Tag Archives: web design
Desktop Wallpaper: 80+ Most Breathtaking Places on Earth
Posted on 10. Mar, 2010 by Tony.
There are many sources of inspiration that designers look to when trying to get their creative juices flowing. I think there is none better than the breathtaking landscapes that nature has to offer. In this post you will see some of the most beautiful places on earth. You will see everything from the mountains of [...]
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Inspirational 50 Twitter Backgrounds Showcase
Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by Gustavs Jurisons.
Twitter background design is one of the most important things, you can change in your account to attract new followers. We only can change little things in Twitter so why we don’t put there the best we can? Let’s change our background right now, but before we do that – time for you to get [...]
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Comment to Win a One-Year Membership to MediaLoot!
Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by Vandelay Website Design.
Earlier today a new membership-based site, MediaLoot was launched. It is an online toolbox of premium design resources, and they have kindly offered to give five readers of the Vandelay Design blog a one-year membership to the site for free!
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Carbon Fibre Style Inset Navigation
Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by Richard Carpenter.
Hello, welcome. Today i’ll be showing you how to create a carbon fibre style inset menu. This tutorial comes after a request from one of hv-designs readers, which i was more than happy to oblige.
What We’ll Be Creating
Once you’ve completed the tutorial you should have something like this.
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Astounding Ajax/CSS Forms: 30+ Modern Trends , Tips and Techniques
Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by Yanuar Prisantoso.
Form is an important element in a website.The recent developments in web 2.0 scenario and the growing quantity of web apps has even make it more important. The most important point in building a form is the usability fact. Form should be easy to understand so that visitors can enter values into the form correctly without getting [...]
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Weekly Design Inspiration #12
Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by Wajid Khan.
This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.I will gives you a weekly design inspiration of web design consisting of 20 to 25 design concept. To get your creative juices going. If you have a general comment about the site’s, we’d love to hear from you.
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50 Hot New Tutorials (Part1)
Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by Tony.
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40 Superb T Shirt Designs Which Will Make You Look Twice
Posted on 08. Mar, 2010 by Daniels Mekšs.
Want to stand out? Buy a unique T-shirt! In this article you are going to find a lot of cool and creative t shirt designs from talanted artists.You can actually purchase almost all of them. Also it is interesting to look at them from proffesional point of view. Try to analyze and understand why and how interesting [...]
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Top 6 Mistakes that Newbie Designers and Online Entrepreneurs Make
Posted on 08. Mar, 2010 by Mathew.
It’s not uncommon to hear stories of large-scale online business failures. From major companies – anyone remember Webvan? – to small design firms and marketing agencies, failure is a part of doing business. With the low costs of starting and operating a business online, many businesses that would fail under other circumstances end up getting [...]
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21 Resources Especially for Lovers of Minimalism
Posted on 08. Mar, 2010 by Vandelay Website Design.
Minimalism a popular style of design because it keeps things simple and user-friendly. In this post we’ll look at more than 20 websites, blogs and books dedicated to minimalism. Not all of them are related to web design – minimalism can also be applied to other aspects of business and life.
Minimal Design Showcases:
If you want to find great and inspiring examples of minimalist design, these sites will be excellent sources.
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How to Create a Nifty Dynamic Shadow with jQuery
Posted on 08. Mar, 2010 by Daniel Kurdoghlian.
First I want to welcome you to my very first article for 1stwebdesigner. Today I’ll show you how to create a very nifty looking dynamic shadow with a few teaspoons of jQuery, a pinch of CSS and some transparent PNG’s as Base. I’ll explain every line of used code, so you can easily follow along [...]
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9 Handy FireFox Add-ons For Every Day Use
Posted on 07. Mar, 2010 by Anastasia.
Having worked as a project manager at several companies and having to monitor my own projects there’s a certain list of things I do to check on often (and I still do). Some of the things are SEO related, some are tech tasks, some help to achieve the marketing goals. Some of the things [...]
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Collection of 30+ Stunning Hand Picked CSS-based Layouts
Posted on 06. Mar, 2010 by Siva Kumar.
Power of “CSS” is to Change the appearance of hundreds of Web pages by changing just one file and CSS represent an enormous step forward for the Web.And it’s mostly used to improvise the presentation (that is, the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language.It has structure and rules to follow. [...]
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28 New Great Magazine/Newspaper Style WordPress Themes
Posted on 05. Mar, 2010 by Firat Demirel.
As a great cms platform WordPress has many examples for every work like blogs, companies, portfolios, galleries etc. Magazine/Newspaper style themes are one of the most wanted WordPress themes and they are very useful for managing lots of posts on a page.
This type of themes are mostly liked by small and medium-sized teams who can [...]
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45 Web Builders to Create an Insanely Awesome Free Website
Posted on 05. Mar, 2010 by Mark Thompson.
Looking for a place to create a free website? There are plenty of resources that allow you to create you own website, blog, wiki, or social community without having to know any programming language. These free website creation sites allow you to easily create a site, customize the design, add content, and use a custom [...]
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30 Powerful Wordpress Plugins For Blog Administrators
Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by Cosmin Lupsan.
To handle a blog these days can be quite difficult if you are not well-organized and you don’t spend enough time managing it. That’s why there are plugins for WordPress. They literally make your job lot easier and if you work well with them you can put them to work for you.
Sounds cool I know, [...]
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Business Layout #8
Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by Richard Carpenter.
Hello everybody welcome to another tutorial. In today’s tutorial I’ll be showing you how to make a business layout, the layout will feature a dark theme with hints of red and white. Lets get started.
The Finished Layout
Once you’ve finished the tutorial you should have something like this. Click the image below for full view.
Getting Started
Create [...]
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jQuery Resources for One-Page Portfolios
Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by Vandelay Website Design.
A few weeks ago we published a showcase of one-page portfolios and pointed out some trends among them. Many of those sites are using jQuery to accomplish specific things. In this post we’ll feature some plugins and tutorials that are ideal for one-page portfolios. Of course, they can be used on other types of sites as well, but they are well-suited to match up with the trends among one-page portfolios.
Contact Forms:
All portfolio sites need to allow visitors to contact the designer, whether it is through an email address or a contact form. One-page sites face the challenge of including a usable contact form without using a separate page for it. These two resources can help for creating contact forms that will not take up too much space on the page.
Using Form Labels as Text Fields
CSS Globe provides a tutorial that is ideal for contact forms in limited spaces, which is often the case with one-page portfolios. The script can also be downloaded for use in your own work.
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It’s coming! WordPress 3.0 – Pros and Cons
Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by Edward.
Heard of the huge upcoming release of the new WordPress 3.0? Well, here are some additional insights for you to think of while we are all waiting for the big launch!
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40 Exclusively Reviewed And Criticized Deviantart Designs
Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by Dainis Graveris.
I bet you all are a little bit tired of classic list posts so this time I really spent my time to bring some value into this inspirational article. I gathered here 40 really unique and trendy web designs from Deviantart, all of them are fresh, created in February, 2010. But this time instead of just listing them all, I did a step [...]
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