In General Aug 5, 200836
14 of the Most Useful Web Design Blogs
There is definitely not a shortage of web design blogs floating around the web, and it’s easy to understand why. Web designers can utilize skills that they already have to get a good looking blog up and running with relative ease. Out of these blogs there are a handful that really stand out in terms of useful content. (more…)
Read moreIn Tutorials Aug 4, 200810
10 Excellent CSS Tips and Tutorials
CSS is a technology that web designers use everyday, but yet it is something that most struggle with as well. Whether it’s keeping stylesheets for large sites manageable, or creating image effects that are cross browser compatible, there are plenty of things to cause frustration. This article is an attempt to provide you with a few resources that might help you with your CSS woes or introduce you to a few tricks you didn’t know about. Read the rest of this entry »
In Freebies Jul 29, 20089
Watercolor Roundup: 200+ Beautiful Brushes and Textures
Watercolor effects are a hot trend right now in web design. It seems like we are seeing at least one or two sites featuring this style show up on the design galleries every week. Adding watercolor elements to a design can definitely give it an artistic appearance, and when done well, can make a website look as if it was scanned from a canvas. Read the rest of this entry »
In General Jul 28, 200817
10 of the Best Color Resources and Tools
Color plays an important role in the way we communicate with each other. Color not only helps give a design visual beauty, but it can also make a person react or feel a certain way. This feeling may be on a subconscious level, but it could affect the way that person thinks about a product or service. That’s why it is so important to choose the right palette when creating a new design. Here are some resources and tools to help you choose that perfect color palette Read the rest of this entry »
In Freebies Jul 21, 200832
400+ High Quality Patterns
Patterns can be found every where. Most commonly we can see them in fabric and wallpaper, but they also make great visual elements for web design. Here is a collection of patterns of all shapes, sizes, and color. Some are images, and some are pattern files for Photoshop and Illustrator. Read the rest of this entry »
In Inspiration Jul 20, 20089
15 Amazing 3D Flash Websites
A couple of months ago, I wrote a tutorial on Getting Started with 3D in Flash. It demonstrated how easy it is to use Papervision3D to produce a real time 3D interface within the Flash player. But so much more can be done with Papervision3D and other 3D engines for Flash. Here is a showcase of sites that take the 3D interface and environment to the next level. Read the rest of this entry »
In General Jul 16, 20086
Font Resources: Create, Organize, Identify, and Test
Who doesn’t love fonts! Collecting them is easy, storing them takes minimal space, and most of them are free. But when your collection becomes rather large, do you have the proper resources to organize and test them? Have you ever ran across a website with a beautiful font that you wanted to identify? Or have you ever wanted to create your own font for the sake of tinkering? Well in this article we link a bunch of font resource websites to help answer the above questions. Read the rest of this entry »
