Filed under app, Application, Button, buttons, CSS, Design, dev, development, flash, forms, HTML, icon, Icons, iOS, iphone, mobile, Resource, Resources, showcase, Template, web by Jake Rocheleau
There are a lot of factors to consider before building and submitting a mobile application. Developers have plenty of resources on the web for consulting official documentation. But there are some traits you should consider about the overall process. Whether you are building for Apple or Android-powered devices will make all the difference. Some developers have the confidence to build for both platforms which is staggering. I’ll try to mesh ideas together so they apply in both development environments equally. [...]
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March 23, 2012 at 8:33 am Comments (0)
Filed under app, Application, book, Button, buttons, dev, editor, flash, icon, jQuery, magazine, Social Bookmark, Twitter, Video, web, Wordpress by Andy Killen
Social networking is constantly evolving. In many cases, what was cool two years ago is now next to worthless. For example ‘the Digg effect‘ used to be massive and could really make a big difference to the visitors to a website. That was then, this is now. The Digg effect is now nearly nonexistent, paling in significance to the other social networks. Digg, like Stumbleupon and Reddit, is just a bookmarking system with some added kudos. Where as things like [...]
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March 19, 2012 at 8:03 am Comments (0)
Filed under app, Button, buttons, Design, dev, flash, forms, Graphic design, Video, web, Web Design by Sreeraman Mohan Girija
The most important thing a designer needs to have is a good taste. A good taste at identifying great work. It doesn’t matter if your work doesn’t match up with your taste yet. It will slowly but steadily catch up. Ultimately your taste ends up defining your style. In fact your taste will be few steps ahead of your talent in the initial years of your career. Your taste can tell the difference in quality between what you want to [...]
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March 18, 2012 at 8:49 am Comments (0)
Filed under app, Button, buttons, CSS, Design, effects, font, HTML, icon, Icons, javascript, jQuery, Resource, Resources, Template, Text, Tutorial, web, Web Design by Jameel Khan
Today we are showcasing some of best tutorials and techniques that will help you create beautiful and functional designs by using only CSS, focusing primarily on the properties of CSS3. All with absolutely NO JAVASCRIPT. For the most part, the techniques we have highlighted below, can be used for everyday use, others probably not. Please do check browser compatibility when implementing any of these techniques. You might also like… CSS3 Compatibility Tools, Resources and References for Internet Explorer → CSS [...]
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March 1, 2012 at 9:27 am Comments (0)
Filed under app, book, Button, buttons, CSS, Design, dev, font, Graphic, icon, Icons, iphone, jQuery, Resource, Resources, theme, Tutorial, Twitter, Vector, Video, web, Weekly News by Paul Andrew
This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy 
If you would like to receive our daily updates and keep up to date with the latest and greatest articles and resources from the design community, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebookor by subscribing to our RSS feed. Our Weekly Design News has been sponsored by MediaLoot. Check them out for some seriously useful resources [...]
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February 28, 2012 at 8:39 am Comments (0)
Filed under app, Application, Button, buttons, Design, dev, development, effects, flash, font, Graphic, icon, Icons, Illustrator, Inspiration, iphone, iPhone & iPad Dev, minimal, mobile, Resource, Resources, Template, Text, Vector, Video, web, Wordpress by Jake Rocheleau
Mobile applications are on the rise as more consumers switch over to smartphones. Between Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating system there are plenty of wonderful apps to browse through. The past year has built up a catalog of exceptional design patterns which will continue over into 2012. In this article I’d like to spend a bit of time examining some of the more popular trends. Graphics designers are jumping on board quickly and appear willing to share their knowledge. [...]
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February 27, 2012 at 4:12 pm Comments (0)
Filed under app, Application, Button, buttons, Design, dev, development, icon, Icons, Inspiration, javascript, mobile, Resource, Resources, Template, Text, web, Wireframe by Jake Rocheleau
A lot of time and energy is required to build mobile iOS/Android apps. Aside from the coding and UI design you need to plan functionality ahead of time. This way you can start programming immediately and implement key features without a hassle. The best way to start off a mobile application is through wireframing. This is a design process where you lay out each of the app’s views in detail. This could be just a rough sketch, but many designers [...]
