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20 Methods for Upping Your Current Web Design Skills
Design All great designers are constantly improving their skills. There has never been a successful designer, or anyone of another profession for that matter, that has stopped at a certain point and said, "Good enough". Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to always be learning new things, and to always be improving. In this post we're looking into 20 different ways a web designer can improve their skills at any time. 20 Great Improvement Methods 1. Check out websites like UI-Patterns.com to explore the best user interface patterns for the web. User Interface Pattern Websites: 2. Look at the detail in everyday objects, and actively look at detail in other web designs. 3. Many clients love a designer that offers SEO services. 4. Trends are never something a web designer should solely rely on, but learning new trends is a great way to keep up with technology, and to keep you as a designer out of a rut. 5. 6. Image credit: Dey 7. 8. 9. Image credit: Jakob Montrasio 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.
Design
Design is a suite of web-design and development assistive tools which can be utilised on any web-page. Encompassing utilities for grid layout, measurement and alignment, Design is a uniquely powerful JavaScript bookmarklet. Using Design is extremely simple: Drag the Design link below to your bookmark bar (or add it to your bookmarks by right clicking the link and selecting 'Add to bookmarks/favourites'): Load any web-page you want Click Design in your bookmark bar Load the design component you wish to use by clicking on it in the Design control panel. Design features the following components: Grid - overlays a highly configurable layout grid over a web-page. Once Design has loaded, you can load each individual component by simply clicking on the icon representing that component in the Design control panel. Each component can be loaded as a 'standalone bookmarklet' through the instructions of each of their individual pages. The following browsers are supported in Design: No IE6 support?
Adobe Makes Web Site Creation Even Easier
Adobe made a big splash in May by releasing their highly anticipated Creative Suite 6. They also released Creative Cloud, their first foray into cloud-based storage and software. One bit of software exclusive to Creative Cloud customers is Muse, a program that allows graphic designers to build Web sites without knowing any code. It was already easy enough to use, but Adobe is making it even easier. Adobe announced on Monday that Muse has received a substantial upgrade. The major change in the update is support for built-in contact forms. Here’s a video on how to create contact forms in Adobe Muse: Another welcome addition is the ability to link to downloadable files. There’s a slight bonus for Creative Cloud subscribers versus those who pay for just Muse. As for new languages, Adobe has added localizations for Japanese and Italian. To se all the changes that were added to Muse, check out the release notes. Adobe Makes Web Site Creation Even Easier
GridControl: A Grid Overlay System for Design Development.
Designing by grid is as old as design itself. Grids are a fundamental concept to design that transcend trends. Long after the shiny, sans-serify, reflective shadows of web 2.0 are gone, grids will still be here. When we access digital media through implants in our brain and see the internet through screens that appear right in our vision, grid-based design will be there. When the cavemen of old carved drawings onto cave walls, grids were there. There is a web design showcase I found when doing the Gallery Roundup that specifically showcases sites with great grid designs called Design By Grid. In order for grids to be really effective, you really need to honer them. A Ruler: A Grid Designer's Best Friend Seems pretty obvious. Overlaying a Digital Grid Much of this alignment business is already taken care of for you. So let's get to it. The CSS is pretty straightforward: The other two have identical CSS with the exception of the background image. Notice the display: none; in the CSS. Share On
Page Peel Effect Using MooTools
Soh Tanaka release a great script back in May titled Simple Page Peel Effect with jQuery & CSS. The idea is that you place a "peel" image on the upper-right side of an element which, when hovered, "peels" open and peels close. I thought this was a quality, flexible idea so I've ported the jQuery code to MooTools. The XHTML A wrapper DIV containing an image and a "message" DIV. The CSS These initial CSS is important as we'll be modifying this initial CSS with MooTools. The MooTools JavaScript The peel effect is triggered by mouseenter and mouseleave events on the outter DIV element. What do you think about this effect? Be Heard Tip: Wrap your code in <pre> tags or link to a GitHub Gist! Older Select Dropdowns, MooTools, and CSS Print Newer Create Commands in TextMate Using PHP
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15 sites web developers and designers should know
Creating a good website isn't an easy task, but there's a few tools that can definitely make your developer or designer life easier. In this article, I have compiled 15 extremely useful website that any web developer or web designer should have bookmarked. ColorCombos When designing a website, one of the firsts (and most important) steps of the process is to choose a color scheme. LIpsum Who doesn’t know the extremely popular Lorem Ipsum text? What the font? You just saw a logo or website using a particular font and you enjoyed it. ConvertIcon Favicons are a must have for any website, mostly because on modern browsers as such as Firefox, it is displayed along with the site name in tabs. BgPatterns background Patterns is definitely one of the current webdesign trends. HTML Encoder Do you display code on your website? Test Everything Sprite Generator CSS Sprites is definitely a great technique to use, mainly because it reduces the number of HTTP requests. Load Impact IconFinder TypeTester CSS Tidy
