If you are tired of your regular fonts or simply want to see what is new in the design world, this is an article that you will find very satisfying cause it features 60 of the best new free fonts, 60 fonts from which I’m sure you’ll use a few for your projects. Use them wisely and check the license before you download and use them.
As good as you think you might be, there is also room for improvement and learning new techniques is vital in a technological domain like web design where everything changes very fast. I’ve been researching for this article for some time and it is the time to publish it, now that I’ve collected a relatively large set of interesting and useful tutorials.
In this tutorial, we will be writing a jQuery plugin that will help you draw users’ attention to a specific part of the page, in the form of a small arrow that is displayed next to their mouse cursor. This can be useful for pointing to missed form fields, buttons that need to be pressed, or validation errors that need to be scrolled into view.
Placeholder text can be very helpful and can save a lot of page space while also being aesthetically pleasing. With this great feature, however, comes a problem: If the placeholder text is being used in place of a label, it can become very confusing when you focus on the field and the ‘label’ disappears.
Continue reading
I’ve stated that being up-to-date is essential no matter what you do for a living, so here are new resources for web designers and web developers, things that could help you on your projects. You will find in this article slideshow plugins, CSS frameworks, HTML5 and CSS3 resources, a few GUI PSDs and various jQuery plugins. I’m sure you’ll enjoy them.
If you are interested in these types of resources, they are posted on the WebDev section of Design Resource Box. There are 6 new resources every week.
Mosaiqy is a jQuery plugin for viewing and zooming photo working on Opera 9+, Firefox 3.6+, Safari 3.2+, Chrome and IE7+. Photos are retrieved from a JSON/JSONP data structure and randomly moved inside the grid. All expensive animations are taken over by your GPU on recent browsers using CSS3 transitions, minimizing the CPU overhead.
Set column and gutter widths, choose the number of columns, and switch between pixels and percentages. All without any ugly .grid_x classes in your markup. Oh, and did we mention it’s responsive?
Continue reading
The availability of e-commerce facility has gained significant popularity in the last decade. What has attracted the user of online shopping is the convenience of shopping their favorite products from their home as well. Moreover, the user also has an advantage of more information on the desired product and an option to choose from a wide range, when buying online. A large number of software companies have come up with e- commerce software, which is primarily aimed to enhance the user experience on the e-commerce website as well as to provide a better platform to business entities to showcase their products.
There are a number of points; the companies must keep in mind while deciding the overall structure of their e-commerce website. One of the most important aspects of the same is the shopping cart. More often it has been observed that due to issues related to the shopping cart and check out glitches, the user is not able to buy the product. Following are some of the points an e-commerce web designer can introduce while designing the shopping cart.
Magazine WordPress themes have been the topic of interest for a lot of people, because of the way they can present content in a beautiful, clean way and also blend advertisements pretty well into the design. Though they have changed a lot in the last years, magazine themes preserve the same key features through which they have to deliver the content to the visitor, give him the information that he needs so that he can find it easily like he would do it in a newspaper.
In this article there are 41 free and premium WordPress magazine themes, approximately half free, half premium. I’ve selected only the free themes that a regular person would actually use and ignored the ones that are outdated and ugly looking and besides them I’ve also put in the article premium themes because of their superior quality. If you consider they are worth the money, you can buy them. I’m using premium themes for some time and I’ve never been disappointed cause they give you a very detailed documentation and support.
Equilibrium WordPress Theme
Imbalance WordPress Theme
Continue reading
You have here a selection of articles that best define the category that they're part of
