5 Essential Elements for E-Commerce Websites

5 essential elements for e-commerce websites

Step-by-step e-commerce websites are quickly becoming a better alternative to the more traditional retail shop. The list of benefits is endless, even though actual retail is hard to replace because of the experience of shopping in a physical store. Regardless, …

How to Create a Splash Screen Illustration

How to create a splash screen illustration in Illustrator and Photoshop

In this tutorial, we will walk through the process of creating a splash screen illustration using vector elements created in Illustrator and applying them to a template in Photoshop before exporting for the web. Splash Screen What exactly is a …

What Can CSS Filters Do for You?

CSS filters have been around for a while. They originated thanks to SVGs – Scalable Vector Graphics – in order to apply different image effects to vectors. Today, CSS filters are not limited to SVGs but can be used for …

Fresh Breath of Polygonal Style in Website Design

Fresh Breath of Polygonal Style in Website Design

Polygonal style has definitely found renewed interest. Amid extensive use of flat style graphics, visual storytelling solutions, rich content media approaches and a great deal of websites based on dynamic layouts, polygonal style — which was enormously popular several years …

(Re)Adopting the Design-in-Browser Approach

(Re)Adopting the Designing in Browser Approach

I sat down and was going back from drawing a website to actually coding in a browser. It seemed hard and maybe even impossible. I was scared. Could I do this? But how hard could it be? I’ve done this …

5 Proven Ways to Make “No Results” Pages Work for You

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5 Proven Ways to Make “No Results” Pages Work for You

Nowadays you can hardly find a website that doesn’t have a search bar regardless of whether or not it really needs one. The idea of having all possible features installed on your website “just in case” may actually prove to …

35+ Free Abstract Background Pattern and Texture Designs

35+ Free Abstract Background Pattern and Texture Designs

Background pattern designs are pretty useful for web designers as they can really make a website stand out from the crowd. Some websites simply are in need of a neat background pattern, in order to get rid of the simplicity …

Playing with CSS3 Animations

Playing with CSS3 Animations

I would like to share with you a personal experience I had while trying to build advanced visual animations with CSS keyframes. The topic we’re going to address is animating several HTML elements simultaneously and taking advantage of keyframe flexibility. To …

Animated Gifs is a New Way of Good App Presentation

Animated Gifs is a New Way of Good App Presentation

Everything has a habit to return, and gif animations that for a long time lost its dominance, popularity and utility among developers has taken a fighting stance nowadays. Although it is still the same array of images that are consistently …

5 Useful Photoshop Tips That Will Improve Your Workflow

5 Useful Tips in Photoshop that will Improve your Workflow

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about how to work smoother in Photoshop. In that thought process, I have come up with five things that really helped me over time to work faster and more efficient. These tips are not …