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February 22, 2012 at 5:26 pm Comments (0)
Filed under app, Application, Button, buttons, CSS, Design, dev, development, font, GUI, HTML, icon, Icons, Illustrator, iphone, mobile, Resource, Resources, Template, Twitter, web, Web Design by Paul Andrew
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We have a fantastic freebie for all of you web designers out there, you’ll love this:) Designed by Land-of-Web, the Colorful 3D UI Kit comes in .psd format and is full of beautifully designed modern web elements covering almost all aspects of web design, including: • Drop-Downs, Silders & Progress Bars • Switches, Tabs, Icons, Tool-Tips and many useful Navigation Elements • Search and Select Boxes • Media Control Buttons and Mini Player UI Kit Preview Download the UI Kit [...]
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January 24, 2012 at 8:24 pm Comments (0)
Filed under app, book, Button, buttons, CSS, Design, dev, font, HTML, icon, Icons, jQuery, mobile, plugin, Resource, Resources, Template, Text, Tutorial, Twitter, web, Weekly News by Paul Andrew
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This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy If you would like to receive our daily updates and kepp up to date with the latest and greatest articles and resources from the design community, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebookor by subscribing to our RSS feed. git – the simple guide – no deep shit! Things We Wish Clients Would Say IE6 declared [...]
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January 17, 2012 at 8:59 am Comments (0)
Filed under buttons, free downloads, Freebies, grafpedia, Icons, pagination, Ribbons, stickers, ui, User Interface by Walter
Today we have a great exclusive freebie from our good friends at Grafpedia. The Balio UI Kit is an absolutely massive PSD file containing buttons, stickers, icons, pagination, menus, login forms and much much more. It’s a very high quality UI kit that can come in really handy for your designs. The set was designed [...]
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January 13, 2012 at 9:49 am Comments (0)
Filed under app, Button, buttons, Design, email, font, forms, Graphic, Inspiration, minimal, Resource, Resources, showcase, theme, Typography, web, Web Design, Web Inspiration by Jameel Khan
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A charity or cause may not need the sleek sales pages of a business on the web, but a poorly designed one could still mean the difference between helping people or failing to do so. Therefore, a non profit website design should be appealing enough to invite the organization’s targeted donors and volunteers. The basics of web design are enough to make a difference – An easy to navigate and user friendly website with careful use of fonts, colors and [...]
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January 6, 2012 at 7:56 am Comments (0)
Filed under Ajax, app, Application, book, Button, buttons, CSS, Design, dev, development, editor, email, flash, forms, Graphic, HTML, Inspiration, iphone, javascript, jQuery, map, mobile, plugin, Resource, Resources, Template, Text, theme, Tutorial, Twitter, Typography, Video, web, Web Apps, Web Design, Web Tools, Wordpress by Paul Andrew
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As a developer, anything that can save you just a little bit of time is well worth its weight in gold. If you agree with that statement, you will love this. What we have for you is our selection of the best, the most useful and the most innovative tools and resources from 2011. That includes frameworks, boilerplates, apps, Javascript resources, CSS3 animations tools…and on…and on. So, no matter what, you are guaranteed to discover something completely new and really, [...]
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December 15, 2011 at 7:40 am Comments (0)
Filed under Best of the web, buttons, Icons, Tools, Web Applications by AN Jay
There are many websites out there for generation and creation of graphical elements, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why I am sharing Five Online Graphic Makers To Create Simple Design Elements. Read each entry in the list and see which one suits your needs best.
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December 7, 2011 at 9:28 pm Comments (0)
Filed under app, Button, buttons, CSS, Design, dev, development, effects, flash, font, forms, HTML, iphone, javascript, jQuery, Logo, mobile, plugin, showcase, Template, Text, theme, Tutorial, Typography, Video, web, Web Design by Oleg Mokhov
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What an exciting web development year we have had (OK, its not quite finished, but almost). HTML5 and CSS3 have forced there way into the mainstream, responsive layouts techniques are rapidly moving towards being the standard, sites like Dribble, Forrst and GitHub have offered a fantastic platform to both inspire and share new ideas and solutions, and of course, as it always reliably does year after year, the jQuery community has released a colossal amount of really, really useful plugins. [...]
