Filed under navigation, Showcases, Visual Design, Web Design by Justin Mifsud
When users land on your website, they typically read the content available. Then, the next thing that they will do is to try and familiarize themselves with your website. Most of the time this involves looking for navigation.
In this article, I’ll be analyzing the navigation elements of a particular category of websites, i.e. portfolios. Why portfolios, you ask? Because they represent an interesting blend of creativity and development techniques.
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March 26, 2012 at 2:46 pm Comments (0)
Filed under Design, Inspiration, Showcases, Web Design by Richard Shepherd
In 2011 we saw the rise in popularity of two relatively new trends: responsive Web design and the use of HTML’s canvas. While some websites had experimented with both, in the last 12 months we’ve seen these trends move from the fringes firmly into the mainstream.
Responsive Web design is more a concept than a technology — an ideal that many new websites aspire to. Canvas, on the other hand, is an HTML5-based technology that opens the door to a new wave of interactivity.
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March 8, 2012 at 2:32 pm Comments (0)
Filed under Design, Showcases, Web Design by Jeremy Girard
As Web designers and developers, each project we work with has a unique set of goals and requirements. But one goal we have for all of our projects is that we want them to make an impression on people — we want the websites that we create to be memorable.
A fun experience is often an enjoyable one and an enjoyable experience is usually a memorable one. Therefore, it stands to reason that one of the ways to create a memorable experience is to make it a fun experience. In this article, we’ll take a look at how adding a bit of “fun” into the mix can help us produce more engaging, and hopefully more successful, websites.
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February 24, 2012 at 6:07 pm Comments (0)
Filed under gmail, productivity, Resources, Showcases by Kevin Muldoon
Gmail exploded onto the internet in 1994 offering users a whopping 1GB of storage. This was unheard of at the time with the largest email service Hotmail only offering a few megabytes of storage. Currently Gmail offers 7GB of free storage with competitors such as Hotmail offering 5GB of storage and Yahoo offering an unlimited amount.
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February 7, 2012 at 9:03 am Comments (0)
Filed under Design, illustration, Showcases, Web Design by Nousheen Aquil
Using illustration in web design has become quite trendy these days. People love to see beautifully designed illustration based websites because they stand out from the rest. Not only because of the beautiful illustrative art work and carefully crafted web designs but also because of the perfect balance struck between these two important components.
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January 26, 2012 at 9:00 am Comments (0)
Filed under Design, Facebook Fan Pages, Showcases by Kevin Muldoon
Facebook has become an essential part of promoting a website or service online. Small blogs, discussion forums and huge commercial companies such as Coca-Cola and McDonalds are all using Facebook to promote their brand and interact with fans and customers.
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November 9, 2011 at 11:00 am Comments (0)
Filed under Design, donation page, Showcases by Noupe Editorial
As web designers and developers we tend to view the web somewhat differently than most. Our work keeps our focus tuned to the finer points of the field as we browse, even in our time off. We tend to get inspiration from this way of seeing the web. Hints of techniques or approaches to attempt for our next projects emerge from all corners of the web. And given that our next client could emerge from any arena, we need to be prepared for any and everything…
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September 8, 2011 at 10:00 am Comments (0)
Filed under Inspiration, Showcases by Simon Schmid
Google+, Hipster, Connect.me and Instagram! They all hit a gazillion users in no time at all?—?and you can even read all about it in everyday media today. This is every product creator’s dream. Ok, granted, Google already had their users well before the launch of its social extension. But how did the other ones succeed in building such a strong fellowship in a few months (or even days)?
Turns out that many of these services’ creators were very busy bees and made small details about their product’s launch addictive. It even turns out that many start-ups were indeed able to launch to a strong following (not much unlike Google+) through collecting interested users, email addresses, Twitter followers in any way they could well ahead of their public appearance using a combination of very common and old marketing strategies with clever launch pages.
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September 1, 2011 at 1:16 pm Comments (0)
Filed under 404 page, Showcases, webdesign by Aquil Akhter
When designing a website, many of us just neglect the error pages considering them insignificant. But the fact is many visitors come across these 404 error pages either because of typing a wrong URL or due to any other number of technical reasons.
