How to Safely Match Web Design and Typography As web designers, our designs have to be both usable and attractive, communicate information and create a name. Our designs must be technically proven and tested for our dear readers. With that in mind, web designing is definitely a form of communication and nowadays, this type of communication is very, very important. As a form of communication, we, as web designers do the speaking and we hope our readers and viewers listen. For all types of communication, the most important thing is to be able to fully transmit the message to the receiving end. Now, 95% of the information communicated on the internet is written language. Marriage of Typography and Web Design: Why is Typography Important? Whenever people visit a website you have designed, chances are they won’t care much about the illustrations or pictures or sounds, people will immediately look at the text. People search the internet hoping to find the information they need. So, why is typography important? 1. 3. In order to wow(!) Serif
fonts, typefaces and all things typographical — I love Typography (ILT) SenCSs - the sensible standards CSS baseline Create a Fantastic Landing Page for Your Next Product Using Photoshop Let us start the week with another PSD tutorial here at 1stwebdesigner! We will create a Product layout using Photoshop in a step-by-step manner. Techniques will be discussed in this tutorial which include the use of proper spacing, typography, and colors. Resources you will need to complete this tutorial: Here is what we will be making, click on the image for a full preview: Step 1: Working with the Site Structure Before we get started, download first 960grid system for easy Guideline creation. Open 960_download\templates\photoshop\960_grid_12_col.psd We also need to make sure that our Rulers and Guides are visible by pressing CTRL + R (View Rulers)CTRL + ; (View Guides) CTRL + SHIFT + C to change the canvas size. Step 2: Working with the Header Rename layer1 folder (group) Header, create a new layer and name it header_bg (Create groups for every major section for example you should group: Header, Navigation, Footer layers together to help stay better organized). Step 3: Working with the Logo
Options to Consider When Looking for Stock Photos: Free vs Paid Solutions As designers and bloggers, pretty much every project we do is going to involve photography in some way, form or fashion. With the way the internet is today, there are photos floating around everywhere and it’s very easy to grab one for use even though it may land you in some huge trouble. This isn’t a post on which is better so much as it is weighing in on the different uses for free and paid photos. A Little About Free Photos Free photos are awesome because they are, well, free. Pros They’re freeThey are sometimes very large photos like the ones you’ll find on Stock Exchange (see below)You can use them pretty much wherever you want, even commercial projectsOccasionally you can find really good onesCan alter them if you need Cons I’m an advocate for using free photos during the composition of a client project. A Little About Paid Photos Paid photos on the other hand are a whole different breed. Photo by Kozumel Difference in Quality What are you using it for? Photo by opensourceway
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15 Useful Color Mixers For Effective Designing I wanted to create this list, because there are times when I struggle choosing my design colors - for me it’s not always easy task to just play with the colors and choose the right ones – of course, there are few favorite colors for everybody, but finding new great color combinations are not so easy task. That’s why there a lot of helpful resources to ease this task, and I am here to show You those! Hopefully this will help You to create new designs and the process will become a little easier. 1. Colourlovers This is a great resource that monitors different color trends. New color schemes are regularly created and examples of the way colors are used in the real world – and there are rating system to give You a chance to find out the most popular ones. 2. Kuler is nice place created by Adobe company, where You can browse popular created color themes and create Your own from colors, images and get really advanced options and possibilities to create something really great! 3. 4. 5. 6. 8. 9.
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