Working with Color: Create a Monotone Design Scheme

Carrie Cousins  •  Design  •  December 18, 2012
Working with Color: Create a Monotone Design Scheme

Creating a dark color scheme can result in a beautiful, elegant design. There are a variety of ways to do it, from creating pop with sharp contrast or working with a more monotone color palette, which we will focus on here. The No. 1 thing to keep in mind when working with a palette of dark colors is readability. Dark color schemes can sometimes overwhelm the rest of the page,...

New Updates for our Products: Unicons, Dark Amber UI and The Bricks

Adrian  •  Resources  •  December 17, 2012
New Updates for our Products: Unicons, Dark Amber UI and The Bricks

Today, we have updated some of our products. All those who have purchased these products before get updates absolutely for free. We kindly ask you to check your e-mails, as we have sent links for downloading updates to all our clients. The following products have been updated: Unicons – Webfont library (HTML/CSS) for Unicons added. Dark Amber UI – new PSD files...

Premium WordPress Themes: 2012 Collection

Adrian  •  WordPress  •  December 16, 2012
Premium WordPress Themes: 2012 Collection

In the end of the year, we’ve decided to gather in one article a great collection of Premium WordPress Themes. This year was very rich in new themes that have made a leap forward after several root updates of WordPress. Why have we decided not to include in this collection free WordPress themes available for downloading this year? We’ve noticed that free themes are no...

Designmodo Looking for New Authors

Adrian  •  Resources  •  December 14, 2012
Designmodo Looking for New Authors

With the launch of Designmodo’s new design, we’ve decided to increase the number of articles we post on the site. We need authors to write on a regular basis who can produce high-quality, beautiful and useful articles on web design and development. All authors are paid as agreed in advance. We are looking for tutorials and practical articles about web design. We want our...

Creating a 3D Button in CSS3

Nathan Barry  •  Tutorials  •  December 13, 2012
Creating a 3D Button in CSS3

Topic: CSS3 Difficulty: Beginner Estimated Completion Time: 30 mins Today I want to show you how to use some of the awesome new features in CSS3 to create an animated, three-dimensional button. To start off, we care about creating a fun experience that works to its full potential in the browsers that support it, but degrades gracefully in the browsers that don’t. In other...

Introduction in New Designmodo

Adrian  •  Resources  •  December 12, 2012
Introduction in New Designmodo

This week, we’ve decided to launch a new website design which has already gotten a lot of positive feedback on Twitter, thanks to you. Now, we are officially rolling out the new design and sharing the new features with you. Here’s what’s new and why we’ve decided to change the design, including the switch from a dark theme to bright, light scheme. New Logo The logo...

Free Fonts: Ultimate Collection 2012

Adrian  •  Resources  •  December 11, 2012
Free Fonts: Ultimate Collection 2012

Here it is the long-awaited panel of free fonts for the year 2012! We have tried to gather a large collection of fonts for all occasions. You can download them for free, and some can even be used for commercial purposes. This year was very rich in new fonts and the choice is very large, since the topic of typography has been rapidly developing this year and fonts have become...

Progress Bars in Web Design: Best Examples

Adrian  •  Inspiration  •  December 10, 2012
Progress Bars in Web Design: Best Examples

A progress bar is an indicator of the downloading process. A progress bar is an important element of the interface, which aims to show the user the current downloading progress. This small graphical element makes the interface not only more convenient, but also more understandable. Let’s take an example, imagine that you go to a site where you need to download videos,...

Design Tools: Website Review UICloud

Carrie Cousins  •  Resources  •  December 10, 2012
Design Tools: Website Review UICloud

Ever wish you could search one place for user interface design tools? There are so many icons, buttons, navigation elements and forms out there. And it is tough to find them all in one place. But UICloud changes that. The site, which is in Beta, collects, categorizes and allows users to search a whole host of UI parts. The goal of the site is to provide a search engine the...

Restaurant Web Designs: 40 Yummy Cafe & Restaurant Websites and Trends

Tatiana Titkova  •  Inspiration  •  December 6, 2012
Restaurant Web Designs: 40 Yummy Cafe & Restaurant Websites and Trends

What actually do we want from a restaurant website? Once we enter a website belonging to some café or restaurant, the first thing we start looking for is the menu. Fortunately, most of restaurants managed to improve their online menus by replacing PDF-only downloads with web alternatives that are more user-friendly. The next thing we would be glad to see/read is specials and...