Monthly Archive:
April, 2010

iPhone and iPad Development GUI Kits, Stencils and Icons
April 30, 2010 - 68 Comments
Mobile,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 [...]

World Cup 2010 Posters Inspired by African Pattern Heritage and Contemporary Football
April 28, 2010 - 28 Comments
Graphic 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. [...]

50 Examples of Black in Web Design – Black is Beautiful!
April 28, 2010 - 34 Comments
Color,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 [...]

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.34)
April 27, 2010 - 10 Comments
Graphic 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 [...]

30 Pure CSS Alternatives to Javascript
April 26, 2010 - 66 Comments
CSS,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 [...]

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.38
April 23, 2010 - 7 Comments
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 us know what you think.

HTML5 video Libraries, Toolkits and Players
April 23, 2010 - 26 Comments
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, [...]

Understanding and the Meaning of Color Within Design
April 22, 2010 - 23 Comments
Color,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, [...]

15 Javascript Plugins and Tutorials for Adding Ratings
April 21, 2010 - 24 Comments
Ajax,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, [...]

This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.33
April 19, 2010 - 9 Comments
Graphic 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, [...]

15 Uniform Payment Options Icon Sets for Ecommerce Design
April 19, 2010 - 34 Comments
Free 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 [...]

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.37
April 17, 2010 - 6 Comments
Inspiration,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 [...]

15 Useful CSS3 and HTML5 Templates and Frameworks
April 16, 2010 - 47 Comments
CSS,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 [...]

30 Brand New Quality WordPress Themes
April 15, 2010 - 51 Comments
Web 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 [...]

50 Social Bookmarking Icon Sets for Bloggers – Part 2
April 14, 2010 - 31 Comments
Free 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. [...]

This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.32
April 12, 2010 - 8 Comments
Graphic 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, [...]

Mobile Web and App Development Testing and Emulation Tools
April 12, 2010 - 40 Comments
Mobile,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.

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