Monthly Archive:
August, 2010

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.53)

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 RSS feed.

50 Refreshing CSS Tutorials, Techniques and Resources

In this CSS (2 & 3) round-up article we have focused on highlighting as many varied techniques covering as many aspects of web, mobile and application development as possible. And believe me, it wasn’t easy! Due to CSS3s current popularity, the volume of new tutorials and fresh ideas has jumped skywards. We simply could not highlight all of the articles and tutorials, there were far too many! What we have done is filtered the round-up down to our favorite 50 [...]

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.56

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 us know what you think. For The Record Icelab · A design studio in Canberra CARBO Mooze Design Spring: Supporting Local Biodiversity design mind Deconstruction [...]

The Best Free to use Posterous Themes

Don't mistake Posterous as another micro-blogging service, it is much, much bigger than that. There are no limits to what you can do with it and there are seemingly no limits to what you can post to it – photos (auto resizing), audio files and links, documents and video (auto conversion)… You could use it as a simple blog, or as a day-to-day "lifestreaming" service that can automatically post to other popular social media services such as Flickr, Twitter and [...]

Typography as Art

Typography is one of the cornerstones of good graphic design. Selecting and manipulating typefaces is an art unto itself. Therefore it’s no surprise that classic typography regularly makes its way into famous paintings and sculptures. Below are some inspirational images of typography used in the fine arts to help give you a fresh point of view on typographic possibilities in future projects. (All images are copyright of the artists.) Sometimes I Think Sometimes I Don’t This sculpture is called “Sometimes [...]

[Expired] Wix Competition: Win One of Three $150 Premium Unlimited Plans
August 25, 2010 - 129 Comments.
Web Design

Please note this competition has now ended, to view the winning information click here: Competition Today we have great pleasure in offering our readers the chance to win one of three Premium Unlimited Plans, worth $150 each, from our friends Wix. We do have a lot of love for Wix, they were our first long term sponsor and do hope that our readers will show there appreciation by entering this competition and supporting Wix. About Wix Wix is a free [...]

20 Web Dev Events, 20 Beautifully Crafted Web Designs

The initial idea for this article was to highlight all web design related events and conferences up until the end of 2010. As the article evolved, the primary focus and direction changed – no longer were we only highlighting some important and essential conferences, we soon realized we were privy to some truly inspirational and highly original examples of beautiful web design. And that is exactly what you will find: 20 Web Dev Events, 20 Beautifully Crafted Web Designs. At [...]

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.52)

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 RSS feed.

50 Awesome New jQuery Plugins

The jQuery community never ever fails to let you down. Its constantly evolving, constantly improving and, thankfully, constantly releasing a tidal wave of fresh and powerful freely available plugins for every possible requirement. Today we round-up the best and most powerful jQuery plugins from the last few months. You will find a comprehensive selection of the always popular sliders, image galleries, navigation solutions and form validity options. But this round-up has much more. Much, much more. jQuery Mobile jQuery Mobile [...]

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.55

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 us know what you think. Dynamic Realty DigiGlass George Badea David Hellmann CARBON Cassius Virb AyerViernes Kiluka Crafty 2010 Matt Imus Yaili You might like… [...]

Google Docs Templates for Web Designers and Developers

“> If I am honest, I don’t really know how popular Google Docs is within the freelance community, but I have found that I have been using it a lot more recently. To the extent that I seem to have more documents stored online that I do on my hard drive and its one of the first places I go to when I start work in the morning. I don’t use it solely for drafts of posts and articles, but [...]

30 Creative and Inspiring Golf Logos
August 19, 2010 - 27 Comments.
Inspiration, Logo

Sport logos are fantastic to work with – some of the world’s greatest brands are sport-related (think Nike, Adidas, ESPN and Everlast). Golf is a popular sport with wealthy and successful people – as such, golf businesses (such as golf clubs, golf courses and golf websites) can be extremely lucrative. With such a savvy client base, the marketing, branding and (of course) logos of these businesses needs to be sophisticated (as well as sporty). You may also like… Inspiring Collection [...]

10 MooTools Image and Content Sliders
August 19, 2010 - 15 Comments.
Ajax, CSS, Javascript, Web Design

With CSS3 stealing all of the design headlines recently, and with jQuery as popular as it is, it is very easy to forget about any other image and content slider/gallery options you may have. And as such, in this post, we take a look at the best of what MooTools can offer. As you will see, the results are pretty impressive. This is our weekly section were we highlight the Top 10 resources from any given field from within the [...]