Tag: web design

Brought to you by Next Day Flyers; offering custom printed postcards, business cards, tickets, posters, and more. Every profession has their own lingo and specialized terms. While terms differ from industry to industry, they all have one thing in common—no one outside their field understands what they’re talking about. For web designers, we have terms [...]

Where do you find inspiration for your designs? There are many places to look, both online and off. The important thing is to not limit yourself to just one source of inspiration. Online Design Galleries Many new designers begin looking for design inspiration from online galleries. While there’s nothing particularly wrong with online design galleries, [...]

Because of their small size, icons used in UI’s (user interfaces) should be kept fairly simple. This is especially true for user interfaces for mobile apps and devices like the iPhone, iPad and mobile devices using the Google Android OS. Since the resolution and screen sizes on these devices are small, monochromatic icons and symbols [...]

Smashing Magazine is a great web design blog featuring fun and useful articles and tutorials for web designers. When they announced they were releasing a book–The Smashing Book–I was eager to read it. Disclaimer: This review is not a paid review. However, I did receive a copy of this book free from Smashing Magazine. Who [...]

As someone viewing websites on the web, ad-blockers filter out adverts for “enhancements”, and a bunch of flashing, ugly advertisements. Not only this, but ad-blockers can help protect you from potentially sneaky and malicious code. This is why one of the most popular downloads for Firefox is an ad-blocking extension. However, have you thought about [...]