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December 7, 2011 at 11:16 am Comments (0)
Filed under app, book, Button, buttons, CSS, Design, dev, development, effects, flash, forms, Graphic, HTML, Inspiration, javascript, jQuery, Logo, magazine, plugin, showcase, Template, Text, Tutorial, web, Web Design, Wordpress by Jake Rocheleau
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JavaScript libraries such as jQuery have fundamentally shifted the course of web development. It is now easier than ever to prototype UI functionality, animations, slideshows, and of course dynamic navigation. I feel this tremendous growth is allowing for developers to build page elements with less time and more overall browser support. In this guide I’d like to spend some time examining the functions of sub-navigation. Not only covering the realm of JavaScript, but also user experience and key design tips [...]
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November 30, 2011 at 9:51 am Comments (0)
Filed under app, Button, buttons, CSS, Design, dev, effects, flash, font, forms, Graphic, HTML, javascript, jQuery, Logo, magazine, mobile, Text, theme, Tutorial, Twitter, Typography, Video, web, Web Design by Jake Rocheleau
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In web design we frequently assume any layout with a spiffy logo and graphics will work out perfect. But designing for the web goes much deeper than attractive page graphics. The entire user experience comes into play and you have to account for a number of anomalies in your layout. In this article I’d like to examine some tips on designing your web layouts focused around page content. Each type of website is built around a different task and expects [...]
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November 21, 2011 at 8:16 am Comments (0)
Filed under app, Application, Button, buttons, CSS, Design, dev, development, editor, Fireworks Extensions, font, Graphic, HTML, icon, Icons, Illustrator, iphone, Logo, mobile, photoshop, Resource, Resources, Template, Text, Tutorial, Vector, Video, web, Web Design, Wireframe by Oleg Mokhov
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Adobe Fireworks is one of the most popular application choices amongst web designers for wireframing and prototyping. There are many reasons as to why you should use Fireworks over any other graphic editor, but we won’t go into them with this post (perhaps you could try this one: A Case for Adobe Fireworks against Photoshop and Illustrator). What this post will offer is a comprehensive starting point and reference for any designer who would like to take those first Fireworks [...]
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November 7, 2011 at 8:00 am Comments (0)
Filed under app, Application, Button, buttons, CSS, Design, dev, development, font, javascript, mobile, Resource, Resources, Template, web, Web Design, Web Tools by Lin Edwards
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Anything that can save time for a web developer is well worth its weight in gold. Whether you’re looking to cut loading time for your website or make light work of placing interactive elements into a design, these four tools could help speed things up: YUI Compressor With more web traffic than ever coming from smartphones, it’s crucial that web developers keep code lightweight. One excellent way to cut down on bandwidth-eating excess code is to use the YUI Compressor. [...]
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November 6, 2011 at 8:55 am Comments (0)
Filed under Button, buttons, Design, dev, email, HTML, minimal, mobile, Text, web, Web Design by Blake Sanders
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These days, it’s not about how much traffic you can drive to your website but how many visitors you actually turn into customers. Effective website testing, namely through multivariate testing, can help increase site performance and conversions. With multivariate testing, you experiment with a variety of options for one design element in determining the winning combination. Dramatic increases can be seen through testing different copy text, form layouts and even landing page images and background colors. From looking at the [...]
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November 4, 2011 at 7:56 am Comments (0)
Filed under app, Button, buttons, CSS, Design, dev, development, font, forms, HTML, iphone, javascript, jQuery, mobile, plugin, Text, theme, Tutorial, Video, web, Web Design, Wordpress by Paul Andrew
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The most popular topic of discussion at the moment is undoubtedly responsive layouts in web design. Without going discussing too much what you will already know, a responsive layout allows you to offer a specific and optimised screen size based on whatever device (mobile, tablet…) the visitor uses. You would typically use Media Queries to resize the overall layout, but what about all of those individual elements and features that make your page unique? Navigation, forms, images, sliders, carousels… they [...]
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October 24, 2011 at 9:56 am Comments (0)
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