Lighting effects can make or break any digital artwork. When done properly, lighting can add visual impact, draw the viewer’s eye, convey depth and emotion, and tie together all the elements of the piece for a quality finished result. However, achieving brilliant lighting is not always an easy task, particularly for newer digital artists. Perfecting contrast, color variation, sharpness and depth will help make your digital art more enticing.
If you run an online magazine, most of your readers will never go through your archive, even if you design a neat archive page. It’s not you; it’s just that going through archives is not very popular these days. So, how do you actually make readers dig in without forcing them? How do you invite them to (re)read in a way that’s not boring? How do you make your WordPress magazine more interactive?
You’ve been coding for a while now and know your way around a CSS file. You’re certainly no master, but with enough fiddling you can get where you want to go. You’re wondering though if you’ll ever get past that point where CSS is such a struggle. Will you ever be able to bust out a complex layout without ultimately resorting to trial and error to see what works and what doesn’t?
For years, the Web standards community has talked about the separation of concerns. Separate your CSS from your JavaScript from your HTML. We all do that, right? CSS goes into its own file; JavaScript goes in another; HTML is left by itself, nice and clean. CSS Zen Garden proved that we can alter a design into a myriad of permutations simply by changing the CSS. However, we’ve rarely seen the flip side of this — the side that is more likely to occur in a project: the HTML changes. We modify the HTML and then have to go back and revise any CSS that goes with it.
Read MoreTom Giannattasio had the pleasure of organizing this year’s Beercamp website - this is a party for designers and developers. It’s also a playground for front-end experimentation. So this year experiment: a 3D pop-up book á la Dr. Seuss. The website was a test to see how far SVG and CSS 3D transforms could be pushed. He learned a lot in the process and wanted to share some of the techniques that he found helpful when working in 3D space.
Mary Lou is here again to show you another fancy new trick which will help to improve your web page in several different ways. In today’s tutorial she will create another typography effect. The idea is to have some kind of sentence and to rotate a part of it. She'll be “exchanging” certain words of that sentence using CSS animations.
It’s rare nowadays to find a web designer who can’t code his own designs. With so many resources online and in print that teach the basics of HTML and CSS, and due to the fact that these languages aren’t rocket science, there are now a lot of graphic designers who have at least basic knowledge of markup and styling. But with an HTML and CSS foundation comes great responsibility. If an HTML or CSS feature doesn’t work in certain browsers, we need to ensure that we offer those browsers a secondary or fallback experience.
When it comes to posts on WordPress themes, you’ll likely see the stock theme screenshot. Today, Kristi Hines would like to share with you some of her favorite photography themes for WordPress. But instead of the demo screenshot, She wants to show you actual photographers using these themes and some highlights as to why photographers should like them. Note that some of these may be slightly or greatly modified.
Having recently rebuilt his personal blog on WordPress using a responsive, mobile-first approach David Smith was familiar with some of the techniques covered in the article of Jesse Friedman. However, the one item that really stood out for him was Jesse’s approach to enabling fluid images via jQuery.