Archive for the ‘design’ Category
The Art Of Font Embedding
Soon after launching of my latest redesign I’ve been spending a great deal of time on the use of typography throughout the site. I’ve been teaching myself different font embedding technologies in order to use a specific font of my choice, rather then the standard web safe fonts you see everyday all over the web. more..
Redesign using the 960 Grid System
I redesigned my site using the 960 Grid System, which is basically a standards compliant CSS framework. The purpose of this system is to simplify or streamline the web design process by using commonly used dimensions and spacing based on a 960 pixel width. I like the way it turned out, everything aligns up, spacing more..
Powerful effects for your website
Here’s a collection of 10 powerful AJAX effects to enhance your web page’s interface. All of which are fairly easy-to-implement and feature how-to tutorials that will guide you during implementation.
There comes a point in time where we want to improve our website’s interface or provide a captivating experience that our users will remember.
Powerful CSS Techniques
Being a web designer can be difficult at times, always striving for creativity in your design and new techniques that will dazzle your clients/users. Sometimes we need inspiration from other designers to turn that creative spark into a flame.
Smashing Magazine has posted yet another incredibly inspiring list of 50 new CSS-techniques, ideas and ready-to-use solutions more..
Photoshop Design Resources
Next to coding, I enjoy to design. I also find my self spending a great deal of time editing photos, designing graphics for websites etc. My favorite tool used in completing these tasks, has to be Adobe Photoshop.
With a good tool like Adobe Photoshop, you’ll need some good resources; Fonts, Plug-ins such as Brushes and more..
CSS Grid Builder
I found this utility, CSS Grid Builder the other day on yahoo, It’s quite useful.
A simple interface for grids customization. Its a web based application thats easy to use and very user friendly. I used it to start a custom Wordpress Theme that I’ve been working on these last couple of days.
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