Category: Tableless web design
With high pressure from clients and crazy development schedules for web designers, it is easy to forget to spend the proper amount of time crafting a design.
In the interest of speeding things up, it’s tempting to skip over small details. This is an easy pitfall to which to succumb, but in the end, it can hurt your overall career.
This article will share methods and simple tools for building better portfolio pieces, having happier clients, and imbuing your work with more value.Continue
This article is dedicated to color theory and the use of colors in web design. Whether you are a designer or blogger who needs ideas for a color scheme or a designer in search of some color inspiration. My hope is that this site will give web designers a better understanding of color theory and the importance of colors as it applies to web design. Blue is the color of the sky. Blue is also one of the easiest color to work with, and also give a clean and bright look to your website design. Since Blue is one of the commonly color used in web design I have present to you Well designed blue websites.Continue
Graphic illustrations have become commonplace in today’s web design. They can add a unique branding element into an otherwise bland world of templates and corporate logos.
Although just 5 years ago you would be hard-pressed to find many websites looking for illustrators, times have changed, and we’re on the brink of many new and exciting web design trends.
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All great designers are constantly improving their skills. There has never been a successful designer, or anyone of another profession for that matter, that has stopped at a certain point and said, "Good enough". Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to always be learning new things, and to always be improving.Continue
Minimalism is a word that gets tossed around in a lot of different contexts. Whether it be a lifestyle or an art form, saying something is "minimalistic" can take on a variety of meanings.
In the web design field, minimalism is carving out an ever-increasing niche among designers that are looking to convey important content in a new way. Like just about any trend or theory in the web design world, minimalism can be easy to get wrong.
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HTML & CSS Web Standards Solutions – A Web Standardistas’ Approach is quite possibly one of the most authoritative books that you can learn XHTML & CSS through. This book makes learning easy opposed to monotonous reading and technical jargon. Even if you are an absolute beginner in web design, this book will teach you how to build future-proof web pages the right way using easy-to-master tools which are, in most cases, free. This book is easy to pick-up at any point, read a few chapters and learn, then practice (through there easy tutorials) and then go back to your day! However, this book is addicting and once you start catching on, you’ll want to finish and learn more!Continue
PrimaryCSS is a CSS framework which focuses only on creating the most common layouts.
It comes with 22 different layouts from single column to multi-column variations which are compatible with all major browsers.
By default, the layouts are 960px in size but they are actually fluid and work with any width.
Simply, it is a handy framework for giving a quick start to any web project and a useful guide for new-comers to web design.
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One of the hardest tasks we undertake in the user experience field is trying to gain and hold a visitor’s attention in the right way. Distinctive design and the ability to focus eyes where they are needed in our web designs is a tricky task, but is something that we should have a firm grasp of.
Understanding the artistic traits of influence and distinction allow us to balance important details over our regular content and thus gives us the opportunity to have a great impact and influence on our consumers.Continue
Adobe Photoshop is the industry-standard when it comes to creating web page layouts. Photoshop’s versatility, robust set of tools, and excellent workflow management make it the web designer’s preferred application when creating designs for the webContinue
