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Smashing Book #3: Redesign the Web
Smashing Magazine has just released their third Smashing Book, Smashing Book #3: Redesign the Web, featuring all-new content for web designers and developers. This book differs from the previous two books in that it has a distinct theme throughout: redesigning websites. It starts out with the business side of redesigns, and then progresses to the [...]
Tue, 08 May 2012 09:03:24 GMT | Tagged:Free download: Media Black UI Kit (PSD)
Today we have another great freebie for you created exclusively for WDD by Grafpedia. This one is called the Media Black UI Kit and contains graphic elements suitable for any sort of media elements, such as video and audio players, along typical navigational items.It’s provided as a layered PSD file. If you want more items [...]
Fri, 11 May 2012 09:21:43 GMT | Tagged:Comics of the week #129
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers. These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world [...]
Sat, 12 May 2012 09:50:41 GMT | Tagged:Our favorite tweets of the weekMay 7-May 13, 2012
Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of [...]
Sun, 13 May 2012 09:32:42 GMT | Tagged:Inspiration: Packaging Design
Package design can be a good alternative place for finding inspiration. From textures to color schemes and typography, we can get a lot of references from packaging designs. A good place to browse – other than your local shops and/or supermarket – if you are also a package lover is lovelypackage.com, a nice website that curates the [...] Fri, 11 May 2012 12:55:16 GMT | Tagged:
My Office
You know what they say: cheap tables and expensive chairs. I took that to heart with my cheap plastic fold-out banquet table and Herman Miller chair. I exclusively use one MacBook Pro, so my exact design and development environment comes with me wherever I go. At home at this desk, I have my…
Wed, 09 May 2012 23:01:05 GMT | Tagged:A New Era
Today is my last day at Wufoo / SurveyMonkey. I spent about one year at Wufoo after moving to Tampa, Florida, then we were acquired and moved to Palo Alto, California Then I spent about another year at SurveyMonkey, bouncing between the two products.
I’d say they were the best…
Fri, 11 May 2012 16:49:38 GMT | Tagged:Posting a price list on your web site: does it work or fail?
When I first saw a web site designer who had posted a laundry list of prices on his site, I gasped in horror. It created some buzz in the design circles in which I traveled. No one agreed with the concept. Then, a well-respected design firm owner announced he was going to try it. He [...]
Wed, 09 May 2012 09:26:32 GMT | Tagged:30+ Examples of Facebook timelines
Over 500 million people use Facebook worldwide. It’s no wonder companies and brands are keen to make an impact using the social networking site with their respective pages. The new Facebook Timeline feature has been rolled out over the last few months for both profiles and pages. New features include space for a large photo [...]
Thu, 10 May 2012 09:30:42 GMT | Tagged:50 Amazing Free Icon Sets
Every web designer loves to have high-quality icons at their disposal. While creating your own custom icons for your projects is an option, it’s rarely practical. There are plenty of quality icon sets available for purchase, but fortunately, there are also some free icon sets out there with professional quality. These free icons sets are [...] Tue, 08 May 2012 12:35:42 GMT | Tagged:
How To Begin Your Creative Dream Job – Today
Maybe this scenario sounds familiar to you: A few years ago I found myself working an office job that was ok. It paid ok, I liked the work ok, I liked the people I worked with ok, and I was pretty ok at what I did. Like I said, it was ok. But I didn’t [...] Wed, 09 May 2012 12:52:15 GMT | Tagged:
20 Fresh CSS3 Tutorials
The design industry is probably one of the fastest changing and growing. Designers have to keep their eyes on everything, including new trends in visual design, as well as interaction technologies like jQuery, HTML5, and CSS3. Designers are using these technologies to express more creativity in design production and make user experience richer. In this [...] Thu, 10 May 2012 04:27:58 GMT | Tagged:
My Sister’s Wedding Invites
My sister is getting married this summer and I did the invitations for her.
We live in different states so talking about them largely happened over the phone and Facebook chatting screenshots of the designs. The structure of invite was just complicated enough that communicating exactly what part of them we…
Sun, 06 May 2012 21:53:58 GMT | Tagged:Comics of the week #128
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers. These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world [...]
Sat, 05 May 2012 09:51:07 GMT | Tagged:Our favorite tweets of the week Apr 30 – May 6, 2012
Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of [...]
Sun, 06 May 2012 09:11:10 GMT | Tagged:How to speed up your website
Site speed is one of the most important things about creating web content, and web applications. In fact, it has been noted by various analysts at Google that people don’t often sit through the first 30 seconds of a video, much less the first 15, so it would be wise of you to get the [...]
Mon, 07 May 2012 09:18:17 GMT | Tagged:20 Inspiring Examples of Big Backgrounds in Web Design
One way to easily define the tone and mood of a website is to use a big background image. However, when doing this, you need to consider that big images often have a lot going on, so it’s important to take a minmal approach with other aspects of the design. Not doing so could result [...] Mon, 07 May 2012 04:24:52 GMT | Tagged:
WP Theme Generator: Create WordPress themes without coding
Creating WordPress themes from scratch is beyond the technical skill of a lot of people, even designers. Without at least a basic grasp of PHP, you’ll likely find the entire process frustrating and way too time-consuming. That’s where a WordPress theme generator can make your life about a million times easier. Theme generators in the [...]
Wed, 02 May 2012 09:07:27 GMT | Tagged:Roundup of single page websites
One of the recent developments on the web has been the rise in the use of one page websites by everyone from web designers to large companies to promote their product, app or portfolio. One page websites look great with many having very simple designs, large typography and amazing illustrations and graphics too making them [...]
Thu, 03 May 2012 09:25:05 GMT | Tagged:A (not so) jilted English professor’s guide to creative web design
Responsive design has some definite buzz of late, and with good reason. It promises to simplify the increasingly complex task of adapting websites for the countless new devices multiplying by the minute. By considering a few common variables like screen size, adapting a site to its visitors’ particular needs becomes a matter of some clever [...]
Fri, 04 May 2012 09:57:52 GMT | Tagged:20 Simple, Yet Clever Logos
When it comes to design, things don’t have to be complicated in order to be effective. Although, it can be tempting to over design and try to work in lots of detail, it’s not always the best way. This is especially true when it comes to logo design. Usually, the best are the ones that [...] Wed, 02 May 2012 12:08:37 GMT | Tagged:
5 Tips for Getting Featured on Top Design Blogs
No matter what sort of art you create – whether you are a graphic designer, painter, illustrator, digital artist, videographer, or any other type of artist – being featured on the web’s top art and design blogs can result in a huge surge of active followers, interested fans, and of course – paying customers. For [...] Thu, 03 May 2012 12:43:51 GMT | Tagged:
Pretty good
99% of the food I eat I’d classify as somewhere between “fine” and “pretty good.”
It’s extremely rare for me to eat a meal that is truly extraordinary wherein during and after eating it I am amazed at the deliciousness. It’s also extremely rare that I eat anything that I considered/consider disgusting. …
Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:07:03 GMT | Tagged:Our favorite tweets of the week Apr 23 – Apr 29, 2012
Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of [...]
Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:58:07 GMT | Tagged:15 great HTML5 and CSS3 generators
HTML5 and CSS3 are great languages to start off learning with, and I’ve always thought that one of the best ways to start learning is to just dive in and manipulate the code. As you could probably tell, this is where generators step in. They are a great way to generate some code, play with [...]
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