10 Things Designers Can Learn From Pastry Chefs

So, I have a confession to make. I’m not actually a pastry chef. But I did work in a professional kitchen once upon a time, and baking is one of my favorite hobbies. I just love the awesome sights, sounds, and smells of a kitchen full of baking goods. The brilliant red of cherry pie filling, the magical crackle of pastry crust, the heavenly aroma of cinnamon and pumpkin pie…

[Expired] Competition: We Have 10 Premium WordPress Themes for ThemeFit to Giveaway – Comment to Enter

Another week and yet another fantastic competition for you! This week we have 10 (yep, that really is TEN) premium WordPress themes from Theme Fit to give away. All you have to do is leave a comment telling us which of the two WP themes below is your favorite and why. That is it, easy as that :) This competition will be live for the next seven days (ending on…

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.112

This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think.

Best Premium Joomla Template Providers

Why would I use premium Joomla Templates while tons of free Joomla templates are available out there? You may be one of the people to ask this question. If you notice, most Joomla providers offer both free and commercial templates; however, the number of purchases is greater than the number of free downloads. The reason is that premium templates have many advantages over free ones, i.e. better design and support,…

Sliders in Web Design : 45 Creative Examples

Using slideshows or sliders within a web design is an effective method of highlighting your portfolio, projects, ecommerce products or even key site related messages and information. As the current slider trend dictates, they are typically found above the fold on the homepage. For this article, we have found some high quality, beautifully designed and inspirational examples of sliders. Enjoy :) You might also like… Showcase Of Effective and Creative…

When a CMS becomes Restrictive

I’ve been working with Content Management Systems, both bespoke and open source for over 7 years. In that time a lot has changed as to how flexible and adaptive CMSs can be, but there are still times when a CMS can be restrictive. Each CMS brings with it its own advantages and also its own disadvantages. Having primarily worked in large organisations such as universities, I’ve found that, at times…

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.109)

This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :) If you would like to receive our daily updates you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebookor by subscribing to our RSS feed.

25 jQuery Plugins to help with Responsive Layouts

The most popular topic of discussion at the moment is undoubtedly responsive layouts in web design. Without going discussing too much what you will already know, a responsive layout allows you to offer a specific and optimised screen size based on whatever device (mobile, tablet…) the visitor uses. You would typically use Media Queries to resize the overall layout, but what about all of those individual elements and features that…

[EXPIRED] We have Three Usability Testing Packages ($741 Value) from UserTesting.com to Giveaway – Comment to Enter

What would you test with inexpensive usability testing? UserTesting.com wants to hear the creative ways you’d use their service. You can leave a comment below with your idea, or for extra credit, you can tweet your ideas with @usertesting. We will review all entries (comments and tweets), and award prizes to our 3 favorites. Here are the Three Usability Testing Packages UserTesting.com are offering to the winners: 2nd runner up…

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.111

This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think.

How the Cloud is Affecting Web Designers

By now you must have heard of the buzz labeled as cloud computing. The basics of the cloud are still unknown by many designers, but it’s not difficult. A general cloud setup may contain a large server farm which connects as one central “storage” or “cloud computer” hub. Web hosts have begun offering cloud packages where you only pay for the bandwidth and storage space you use. These businesses have…

Essential Elements of a Design Agency Website Layout (with 30 examples)

Today, I’d like to cover some really crucial tips to constructing a great template for your company. Design labs and agencies either work with set clients or tend to release a few products and maintain support from customers. Thus your website is intended to sell the skills your team can offer designing pixels for the world to use. Let Your Purpose be Known Prospective clients or even visitors browsing your…

Hoverizr – An in depth view of the jQuery plugin

As a web designer, from time to time, you may need to make a grayscale image fade into color on mouse over. So the typical solution would be to have each image desaturated to achieve the grayscale effect in Photoshop. Then, you would have to add a few extra divs and image tags to the markup an then add some jQuery magic to fade the images in and out. Or,…

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