70 Typographic, Clean And Minimalist Color Scheme Web Designs Hello there! It’s time for little inspiration and this time I wanted to showcase something different. You may know that very popular designer slogan – “More is Less”, and yes it’s often so true – unexperienced people tend to overcrowd, use too much colors in their designs. I just love these designs – they are very light, clean and usually uses only monochrome color scheme and just one or two bright colors for links or headers. You may also notice for such designs it’s more about grid, harmonic distribution through whole page and very silent, elegant accents. It’s not about many colorful photos,images or icons, crazy backgrounds or experimentation. 1. One of the best clean, light and elegant websites I came across in this research. 2. 3. 4. 5. Very clean, yet professional web design. 6 .Made By On 7. Hot Meteor specializes in web, print, and branding. 8. Excellent accents leading your eye through whole page in the way author wants it. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 21. 22. 23.
22 Awesome Adobe AIR Applications for Designers Adobe AIR has become a popular platform for internet-enabled desktop applications. If you’re a designer, AIR applications will help you with a multitude of tasks that will make your life easier, aiding you in streamlining your workflow. Close to a year ago, we wrote a post on this topic, and since then there have been great advances and even more awesome AIR apps for designers. This article aims to cover what we didn’t mention previously. In this article, you’ll find terrific applications that will help you in your design and image-editing oriented tasks. If you don’t have Adobe AIR installed, you can download it free from get.adobe.com/air/. 1. ImageSizer is a batch image processor tool built to resize, optimize and rename multiple JPG files. 2. Contrast-A is a great Adobe AIR application for designers wanting to easily create color schemes for their design. 3. Color Browser is made for archiving and organizing your color palette collections. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. iPlotz 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.
17 Great Resources – Color Inspiration For Web Design | CSSgirl Dev & Design One of my favorite parts when creating a new design is the process of choosing a color scheme. There are times when the colors just fall into place after I have my main color, or when using a photo the colors just flow around it. But sometimes you need a little help. Whether your looking for a color scheme to base your design on or you need a little help picking out complimentary colors the generators, articles, color wheels and more below will assist and inspire your color creativity. Color Generators / Wheels <img src=" alt='colourlovers' />colourlovers is one of my favorite websites to visit. Colors From Photos Articles on Color Theory Color Psychology & Symbolism Articles On Using Color In Design Premade Color Scheme Inspirations Because, sometimes you just need a jumpstart to find your perfect color scheme! HTML Hex Codes Jump to Comments
How to Make a Dark, Post-Apocalyptic City Illustration In this tutorial, we'll change a full of sunshine, ordinary photograph into a gloomy image of the world after destruction of mankind. Using simple tools, we'll turn lively streets into abandoned ruins overgrown with weeds. A number of stock images and a few little tricks will let us optimize our work and make this job more interesting and spectacular. So let's go! Final Image Preview Take a look at the image we'll be creating. Preparation All the photos I've used are taken from the stock.xchng site. Step 1 Open the city image, which you intend to use, and save it under a different name. Step 2 Now, in order to create the appearance of destruction, several actions need to be taken. Step 3 Open the flag image, and separate the flag from the background. Select the Eraser Tool (large size and hardness set at 0%) and remove the side part of the flag. Finally, make the image monochromatic (Image > Adjustments > Black & White). Step 4 Place the flag onto the surface of the main image. Step 5 Step 6
960 Grid System 50 Stunning Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials Photoshop’s text and layer tools can be used to create some really awesome effects. We’ve put together a list of 60 of the best tutorials we could find to help you stay up to date on the latest trends and techniques. You’ll find some really cool grunge and glass styles (plus a few surprises!) and learn how some of the best designers create their unique effects. Courtesy: LemonDesign1 Instead of listing 100 plus tutorials that you’ll bookmark never to come back, we’ve decided to take you through the basics of typography, hopefully inspiring and then teaching you. You may want to take a look at the following related posts: Introduction to Typography Link Typography is the art of arranging type, designing type, and modifying type glyphs. Here are some resources to give you further insight: The Wisest Mind Has Something Yet to Learn Link And we, too, never stop being inspired, learning and creating: How to Choose the Right Type Link Guess if you can, choose if you dare. Resources to Live by Link
The 960 Grid System Made Easy By Joshua Johnson The first time I discovered the 960 Grid System, I was immediately excited about the possibilities of implementing complex layouts so easily. However, since I was fairly new to web design at the time, when I downloaded the files, I quickly became overwhelmed at how complicated the whole thing seemed. With all this code, how could this be the easy way to create a layout? This article is for web designers and front-end web developers who are interested in grid-based layout systems but are at a loss on how to decipher them. We’ll focus specifically on the 960 Grid System, but after reading this guide, you’ll find that most of the other grid systems out there are similar and will make much more sense after you understand a few basic principles. Grid-Based Design Before we get into the specifics of the 960 Grid System, let’s briefly discuss grid-based design in general. Our brains like to simplify things to make them readily understandable. Why Do I Need a Grid System? Typogridphy
Download Free Fonts - Acid Fonts Excellent HTML Newsletter Templates – Best Of A well designed newsletter/email template can be the difference between success an failure. Whether its to update customers about a product, or to share information, having a well designed template can be a great starting point to guide your readers and give them a clear coherent flow when they read your email. This is crucial, considering how important the first impression is.
Free HTML Email Template: “Download” Free HTML Email Template: “Download” After the positive response to our last free HTML email template, “Welcome”, I set out to create more HTML email templates to suit specific common types of emails you send. Today, I’m happy to share the newest addition to our family of functionally themed email templates… The “Download” HTML Email Template Use this template to share files with your subscribers: It comes in 3 different editions: PDF (perfect for ebooks, whitepapers, free reports)Download The Zip File (all 6 colors) Audio (podcasts, interviews and other audio files)Download The Zip File (all 6 colors) “Other” Files (anything other than a PDF or audio file)Download The Zip File (all 6 colors) Each one is available in 6 different color schemes – the same ones from the “Welcome” template. How Can I Attach A File To This Template? The short answer: you shouldn’t. Instead, have your web designer upload the file on your web space and provide you with a direct url. AWeber Customers: Print This Post
Forms HTML web forms are a composition of buttons, checkboxes, and text input fields embedded inside of HTML documents with one goal in mind: to capture user input. By doing things such as providing fields for user data such as names, phone number, and email addresses, web forms give users the opportunity to interact directly with a webpage. HTML forms are placed on a web page using the <form> tag. HTML Form Element: <formg name="myWebForm" action="myServerSideScript.php" method="post"><input type="checkbox" /> Checkbox 1<br /><input type="text" /> Text Field 1<br /><input type="submit" value="SUBMIT" /></form> HTML Web Form: HTML form elements rely on action and method attributes to identify where to send the form data for processing (action) and how to process the data (method). Unfortunately, HTML alone is unable to process form data. HTML Email Form Element: HTML Email Form: Now when the SUBMIT button is clicked, the user should see their default email client launch.