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August 25, 2011 at 10:00 am Comments (0)
Filed under Italy, Showcases, webdesign by Otba Mushaweh
Last week we had a showcase of Italian web design from a member of the Italian web design community. This week we have a showcase from a different perspective. This week, we have a showcase and look at Italian web design from a designer outside of that community. Complete with interviews and more, this second installment will hopefully paint a fuller picture of the state of the web design industry in Italy.
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August 22, 2011 at 10:00 am Comments (0)
Filed under Showcases, webdesign, worldwide by Fabio Paita
It all started in the middle 90s. The Internet in Italy was slowly coming out from its early age when it was somehow still synonymous with cyber-culture. World Wide Web was becoming larger known and young dudes with 14k remote modem connections were spending their nights updating rudimentary personal pages on Geocities all along the Belpaese.
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August 15, 2011 at 10:00 am Comments (0)
Filed under Showcases, webdesign by Nousheen Akhter
These days, black and white website designs are becoming a trend because of their simplicity and attractiveness. Black and white website layouts are especially elegant, efficient and effective for creating expansive typographic layouts that create a huge impact when partnered with the freshness and mystery these two simple colors bring to the design.
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August 12, 2011 at 10:00 am Comments (0)
Filed under Showcases, webdesign, worldwide by Marilina Maraviglia
Last week we brought you the first installment of an inspiring look at the state of the web design industry in the country of Argentina. This week we cap off the look with more insightful interviews, site showcases, recommendations and more. Let’s dive right in.
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August 8, 2011 at 10:00 am Comments (0)
Filed under Showcases, webdesign, worldwide by Marilina Maraviglia
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Argentina is a melting pot of races and cultures, and its people have developed a complex identity. Tango, political passion and soccer are just some of the features of this South American country’s make-up.
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August 1, 2011 at 10:00 am Comments (0)
Filed under Showcases, webdesign, worldwide by Elja Friedman
By Jóhanna Símonardóttir and Margrét Dóra Ragnarsdóttir. An island isolated right by the Arctic circle doesn’t seem a likely arena for vivid Web design, but that is indeed the case with Iceland. Iceland is an exemplary Web market because no other country has higher Internet penetration: a whooping 92%! The good news for Web [...]
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July 25, 2011 at 10:00 am Comments (0)
Filed under Illustrator, Showcases, Text Effects, Tutorial by Aquil Akhter
Adobe Illustrator is a powerful tool that you can create fluffy, vague, sparkling, gelatinous, glossy, glittery, retro and revolutionary effects with. Creating a particular text effect in Illustrator is not that difficult now; thanks to the availability of huge number of tutorials that guide you through each step. Here we have gathered a collection [...]
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July 22, 2011 at 10:00 am Comments (0)
Filed under Showcases, webdesign, worldwide by Fabio Sasso
We live in a global world that has an overflow of information. The Internet has given us access to very different cultures and allowed us to share much more information than ever before. But do different regions have their own specific Web design trends? Design usually has to do with creating a product or [...]
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July 18, 2011 at 10:00 am Comments (0)
Filed under Design, kids, Showcases by David Morrison
Designing websites and related media for kids presents plenty of opportunities for Web designers. Openings are available at many businesses and schools, as well as through parents and kids themselves, giving designers many ways to find work on electronic and print projects that appeal to kids. The types of work range from interface designs for video games to websites for birthday parties.
There was a time when kids’ websites were brash and busy, packed with colors and cartoon typography. Fortunately, the scale of the children’s market across most product ranges has resulted in rapid innovation in recent years. Most websites aimed at children (or children and adults) now follow principles that take some account of kids’ perspectives on Web design.
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July 6, 2011 at 1:47 pm Comments (0)
Filed under 3D, Design, Maya, modeling, Showcases, Tutorial by Bhanu Ahluwalia
3ds MAX, Maya, Zbrush, RealFlow & VRay are all highly regarded software solutions that not only model but also animate, render and create realistic designs. They produce mesmerizing results that can take nearly anything that you can imagine, and transform it into a breathtaking reality. These programs have become something of a magic wand [...]
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July 6, 2011 at 10:00 am Comments (0)
Filed under artworks, digital, sculptures, Showcases by Claire Stokoe
Virtual sculpture artists are immersed in the digital world. They’re not to be confused with digital sculpture or info sculpture artists, who use computer-aided design (CAD) to create physical objects. Sculpture is thought to be one of the truest forms of art, perhaps because it is tangible. You can see and feel the product; [...]
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July 5, 2011 at 10:00 am Comments (0)
