Currently viewing the category: "Web Design"

Why Money Shouldn’t Motivate Design

On July 9, 2010 By

Today we’re going to dis­cuss the dif­fer­ence between design­ing for money and design­ing for a liv­ing because it’s what you love to do. We’ll take a look at a few things that moti­vate design­ers who couldn’t be any­thing else if they tried and why design is more than a means to a finan­cial end but is in fact a way of life. Like the article

Continue Reading →

Friday Fresh Free Fonts #56

On July 9, 2010 By

I will be post­ing some fresh free fonts every Fri­day, yes I know it’s awe­some. I will look for­ward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typog­ra­phy work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#56 and make sure to come­back for more next week.

Continue Reading →

Sites of the Week #110 — Kaleidoscope Winners

On July 9, 2010 By

For this Sites of the Week, we’re announc­ing the win­ners for the Kalei­do­scope give­away, check it out below! Also we have selected some great sites such as 50 Back and MCQ. As usual we would love to hear from you, keep send­ing your sug­ges­tions to us and we will be more than happy to fea­ture your site. About Give­away Last week we lauched a give­away from Kaleidoscope .

Continue Reading →

Facebook and Its Connection to The Design Communities

On July 9, 2010 By

It’s a small world we live in today, and it’s get­ting smaller by the day. We can reach out to oth­ers miles and oceans away with just a click of a button

Continue Reading →

Web Design News 08/07/10

On July 9, 2010 By

BBC News redesign on the way This week the BBC announced that they’re nearly ready to launch a major redesign of its web site, stat­ing: “We have focused on design and nav­i­ga­tion, look­ing to see how we can make all the exist­ing con­tent we pro­duce each day eas­ier for you to find, use and share” The BBC are one of the lead­ers in usabil­ity and acces­si­bil­ity and it will be inter­est­ing to see what changes come with the new design and I’m sure you’ll see a raft of posts dis­sect­ing the new site when it’s launched. This post by Site­point high­lights some of the upcom­ing changes focus­ing on the areas where sec­tions have been cleaned up and stream­lined. Given the BBC website’s ubiq­uity when clients refer to other sites to be ‘inspired by’, I’d rec­om­mend tak­ing the time to get really famil­iar with the new site when it’s launched, not only learn­ing what they have done, but why they’ve done it too

Continue Reading →

Daily Inspiration #556

On July 8, 2010 By

This post is part of our daily series of posts show­ing the most inspir­ing images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writ­ers and users. If you want to par­tic­i­pate and share your graphic design inspi­ra­tion, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it, also use “Daily Inspi­ra­tion” in the sub­ject, and don’t for­get to send your Abduzeedo user­name; or via Twit­ter send­ing to http://twitter.com/abduzeedo If pos­si­ble use the HTML code: Do you want to see all images from all Daily Inspi­ra­tions? Check out http://daily.abduzeedo.com 2D Adrian Piciorea ako­moto al b sure Anand Andreas Leonidou Arthur Régis cesar­manuel­ro­man Fabi­ano Fabio Gisele Ian Hutchin­son John Soat jtown­boy _Matt Michael Oster­mann Rafael Sansó RINGO­is­lost shkaro theurel The­Hacker Via Twit­ter Send your sug­ges­tions via Twit­ter to http://twitter.com/abduzeedo using #abdz in the end of the tweet

Continue Reading →

Examples of Solid Colors in Web Design

On July 8, 2010 By

With today’s trends in web design, it is hard to find web­sites that don’t incor­po­rate gra­di­ents as their focal point. While gra­di­ents add detail, you can still achieve a good look with a less is more approach using solid colors.

Continue Reading →

100 Must Read Design Blogs

On July 8, 2010 By

In my daily search for design-related con­tent I’ve come across tons of really stel­lar blogs. Recently I noticed that the list of sites I reg­u­larly check in on had far sur­passed 100! I know there’s no short­age of lists like this but I still wanted to share my dis­cov­er­ies with the Design Shack readers

Continue Reading →

5 Good Habits That Will Make You a Better Coder

On July 8, 2010 By

We all want to grow in the things we do, and in the field of web devel­op­ment, one of the main areas that we spend a lot of time on is our code. This could include HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Action­Script or any other lan­guage that you may choose to use for build­ing web­sites. In this arti­cle, I’ll share some prac­ti­cal steps that you can take to expand your skill set and become a bet­ter coder.

Continue Reading →