Designers tend to be perfectionists, as everything they do has to fit in place precisely the way they intend it to be whether based on concepts or imagination. Most browsers tend to default to Times New Roman or the likes, which does not quite blend in with sleek, imaginative, and very creative designs. (more…)
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Slideshows and image galleries are all the rage at the moment, there are loads of new techniques, plugins and tutorials cropping up everywhere. In this design news round-up we have chosen our favorites from recent weeks.
Negative space is an important element of marketing and design. With logo design and other print design, the use of negative space takes thought and planning. It is not something to be overlooked or avoided. Great design works takes all the space into consideration, both used and used elements. Read more
It doesn’t matter whether you are a seasoned Photoshop pro or a novice, there are two things both levels have in common – a passion for learning new techniques and a huge desire to improve their skills. And as far as Photoshop tutorials go, text effects are one of the most popular techniques designers choose to follow, and in this round-up we have chosen five in which we are sure you will love.
Whether you are testing themes submitted to your service or your own work, we always find ourselves searching for quick ways to browser test and or validate our work. Sometimes we may end up using a genre of tools to get what we wanted and most of the time we develop a set of favorite methods and tools to achieve it. Read more
One of the most difficult tasks web designers have to tackle is ensuring that all web pages work consistently across all web browsers. As the most of you will already know, this is no easy task. And recently, on Design Reviver Answers, this topic was brought up in discussion, and we would like to share with you some of the tips that were offered from our readers, and we would love to hear about any more you may have.
There are hundreds of ways to writing out code with hundreds of methods to achieve certain functionality. However, out of these many ways of writing code to get to the final product, there are many habits that are not great to the programmer or to the functionality of what you are trying to achieve. Furthermore, we discuss 10 tips for improving and writing better PHP code. Read more
CSS which stands for Cascading Style Sheets is a language to give better look and feel to the pages created on any markup languages like HTML, XHTML, and XML etc. CSS was first introduced in December of 1996. The purpose to launch the CSS is to make the presentation of the HTML and XHTML pages more attractive, easy and understanding. HTML here stands for Hyper Text Markup Language which was first launched in 1991, and was introduced by Berners-Lee. So from 1997 onwards these both the languages works together to make websites more perfect and eye catching. At present there would not be any website on the web which would not be using CSS, whether it is using HTML or XHTML or XML or any other markup language, it’s the different thing. But thinking about the website without the work of CSS is second to impossible. Read more
There is a plethora of ways to increase conversion rates, but a couple of ways are often disregarded as important, when they truly are. In order to show the importance of accessibility and usability, here we’re going to take a look at a variety of tips that’ll help increase conversion rates through them. Read more
The arrival of HTML5 and CSS3 has given web designers a major sense of excitement by offering a broader range of options, creative opportunities and shortcuts for designing a web page. We could talk about all of these new features endlessly, instead, to keep things simple, we have highlighted four web tutorials that make use of HTML5 and CSS3 perfectly and that demonstrate effectively the potential power of these fantastic technologies.
We’re are going to immortalize the iconic Bob Marley on a brick wall – graffiti style. Graffiti has come a long way to the point that its argued by some to be respectable works of art for it was and still is considered as rude and destructive in the public sphere. On count, it is highly expressive and does lend to images/text powerful forms representation.Same goes for this tutorial where we’ll be applying Layer masks and Blend modes to merge a grunge-like image of Bob Marley with a brick wall.
Learn how to create an interactive photo stack in Flash with no keyframes and just a few lines of ActionScript.
A huge resource of grunge style design elements.
A quick and easy technique for creating light streaks in photoshop.
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