Choosing the right font and typography for your web projects is an important part of creating the desired aesthetic. There are many styles, trends and resources available to designers who are looking to create a cohesive, attractive and legible design through the use of high quality fonts, typography creation tools and tutorials pertaining to appropriate font usage and creation...
A website wireframe is a visual guide, or a skeletal framework that will help you define your future website’s characteristics. By wireframing you are basically defining the primary steps and the shape your website or product is going to have. One of the main purposes of wireframing is to set the main priorities and describe the functionality of your future creation.
Photoshop is one of the preferred tools of web designers, and like any other tool that is used over and over, it’s important to optimize one’s workflow by using keyboard shortcuts. So the good people at ZeroLag have put together a super handy Photoshop CS6 cheat sheet exclusively for WDL.
Designers and developers have a tough job at their hand: designing and developing. With the amount of work they are required to do in a short time is incredible, which makes their job tough, time consuming and above all quite stressful, considering they have lots of deadlines to meet. As they have a limited time to accomplish each and every detail of their project, spending time on creating certain things from scratch which are available online is not a wise thing. Thus designers and developers should definitely take advantage of resources available out there.
Designing and development resources are extremely useful as they are easy to use and allow professionals to complete their task easily, quickly and on time. Designing and developing is a full time job in which their hundred percent attention and hard work is required to create a good project; thus these resources ameliorate the work and enhance the productivity...
Creating a website or application is not limited to deciding what to put on the homepage or what photos to use to match the site’s subject. Visual designs are necessary to attract searchers and be user friendly. Therefore, project developers must first be able to visualize a good output and see how it could get the interest of people. Well, this requires lots of creativity and project managers, web designers, and developers need wireframing and prototyping tools to put up their proposed sitemaps and application flow.
It is obvious that Web designers do their best to make their sites better and more attractive to the visitors. When creating a site they must take into account every detail even the smallest and choosing a font you are going to use sometimes can bring you to a deadlock. We have previously showcased some great collections of free fonts and we are not going to stop there! We would like to present to you a really amazing collection of free download fonts collected from all over the web.
Brushes have come a long way (A LONG LONG WAY!), especially if you look at history! The first “brushes” used by man were simply sticks, split palm leaves, whalebone or even shavings of wood that they would use to spread their pigment and animal fat as early as 40,000 years ago (Don’t hate. Cavemen had to use something to make those awesome paintings on the walls of caves!).
The traditional paint brushes we see today were first made with animal hair, often of long-hair hog bristle. Other animals used for their hair include squirrel, goat, ox, badger, horse-hair, and sable (a member of the mink family – these brushes are actually considered one of the best to use for watercolor painting). The reason for the different hair types is because each possess unique characteristics and are used with the type of paint that it works best with. More recently we swapped out animal hair with synthetic bristles, which is nice lol. However, these days they are digital! Which is awesome! Life is made much easier for a lot of designers simply by the availability of brushes on the internet!
Responsive web design is itself a cool and tremendous concept that enhances user-experience while granting better usability. This concept brings to reality and breaks the feeling that a normal website design cannot fit in when it is searched through other compatible devices. Responsive web design is an augmented approach that responds perfectly well to the gadget from which it is accessed. Thanks to this greater concept but for which the use of a website in a desktop monitor might be a tough task while it is used from a mobile phone with unnecessary scrolling, resizing, panning along with a worst user-experience at the end. The three important elements of a responsive web design are flexible images, fluid grid and CSS3 media queries. What are the most predominant as well as cool tools that can aid in crafting the most efficacious responsive website design?
Smartphones and other handheld devices contribute substantially to the overall viewership of any website. Latest estimates show that it is not long before the mobile Internet users are slated to have more stake in the website usage from their desktop and laptop counterparts.
