In recent years, screen resolutions are getting both bigger (large monitors) and smaller (in the mobile sense), as such, a static or fixed web layout may no longer be deemed completely viable. Maybe its time to change. Liquid, fluid and elastic layouts, have as many supporters as fixed layouts, despite what ever your feelings are on these styles of layouts, having some knowledge on adapting a site to liquid or elastic would most definitely be a plus in your arsenal. [...]

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. Send us your recommendations for next weeks Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration (for our review), by clicking here: Submit [...]

Typography is the Jan Brady of graphic design – it doesn’t generate the rabid excitement of color nor cooing over flashy images. But typography can’t be ignored – in its basic form it’s what spells out a message, in its true and full form it can be used for optimum readability, impact, or even an artistic statement. Its this full form that elevates it to an art-form. The design community has tons of typography tutorials to help you brush up [...]

Retro(ism) is a cool, cultured and at times humorous representation of pop culture design from the 1930s through to the 1980s. Whereas design trends come and go, retro as a style has remained and will always be “evergreen” (ironic that), and will always be popular with designers due to its distinctive and bold representation of a by gone era. In this article we have collected the best retro and popular cultural Vector resources for your next design project. 1985 – [...]

With all the talk of CSS3 at the moment, its easy to overlook the impact Javascript, especially jQuery, can have on the appearance of the basic web button. As such, we have collected 20 useful CSS buttons techniques that have all been improved and enhanced by the sooper-dooper power of jQuery. You may also like: 20 CSS3 Tutorials and Techniques for Creating Buttons » 24 CSS (in some cases with jQuery) Navigation and Menu Tutorials » 22 CSS Button Styling [...]

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Film poster art in general, is a combination of a carefully selected layout, beautiful typography, imaginative illustration, creative photography and precise color selection. They do not only give you an insight or a glimpse into the film they are promoting, throughout the decades, they allow a keyholes view into the social values, political views and cultural movements of there times. And nothing more epitomizes this than looking at movie posters from the social revolution and design defining time that was [...]

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. Send us your recommendation for next weeks Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration (for our review), by clicking here: Submit [...]

As CSS3 gathers momentum, more and more new techniques and ideas are being published every other day. Each seems to explore exciting never seen before avenues, and ALL push CSSes boundaries ever further away. It really is an exciting time for web design.

Adobe Fireworks’ features and work-flow undeniably make it the industry pioneer and leader for web graphic prototyping and rapid web site building. Even though, with each new version, Adobe have slowly over-loaded it with new features – some of these have proved to be useful and popular, while others have simply been pointless – but at its core it will always remain a marvelously easy to use application for web designers. Despite the odd bug and the odd feature, it [...]

Good color choices should never be taken for granted in web design. A bad color selection or combination can have the same negative effective as poorly layed-out content or can create the same frustration as an excessively slow loading page. So, underestimate the power of color at your own peril. Even with a myriad of colors, the chances of stumbling into good a eye-pleasing color by mixing two or more together are very very slim. To help make a good [...]

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Almost all of the rich web applications that we currently see on the web today rely on a subtle set of UI controls, libraries or frameworks (or toolkits) that not only greatly simplify application development, they also provide a consistent, reliable, and highly interactive User Interface. What more could you ask for? Currently, there are a wide varied range of Web UI frameworks covering varied languages – for today we will focus on Javascript Web UIs. Not all libraries are [...]