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You’re a terrible client
It’s not just me; I’ve asked around: You will probably be your own very worst client. Ever. Every trade has a similar story to the point where it’s almost cliché: the carpenter’s house is falling apart, the mechanic’s car is a rattling jalopy, and the barber is a balding chatty guy who’s always forcing loved [...]
Tue, 22 May 2012 09:11:35 GMT | Tagged: web design21 Inspiring Minimalistic Web Designs
Here at WDL, we really like minimalism and we believe that the “less is more” principal can result in amazing websites. Minimalism, explained as the essence of something, is when we reduce something to its necessary elements. What is the right amount of elements to compose a minimal design is a polemic subject, but we [...] Mon, 21 May 2012 04:02:06 GMT | Tagged: web design
Atomicdust: explaining design process
A St. Louis design group announced a special gathering at a local design studio for a program entitled, “Educational Night: The Business of Design.” The evening’s program was hosted by a local design studio that is making leaps and bounds in the local and national scene, so it didn’t take long for the reservations to [...]
Thu, 17 May 2012 09:20:54 GMT | Tagged: web designWhat’s new for designers, May 2012
The May edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, jQuery plugins, grid tools, CSS tools, WordPress resources, productivity and business tools, responsive design resources, and some really great new fonts. Many of the resources below are free or very low cost, and are sure to be useful to a [...]
Mon, 14 May 2012 09:29:23 GMT | Tagged: web designCustomizing the WordPress login page for consistent branding
Despite the consumer-focused nature of the WordPress content management software, an increasing number of larger organizations and even businesses are adopting WordPress to manage their site’s content — especially corporate blogs and customer outreach programs that take advantage of social media and interaction humanize a company’s brand. These larger organizations aren’t content to let their [...]
Tue, 15 May 2012 09:19:13 GMT | Tagged: web designTelling stories with your designs
Websites are incredibly versatile as a medium, to be used to display information and other content, and if well designed they can do this in an enjoyable way that’s easy for the reader to digest. This can be done through combining a site persona with an ongoing narrative, consistent throughout, which will all come together [...]
Wed, 16 May 2012 09:15:43 GMT | Tagged: web design21 Fantastic Examples of Sliders in Web Design
Sliders are an excellent way to organize and highlight important content on a site. They can also be used to display a good amount of content within a limited amount of screen real estate. The most popular way to add a slider or slideshow to a website is still jQuery, which seems to have a [...] Mon, 14 May 2012 04:18:40 GMT | Tagged: web design
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: web designPosting 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: web designOur 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: web design20 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: web design
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: web designRoundup 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: web designA (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: web design15 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 [...]
Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:21:00 GMT | Tagged: web design21 Beautiful Examples of Typography in Web Design
Here at WDL we love typography and we never get tired of gathering good typography inspiration for our readers. From free fonts to type usage in signs and typography videos, we like to give you as many resources as we can on everything surrounding type. Today we decided to gather some examples of beautiful typography [...] Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:31:41 GMT | Tagged: web design
23 Inspiring Examples of Contact Pages
When designing a website we need to think about every aspect, from header to footer, from landing page to about us page, and even the contact page. It’s important to make sure the design is great all the way through. So today we decided to gather a few examples of how websites are displaying their [...] Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:27:08 GMT | Tagged: web design
15+ high quality, free pattern sets
As web designers, we spend most of our time praising web designs for their sleek interfaces and their awesome typography or even just the random design work, but truly, the unsung hero of design is the pattern. The pattern is popular, not just online, but offline too—we love a good pattern because it’s design in [...]
Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:48:50 GMT | Tagged: web designGrunge Photoshop brush roundup
We’ll be starting a regular series of roundups of the best free Photoshop brushes, in various themes; this week’s Photoshop brush roundup is on the Grunge theme. Grunge is a very bold style choice, and is characterized by its gritty style, dark, washed-out colors, and irregular shapes. Grunge textures can be so varied, from wood [...]
Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:27:46 GMT | Tagged: web design21 Inspiring Examples of About Pages
About pages are important because they are the place where the user goes to discover more about who/what is behind the site they are visiting. From design studios to apps and online shops, users like to browse a page to find the good old who, where, what, how information about you. And of course there’s [...] Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:02:48 GMT | Tagged: web design
Our favorite tweets of the week Apr 2 – Apr 8, 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, 08 Apr 2012 09:54:53 GMT | Tagged: web designIntegrating Google Calendar with your website
Google Calendar is a great tool to embed in your site, and it’s incredibly easy to do using an iFrame. Before I go into further styling for the Calendar, I’ll quickly go through how to embed your Google Calendar anywhere into your site. You can embed a live calendar for other to edit along with [...]
Mon, 09 Apr 2012 09:28:27 GMT | Tagged: web design23 Fantastic Examples of Dark Colors in Web Design
Back in January we published a list showcasing dark colors in web design and it became very popular. Since a lot of readers asked for more, we decided to put together a new post of similar sites to give you some fresh examples. Choosing to use a dark color scheme in your web design is [...] Mon, 09 Apr 2012 04:01:23 GMT | Tagged: web design
How to make more as a freelancer
Do what you love. That’s what the career counselors tell you when you are young. That is what your parents pretend to instill on you when you are born. What they forgot to mention is that very few people are doing what they love and making a ton of money from it. Before I carry [...]
Thu, 05 Apr 2012 09:43:22 GMT | Tagged: web designTechniques for creating modal windows
Modal windows are most commonly described as anything that captures the user’s attention, and doesn’t allow them to return to the previous state until they interact with the object in question. Now, that is a bit convoluted and I think it is better addressed with a few examples of websites that use the technique really [...]
Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:30:10 GMT | Tagged: web design
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