When considering papercraft, your first thought will most likely be of all that boring stuff you made in school, like paper flowers, printable seasonal cards or even scrap-booking. It doesn’t exactly sound like a hobby…
50 Simplistic, Minimal and Inspirational Fashion Labels
Logos are undoubtedly highly significant to a fashion label, one look at a logo and all of the brand ideals should rush to mind. Interlinking C’s means Chanel, interlocking G’s equates to Gucci and a…
Essential SEO Considerations For A New Website [DOs & DON'Ts]
So you are in the process of designing and developing a website and you want to adhere to the best SEO practices (good idea). There is a plethora of good SEO tips and guides on…
Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.80)
This is our weekly column were we share our favorites design related articles, resources and resources all from the previous week. If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh…
50 Vintage SNES Official Game Artwork
The Super Nintendo was released in Japan during November 1990 later coming to the United States in 1991. The console has seen over 700 game titles released since its birth and brings a lot of…
[Expired] We Have 3 UltimateDesignerToolkit (60,000 Resources) Member Accounts to Giveaway – Comment to Enter
What a fantastic competition we have for you today, you’ll love this. We have 3 Premium Member Accounts from UltimateDesignerToolkit.com to giveaway, which consists of design resources like Photoshop brushes, vector files, PSD layouts, Photoshop…
Quick Tip – The Difference Between Run Time and Compile Time Errors
The First step before delving into the difference between run time and compile time errors is the need to establish a few base concepts. Not every language compiles and actually most of the more popular…
Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.84
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.
10 Essential Web Application Usability Guidelines
Users should be able to simply, quickly, and intuitively use any web app, like with any tool in life, be it a car, phone, or anything else. After all, a useful web app doesn’t do…
Website Speed Part 2: Working With and Optimizing Images for the Web
This is the second part of our website speed series where we closely look at the techniques employed to make a website run as fast as possible while still maintaining it’s stunning look and feel.
Images can make or break a website, whether that be adding a humanist feel to a site, adding animation and mouse over effects or finalizing that amazing design that just can’t be achieved with CSS alone. Yet all these images could cost the biggest price of any website, loss of visiting traffic. If a website takes too long to load or is unusable due to all of the images then it’s game over as the user will quickly go back to Google and search again.
