- The Art of CSS Positioning
CSS Positioning is one thing I used to struggle with, hopefully I can help you understand how positioning works and what it’s affected by, and iron out some of those kinks.
Read more at tutshelf.com
- How to Spot Quality within Web Design: Examples & Tips
Quality is a word that a lot of people like to use when describing their web design services. But what is quality, how do you know if a design is quality or not. Well, I think that there’s quite a few ways to spot quality within web designs. Once you can see just what goes into making a quality web design, you can use the techniques to perfect your own style.
Read more at wefunction.com
- Markup Hierarchy - Advantages in SEO
Over the past year, we have been researching and testing the effects of markup hierarchy making a difference in search engine results. What I mean by markup hierarchy is that we want the unique and rich content to be at the highest point in the markup.
Read more at sohtanaka.com
- 8 Simple Ways to Improve Typography In Your Designs
Many people, designers included, think that typography consists of only selecting a typeface, choosing a font size and whether it should be regular or bold. For most people it ends there. But there is much more to achieving good typography and it’s in the details that designers often neglect.
Read more at smashingmagazine.com
- Creative Logos
As designers, we are always in constant need of inpiration. Whether it be web or graphic design, other work to fuel our creativity is essential. Logo design requires the most amount of inspiration however.
Why are these logos so excellent All of these logos use very creative methods to represent the brand through color, shapes, and shape typography. Look at how each of these logos can tell you something about the company. Also note the brilliant color palletes and unique patterns used in many of these. Finally, pay attention to the typography, especially font selection and coloring.
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- Building a Tag-Cloud Using the Google Web Toolkit
A while back, I read a tutorial by Dan Wellman, which described the steps required to produce a neat Tag-Cloud. Dan’s example largely relied on the jQuery framework to request data and construct the user interface elements. I decided to write his tutorial all over again with the two exceptions of using GWT instead of jQuery, and a different method of choosing font size variations.
Read more at net.tutsplus.com
- Latest Web Design and CSS Tutorials
1. ) How to create Skype-like buttons using jQuery?
2. ) Enlarge input fields on focus!
3. ) How to deal with large webforms?
4. ) Create Vimeo-like top navigation?
5. ) Separate trackbacks and comments (and do it in BlogEngine.NET)!
Read more at jankoatwarpspeed.com
- 5 Quick and Easy Ways to Optimise Your Website
Performance is something you don’t often think about. You assume that if it loads quickly enough for you then everyone’s happy. Someone commented a while back saying that it takes quite long for my pages to load so I optimised it a tad and thought I’d share a few quick tips with you.
Read more at leemunroe.com
- Zoom Your Content! a Crucial Web Design Technique
This article introduces a really simple and absolutely vital technique for web design that I call “zooming” that you have to know about!
It’s a very simple concept that can solve a wide range of web design problems.
Read more at webdesignfromscratch.com
- 30 Photoshop Web Elements, Backgrounds and Icon Sets
When you’re designing or building a website, chances are you’re going to need various little elements designed. I personally tend to reuse a lot of the same buttons, menus, icons and so on. Since we launched GraphicRiver earlier this year though we’ve seen a lot of cool little web graphics coming in, in the form of web elements, backgrounds and icons.
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