Tomas Laurinavicius is a blogger and designer from Lithuania. He's interested in web design, Photoshop and WordPress design. You can follow him on Twitter @tomaslau. Get in touch with him if you have interesting projects you want to collaborate on.
Custom post types aren’t something strictly defined. Basically it is any type of content you use in your blog. For example, WordPress comes with some default post types you’re probably familiar like blog posts, pages, attachments, navigation menus and more.With custom post types you have the possibility to create more interesting and unusual user experience in your blog by expressing more creativity using them. Custom post types allow users to easily create and manage such things as portfolios, projects, real estate listings, event calendar, quotes, ticket system, and whatever you can imagine.In this list I would like to share 15 useful WordPress tutorials for creating custom post types for any kind of your projects. Read More
For today I have selected 15 fresh and useful CSS3 tutorials for your next project. CSS3 and HTML5 are the topics that you see and hear everyday and I think it is the right time to start diving into it. While there is no freedom in expressing our ideas in CSS3 prior to weak support in major browsers we want to be the first ones when it is fully supported right? Besides chasing the trends you will gain valuable experience in CSS3, HTML5 and jQuery which will help you to solve your problems in your projects.In this compilation you will find only newest CSS3 tutorials on creating amazing transition effects, slideshows, navigation menus and much more. Read More
Information has been vital component of the Internet for ages and that is the reason why people started to design websites – to access all available and needed information easily. Most of the information on the Web is text or typography and it plays very important role in website design too. Appropriate use of typography can improve overall design look so you definitely should pay some attention to this aspect of design.Today I would like to present you some nice CSS3 techniques for improving your web typography. Unfortunately these experiments won’t work on all browsers because of weak CSS3 support but it is always interesting and fun to give a try on upcoming stuff.Here are 15 unusual and beautiful CSS3 typography effect examples and explanations how to do them. Read More
Website navigation is one of the most important web usability aspects so you should take this into consideration creating clear and intuitive website navigation design. People coming to your website usually have some web experience and they expect to find simple navigation which should be clean and straightforward for user to find things he wants fast. Otherwise your visitor will get stuck and will leave your website unhappy and with bad experience of your website and possibly brand.In this post I would like to introduce you unusual and unique examples of website navigation. Although it is really hard to use unusual navigation and achieve its main goal you definitely should give a try with your personal project, blog or portfolio in order to stand out from the crowd and give your visitors the possibility to experience the new level of navigation.In this post you will see some original and unique navigation design ideas implemented into real websites. Creative and beautiful but is it worth that? Leave your thoughts in comments section below the post. Read More
Apple products with Mac OS X operating system are quite popular among designers and digital artists. So today I have collected 25 awesome apps for designing purposes. Mostly of them are for processing images and editing pictures but you will also find tools for productivity, time management, screen recording, reading, planning as well as coding apps in case you are a web designer. Some of these apps are available for free but most of them will cost you money, but hey it is not so bad to pay few dollars for high quality product and achieve amazing results after. Read More
In the past few years the rise of mobile devices such as iPads, iPhones and other smart phones was extremely huge and that was the reason why responsive web design started to play more and more important role in the design industry. But what is the responsive design you will ask.The idea of responsive web design, started by Ethan Marcotte, is that our websites should respond to the device that our page is shown on by adapting their layout and design to fit any device resolution. In his book “Responsive Web Design” he outlines the three parts to a responsive website: a fluid grid, fluid images and media queries.In this post I would like to share 15 useful responsive design tutorials to help you get started with responsive designing including fluid grids, fluid images and media queries. Read More
If you want to achieve great results and be productive as much as possible you must find a comfortable and cozy environment to work in. Work takes a lot of time in our lives and we would like to make it enjoyable and interesting. It doesn’t matter if you’re working from home or office your workplace should be inspiring and motivating space where you can let your imagination go wild. Read More
Simplicity is the key to effective and memorable logo design. Creating a logo design you should consider less is more rule and make your logo as simple as possible and creative enough at the same time. Perfect technique to achieve this effect is to use negative space which can help you to achieve brilliant results. Negative space may be most evident when the space around a subject, and not the subject itself, forms an interesting or artistically relevant shape, and such space is occasionally used to artistic effect as the “real” subject of an image.Negative space logos are becoming the next trend in all kind of industries. For that reason I’ve collected 30 clever logo designs with negative space used. Hopefully you will find this collection entertaining as well as inspiring. Read More
Typography nowadays dominates in different fields of multimedia starting with advertising and finishing with web design. Mostly used in print media typography can be great source of inspiration for web and graphic designers. In this post I would like to introduce you some typographic poster designs. By combining different color, size and style fonts poster designers achieve stunning results with different moods and feelings expressed in these works.In this showcase you will see 30 amazing examples of brilliant typography-based poster designs in various topics. Read More
Since the iPhone and iPad entered the market you can hear lots of news about apps for these devices. Tons of apps available today and you can find everything you want. But today I would like to share 10 handy web-based apps for designers. To use these apps you don’t need to buy an iPhone or iPad, you can use them without any additional software or device, you just need a web browser. In this collection I’ve picked 10 useful and time-saving web apps for designers. These will help you to create an invoice, record a video or select a beautiful color combination for your next project. Read More
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