6 ways to improve your blog’s design
Blogs can often be left out in the cold when it comes to design. A lot of us discount the need for intensive design when it comes to our blogs—whether for our companies, or ourselves.
But it is important that we realize every aspect of our identity online should be designed in a clean and intuitive way with whatever style you prefer. This elusive aspect of web work is something we should constantly strive for. And yes, that includes the time we spend working with blogs.
20+ examples of beautiful and inspiring fonts
Choosing fonts for design projects can be a daunting task because there’s thousands of fonts out there all over the web that you could use.
Whether you’re looking to create a big, bold logo for your business or work on a poster for an event here’s a collection of inspiring fonts that are perfect for use whatever your project may be.
The collection covers a variety of themes from vintage to clean and simple.
WordPress plugins for user-submitted & user-generated content
It’s 2012, and more and more sites and blogs are looking for ways to further their user’s involvement, many taking example from, perhaps, one of the more polished of these sites, Buzzfeed.com.
What makes Buzzfeed different from sites such as
Digg.com, which offers users a chance to vote on articles pulled from all over the web (the recent, highest rated articles, being the ones posted on the front page), is that it provides a front-end interface through which users can post their own articles, along with a similar style system to Digg, allowing you to share your ‘reaction’ on other articles. Read more
Free high resolution leaf textures
Stock leaf textures could be very useful to have on hand if your design is nature-related. Green is perfect for creating calming and relaxing effects, and it can bring a comfortable experience to visitors of your website.
Proper use of these high-resolution textures can make your artwork or web design look more natural and realistic.
While most textures in this collection are green, there are also yellow, red, orange, and purple leaves that can be indispensable for indication of seasons or adding bright colors to your design. Grey or black and white textures can bring something new and unusual.
15 great HTML5 and CSS3 generators
HTML5 and CSS3 are great languages to start off learning with, and I’ve always thought that one of the best ways to start learning is to just dive in and manipulate the code. As you could probably tell, this is where generators step in. They are a great way to generate some code, play with it, and learn.
Not only that, they are incredibly useful because often times as a developer or designer we find we are doing things over and over again. Well, generators can take off that edge and do those small things for you each time.
Example of Singal Page Website
One of the recent developments on the web has been the rise in the use of one page websites by everyone from web designers to large companies to promote their product, app or portfolio.
One page websites look great with many having very simple designs, large typography and amazing illustrations and graphics too making them some of the best looking sites on the web in 2012.
Often using the very latest CSS3 and jQuery they are a great way to create a site that has maximum impact.
Here is a roundup of 30 single page websites featuring lots of different styles.
How to speed up your website
Site speed is one of the most important things about creating web content, and web applications.
In fact, it has been noted by various analysts at Google that people don’t often sit through the first 30 seconds of a video, much less the first 15, so it would be wise of you to get the content of your site loaded as fast as you can so that people can make a judgement and agree to either use it or not.
It may be a bit superficial that people judge sites that fast, but it is often the case, and we shouldn’t take it for granted.
Optimizing your site should be a top priority, and often times when using WordPress and other engines they have nice plugins that help. I will assume though, that you may not be using WordPress, because there are a lot that don’t, and I will give you a few of the best ways to optimize any site regardless of where its hosted.
What’s new for designers, May 2012
The May edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, jQuery plugins, grid tools, CSS tools, WordPress resources, productivity and business tools, responsive design resources, and some really great new fonts.
Many of the resources below are free or very low cost, and are sure to be useful to a lot of designers and developers out there.
Customizing the WordPress login page for consistent branding
Despite the consumer-focused nature of the WordPress content management software, an increasing number of larger organizations and even businesses are adopting WordPress to manage their site’s content — especially corporate blogs and customer outreach programs that take advantage of social media and interaction humanize a company’s brand.
These larger organizations aren’t content to let their backend user interface be branded using WordPress logos and design cues; instead, they prefer to customize the software and ensure that all of their employees know that they’re working within the company’s structure and purview.
John Carter
What does it take to create a planet? A lot more effort than can fit in a seven day week. Ask the hundreds of artists at Cinesite who spent two years creating Martian environments, cities and airships for Disney’s film John Carter, or the 120 animators plus several hundred in the supporting cast at Double Negative who created the big green aliens who populated the planet. Peter Chiang was visual effects supervisor at Double Negative for the film with visual effects supervisor Sue Rowe managing the crew at Cinesite. Also playing god for the action-adventure film was the Moving Picture Company where artists supervised by Adam Valdez created even bigger green aliens and visual effects for the “Warhoon” battle sequence.
Digital Glow Suite is package of Visual Style (Window Blinds) Xp and Vista, Icons, Cursors, Wallpapers, Logon Screens and one stunning 3D Animated Media Player Gadget. Digital Glow is made lately couple of years ago. It is Free and Full of Elements.
