upon dozens of new WordPress themes are released, some of these are well designed, without being too original, and disappointingly, most of the others seem to be replicas of existing popular themes or they use tried and tested layout formulas with no use or thought for originality. And sometimes, just sometimes, you [...]
April 14, 2010 - 31 CommentsFree Icons,Graphic Design,Icon Design,Web Design
This is an update on a post we published last year entitled 50 Social Service and Bookmarking Icon Sets for Bloggers, an enormous collection of only the best social icon-sets. Today’s update is no different, all of the icons are fresh, of the highest design quality and, as you will see, completely original and creative. [...]
April 12, 2010 - 8 CommentsGraphic Design,Twitter News,Web Design
This is our weekly Twitter Design News Round-Up, a collection of fresh design related resources, freebies and good reading articles that we have shared via Twitter and Facebook in the past week. If would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, [...]
April 12, 2010 - 40 CommentsMobile,Operating Systems,Web Design
There are almost twice as many mobile phones in the world than there are computers. With that phenomenal thought in mind you can understand why developing mobile apps is so lucrative, its a huge market with its users demanding ever more powerful and functional applications bridging the gap between mobiles and computers.











