Modern Fonts: Most Popular Typefaces, Best for Webfonts

Modern Fonts: Most Popular Typefaces, Best for Webfonts

The Modern fonts or Didones tend to carry even sharper contrasts compared to transitional types such as the influential Baskerville. If experts believe that the Baskerville was trying to blind readers, Didones even took the contrast even further. The first …

Rapid Prototyping with the Pages Panel in Fireworks CS6

Rapid Prototyping with the Pages Panel in Fireworks CS6

Adobe Fireworks CS6 is an ideal tool for creating prototypes. There are several advantages of using Fireworks over its sibling Photoshop, but the one I want to share with you in this article is the Pages panel. This panel gives …

Polygonal Art in Web Design

Polygonal Art in Website Design

Polygonal art along with the Metro style began to agitate the minds of designers in the past year. Whereas style of Windows 8 immediately found itself in web design, Poly thoroughly settled in print industry representing as different illustrations that …

Alignment and Combining Objects in Adobe Illustrator

Topic: Adobe Illustrator Difficulty: beginner Estimated completion time: 15 minutes Today we will be talking about objects alignment using the Align panel and combining them with the help of the Pathfinder panel and Shape Builder Tool. What you read here …

Polaris UI Free – User Interface Pack

Polaris UI Free - User Interface Pack

Polaris UI Free is a set of beautiful free UI components, which includes Edit Boxes, Check Boxes, Radio Buttons, Page Navigation, Menu, Buttons and more. Use this UI Kit in any of your projects, and even learn with it, by …

Understanding and Using Widgets in WordPress

Understanding and Using Widgets in WordPress

WordPress widgets give the developer a tool to create functionality for the site. Then these widgets can be displayed on any widgetised area of the theme by the site admin. These widgets can have a wide variety of functionality from …

Skeuomorphism in User Interface Design, What is It?

Skeuomorphism in User Interface Design, What is It?

In the last few weeks the debate over skeuomorphism has been getting more and more heated. I would like to make two points for you in this post. First, what skeuomorphism actually is – as I’ve seen so many people …

A Quick Guide to Serif Fonts

A Quick Guide to Serifs Fonts

Even if you’re an experienced designer, it’s never a bad time to refresh your memory a little with the structure of serif typefaces, a few recommendations and a little history. Yes, there’s history. It’s painless I promise. Humanist and Old …

Flat Design: Can You Benefit from the Trend?

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Flat Design: Can You Benefit from the Trend?

Flat design – a concept popular many years ago in design – is making a comeback. With many redesigns and new websites employing a flat design scheme, the trend is appearing almost everywhere, both on websites and in-app design. Its …

Optimizing your Website Speed, Tools and Tips

Optimizing your Website Speed, Tools and Tips

Having a decent website has never been more affordable than now. With ready-made design templates, free website builders offered with hosting; there are just too many choices. Customers today have choices and getting & maintaining their attention is also harder …