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Comics of the week #180
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers. These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world [...]
Flat design sites that work
Whilst the term “flat design” might not be a phrase you’re yet familiar with, you will definitely have noticed the concept and the design features whilst browsing the internet. For those of you that have noticed an increase in the “drop shadow” trend in web design, the easiest way to describe flat design is to [...]
Inspiring Examples of Negative Space in Logos
Advertise here with BSA When properly applied, the negative space effect can result in a clever and elegant logo. Negative space is the empty space between the main elements of a design and good designers know how to take advantage of this to create something that is memorable and captures the imagination. So, today we gathered some inspiring examples [...]
How to launch a startup
We all know that there are a few differences between small businesses and larger corporations, especially when they begin considering the web design aspect of their marketing plan and branding. And while for the most part, the nuts and bolts basics are often the same for both, small business owners and freelancers often have to [...]
35 Website Layouts using Flat Design Techniques
Advertise here with BSA The minimalist flat design trends have been pouring out onto the Internet in recent months. I have witnessed a large number of new UI kits and website designs full of colorful flat buttons, links, navigation items, and input forms. These are not exclusive UI elements but just a few examples to show how quickly the [...] Advertise here with BSA
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
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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 [...]
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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
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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 [...]
