Retro is Reborn: A Look at the Color Trend

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Retro is Reborn: A Look at the Color Trend

What’s old is new again. That’s the way most trends seem to work anyway. Retro color palettes are a great example of how an old look is being reborn in web design. Retro color styles are popping up in a …

Making your WordPress Plugin Responsive by using AJAX

Making your WordPress Plugin Responsive by using AJAX

Traditionally whenever you click a link on a web page it might do a request on the server for that URL and the complete page will be fetched from the server. This is fine in some cases but in some …

Funny Fonts: Most Popular Typefaces, Best for Webfonts

Funny Fonts: Most Popular Typefaces, Best for Webfonts

When you think of funny fonts, the classic, default font gravitate to Comic Sans and Papyrus. However, font snobs are quick to react that such fonts are to be forgotten. These two fonts are the most misused fonts. Before we …

Square UI Free – User Interface Kit

Square UI Free - User Interface Kit

Square UI is our latest PSD User Interface Pack including a set of beautiful and pure components, which you can use to create startup projects, websites or iOS apps. Square UI Kit for designers featuring the flat design trend. We …

Design Your Website for How People Read

Design Your Website for How People Read

How scientific is your approach to design? Could the look of your site benefit from a little research? By learning more about how people read and look at websites, designers can make smarter decisions about placement of elements, size, color …

A Look at Stencil Typography

A Look at Stencil Typography

You should be paying attention to stencil. First, I recommend you throw away the image of ugly fonts sprayed onto industrial shipping crates and used for all sorts of army themed media. The stencil style is making a return, coming …

How to Create Custom Social Media Icons in CSS3

Creating Custom Social Media Icons for Websites

Topic: HTML / CSS3 Difficulty: Beginner Estimated Completion Time: 35 mins On almost every website, blog, magazine or business you come across on the internet; it has some kind social media content or buttons. Whether it be social sharing, profile …

Taking a closer look at WordPress Coding Standards

Taking a closer look at WordPress Coding Standards

WordPress is a big project with a lot of developers working on it. It also has a huge amount of themes and plugins which are written by teams of developers or individual developers. When a project grows really big coding …

Designing for Retina Displays, Optimize Website for @2x Images

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Designing for Retina Displays, Optimize Website for @2x Images

Do you know what exactly is Retina? Do you know what makes it amazing or what makes it a nightmare for designers and developers? Well read on to understand the technology and the various ways you can optimize images to …

How to Use Pen Tool in Adobe Photoshop

How to Use Pen Tool in Adobe Photoshop

In this tutorial I will teach you the basics of the Photoshop Pen tool, which allows you to create your own, custom shapes. We’ll pass through the basics of the tool, and we will pass through a series of short …