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20 Fresh jQuery Plugins to Enhance your User Interface
The great thing about jQuery is that talented jQuery developers often release new and useful plugins on a regular basis. jQuery plugins are not only easy to implement, but easy to maintain even when used throughout large sites.
In this article, we share with you a list of 20 useful jQuery plugins that were released recently that could help you for your next web project. There are various types of plugins here such as modal windows, image galleries, auto complete for form input, bookmarking functions, preloaders, and more. Enjoy!
1. SimpleModal
This jQuery plugin is a flexible and straightforward way of providing modal window functionality on your site.
2. Panel Gallery
10 Common Mistakes In Logo Design
With the power of the Web, and more eyes watching than ever, it’s important for a business to communicate its unique message clearly. The easiest way to recognize a company and distinguish it from others is by its logo. Below, we go through 10 common logo design mistakes that you should avoid if you want to create a successful and professional logo.
1. Designed By An Amateur
Avoid websites that promote ridiculously cheap logo packages. You get what you pay for.
A professional business should look professional. New business owners often invest a lot of time and money in property and equipment, but do not often match it by investing suitably in their logo.
10 Websites list of Resources for Designers and Developers
These are the sites which have a enormous list of links that are alienated up into categories and then terrified together on one giant page of possessions for web designers and developers, all these website covers mostly all topics is design and development, such as Icons, Templates, Fonts, Scripts, Color tool, CSS and more
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21 Superlative Collections of Free CMS & Resources
These days there are a ton of overwhelming Content Management System options out there that make our jobs as developers and website publishers so much easier! As the needs for businesses and website owners to preserve an up-to-date web attendance continue to grow, content management systems will only expand in attractiveness with developers and users.
So take a instant and look over the list below of the 20+ superlative collections of free CMS toolbox options available that it can be perplexing to know which one is best for a meticulous circumstances, and to know the fundamentals of what is available. In this post we’ll take a quick look at a number of dissimilar CMS options and provide some links that will help you to dig deeper with those that interest you.
And don’t forget to let us know in the comments section which is your preferred CMS and why!
Joomla
10 Web Typography Rules Every Designer Should Know
When someone visits a website you’ve designed, the odds are that they don’t care much about the colors, images or sounds, they’re immediately looking at the text.
No matter how many bells and whistles you’ve built into a website, everyone relies on text to accomplish whatever they’re visiting the site to do.
That alone should make typography, the art of arranging type, a priority for any web designer.
In this article we take a look at 10 easy rules to keep in mind when designing your next web project.
1. Read through the text yourself
With a design like JonesingFor a designer without a great grasp of the text would have struggled to put together the typography that makes this site really work. As you tackle your own typography, you probably don’t have to worry about writing a site’s text — but you do have to read it!
Some web designers think that just copying and pasting out of a text file constitutes the total of their textual duties. But reading through the text provides at least a basic idea of how the text can be integrated into a website, avoiding the disconnect between the writing and the design of a website.
You can kick your typography up yet another notch, if you can read through the text once it’s in place in your design. Take special note of the space around the letters. Do you have any unusually big spaces that look odd? A little careful typography can eliminate those issues. You can also get an idea of lines that might be too long to easily read, awkward line breaks and similar issues.
6 Reasons Why Designers Should Code
I know, I know…none of us creative types want anything to do with coding past the very basic HTML/CSS we need to know to get our designs to the developers.
Doing development is something for those programming grunts, those code jockeys, those geeks.
Why should we enter the trenches of development when it’s so nice up here with the Photoshop brushes, afternoon tea, and MacPros? Because you’ll be a better designer for it.
Skeptical? Read on and discover 6 reasons why designers should code…
1. Better XHTML
I’ve worked with and known many designers who knew only the bare minimum needed to get their designs out of Photoshop and into a web format. Oftentimes they would make use of a software program or plugin like SiteGrinder. While these programs keep getting better and better at making compliant code, they still don’t match the human-produced variety.
Knowing how to write your own standards-compliant XHTML will make you a valuable addition to any web team (emphasis on the standards-compliant part). With all the fuss about PHP, ASP.NET, Ruby, and many other languages, people tend to forget that everything ends up being HTML in the end, because that’s what your browser has to have in order to render a page. The more you know about the medium you work in, the better you work in that medium.
13 iPhone Apps for Graphic Designers
If you’ve found a greater purpose for your iPhone besides calling or Googling directions, then you’d probably like to explore what your iPhone can offer you in the realm of graphic design.
I’ve compiled a collection of the most useful 13 iPhone apps for graphic designers that I’ve come across. Each contributes and offers a unique ability to aid you on your journey through graphic design.
We’ll be taking a look at applications that help with task management, enhance photos, sketching and a whole lot more. As usual, feel free to add your comments below and let us know which ones you like best and which ones you use.
1. Palettes
Palettes is a great app that allows you to create color schemes. You’re able to sample colors from websites, photo albums stored in your iPhone, and more. You can also import and export palettes to Photoshop. Grab colors while you’re viewing a picture, a web page, or anything else on your iPhone. This can come in handy, for example, if you visit a website and find a color scheme that’s extremely appealing, with Palettes you’ll be able to introduce yourself to the exact colors used.
Corporate Website Designs: 60 Inspirational Examples
As you already seen in our previous showcase of Corporate Website Designs that a perfect layout, A good design and nice resources can produce a creative output. Layout, textures and patterns are used more often than one may think but the outcome of different combination can result verity of excellent designs. However, When it comes to corporate website design you need to take care about many things which includes simplicity, readability, presentation and accessibility.
In this presentation, you’ll find variety of highly-creative, beautiful and most importantly inspirational corporate designs which is easy to accessible and convenient to approachable. The main purpose here is to stimulate your creativity and to inspire your imagination to design or redesign your work site to show your skills to potential clients.
The more time and effort you dedicate for a usable, eye-catching design and hitting your objectives, the higher are your chances for getting better account balance in the end of the month.
Throughout history, great designers always found new ways to show their creativity to express themselves and create new trends and techniques to remark their work apart from the rest of the crowd. The Definition of design is more critical in modern terms as now design is a way of communication; and, more specifically, Web design is a well define platform for showing your skills.
So how can you make sure your design is better than the designs of your competitors? How can you point employer’s attention to your product? Here we might can help you by showcasing following list of great corporate designs.
01. Microsoft Office
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44 Excellent Free Icon Sets Everyone Must Have
You can find lots of free beautiful icons set on the web. We are lucky that some talented designers/artist are sharing their works by providing us some useful stuffs for free. Here is a 40+ Excellent Free Icon Sets Everyone Must Have. These Icons can be use on customizing your desktop icons or for your website.
Cute Critters Free Icon Pack
45+ Adobe Illustrator Tutorials for Creating Cartoon Character Illustrations
With the rise of modern technology, hand-drawn sketches are now converted and enhanced using state-of-the-art facilities. Character Illustrations or Cartoons are now given more depth, texture and emotions through a wide-array of techniques used by modern designers. Designers nowadays are able to play with their hand-drawn sketches- pushing the boundaries of their imagination. Adobe Illustrator is one of the best applications when it comes in creating cartoons and illustrations because of the vector feature. It preserves the quality and details of the artwork even if it has been resized.
Listed below are 45+ Adobe Illustrator Tutorials for Creating Illustration Characters that will be useful for beginners, intermediate and advance users of Adobe illustrators in creating vector characters.
How to Turn a Sketch into a Fat Cat Vector Illustration
