60 Highly Clever Minimal Logo Designs Depending on the flavor of your business, your logo may appear big and flashy, bold and colorful or just plain simple and clever. In this roundup, I’ve turned the spotlight towards the more simple and clever logo styles that leave a strong impression. As simplistic as they may appear, there is genius behind these 60 highly clever minimal logo designs. OneFund Filmaps
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Hand Drawn UI Kit {Carrer web log} ← Blog about web design & development Hand Drawn UI Kit Wednesday, February 01, 2012 { 4 Comments } I'm fan of Matt Gentile work with various UI Photoshop Kit specially I liked the Modern UI Kit and with Matt permission I decided to Rebound on Dribbble. 50 Beautiful Flash Websites - Smashing Magazine Advertisement Flash enabled designers and developers to deliver rich content over the browsers, creating motion, interactivity and an impressive visual experience. Good Flash-sites do not require too much bandwidth, load fast and allow for a smooth interaction; besides, beautiful Flash-based sites are Photoshop masterpieces, transporting some kind of reality and fantasy to the Flash movie.
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. Showcase: Funky And Experimental Websites If you spend enough time online, it’s surprising how much most websites start to look alike. Sure, there are variations, but to a large extent, web design is pretty standardized. Swap out the graphics or color scheme and you can make almost any website look similar to almost any other website. But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t websites out there that are doing something really different and funky. Below are over 30 websites that have added some funky elements to their designs.
50 Beautiful Clean and Simple Web Designs When it comes to web design, my experience demonstrates to me that it’s easier to add to a design rather than to take away from it. The challenge with minimalist layouts lies in the conundrum of making something beautiful with basic design elements —and with as few of them as possible. Lately, I’ve been attracted to simple and clean designs. Top 10 Web Designer Job Skills - List of Web Designer Job Skills - Top Skills for a Web Designer or Developer Whether you are just starting out as a Web designer or Web developer or are looking to become one, there are skills you need to know to be successful. The following list of technical skills is a list of the skills you need to be a good Web designer. They are listed in importance to getting a job as a Web designer, although some may be in higher demand than others. The list includes information about the skill, where to learn more about it, training resources, and whether it's more useful to a Web designer or a Web developer. HTML is the most important thing a Web designer or Web developer can learn.
An InDesign for HTML and CSS? – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Dai In “CSS is the new Photoshop” (?), Adobe’s John Nack correctly observes, as have many of us, that “Cascading Style Sheets can create a great deal of artwork now, without reliance on bitmap graphics.” Nack quotes Shawn Blanc, one of several concurrent authors of the phrase “CSS is the new Photoshop,” who cites as evidence Louis Harboe’s iOS icons and Jeff Batterton’s iPhone, both designed entirely in CSS and both only viewable in the latest Webkit browsers, Safari 5 and Google Chrome 5. He’s not alone: Håkon Wium Lie from Opera predicts that CSS3 could eliminate half the images used on the Web.
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