Category: Web Design

25 Examples Of Typographic Focused Web Design

All PostsFontsInspirationWeb Design
on 2012-08-23

The correct use of typography in web design plays an important role in the overall user experience, with the correct use of typography you help encourage the users reading and content discovery experience. The effective use of typography in these collected designs allows each site to have a very distinctive branding and tone, something which is not always easily achieved if your typography choice is a second thought in the design process.

In the past we have bought you some pretty awesome collections of typographic poster designs, hundreds of quality fonts to download and use in your projects, so this post serves as a great starting point to get some web typography inspiration and create something a little different in your next design.

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15 Pixel Perfect & Free Social Media Icons

All PostsFreebiesPhotoshopWeb Design
on 2012-08-20

Last week I was putting the finishing touches on a new WordPress theme, I wanted to include some social icons that would be output from the theme options panel if the user entered their details. I am by no means an icon designer, so I went in search for gorgeous, pixel perfect social icons that I could use in the project.

The 15 free social icons below are part of the collection I put together, I hope you find them useful and download them to your icon collection.

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Useful Web Apps For Prototyping and Wireframing

All PostsSoftwareTipsWeb Design
on 2012-08-16

Being able to create rapid prototypes or wireframes of web and mobile apps is crucial for improving efficiency and essentially the end product. Creating wireframes or prototypes will allow you to discuss and amend various different versions of the the project in deeper details with clients, designers and developers without the need to invest hours of staff time creating endless pixel perfect mockups.

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Tutorial: Pulling Your 5 Most Recent Tweets via Ajax

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on 2012-08-09

For web developers just breaking into social media there are dozens of fantastic APIs you can work with. Most notably the Twitter API has gotten a lot of attention in recent years. And such rightly so, as the developers at Twitter have been working nonstop to improve endpoints and other miscellaneous settings.

The API has also been online long enough that 3rd party developers have created their own web apps and released the code as open source. In this tutorial I’ll be working with exactly this type of open source jQuery plugin called tweet! which can pull recent tweets from any user account. The plugin also comes with some default styles which we’ll play around with. We could also pull tweet data from searches, lists, and favorites as well.

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20 Super Useful Browser Apps For Designers

All PostsBrowsersSoftwareWeb Design
on 2012-07-26

Today I would like to share with you a collection of super useful browser apps that I find very handy and use pretty often, these browser based design apps are perfect for designers or front-end developers who are are in the process of taking the design build from sketch concepts all the way through to the final coded product. I hope you find some new and useful browser apps from this collection and hopefully these will help you to speed up your work-flow from concept to delivery.

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