Articles Tagged 'web'
91 Trendy Contact And Web Forms For Creative Inspiration
Dainis GraverisThis article showcases modern and interesting contact/web form solutions found around the Internet. I also collected interesting ways how people decide to call their contact forms - get in touch, contact info, say hello, talk to me, say hey, connect, say "hi", mail us and of course - contact us. My own personal opinion is, you should use Contact or Contact Us in your navigation, but supplement it with creative relate photos and styled text. There you could use more creative - say hi, get in touch or friendly - say hello.
35 Websites To Teach You How To Use CSS Effectively
CSS ( Cascading Style Sheets) are the modern standard for presenting website. Combined with structural markup language like HTML, XHTML - CSS fully take care about presentation part, creating that good concept - HTML = Content, CSS = Presentation. If you know CSS, you can really do everything controlling spacings, borders, positioning, margins, paddings, colors, fonts, background images, hover effects and more presentational effects. CSS is really easy to understand, and in my opinion every graphic designer should have at least simple coding skills with HTML and CSS, because CSS is really still design part, not really coding.
22 Photoshop Web Design Interface Tutorial Sites
I wanted to showcase very good tutorial sites here also, since there are several great websites delivering beautiful and high quality tutorials constantly! If you love and search for more Photoshop tutorials, you really should visit sites below! Also great way to keep up if you just subscribe to these blogs, create own tutorial section for example in Google Reader, and when mood is for learning from quality tutorials, go and check out what's fresh in these sites! At least I am doing so, and well - practice makes perfect! I am sorry this article turned out to be so short, but I really didn't want to put here old sites or ones I didn't enjoy myself!
12 Web Design Directories To Improve Your SEO
Andy WalpoleList of Web Design Directories Links from niche directories are of more value in SEO than submitting to general directories, and there are a number of specialized directories catering exclusively for web designers. Below are some of those.
Many of these require a reciprocal link and which have fallen out of favor since Google declared against "excessive reciprocal linking"; but in moderation it is fine as Matt Cutts talked about in 2007 - "Trading links is natural and it's natural to have reciprocal links. At some level, natural reciprocal links happen, but if you do it way too often, it looks artificial."
20 Free Keyword Research Tools – Comprehensive Insight
Before you write any good article or optimize website, you have to know how and why you have to select right keywords. SEO is very easy to overuse and do even worse, if you for example start to do keyword stuffing or repeating the same words over and over again without good thought. For regular content like blogs, people always like to argue about what you need to put in the first place - SEO or your readers. I am thinking you must do both - using simple but consistent and smart SEO and try to write as compelling article as possible to your readers. If you haven't already I strongly you suggest to read the first post - How To Create Popular Blog With Keyword Research, Heatmaps And SEO? from series to get little starting overview.
45 Sites, Free Icons And PSD Resources For Web-Design
Since previous graphic design related article turned out to be really popular, I decided to do similar article about web-design related resources. In this list You'll find many free icons, psd files in good quality, Photoshop layer styles for easier icon creation and many websites specialized to deliver good quality freebie related content. You could say, it's better to create icons Yourself, but I think there is no sense to create something that's already there available for free, however if there isn't something, this is only way to know it. Also yes, here is many *.psd files, so You have a chance also to see how really these icons are created and learn something. At least I think it's worth bookmarking! One more time, before You use these icons read licence terms and legal agreements.
10 Ways How To Track Site Traffic, Popularity, Statistics
I know from myself people are obsessed with traffic, statistics, looking at other sites - tracking their stats and so on. And if there is enough demand, of course there are sites to satisfy You. I wanted to put those sites and tools in one list together, because at least for me this field was really unclear - I didn't know what means Google Pagerank, Alexa, Compete, Technorati rankings and I could continue so on. I must say not always these stats are precise, but however they give at least overview, how popular the certain page is, how many visitors that sites gets - and if You compare those stats with Your site statistics, You can get pretty precise results then.
Sensational List Of 25 The Best Design Worldwide Forums
Forums always are a great place to get answers to Your unclear questions about coding, designing, SEO, marketing, blogging much faster and clearer than just googling Your answer sometimes. Also it's a great way to network with professionals in Your community or just people with the same interests. As a designer myself I felt in need with these kind of communities, maybe You'll find these sites useful too. Participating in these forums not allows You to share Your knowledge with peers, but also allows to gain trust, for example, if You write a blog as I am - good user profile on popular forum linking to Your blog can be great marketing way.
30 Sources To Get Your Web Design Inspiration
If You are developing web designs, then You know there is times when You struggle without any ideas. That's the time when these web sites becomes handy. I collected nice list with some of the most known web gallery sites showcasing and listing well design sites into different categories, letting You to promote and demote all designs. Every site is a little bit different, so make sure to check everyone of these and pick up Your most favorite ones. Hope this list will help to get Your inspiration back.
