1stWebDesigner has hand picked these 50 Twitter backgrounds while browsing through 200-300 twitter pages. It’s interesting to notice that not all of his favorites are really colorful; but the subtle, clean and elegant designs still stood out.
As a great CMS platform, WordPress has many examples for every sector like blogs, companies, portfolios, galleries etc. Magazine/Newspaper style themes are one of the most popular, and they are very useful for managing lots of posts on a page. 1stWebDesigner presents 28 new great Magazine/Newspaper style WordPress themes.
Why would a perfectly competent designer create a site that isn’t very good? The answer is simple: they settled. It happens all the time. Maybe the designer has hit a slump and they’re looking for any paying work. Maybe it’s a site for a friend and they just don’t have the heart to tell them their design ideas are horrible. Maybe they were overwhelmed with work and just didn’t have the time the needed to devote to a project. WebDesignerDepot explains why designers shouldn’t Settle.
VandelayDesign started with 50 of the Best sites, then 35 Excellent sites, and now finally 25 Outstanding sites… all of them focusing on Church Websites. Simply brilliant research to find so many quality examples in a potentially difficult area.
Unarguably, one of the most important aspects of any design is its colors. Designers create the style of a site, as well as the movement it makes, the emotion it creates, and its purpose based largely upon the color choices they make. Colors are powerful tools and an important thing all designers should understand when creating websites. SixRevisions takes a look into Color Theory in Web Design.
Google Chrome is not a popular browser yet but still it’s growing fast and as a web developer or designer, you must be among the earliest to adopt new browser technologies. Pelfusion has compiled a list of 15 of the most useful Chrome extensions for web developers and designers.
ThemeForest aims to show you how to attract users and make them hungry for more. Who is this post for? Anyone with a web site. Not all of the items listed will apply to you and your business, but they are, at the very least, a source for inspiration.
WordPress themes are always in high demand and if they are free, its like a cherry on cake. The 10 themes that SaveDelete has selected are not very far away from any premium WordPress themes.
Tourism websites can be a tricky beast. For some areas, where there are very specific attractions, designing their site can be simple. But for areas that have a host of attractions that appeal to many different kinds of people, it can be difficult to design a site that’s representative of the area and appeals to everyone. After all, designing a site that appeals to wine lovers, ski buffs, culture fanatics and families isn’t exactly straightforward. Noupe have collected more than thirty excellent examples of tourism sites.
The most common mistakes made by web developers have to do with leaving things unclear during the project instead of clarifying them in the very beginning. Those mistakes cause misunderstandings with the client and they’ll make you work more, without getting paid as you should. WebTechWise shares some mistakes he thinks the best of us have made before we learned our lessons.
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