Articles Tagged 'webdesign'
Extensive Roundup of the Best WordPress Plugins You’ll Ever Need: Year 2012 Edition
Daniels MekšsBesides being a beautiful, easy to use and powerful platform by itself, WordPress is also loved because of it's high level of customization and optimization. Plugins are the best way to optimize and enrich your WordPress blog. And it's not limited to performance only. The plugins WordPress offers range from page speed optimization, user engagement, advanced backup, full theme modification to social sharing and search engine optimization.
Create A Sleek Music Player In Adobe Photoshop
Davey HeuserIn this tutorial you’ll learn how to make a beautiful music player in Adobe Photoshop. It is important that you take the time when you are designing and do not rush things. I focused on the details so I invite you to look at every little thing carefully and think about why I did it and how you can learn from it! Good luck!
The Most Effective Tools To Enrich Reader Engagement On Your Site
What do we mean when talking about reader engagement? Well, in terms of blogging the first things that come to mind are comments, sharing, questions, conversion rates. To sum up we could compare reader engagement with building a community. A community where readers care about each other, where action doesn't stop after reading the final paragraph and where exciting discussions are born. Unfortunately, good content and neat design aren't the only factors which affect reader engagement. You need to learn to focus readers attention and start a conversation. Developing an engagement is a win-win situation. Your visitors will want to explore more and join the conversation but you, as the publisher, will be looking at higher conversion rates.
60 Beneficial And Great Looking Premium Background from Graphicriver
Background is an essential yet often overlooked element of any artwork. A suitable background can turn good design into a great design and correspondingly moderate one into a good one. You can come up with a perfect background within minutes or squeeze something out in days. A good background has to be balanced yet giving the complete look to the artwork. So where to find those neat background for your next project/product presentation/print design and avoid yourself with messing in Photoshop? Again Graphicriver is the answer. With just over 2000 backgrounds in sales you can be sure you'll find the right one just for your needs. In this article we've compiled various backgrounds ranging from subtle textures and patterns to abstract desktop wallpapers to splendid lighting effects. Large part of these background are print-ready so you can use them in almost any way you can think of. Continue reading and check out these 60 useful and neat premium background from Graphicriver.
10 Easy Steps On How To Create A Good Photography Portfolio
Christian VasileCreating a showcase of photographs is not an easy task and most of the time the photographers have basic or no knowledge of design at all. Moreover, creating such a portfolio in which the images have to be in focus is a tricky task and even the more experienced designers might fail providing a good layout, therefore I thought of sharing with you a list of tips for designing photography portfolios. The difference between a web design portfolio and a photography showcase is huge. The focus has to be on pictures, not on content, while the normal way of designing, with the header, content box, sidebar and footer changes totally from a layout to another. The more inspired and original you can be, the better your design will be. When you are a photographer, it is very important to have a platform where you can show clients your work - this has the same importance as for a web designer.
45 High Quality Free Icon Sets In PSD Format From 2011
Jameel KhanPSD files are the most valuable resource for the designers as they save loads of time and energy, especially when they are running out of time. For this reason, many designers are always on the lookout for new and exciting PSD files that they can add to their toolbox. Today, we have come up with an assortment of 45 Fresh and High Quality sets of PSD files. You can edit them anytime you want, and utilize them in your new design projects. Let us have a look at this assortment and feel free to share your opinion with rest of the community. Enjoy! Important: All psd icon sets are free. Please read the license agreements carefully before using the psd’s for commercial use, the license can change from time to time.
8 Techniques To Create An Irresistible Landing Page
A landing page is a very important tool for online marketing and is also known as a lead capture page. The definition of it is a single page that appears in response to clicking on an advertisement. These pages are usually designed with a clear scope: to sell or make the user subscribe. They are normally extensions of the advertisement link the user clicks on. You can find links to landing pages in social media, e-mail or search engine marketing campaigns and many other places. You can find them all over the internet. With a clear goal of converting the visitors into buyers or subscribers, the landing pages have to be convincing right from the first moment, otherwise they will not lead to the desired purpose.
50 Impressive & Fantastic Print Ready Premium Flyer Templates
Designing for print requires some additional and more advanced knowledge which designers often don't have. And what about those who doesn't have no knowledge at all but are seeking for a beautiful and qualitative print work? Again Graphicriver is the answer. The print templates that can be found there range from business cards to full magazine mockups. If you're on a low-budget and don't want to hire a designer but looking for a nice solution this is definitely the place to check out first. Also if you're unexpierenced designer in the print field and asked to do a print-ready solid project, this is where you can set off. The templates sold here are detailed, unique and layered so you can examine every little detail or even start building your own project on the basis of it. Today we've prepared a compilation of a niche which will always be in demand - flyers. Flyers have been around couple decades and probably will be couple more. Whether it's web or billboard - every event needs a flyer. They're on of the most powerful marketing tools so you have to be careful when choosing one. Fortunately, Graphicriver has plenty of wonderful option to choose from so keep reading and check out these 50 impressive and fantastic premium flyers from Graphicriver.
40 Beautifully Executed And Trendy iPhone App Web Designs
With so many iPhone apps in the game you have to really stand out in order to get noticed. One of the best ways to do it is by having an appealing and stunning web design to promote your app. I'm sure you all have seen at least one of those colorful, sleek and pixel-perfect app designs with a huge iPhone vector in them. The developers are trying their best to make their app stand out of the crowd and for us, designers, developers, and simply web design lovers it's always interesting to see what they've came up with. This article presents 40 beautiful, inspiring and engaging iPhone app web designs. Also be sure to check out our recent article about iPhone apps to keep you on edge wherever you go.
Introduction to Responsive Web Design
After writing about the Defensive Web Design approach a few weeks ago, I thought of presenting you with another type of approach, called Responsive Web Design, and the challenges a designer encounters throughout the working process of a product developed with these considerations. Responsive Web Design is another important concept which can be called "planning", but it has a name of its own because it is widely used nowadays. A few years back we didn't need to think about mobile phones, tablets and different screens, because there were not too many of them - or not at all. Well, the IT world has changed since then and now there are a bunch of screen sizes and platforms designers need to deliver for. Responsive Web Design is the concept of a website which should adapt to fit any device that chooses to display it. Not only mobile devices, but also stationery computers and tablets.
