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25 Awesome Tools for Choosing a Website Color Scheme
As a designer, color management should be an integral part of your workflow. A website’s color scheme helps shape its identity and therefore should not be carelessly thrown together.Posted January 20, 2009 in Graphic Design , Tools/Resources Graphic designers are always in a battle to create the best looking results in the least amount of time. Constantly trying to make these gorgeous, polished designs without spending an eternity creating them usually requires using some pre-built elements — things like photoshop brushes, illustrator patterns, textures, etc…
27 Indispensible Resources for Graphic Designers
Another year ends and a new year begins, there have been 12 months full of news in the web design world, from the New Twitter design to the constant grow of HTML5 and CSS3, there has been tons of events that have changed the web panorama during this year. We spent all the year digging across the web to find those little secrets that were waiting for being discovered.
Design tools and resources, best of 2010
55 Minimal Black and White Web Designs to Inspire You
We’ve already shown you Yellow Web Designs and Blue Web Designs , but sometimes less color is the best color choice for a web site. In this post, we’re showcasing 55 minimal black and white web designs to inspire you . The B&W combination is great, from photography to interior design.Web Design in Black & White | AgencyTool Blog
Black & White doesn’t have to be boring. Monochromatic color schemes can be used with just about any color, but some of the most striking are in black & white. By cutting out color a website relies more heavily on other design elements – such as layout or typography, etc..
What do you think about black and white websites? Simple, clean or outdated? Anyway, they have sprung up with a growing number.
25 Most Attractive Black & White Websites
A logo is an emblem or the visual representation of the business. Although a logo is a small graphical element but without doubt is of great importance.
Stunning Collection of Black and White Logo Design
Apr 11 2011 When combining typefaces, there are a couple of important principles you’ll need to keep in mind, namely contrast and mood. Effectively combining typefaces is a skill best learned through practice, and trial-and-error.
A Crash Course in Typography: Principles for Combining Typefaces - Noupe Design Blog
The 960 Grid System Made Easy
The first time I discovered the 960 Grid System , I was immediately excited about the possibilities of implementing complex layouts so easily. However, since I was fairly new to web design at the time, when I downloaded the files, I quickly became overwhelmed at how complicated the whole thing seemed.Over time certain conventions and best practices have been developed to help improve the general usability of websites during their design and build. This roundup of ten usability crimes highlights some of the most common mistakes or overlooked areas in web design and provides an alternative solution to help enhance the usability of your website. Crime 1: Form labels that aren’t associated to form input fields Using the ‘for’ attribute allows the user to click the label to select the appropriate input fields within a form. This is especially important for checkboxes and radio fields to give a larger clickable area, but it’s good practice all round. Crime 2: A logo that doesn’t link to the homepage
10 Usability Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit
A Gold Mine of Adobe Illustrator Resources - Noupe Design Blog
Dec 11 2009 By Melissa Scroggins What could be better than striking gold? How about a huge list of Adobe Illustrator resources? For many designers, a list of resources to help finish those design projects in a quick and easy fashion is like finding gold on the Web. In this article, there are over 200 ( mostly ) free resources for Adobe Illustrator.Learn how to earn $125 or more per hour as a freelancer - Click Here Designers love to have a lot of quality fonts available to them, and fortunately there are some very good free fonts out there. In this post we’ll feature some of the best free fonts that can be used in your commercial designs.
50 High-Quality Free Fonts for Professional Design - Web Design Blog – DesignM.ag
Spritely is a simple plugin with only two key methods, sprite() and pan() both of which simply animate the background-image css property of an element. The difference between the two is that a 'sprite' image contains two or more 'frames' of animation, whereas a 'pan' image contains a continuous image which pans left or right and then repeats. Typically, in either case, you would use a png file (with or without transparency) for this.