100 Great Resources for Design Inspiration Finding inspiration is not always as simple as it sounds, whether you've been designing for years or only weeks. Below is a collection of 100 great web resources to find inspiration and direction on your next project, whether it be online or in print. These range from galleries of graphic and web design to online magazines and a few unconventional sources of inspiration. Online Galleries Veer: Ideas - A huge idea gallery from stock photography company Veer formatted as a blog and including news and updates from the company itself. Delicious CSS - A CSS web design gallery that was founded because of the lack of features for tracking design ideas on traditional social bookmarking sites. Raster - A regularly-updated gallery of photography and art with collections broken into “chapters.” CSS Galaxy - A very simple French gallery of CSS website designs that selects sites based on their standards-compliance, technique, coherent graphic design, and aesthetic. Blogs Online Magazines
70+ exemples de page d’erreur 404 Il est certain que les pages d’erreur 404 ont tendance à susciter l’intérêt de pas mal de gens et c’est sans doute pour cela que de plus en plus de webmestres ont tendance à les soigner. Ce qui n’est pas du tout mon cas, évidemment. Mais peu importe puisque c’est sur Decent Weblog qu’une énorme sélection a été faite. Alors si vous avez envie de découvrir plus de 70 exemples de pages d’erreur 404 complètement délirants, vous savez ce qui vous reste à faire. Alors comme vous pouvez le constater, mon billet à moi ne compte que 10 exemples de page d’erreur 404.
Create a Portfolio Web Layout in Photoshop In this tutorial we will create a portfolio web layout using Adobe Photoshop. I will show you how to create patterns and textures for your web designs and how to use the 960 Grid System to help you align the elements of your web layouts. I will also provide the patterns that I used in the resources section below so you can install and use them straight away. Source File To download the source file, you must be a member of the Web Design Fan Club. portfolio-web-layout.psd (5.1 Mb) Tutorial Resources Preview Below is the web layout that we are going to create in this tutorial. Introduction For this tutorial we will use the 960 Grid System. After you open the .psd file in Photoshop you will see 12 red bars. During this tutorial I will ask you to create shapes with certain dimensions. Now that we covered the basics of using the 960 Grid System, we can move on to creating the actual web layout. Step 1: Setting up the document Open the “960_grid_12_col.psd” file in Photoshop. Step 3 Step 14 Step 18
25 Unusual website layout for design inspiration 25 Unusual website layout for design inspiration Posted by Vikas Ghodke on April 2nd in Inspiration. As you all knows lots of competition in design community, everyone wants to stand out in crowd and therefore designers and developers are going creative these days. Normally we used to design a website with header on top navigation below it then a sidebar along side content area and in the end there is a footer. So here we have collected some unusual website layout to get inspired and create one for yourself too. prettyproduction vllg madebymany chirp.twitter lojabirds econversions digitalpodge weareacademy wk emmahan ideo theshipandthesea pametjenny If certifications are like sky and sky is the limit than you can reach it by gre study material, 642-902 certification material, ccie wireless dumps, mcts lab preparations, 70-663 braindumps, and 1Y0-A19 dumps. davidmikula richbrown werkplaatstypografie creativejoomladesign contrast upanddownbeats bythepond studioracket amillionthingstodo cheetos camellie Vikas Ghodke
10 Web Design Elements that You Shouldn’t Overlook When it comes to designing and building websites, it never seems to happen fast enough. Given this fast pace, many small details that are eventually required to build the website are often left out of the design process. While these details might be minor, they are what take a website from nice to truly awesome. These details are often easy to miss because they don’t drive the overall look and feel of the website. The problem is that as your development team works through the design, it will be forced to design and create these elements for you anyway. You could adjust the production cycle so that the developers have time to return these assets to you, but why not just get it all done up front so that the process is that much cleaner? Even worse, the development team might decide to forge ahead and just create the assets as they go. Every element covered in this article stems from a question that a developer would ask the designer if an element were missing from the design. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
API Google Translate : Arrêt définitif fin 2011 Nous vous présentons la solution face à l’arrêt de l’API de cet outil qui était intéressant pour certains webmasters. L’API de Google Translate a été officiellement mis de côté le 26 mai 2011, en fait l’API n’était pas vraiment optimisé et donc cela amène à la raison économique. Même si l’outil est encore disponible avec un nombre de requêtes limité par jour, celui-ci ne sera plus disponible à la date du 1 Décembre 2011. La solution présentée par Google pour la traduction est donc l’utilisation de Google Translate Element. Pour découvrir l’outil qui est la solution : Google Translate Element
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21 Inspiring Blog Designs It could be said that with all the themes available to design a blog it’s getting harder to find new and authentic blog designs. In one way this is good because more people have the opportunity to easily get a nice looking blog up and running. However, this makes it ever so important to do something special with your blog design – to set it apart from the crowd, and let people know it’t not just a theme. After a long time without showcasing Blog Designs – the last post on this topic was back in Jul, 2010 – we decided to gather a fresh batch of blogs to show you, and I have to admit that finding these was a bit challenging. Jux Blog Blog Viljami Salminen Jaypegams Journal Kyan Blog Ideas – Strange Native Deafpigeon Big Bite Creative Editer Journal A Chronology Elliot Jay Stocks The Brief SimpleBits Pelicanfly Web is Love I Love Typography Blog Jon Phillips Jason Santa Maria Studio Sweet Studio ABAF – News Readmill aboutdesign Source: The Best DesignsSiteInspire About the Author Related Posts 410 shares Read More