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BEM: The Block, Element, Modifier Approach To Decoupling HTML And CSS
When you decouple your html and css you develop sites that are more scalable and maintainable. The Block, Element, Modifier approach to writing code leads to decoupling through greater reuse of css code that is less dependent on your html structure.
Parallax Scrolling and Its Usage in Web Design
The parallax effect, also called parallax scrolling, is a special technique used in computer graphics at first, where background images move by the camera slower than foreground images.
Context and Making Your Audience Smile
Every audience has particular desires and influences, and no single solution can meet everyone’s needs. Understanding context is the key to creating meaningful connections. It’s a designer’s and clients best opportunity to ensure their audience smiles wide and proud.
Design a Unique Wooden Face with Fiery Eye and Tear in Photoshop
In this Photoshop tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to Design a Unique Wooden Face with Fiery Eye and Tear in Photoshop. This is an intermediate level tutorial so some steps can be tricky, but why not have a try!
20 Pure Websites with Clean White Backgrounds
Whenever we start work designing a website one of the first things we always do is throw a bunch of colours and textures onto the canvas, but sometimes a design will benefit from the clean and crisp appearance of a pure white background. This showcase rounds up 20 minimal website designs that prove that sometimes less is more.
Photography and Digital Art by Oleg Dou
Oleg Dou is a young and very talented photographer and digital artist born in Moscow, Russia. If you didn’t have the chance to see his works before, starting with Adobe Photoshop CS6 you’ll see it very often, because one of his artwork become an icon for this new version.
How To Display Author Bio With WordPress
In this tutorial we are going to learn how easy this is to do in WordPress and how we can customise the default WordPress Author info to provide even more information about WordPress Authors.
Onepage Design Showcase April 2012
Onepage designs are a great way to share your informations. This Showcase shows you a lot of awsome onepage designs to help you getting inspired.
Logo Design Showcase April 2012
You like great logo designs? Then you will definetly love this little showcase of awsome Logo Designs for your daily inspiration.
Illustrated Webdesigns – A Showcase
Illustrated Webdesigns in a small Showcase for your daily inspiration. Check them out and get inspired from this awsome illustrated webdesigns in this showcase.
Yellow Webdesign Showcase #April 2012
Yellow is not a good colour for a design? Sorry but you are so wrong. This Showcase shows you great yellow Webdesigns.
Freebie – Responsive HTML5/CSS3 Template
Our team likes to experiment and sometimes we come up with some really useful stuff. This template is a good example. You can use it absolutely free of charge.
Create Catchy Blog Post Titles for Maximum Readership
You must put in a very strong content in your articles for readers to read it however; some writers do not give heading and titles the importance they deserved. Remember it is the titles which will grab the attention of the reader who is scanning your website. The words you use in headings and titles should be very eye catching and it should develop the interest of the user. Headings and titles will make your article stand from the crowd.
How To Add Touch Event To Your JQuery UI?
The current jQuery UI is designed to listen to the mouse events not touch events and you may need to spend some times to work on the codes, to enable touch events works and suit your needs.
But here is a good news for every web designers and developers, we don’t need to done all these by our own hands anymore. Currently, there is a hack called “jQuery UI Touch Punch” that enables the use of touch events on mobile web project using jQuery UI Library.
The Phenomena of Usability Testing (Part 2) How to Conduct an Effective UT Process
Usability testing might not be considered a necessity in previous decades but with the passage of time it has definitely become an essential in web designing. Usability testing basically helps the web master in receiving proper feedback from the visitors of the website and if something is causing a problem to the visitors, it can be detected before things go out of hand. Usability testing is a great way to improve a website as per visitor’s opinion. Usability testing should be a part of pre and post website development. These sessions are very important to get the most out of your website.