In such a scenario it would be a cardinal sin to ignore the mobile users when it comes to development of a website. Thus one of the most important stages is making a website mobile friendly is to test it for different smartphone platforms and other handheld devices. Let us take a look the importance of mobile phone emulators when it comes to designing websites.
zSpace sets out to unleash the full potential of human creativity by offering a revolutionary, interactive 3D environment for computing, creating, communication and entertainment. With zSpace, objects appear in open space, with full colour and high resolution. They appear realistically solid and can be directly manipulated as if they were real physical objects simply by using a stylus.
zSpace offers a true 3D user experience by “blending the physical world with a sensory-rich virtual world that people can naturally and intuitively manipulate and navigate.” This technology will significantly advance the way we solve problems, learn, teach, communicate, and create in our world.
This Tech Brushes are made by some dedicated designers who love doing free stuffs and share to others. Feel free to download them.
In this post we have gathered best web design sites for graphics and web designers. These are best website design sites for inspirations. Are you dying to get your eyes on buzzing trends in web-design and get feedback on what you have made? Do you have in mind a map of a website of your own, looking for ways in which to make it a piece of work that would be marveled? You must get feed-back on your work in order to improve it! And in the process, establishing a possible networking that would in turn be able to help you with your professional life ahead of you. Dribble.com is one of the many of such sites. And is an effective way to establish networking as well as getting feedback for improving what you have produced.
Whether you’re designing for the web or for print, you want your efforts to stand out. As any great graphic designer knows, the typography you use is much more than just a few letters on a page or screen – the fonts you use can tell a story.
Custom font faces are present in designs all over the web and in print. So if you’re looking for fonts with that ‘wow’ factor; you’re in luck.
There are many tools and technologies that make creating a perfect website easier for users at any level. At the same time, web design has become more complicated because of the many browsers and devices that can access a website – including mobile devices with varying screen resolutions and sizes. What looks like a beautiful, easy to navigate site in your browser can be completely non-functioning on another person’s iPhone. Fortunately, there are many tools to create a cross-technology, responsive website that lets you see how your site looks in different devices without testing it on the device itself.
Another characteristic of the site that you may find pretty valuable is the way of searching. What I mean is that Freepik doesn’t just give all the results randomly, apart from visiting hundreds of websites to fulfill your request, Freepik reads the contents and analyzes them in order to determine their value and relevance, according to your needs. Once you have found the desired file, it redirects you to the host site, simplifying the process, as you just take it from the source (respecting in this way both the host and the author’s rights over the files).
If you are feeling lost in the chaotic world of Photoshop patterns and tools, we are here to the rescue! In this round-up, we bring to you 40 awesome seamless patterns for Adobe Photoshop. So if you are looking for a seamless pattern to add some depth to your next design project. The choices are plenty — you can take your pick from fabrics, geometrical shapes, grunge, or simple lines! Your search stops here. Have fun!
On the web there are hundreds of thousands Photoshop brush sets to satisfy the needs of any designer. And the great thing is that there are many talented designers out there who choose to help the community by providing free and useful Photoshop brush sets that you can download and use in your artworks and projects. As many designers prefer to use only high quality resources, they keep their own collections which can be used whenever they need it. But sometimes it’s quite not an easy task to surf the internet searching for the right tool. That’s why we’ve decided to simplify this process for you and gathered here 40+ Fresh and Free Photoshop Brushes you might want to add to your personal collection.
Nature is always the first place to look for design ideas, and with the growth of ‘organic’ website design, this has never been more true than it is now. With a wealth of colors and surfaces, natural textures can lend themselves to almost any style of design.
So whether you are a web designer or a digital artist, there should be something in this list of 30 free packs of natural textures that will fit perfectly with one of your upcoming projects.
A great educational resource, on how to use one of Photoshop’s most powerful new features. The new content aware feature is a great addition to Photoshop. The feature allows Photoshop users to remove objects and people from photographs, while not disrupting the background of the photo, and not showing noticeable amendments.
In this resource we have produced a video screencast upon how to use the content aware feature in Photoshop, where we will guide you through the process of using the content aware tool to extract people and objects from a photography. Once you learn how to use this tool you can remove objects, people, etc from almost any photo. This is a great quick tip, which you will truly enjoy.
A great collection of website design. I'm glad they include the full website instead of just a specific part of the site - this is a good opportunity to study web layouts.
