27 Must-Have Starter Kits For Web Designers
Starter kits are great timesavers for web designers and they are particularly useful for those who often create mock-ups for project pitching on daily basis. If you are a designer-cum-programmer think of it as your code snippets So what’s in a starter kit? We think it varies – depending on what each designer routinely worked with. For GUI designers, keeping a copy of form elements (buttons, checkboxes, tab, drop down menus, etc) helps speed up the process of creating screens and layouts; on the other hand, browser (IE, Firefox Safari) templates with web safe area keep web designers reminded how/where they should prioritize their contents. Experienced designers will usually customize and keep a personal version of starter kit, some might have few too!
65 Best Free Fonts From 2012
Font compilation roundups always seem to go down a treat with our readers. This post we have been on a scavenger hunt all over internet, in search of all the best fonts which were created in 2012. The post includes over 65 fonts perfect to use in print and web design projects.
CSS-Only Pinterest Style Columns Layout
If you have seen pinterest, they has a multi-column interface to display the pins and those pins arrange nicely even if they are not of the same height. They do it by using javascript to calculate the height of each pin and then positioning them absolutely. Achieving the same with CSS can be done in two ways: Using Floats: Floats can be used but only if all the pins have same height otherwise there will be gaps left all over.Using CSS3 Columns: This is what I used here.
20 Methods for Upping Your Current Web Design Skills
Design All great designers are constantly improving their skills. There has never been a successful designer, or anyone of another profession for that matter, that has stopped at a certain point and said, "Good enough". Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to always be learning new things, and to always be improving. In this post we're looking into 20 different ways a web designer can improve their skills at any time.
20 Free E-books For Web Designers
E-books are great way to learn more about web design. E-books can truly provide you a fountain of knowledge of information and there’s a lot to be learnt. The beauty of ebooks is that there short and insightful not as a long as a book but not as short as a blog post.
Processing.js
Incremental Delaunay Triangulationby Jeonggyu Lee An interactive implementation of incremental Delaunay Triangulation algorithm. My Life Aquaticby David Leibovic, Sunah Suh A shared aquarium Source code
70 Tutorials Using Photoshop To Design A Website
This article features a huge amount of Photoshop web design tutorials, which will teach you simple effects which can be combined together in order to create a great website design. Theses tutorials are perfect for first time Photoshop users because there short and sweet. I hope you enjoy the article and feel free to leave a comment below. 1) Carbon Fiber Layout
40+ Free Responsive WordPress Themes
Not every blogger or site owner is code-literate or design-savvy, but everyone deserves to get a responsive design for their site. If you’re on WordPress, have we got a treat for you. Rather than bust your budget to hire a designer for a revamp, why not adopt one of these handpicked WordPress Themes that are available for free? These themes are built to resize and realign itself to cater to the different screen sizes of mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, i.e. they are responsive.
The 1Kb CSS Grid, Part 2
Tyler builds websites and web apps for Vyre in London. In Part 1 we covered how to setup a lightweight CSS grid. I promised that this same grid could streamline the way page templates are used in content management.
15 Free Online Tools for Web Designers on a Budget
About two years ago when I became a full time freelance web designer, I made it a point to operate with little overhead. Even though I was confident I could make it as a freelancer, there was some fear that things might not go as planned. Because of this, I didn’t go out and spend lots of money on equipment and expensive software. My focus was on being frugal and saving money where I could. One way I was able to do this was using free online tools or web apps to perform my everyday tasks as a web designer. Here are 15 free online tools that you will find very useful.
Foundation: HTML Templates
News or Magazine This template puts a focus on bold images, perfect for a magazine style site with eye catching content. Your stories are easy to find with large feature blocks. See Demo Real Estate or Travel
15 sites web developers and designers should know
Creating a good website isn't an easy task, but there's a few tools that can definitely make your developer or designer life easier. In this article, I have compiled 15 extremely useful website that any web developer or web designer should have bookmarked. ColorCombos When designing a website, one of the firsts (and most important) steps of the process is to choose a color scheme.
