Single page websites have been a hot trend for a while now, and their popularity doesn’t seem to be losing any momentum. Going this route isn’t right for every project, but there are times when it’s fitting and just makes sense. For instance, when a site doesn’t have a lot of content, and you know the content won’t be growing very much in the future, it might makes sense to go with a single page design.
A Web form which works well on desktops won’t necessarily work on mobile devices. With the nature of desktop computers, Web forms are not designed to be efficient. Due to the constraints of a mobile device and its context of use, efficiency is extremely important when filling in a mobile form. This article offers strategies that you can apply to design a more efficient and less error prone mobile form as compared to your Web form.
It really makes users sad and sometimes even angry when the homepage of a website couldn’t be found. Visitors don’t get upset if an error page is presented in a funny, unusual or elegant manner. In such an effective way you can save your clients and they will, surely, came back to your website where the 404 page has an original design, offers the solution of what to do and provides useful information about the error.
Avoid flashy multimedia. Flashy graphics and multimedia may look nice, but they can make it hard for your visitors to get the information they want from your site, especially when viewing from a non Flash compatible device.
The ideal web experience for the average Internet user is one that feels both intuitive and interesting. The best websites create the sense that the future is now, and that users already know how it works. This creates a bit of excitement and makes users want to revisit a webpage simply because it's fun to browse and navigate. Web design is a high art, and with recent advances in coding technology and technique, it has never been easier to create websites that delight and inspire viewers.
The best designers never stop learning. Only the mediocre ones think they know it all, that there’s nothing else to learn. But you don’t don’t want to be a mediocre designer, do you? That’s right – you want to be a great designer. One that’s always hungry to learn a new technique to make your first web and visual design project slick, cool, user-friendly, and just plain awesome. There is only thing holding you back – How to do it all!
Facebook is often criticized for privacy holes, unstable API and proprietary standards, but in spite of that, everybody seems to be on Facebook these days. At least once a week this previously student-only network appears in the top news headlines on the Web and in print.
In this first installment of a two part tutorial, Matt Ward would like to show you how to use simple CSS to apply an attractive, well-balanced design to an article. Instead of just using meaningless placeholder text or writing something entirely new, he will also be using one of his favorite articles that he has written at SpyreStudios, entitled “A Coder’s Journey”.
In this tutorial, we’ll be revisiting the Brillante blog design, covering the PSD slicing, HTML/CSS coding, custom fonts embedding and some handy cool tips to improve your website performance.
This is Part 2 of 3 of the Photoshop blog design called Brilliante, published some time ago on SpyreStudios and designed by Mahmoud Khaled Deiab.
In today’s Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to learn how to create a clean WordPress-styled website/blog design. We’ll be mainly dealing with; Basic shapes (lines, rectangles, arrows), Layer Styles, and a bit of basic type. Besides some Photoshop tricks. We’ll also be focusing on keeping our layout very well-aligned. So, let’s get started!