The tool that we use to browse our favorite websites has a (relatively) long and rich history rife with battles for
market shares and dominance. This is a look into the past major events in the web browser industry.
In the past we’ve published three collections of Photoshop actions and response to those posts has been very good. Today we’ll feature 30 more actions, many of them have been released since our last collection was published. For more Photoshop actions, please see:
One of the most challenging aspects of design for many web designers is color selection. The color scheme of a site can have a huge impact on the overall look of the site, and it will have an impact on visitors as well. There are a number of different methods that can be used for finding the right color scheme for a particular project, and in this post we will look at several of those methods. Throughout the post you will find links to helpful resources that you may appreciate.
Few weeks ago we announced the Mega Freebies Day, and celebrated with a new design for Noupe. 15 generous sponsors offered to give away premium web design-related products, services & licenses just for you guys.
Over 450 wonderful readers participated in the giveaway. And the winners were randomly selected and are now announced in this post.
And [...]
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Whether you’re trying to get on the front page of Digg or just angling for a sale, writing magnetic headlines that grab your readers’ attention is everything.
But once you have their attention, you need them to read every word that you write.
You need to craft an opening made up of an [...]
In this post we release a new and free Social Media Icon Set: A Custom Icon Set, specially designed in a high quality and unique style for our readers that will hopefully meet your expectations and will come in handy in your projects.
6 beautiful and clean icons: New RSS, Twitter, Del.icio.us, Stumble Upon, Facebook and [...]
PrintRunner has offered to give 1,000 business cards each to 5 readers of Vandelay Design! PrintRunner offers a wide variety of printing services including business cards, brochures, flyers, posters.
Looking for more design inspiration? See our other galleries: CartFrenzy, Folio Focus, Minimal Exhibit, TypeInspire.
Since we have a number of different websites that publish on web design-related topics, I thought it would be beneficial to do a monthly roundup to showcase the best of the month. In this post you’ll find links to a few posts from Vandelay Design and from DesignM.ag, as well as a selection of some of the best items that were published in September at our gallery sites.
There have been 15 posts published at DesignM.ag in September. Here are four of the most popular.
15 Tips for Breaking in as a Part-Time Freelancer
IconShock has designed a set of icons specifically for DesignM.ag readers. The set includes five icons that were created for use in e-commerce websites. The icons are free for personal or commercial use.
Take a look at ten simple, effective, and useful tricks and techniques from several excellent jQuery developers and sites around the web that leverage the library to take your designs to another level.
Looking for more design inspiration? See our other galleries: CartFrenzy, Folio Focus, Minimal Exhibit, TypeInspire.
Some people are writing machines. They get an idea, pound it out in minutes, post it to their blog, and move on to something else. For the rest of the world, writing is often slow, grinding work.
But it doesn’t have to be. Anyone can write faster if they follow a 5-step formula for writing [...]
Internet Famous: A Practical Guide to Becoming an Online Celebrity is the perfect book for those of us who dream of fame, but have absolutely no idea how to go about getting it! The author, Cameron Chapman (who you may recognize as a regular contributor to Noupe), explains all of the components of social networking [...]
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Nick of ElegantThemes.com just released a killer option page for all his themes. To celebrate this great achievement, Nick decided to offer an ElegantThemes subscription to two of my readers. Just read this post to know more about Nick’s options page and the contest.
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The examples in the post show a variety of different ways to show off your best work. Many are using JavaScript, jQuery sliders are especially popular right now. Others will make use of Flash, and some will use only CSS and HTML.
Electricurrent’s portfolio includes a list of clients. Click on one of them and you will see some images from the project, along with a brief description and a link to the live site. The list of clients remains so you can quickly move through several clients without going back and forth.
Today we will be working through the process of designing a portfolio site layout in Photoshop. The tutorial will break down each step of the process, and you can download the PSD file from Folio Focus if you are interested.
Here is a look at what we will be designing in this tutorial (click on the image to see it in full size).
In this easy to follow web design tutorial, you will learn how to construct a beautiful, sleek, and professional-level weblog design using Adobe Photoshop that you can later use for your very own blog theme.
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Can social media make you famous?
Come on, you know you’ve thought about it. Who can resist dreaming about a post going viral and getting hundreds of thousands of visitors? Or having tens of thousands of followers on Twitter who follow your every move? Or checking your email and having hundreds of messages from your adoring [...]
Looking for more design inspiration? See our other galleries: CartFrenzy, Folio Focus, Minimal Exhibit, TypeInspire.
The popular Envato marketplaces (ThemeForest, GraphicRiver, FlashDen, AudioJungle, VideoHive) just got a fresh re-design, and to celebrate Envato has offered to give away $20 in free credits to five readers of Vandelay Design.
Some of the resources and ideas in this article may be things that you already know, and some may be new to you that you can try. Whatever the case, I hope you enjoy it!
You’ve probably noticed it: Noupe.com loads pretty fast. If you tried to visit Noupe in the past, you should have noticed how slowly the pages were loading and on different occasions the server was down. After dealing with different hosting companies since I started out Noupe, i have found that the quality of hosting could [...]
jQuery Tools is a collection of the most important user interface components for the web. These are tabs, accordions, tooltips, overlays and scrollables. They can dramatically improve the usability and responsiveness of your site. They mainly focus on presenting information and visual appeal. After all, this is exactly what most websites desperately want: to present [...]
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In this article, we briefly review some top-notch free desktop blog editors for you to consider.
In this installment, you’ll find resources on typography, some nice web accessibility and usability articles, and other stuff that you typically see in the series.
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