10 Ways to Improve Typography In Your Designs. Typography is more than just picking a font and a point size from some drop-down menus on your computer.
It’s an art and a skill whose history goes back centuries, to the wooden and metal type used with printing presses. And while we can learn from typography’s long legacy, most of us could also use a few practical tips on how to help our type look better in everyday projects like resumes, newsletters, or business cards. Top 15 Web and Graphic Design Blogs to Follow. It can take years for a blog to become well established and recognized by the design community and it takes that long to build a good following.
There are hundreds of Web and Graphic design blogs are all over the internet, finding which one’s are trustworthy and contain well written (and informing) articles can be hard these days. I decided to compile a list of 15 web and graphic design blogs that I personally follow and find trustworthy (as far as original content goes). Please keep in mind that these are in no particular order. 1. Intérêt et rôle de la rééducation tubaire. Etudes - Quelle tête aura le web design en 2014 ? Publié le 24 février 2014 La mobilité du consommateur sur la Toile entraîne des mutations structurelles et culturelles dans la production et la pensée des plates-formes digitales.
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Many of the resources below are free or very low cost, and are sure to be useful to a lot of designers and developers out there. As always, if we’ve missed something you think should have been included, please let us know in the comments. Web Designer. Illustration tools Import assets from any other creative suite or use the built-in illustration tools to create vector-style artwork – keeping your designs light.
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But, sometimes, too much choice can be confusing, so we've picked some top sites that will really help you get to grips with it. Check them out - and let us know if we've left out any of your favourite resources in the comments below... Also read: What is typography? Learn the basic rules and terms of type 01. 80 awesome new WordPress themes.
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It’s practically essential after all: one design for the BlackBerry, another for the iPhone, the iPad, netbook, Kindle — and all screen resolutions must be compatible, too. In the next five years, we’ll likely need to design for a number of additional inventions. When will the madness stop? It won’t, of course. 50 Useful Tools and Resources For Web Designers - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement An effective, well-organized workflow is an important asset of professional web designers.
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Web Design Trends In 2013 (And Why) Trends. Build a Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Website From Scratch: Semantic HTMLBuildMobile. In the last article, as promised, we’ve begun doing some practical work with the planning and creation of a mockup. Now, we’ve focused on how to build a personal project wireframe thinking responsively and—consequently—how a responsive design can adapt to three target layouts: Default (PC desktop), Portrait Tablet, and Smartphone.
We’ve seen how to arrange the elements of a typical website in the three main devices’ categories by creating a template that represents the common content elements. In this third part of this series, I’ll concentrate on writing the HTML code and work on the structure of the homepage, while in the very next, I’ll be setting the first CSS styling rules to build the initial design of our project. Optimiser l'ergonomie des formulaires web. Les formulaires sont très fréquents sur les sites web et parfois complètement incompréhensible. Il existe une multitudes d'astuces pour améliorer la compréhension de ceux-ci, éviter que les utilisateurs fassent des erreurs et optimiser le durée nécessaire pour les remplir. Cet article présente plus de 60 astuces et recommandations avec des explications. Structurer le formulaire Dans le cas d'un formulaire pour se connecter, il est possible de faire apparaître le formulaire au survol ou avec un clic de souris.
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