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A Look at Inspiring Website Designs of Musicians

Tom Ross — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:00:20 +0000

As with designer's, musician's websites are often some of the most creative, and for good reason. The website designs of musicians should ideally epitomize their sound in a visual medium. It should capture their brand in an online presence.

ZOCIAL – CSS3 SOCIAL BUTTONS

Hirvesh — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:21:00 +0000

Zocial is a collection of free social media button written entirely in CSS3, free to use in any project. Here is a list of features of these buttons: @font-face icons custom font file for all social icons em sizing based on button font-size su...

Useful CSS Snippets for Your Coding Arsenal

Kevin Muldoon — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:01:17 +0000

CSS is a beautiful language but it can also be frustrating at times. Certain CSS solutions don't work on certain browsers (cough Internet Explorer cough) and much of your time can be spent debugging code.

Creative Uses of Illustration in Web Design

Nousheen Aquil — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:00:42 +0000

Using illustration in web design has become quite trendy these days. People love to see beautifully designed illustration based websites because they stand out from the rest. Not only because of the beautiful illustrative art work and carefully crafted web designs but also because of the perfect balance struck between these two important components.

The New Redesign Rules of the Web

Robert Bowen — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:00:31 +0000

With the ever-changing landscape that is the internet, web designers and developers are constantly tasked with redesigning some part of the web. Whether it be for our own sites or for those of a client, redesigning is a big part of working in the field right now. For whatever reasons, be it the growth and popular new directions of the web, or even a desire to keep your brand fresh, the web these days seems to be in a constant state of redesign.

The Proxority Principle in Web Design

Jacob Gube — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:27:11 +0000

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In web design, the position of design elements and the layout of web pages is everything. So many cool, exciting techniques are available to help us lay out our designs (especially with CSS3 at our disposal) that we often forget that structure is as important as aesthetics. How do you determine where content should appear, [...]

Immortal Technique: A Quick Look at Minimalism

Kendra Gaines — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:15:20 +0000

There's a little bit of murmuring going on that the design technique, most affectionally referred to as minimalism, is dying and/or dead. I couldn't disagree more. I believe that minimalism is not dead, mainly because people don't quite realize what it is.

40 CSS Reference Websites and Resources

Kevin Muldoon — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:00:08 +0000

If you want to design websites or modify your existing website design, then you need to have at least a basic knowledge of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Thankfully, CSS is a very easy language to get to a grip on, however you may find it takes a little more time to master it.

Exclusive Vector Freebie: New Social Media Icon Set

Noupe Editorial — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:00:20 +0000

As we are always looking for ways to show our appreciation to our readers, and provide you all with exciting and useful web design and development related resources we have a special treat that hits both of those marks. Today we have a brand new exclusive freebie for Noupe and all fans of fresh and sharply designed social media icons. From the creative mind of one of our regular Illustrator experts, Jasmina Stanojevic, comes this handy new set of vector designs.

A Review of a Web Designer’s 2011 Predictions

Jacob Gube — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:00:11 +0000

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This will be the third year that I’ve sat down in front on my keyboard to write my predictions of things that will shape the Web industry in the coming year. Before I share my predictions with you for 2012 (which I’ll do in another article), I thought I’d look at my 2011 predictions first [...]