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Showcase of Wonderful Responsive WordPress Themes(Tracked)
These days, there are more WordPress themes available than you could even hope to count. However, not all WordPress themes are created equally. Aside from having a quality design and being bug-free, the biggest issue facing web designers is the growing number of mobile and tablet users. That’s where responsive WordPress themes come in.
A good responsive theme will work on any browser, on any screen size, with proper fall-back support, all while maintaining the overall style and functionality. In this post, we’ve done the hard work for you, by gathering up some wonderful responsive WordPress themes from the masses
| Posted On: 27 Jun, 2012 |  Continue... |
Putting the Pieces Together: Scrapbook Style Web Designs(Tracked)
Web design has roots in numerous other artistic fields, one of which that blogging not only honors, but often mimics in design and use alike is scrapbooking. Just as scrapbooks capture moments with more artistic accompaniment than photos, collaging various elements together to present a story; blogs capture moments in digital format, usually using images and other elements with the text to complete a story.
Design is another way these two mediums tend to crossover with often fantastic results. That is where today’s spotlight is aimed, at some scrapbook style web designs that perfectly capture the feel of this
| Posted On: 27 Jun, 2012 | Continue... |
Essential advice for restaurant websites(Tracked)
Restaurant websites have become infamous for their outdated designs, and frustrating user experience. How many times have you visited a restaurant website and asked, “What was this web designer thinking?”
We see the same (often laughable) problems again and again: background music as you skip past another Flash website “intro”; PDF food menus (or no menu at all); all of the content is image-based instead of text, causing extremely slow load times. The list goes on and on…
As you would in any website design project, you must start by putting yourself in the visitor’s shoes and pinpointing their most pressing needs.
| Posted On: 30 Jun, 2012 | Continue... |
Congratulations art school graduates!(Tracked)
When I was in art school, before my senior year, I volunteered to help with the senior graduation. As an usher, I just had to smile a lot and wander the halls and back stage rooms at Lincoln Center.
I think I did it more to able to go where regular civilians couldn’t go but eventually we seated all the parents and families of the graduates and the ceremony began.
The guest speaker was some big film reviewer for one of the New York papers or magazines and she came to the podium and started what must have been a Valium-induced rant
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Comics of the week #135(Tracked)
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.
The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers.
These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world today.
So for a few moments, take a break from your daily routine, have a laugh and enjoy these funny cartoons.
Feel free to leave your comments and suggestions below as well as any related stories of your own…
The larger the monitor…
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Creating Advanced “Marquee” with CSS3 Animation(Tracked)
This article is part of our "HTML5/CSS3 Tutorials series" - dedicated to help make you a better designer and/or developer. Click here to see more articles from the same series.
Today we are going to take a look at “marquee” once again. We actually have covered about it in our previous post which talked about using the -webkit-marquee property, but this time we will take this subject a little further.
In this post, we are going to create a marquee-like effect using the CSS3 Animation. That way we will be able to add more functionalities that could not be
| Posted On: 30 Jun, 2012 | Continue... |
CSS3 Border-Image Property: Making Photos Really Cool!(Tracked)
This article is part of our "HTML5/CSS3 Tutorials series" - dedicated to help make you a better designer and/or developer. Click here to see more articles from the same series.
Creating borders is nothing new in HTML & CSS; we’ve been able to add borders since the beginning. You may have been familiar with solid borders, dotted borders, dashed borders and so on.
But, with the new CSS3 border-image property, creating borders on HTML element is becoming more advanced; well, simply put, we are now able to add a border using an image as the source which will allow us
| Posted On: 30 Jun, 2012 | Continue... |
Marquee in CSS – Beginner’s Guide(Tracked)
Marquee was first introduced in Internet Explorer and was very popular in the ’90s before W3C ultimately decided to exclude it from the HTML standard element due to usability issues. Web designers were encouraged to not use the tag.
Surprisingly though, the marquee is now making a comeback, not in a tag format like it did, but in a CSS Module. This module is available as part of the Webkit CSS specification and the W3C is currently working on a similar module as well. However, since the W3C version is still at the Candidate Recommendation stage, it is not
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