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DRY CSS: Don’t Repeat Your CSS
Repetitive code is wasteful an inefficient. Following the 3 simple steps of DRY (don’t repeat yourself) CSS leads to code that maintains a separation of structure and presentation and avoids issues of specificity.
Tilt Shift Effect made easy in Photoshop: Making things look like miniature figures
This is a specialized feature in rendering photographs that make certain objects in the image look like they were miniature figures or objects. These images are perfect for catalog printing, sometimes brochure printing or even your blog.
WordPress Query Arguements
The WordPress WP_Query functions allows you to pass in an array of parameters to search your posts on your blog.
You can pass in multiple different parameters to narrow down the posts to get exactly what you need.
But with this massive flexibility you can get confused as to what you can exactly query on.
Here is a list of parameters you can send to WP_Query to get the blog posts you need.
Minimalistic Mini Social Media Icons
A minimalistic social media mini icon set. A great free simple icon set perfect to be used within minimalistic website designs. The icon sets can be used in commercial and non commercial design projects to be used within your designs as you please.
Study of Font Styles and Best Uses for Each
The world of typography can be daunting, to say the least. For a few dollars, you can download 10,000+ fonts in just a few minutes and tens of thousands are available for free if you are willing to sort through them all. Not only are there a plethora of font famillies but there are also the font styles within each family. So, really, the question isn’t whether or not you can get a specific font – it’s where to begin!
Designing & Building a WordPress Theme: My Step by Step Process
Over the last few months I have been building a lot of themes for public release so have had to get my theme building process together into some sort of system. This has helped me build each theme quicker than the last and I now have a process for the future …
40 Free Image Slider PSD Web Element
Today I’ve chosen 40 more Free Image Slider PSD Web Element!
Image slider is become the most noticeable elements of web design today not only for portfolio websites, A slider can make your gallery more attractive, besides that slider is also great for showing off your favorite or popular posts, website navigation and images or compacting a product feature tour. These free PSD image slider are high-res psd file, All layers are separated, so it’s pretty easy to change shapes, colors and text.
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Navigation Design Pattern: Springboard / Dashboard
Springboard / Dashboard is one of the common mobile app design patterns that used to provide the overview of your app content to your user. Usually, you can see this navigaton patterns right after a splash screen of app. It consists of several categories, and the categories are represented by an icon and a title that allow you to find content easily and quick access to the interested content.
Pandora UI for iOS – User Interface Pack
Create a pack of elements for mobile interfaces. Pandora UI is mostly oriented towards iPhone (+iPhone 4s) and iPad (+iPad 3) and supports Retina Resolutions.
Two Types of Graphic Design Clients
As a graphic designer, I believe the best clients are willing to ask for help. The worst are those that say “I know what I want” because they provide no opportunity.
Using HTML5 localStorage on a form
HTML5 localStorage provides us with the ability to store named key/value pairs locally within a users browser, this means that the data stored in localStorage is still there even after a user has closed the browser, deleted their cookies or turned off their machine/device.
The Least Appropriate Fonts in Web Design
Fonts are a surprisingly tricky aspect of web design. This seemingly small choice has the power to make or break your website when it comes to giving off an aura of professionalism and quality. Unfortunately, many web designers fall victim to using popular fonts that have overstayed their welcome in the world of design.
Useful Links for Learning CSS @Keyframes Animation
We started seeing experimentation and articles about CSS3 @keyframes animation in 2011, but back then support was limited to webkit browsers. As of mid 2011 Firefox 5 gained support, and we can expect the next incarnation of Internet Explorer (10) to also show support, so now is the perfect time to get to grips with the @keyframes syntax. This post rounds up 10 articles that explain how to use this cool CSS3 feature, each with examples and demos.
Sass And LESS: An Introduction To CSS Preprocessors
What are css processors? How do they work? Why would want to use one and which might you choose? This post will answer these questions and then shows sample code in both Sass and LESS along with the resulting css.
Learn HTML & CSS in One Easy to Use Guide
A Beginners Guide to HTML & CSS is a simple and comprehensive guide dedicated to helping beginners learn HTML and CSS. Outlining the fundamentals, this guide works through all common elements of front-end design and development.