Icons are an important element of an effective and attractive web design. An appropriate use of icons will help you to achieve a professional and solid website design look in your client eyes. Most of the icons are small and very detailed and often it can be challenging to create the quality ones. Designing icons by listed tutorials you will learn a lot of useful and trendy techniques and you will gain a valuable experience and skills in this field.
Here’s a new set of vectors for our WDL Premium Members. This pack from Designious contains 28 conceptual birds silhouettes, perfect for adding a unique touch of nature to your designs. (more…)
In 2003, acclaimed filmmaker Lars Von Trier challenged his idol Jorgen Leth to recreate his 1967 masterpiece The Perfect Human. Not only was he to recreate one of his best films ever, but he was to do it five times, each time being limited with a new more challenging list of constraints than the time before. They documented this torturous challenge in a fantastic film entitled The Five Obstructions. In this film we see a man fighting with his surroundings, resources, and even his own creative limits to reach a goal through constraints that seem all but impossible to achieve. The result? Unbelievable resourcefulness and creativity – And six amazing films! (more…)
Last week at Theme Trust, we released our latest in a line of sleek and minimal portfolio WordPress themes. This one is called Craft and it’s perfect for des wanting to show off their work and share their thoughts in a clean presentation. The homepage includes a slideshow for highlighting select projects, a carousel for featured content, and a grid layout for the latest posts. Other features include custom post types and taxonomies for portfolio management, smooth jQuery effects for thumbnails and menus, and custom color control. (more…)
Portfolios can be designed in several forms, specially those related to design, photography and other creative professions. The most traditional ones show pro eminent typography to attract attention and explain what is that the client/user is reading/seeing. The most contemporary one can show huge background images with a couple icons to help you navigate, while others can show minimal and clean design with some links to take you where you want. One way or the other, portfolios are your way to present yourself and your work to your audience and clients, and they are always a good source of inspiration. (more…)
The Awwwards recognize and promote the talent and effort of the best developers, designers and web agencies in the world. An international jury made up of some of the most important designers, bloggers and Internet agencies, will evaluate each site by means of a strict system of evaluation; scoring it on a scale of 1 to 10 for its Design, Creativity, Usability and Content.
The Awwwards have teamed up with WDL to give away to our readers 20 digital copies of their latest book: The best 365 css websites around the world 2010. To be eligible, all you have to do is a leave a comment on this post. (more…)
Typography is one of the most important aspect of effective web design. Proper font use can improve your website’s readability and user experience. Well selected fonts can help you to make your website more attractive for your visitors. There are a lot of possibilities to implement custom fonts on websites using Cufón, @font-face, Google Fonts API, sIFR and other solutions. In this showcase you’ll find 30 inspiring websites with effective typography and unusual fonts used.
This week for our WDL Premium Members, we have a set of high-res Photoshop brushes from Vandelay Premier. This pack includes 8 high resolution brushes that are ideal for adding a soft or subtle texture to your work. They were created by blending multiple textures and all have soft edges so they can be used anywhere. The brushes are compatible with Photoshop CS2+. (more…)
Typography is an art form rarely covered in the spotlight. Web designers too often indulge into page graphics and CSS effects. Ironically page text is what carries the information you’re trying to spread, thus should hold much higher importance to your visitors. I find the problem isn’t with a lack of interest but a lack of knowledge on the subject.
When discussing typography there are many aspects concerning such a topic. Aside from font families you’re dealing with serif/sans-serif typefaces, weight, kerning, leading, and similar ideas. This article is meant to slowly introduce designers into the wacky world of digital type.
As we can find on Wikipedia, “Form refers to the shape, visual appearance, or configuration of an object.” And here I believe that this is also the perfect explanation… forms in web design are a way to gather information, but they must also take on a “form” or an appealing visual appearance in order to be effective. So we decided to gather some fresh examples of websites that have well designed forms. From registration to contact and login forms, you will see some very inspiring examples. (more…)
