These days blogs come a dime a dozen, so making a highly creative design that captivates the viewer and gets their attention is a key component in having a successful blog. Your content might be killer, and your personality might click well with millions of people, but without holding the attention of an audience who […]
Archives for November 2009
10 Things You Must Do Before A New Site Or Blog Launch
Launching a new website can be an intense experience. Preparing yourself for the launch and making sure you’ve got all your ducks in a row will ensure that your launch is successful. Today, I want to discuss with you ten things you must do before a new site launch. Please note that not all items […]
40 Beautiful Dark Website Designs
Today we are going to showcase 40 beautiful dark website designs. We’ve previously wrote about dark minimalist designs & dark website designs so we’re no strangers to killer dark website designs. There are a lot of cool designs that are professional and portray the skill levels of the designers and they don’t have to be […]
10 Must Have Hacks For WordPress Development
Building your own wordpress themes will open your eyes to a lot of things, mainly the fact that you’ll be retyping a lot of code over and over and over again. So in this post I am going to show you ten wordpress code hacks that you can add to your arsenal that will not […]
The Anatomy Of An Infographic: 5 Steps To Create A Powerful Visual
Information is very powerful but for the most bit it is bland and unimaginative. Infographics channel information in a visually pleasing, instantly understandable manner, making it not only powerful, but extremely beautiful. Once used predominantly to make maps more approachable, scientific charts less daunting and as key learning tools for children, inforgraphics have now permeated […]
50 Awesome Submissions From The CSS Awards
The CSS Awards website is like a regular CSS gallery on steroids. It’s not only a showcase of some of the most kick ass web designs around, it also gives a break down of each site and what they rate the sites in forms of design, creativity, usability and content. Today we’re going to feature […]
5 Damn Easy Ways To Improve User Experience
It’s no secret that in order to build a successful website or web community you have to design with the users in mind. Of course you can’t forget about optimizing for search engines, but let’s focus on the visitors since they’re the ones who are using your site and interacting with it. You probably visit […]
Grunge In Web Design: Samples And Best Practices
With the major focus for web design lately shifting to the minimal designs, apple inspired designs and clean cut layouts, it’s about time someone stands up and showcases the awesomeness that is grunge! I guess I’ll have to be that person today :) Grunge has undoubtedly become my favorite form of design and I know […]
How To Design A Hand-Drawn Vector Pattern Using Pencils, Photoshop And Illustrator
Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about seamless patterns. Specifically, I’ve been working on various techniques for creating them. Obviously, there are a number of different ways you can go about this, and in this tutorial I’m going to show you how to take a single hand drawn element and transform it […]
80+ Typography Related Twitter Accounts To Follow
With the ever growing popularity of Twitter it’s no surprise to see that a lot of designers and developers have adopted Twitter and use it to connect with other designers and share links, quotes, ideas, etc… So, since I’m addicted to typography, I thought I’d share my list of people I follow. This list contains […]
