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28 Fresh Free Fonts

Advertise here with BSA In this post we have put together some high quality free fonts. If you like these fonts you might also want to check out our previous posts below. 22 Fresh And Free Fonts For Your Design 30 Free And High Quality Fonts Iron Typeface Advertise here with BSA

Deal of the week: 54% off PsDefaults

It’s easy to become jaded with an application, especially an application like Photoshop, where you open up a new document to be presented with a blank screen. Professional results are easy to achieve with the right know-how, but professional results take time to produce even for experienced artworkers. So this week our sister site, MightyDeals.com, [...]

Facebook redesign

The long, painful and drawn-out death of skeuomorphic design lurched forward another step this week with a redesign by the world’s biggest social media site, Facebook. The new look is spearheaded by a logomark that is a simplified version of the pre-existing one. Although the full Facebook logo will remain unchanged, the round-cornered square with [...]

Coding an Image Thumbnail Hover Magnify Effect with jQuery

Advertise here with BSA I have run into a number of simple effects to generate image magnification. You can sometimes find this on e-commerce websites for product images when you hover onto the thumbnail and a bigger zoom effect will display. This is a great technique no matter what type of website you have. But I was running into [...] Advertise here with BSA

Why should you become retina ready?

Oh, look! It’s a brand spanking new, shiny technological feature. And it probably helps that it’s being implemented by Apple products. A couple of great sites (like this one) have already started using it. What does it do? Will it be around forever? What does it mean and when or why should I try it? [...]

Back By Popular Demand

Advertise here with BSA LearnWebDevelopment.com initially planned to wait until Fall 2013 to host another WordPress Bootcamp. But, their students had other intentions. Due to popular demand, and the growing desire to learn WordPress,...Show More Summary

Are you a font nerd?

A few weeks ago, we posted a nifty quiz to test your prowess at differentiating between Helvetica and Arial. If that typography challenge succeeded in whetting your whistle for font games, a new app design is ready to take you to the next level of typographic deduction. Designed by Copenhagen-based designer Andreas Hansen, Font Nerd is [...]

Freelance vs. Agency – Which is Better at Selling Web Design?

Advertise here with BSA Prior to selling my web agency last year and starting uGurus, a new venture to help web professionals become more profitable, I pitched a lot of website projects. Unfortunately for a lot of freelancers, I was the “other company” that the customer decided to move forward with. Like Beatrix vs. Master Pai Mei, it wasn’t a [...]

To flat or not to flat?

Solid piece by Nick Bilton in the New York Times about the trend of flat UI: The Flattening of Design Several thoughts: 1) I’m not convinced that flat UI is a good thing…in my experience it does make UIs seem simpler but often at the expense of visual priority and affordances. Many flat UIs suffer [...] The post To flat or not to flat? appeared first on Bokardo.

How to create a great ‘about’ page

Here’s one thing that never made sense to me: people make websites so others can find out more about them, but most “About Us” pages absolutely suck. They’re either really long and boring or really short and mysterious. Not many people understand the best way to go about these pages. Many believe the “About Us” [...]

35 Creative Single Page Portfolio Designs

Advertise here with BSA In this post we have collected some beautiful single page portfolio designs. Be sure to check out our previous posts on the portfolio sites below. Enjoy! 35 Nice Single Page Web Designs 45 Portfolio Sites Mariusz Advertise here with BSA

How to use HTML5 audio (part 1)

The introduction of the HTML5 spec introduced new tags for presenting media on a webpage; the and tags, rendering the tag no longer fit for video and audio streaming. These new tags have made it considerably easier to add rich media content to your design, and in today’s video tutorial, I’ll be [...]

8 Beautiful and Free Flat Icon Sets

Advertise here with BSA For the past few years in web design, we’ve noticed a trend in moving toward simplicity and minimalism. It seems that designers are realizing that you don’t have to over design something just because you can, or because you have the software to do it. It’s become more about the content and less about the [...]

Mobile first: Luke Wroblewski interview

The Mobile First philosophy has radically changed how professionals approach Web design and become the way companies as diverse as Facebook and IBM build their products. The Mobile First approach is to start designing for mobile devices — which typically have less screen size and less capabilities than desktops — and progressively enhance the product; [...]

How to use the download attribute

HTML5 came with all new APIs, new input types and attributes for forms. As is often the case, those major additions often obscure the minor upgrades and I think that this is particularly true of the download attribute. As you know, there are some files that the browser doesn’t automatically download; images, other web pages [...]

21 Inspiring Clean Website Designs

Advertise here with BSA It’s always nice to browse some nice and clean websites. It is a good way to get inspiration for future projects and also to see how designers are delivering clean designs. Today we gathered some inspiring examples to show you that clean layouts don’t need to be plain and boring, you can have colors, textures, [...]

Getting creative with usability

When it comes to designing a truly intuitive, responsive, and coherent website that’s also unique and interesting, it often feels like it’s difficult to reconcile the two sets of priorities. But in fact, nothing is further from the truth: there are only a few fundamental ideas that need to be employed in order to easily [...]

34 Free Open Source CSS Code Snippets for Developers

Advertise here with BSA With a quick Google search you will find a ton of handy CSS2/CSS3 code snippets. But what about pre-built CSS web interfaces? There are some cool widgets and samples out there, but it can be difficult finding great high-quality releases. Show More Summary

How Facebook did UX testing for Home

Interesting piece on how Facebook did UX testing for their new Home software. Some of the more interesting bits include: Did most of the testing on Facebook employees (non-design or development) Utilized diary testing to find out about long-term effects of content (initial reaction is often positive, wanted to see how people liked it over [...]Show More Summary

Our favorite tweets of the week: April 15, 2013 – April 21, 2013

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of [...]

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