In this category you will find articles about web design, web development and related topics. Here we also feature inspirational collections, opinions and articles about best practices.
By Gisele Muller on
Wikipedia tells us that "thumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures, used to help in recognizing and organizing them, serving the same role for images as a nor ...
By Patrick Cox on
Designing and developing a web project is difficult enough, but adding project management, invoicing, hosting, file sharing, and staying on task to the mix? That's e ...
By Patrick Cox on
When I design landing pages I don't try to cram everything above the fold and clutter up the top 500 pixels of my design, but I do like to design so that images, hea ...
By Gisele Muller on
Following the recent trend of using big background images in web design, we decided to gather a list of websites using portraits in their layouts. So at this showcas ...
By Patrick Cox on
Implied textural designs are not new to the interwebs. Most of the time texture is used as a design device to add depth, dimension, or just used to spice up a bland ...
By Mary Lou on
The use of the parallax effect or parallax scrolling effect in websites can add a nice three dimensional depth illusion to the design and make the visit very interes ...
By Patrick Cox on
The more comfortable users are with your website the more likely they are to enjoy their experience and come back for another visit. Make them feel at home with a fa ...
By Gisele Muller on
Designing the perfect navigation for a website it's one of the main keys to have a good outcome, to have a website that gets users attentions and make them want to b ...
By Patrick Cox on
Kryptonite is to Superman as the browser is to the web designer. The lives of web designers everywhere would be much better if browsers would render their beautiful ...
By Kayla Knight on
For all websites, organizing content can be an issue. With poorly planned content placement, the visitor may not know where to look, or when. Disorganization can als ...
By Mary Lou on
Image sliders and sideshows have become an essential element in web design. They are a great way to display information and visual content in an interesting way. Fro ...
By Patrick Cox on
The problem with web fonts is that nobody wants to use the ‘safe’ fonts and you need as much live text on your site as possible. So what’s a design ...
By Gisele Muller on
Of course we all love the basics when it comes to web design, we like columns, grids, organized and well disposed content... but that doesn't mean we don't like crea ...
By Patrick Cox on
I am proposing a new buzzword to replace all other web design buzzwords. Forget ‘Graceful Degradation’, lose ‘Progressive Enhancement’, drop ...
By Mary Lou on
An interesting way to spice up a web design is to add some depth to it. Instead of making a design flat, certain elements and techniques can stimulate the depth perc ...
By Gisele Muller on
When designing a website we have a lot of elements to worry about: menus, navigations buttons, forms, header, footer and many other important details that make our d ...
By Patrick Cox on
With smartphone subscriptions projected to climb above 50% of the market by the end of 2011, designing for mobile browsers and touch devices is now reaching critical ...
By Gisele Muller on
When designing a website you can use several effects to drive attention to an element, emphasize something or simply to give your page an unique and personal touch. ...
By Patrick Cox on
In fine art, visual movement is used to guide the viewer through the piece. Lines, shapes, color, depth and hierarchy can all be used to guide the viewer from one po ...
By Stelian Subotin on
Portfolios are a great opportunity to show your potential clients and customers what you have created and what you are capable of. It can also be a playground for id ...
By Patrick Cox on
I’m totally guilty on this one Your Honor. I have copied sites before, but I have learned my lesson and I will never do it again. I promise. Why do we do it? A ...
By Gisele Muller on
UI elements - user interface elements - are a really important part of the design process. They are what we can call the face of interaction between your site and it ...
By Mary Lou on
It is interesting to explore the design of websites associated to a certain category. There are many collections out there that showcase websites from certain areas, ...
By Mary Lou on
The other day it came to my attention that there are so many beautiful social bookmark icon sets around but no blog seems to use them. Now, that has to do a lot with ...