15 Free Slider & Carousel jQuery Plugins

15 Free Slider & Carousel jQuery Plugins

These slideshow & carousel jQuery plugins are simple to implement with just a few lines of code. Some plugins also use CSS transitions and animations.

Bringing the Curtain Effect to Your Website with These Snippets

Bringing the Curtain Effect to Your Website with These Snippets

The curtain effect will not make your design pop or amaze users, but certainly can engage visitors, smarten the design, and enrich the user experience.

8 Beautifully Illustrated Onboarding Screens in Mobile Design

8 Beautifully Illustrated Onboarding Screens in Mobile Design

To understand the value of your application and enjoy its features, modern web programs need to have an onboarding process. It is not just a whim. It is a crucial…

18 Free jQuery Image Gallery & Lightbox Plugins

18 Free jQuery Image Gallery & Lightbox Plugins

We highlight the best free jQuery plugins that will allow you to quickly and easily build a lightweight and feature-rich image gallery.

Clicking Around: The Use of Circular Mouse Cursors

Clicking Around: The Use of Circular Mouse Cursors

Just recently, we discussed a tiny trend in mouse cursors, exploring a dozen examples of lonely but eye-catching effects. Today it has come under the spotlight again, this time with…

A Showcase of Websites That Have Been Inspired by Wireframes

A Showcase of Websites That Have Been Inspired by Wireframes

This inspiring gallery takes a look at those beautifully designed web design interfaces that have been inspired by wireframe or a digital blueprint’s ideology.

How to Create an Emergency Message UI in WordPress

How to Create an Emergency Message UI in WordPress

Emergency situations can affect any organization. Whether it’s a weather-related closing, a sudden change in business hours or a leaky pipe in the basement – things happen. And one of…

Shining Examples of the Flashlight Effect Web Design Trend

Shining Examples of the Flashlight Effect Web Design Trend

2019 has already seen numerous tiny trends where the mouse cursor played first fiddle: mouse trails, repelling effects, interactive 3D globes and fantastic hover effects – to name a few….

The 5 Biggest Issues Modern Web Designers Have to Face

The 5 Biggest Issues Modern Web Designers Have to Face

As the importance of the web has grown over the past couple of decades, so have the responsibilities of web designers. It used to be that we had relatively little…

COVID-19 Has You Working from Home: Now What?

COVID-19 Has You Working from Home: Now What?

Web designers have the ability to work from just about anywhere. Still, just because something is technically possible doesn’t mean it’s easy. If you suddenly find yourself working remotely on…

Room to Breathe: Using Whitespace in the Hero Area

Room to Breathe: Using Whitespace in the Hero Area

Developers are often so obsessed with extravagant solutions that they sometimes get carried away – forgetting how the simplest things can make an interface a better place. One such example…

How Web Designers Benefit from Open Source

How Web Designers Benefit from Open Source