Monthly Archive:
June, 2010
June 30, 2010 - 40 CommentsWeb Design,Wordpress,Wordpress Plugins
No web design trend has become as wide-spread and as popular recently as the content slider, they are everywhere! And rightly so, not only do they offer a marvelous method for displaying a lot of content in such a minimal space, they are also a great way to highlight your best and most popular articles [...]
June 30, 2010 - 9 CommentsDarn Good Read,Web Design
The internet is global by its very nature. The second a website is launched online, it’s accessible to anyone from Patagonia to Poland. And a recent development to the way the Web works has been described as one of the most significant changes since the dawn of the modern internet era.
June 29, 2010 - 44 CommentsCompetition,Graphic Design
For this months book giveaway we have a copy of The Story of Graphic Design, written by Patrick Cramsie, a beautifully written and detailed book that focuses on the evolution of graphic styles through the years. This book is a must for any professional and serious graphic designer. All you have to do to win [...]
June 28, 2010 - 4 CommentsGraphic Design,Tutorial,Web Apps,Web Design
This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all from the previous week. If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or even by subscribing to our [...]
June 27, 2010 - 36 CommentsCSS,Color,Design Style Series,Illustrator,Photography,Showcase,Web Apps,Web Design
Over the past year or so we have periodically published web design collections and inspirational showcases from the most popular and important design categories. In total there are 14 different and varied categories or styles and within each category there are 50 carefully chosen web designs (that is a total of 700 web designs). We [...]
June 26, 2010 - 3 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 this selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to comment and let [...]
June 24, 2010 - 6 CommentsTop 10,Web Design
Paper prototyping is a commonly used low cost usability method for testing and evaluating web designs and applications. This method lets developers conduct tests before a single line of code has been written, and allows you to identify and fix any potential issues early on in development. “Paper prototyping is a variation of usability testing [...]
June 23, 2010 - 10 CommentsJoomla,Web Design
The era of Open-Source CMS software such as Joomla! and mass adoption by large and small businesses alike. More and more business are moving to Joomla! for its low associated cost and access to many powerful extensions. One such Joomla! extension is Projectfork, a free Open-Source project management solution.
June 22, 2010 - 30 CommentsAjax,CSS,Javascript,Web Design
Lets be honest, forms can be a pain in the ass to fill in. And for developers? There an even bigger pain in the ass to build. No one really likes them, as such, the most difficult challenges that a developer has to take on, when it comes to forms, is not only how to [...]
June 22, 2010 - One CommentGraphic Design,Inspiration,Javascript,Web Design
This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all from the previous week. If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or even by subscribing to our [...]
June 20, 2010 - 25 CommentsFree Icons,Icon Design,Web Design
When choosing an icon-set for your web design or application, you not only need to find a set that perfectly conveys complex functions in a simple and visually appealing way, they also need to meet a certain unifying criteria, relaying to the user that the icons are related to each other in some way. Its [...]
June 18, 2010 - 11 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 this selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to comment and let [...]
June 18, 2010 - 33 CommentsWeb Design
Think of your favorite song. In all likelihood the sound rises and falls throughout, the pace quickens and slows, and the rhythm and melody lead you to hear chords and notes that are about to be played. Music has a flow that guides you from one moment to the next. This flow can impart different emotions and have you feeling different things at different parts of the song.
In fact, without that flow, there is no music.
Free Icons,Top 10,Web Design
Finding the perfect icon for any design project can be very difficult, especially when you have to to sift through the thousands upon thousands off icon-sets that are freely available. Not only will this waste you a huge amount of productive time, actually finding the icon you need is pretty darn close to being impossible.
June 17, 2010 - 2 CommentsGraphic Design,Inspiration,Web Apps,Web Design
This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all from the previous week. If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or even by subscribing to our [...]
June 16, 2010 - 55 CommentsPopular,Web Design,Wordpress,Wordpress Plugins
There is not much left that you can not do with WordPress. With every new update it becomes ever more powerful and there are a multitude of plugins and themes that can unleash its full potential that leaves its rival CMSes in its wake. And nothing more epitomizes its power, versatility and ease of use [...]
June 15, 2010 - 13 CommentsInspiration,Web Apps,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 this selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to comment and let [...]











