Watt Admin - Free PSD web admin layout I’m releasing today a free psd web admin layout that I called Watt Admin. It can ease your work if you code it. [info_box] Best for commercial back-end use7 layered well organized PSD Blue and Orange versions, Blue and Orange versions with detailed click, errors, hovers etc. 3 login styles boxes Grid based design (960.gs) which makes it really easy to sliceFonts used: Tahoma, Myriad Pro [/info_box] Spread the word if you like this!
15 Useful Color Mixers For Effective Designing I wanted to create this list, because there are times when I struggle choosing my design colors - for me it’s not always easy task to just play with the colors and choose the right ones – of course, there are few favorite colors for everybody, but finding new great color combinations are not so easy task. That’s why there a lot of helpful resources to ease this task, and I am here to show You those! Hopefully this will help You to create new designs and the process will become a little easier. 1. Colourlovers This is a great resource that monitors different color trends.
Enhance Forms Using jQuery: 30 Tutorials and Plugins Forms are very important part of any website, whether it is sign up form, log in form or comment form. These forms are source of interaction between your website and its users. For example if anyone is signing up on your website it will be his/her first experience working on your website and it is said “First Impression Is Last Impression”; if users see your sign up form very elegantly and creatively designed they will have good first impression about your website. Same in the case of all other forms; which play the important role in the success of your website. Today we have rounded up a bunch of jQuery Plugins, Tutorials and Resources which will aid and facilitate you in enhancing the beauty of the various forms present on your website.
How to Create a better FAQ page for end users FAQ (Frequently Asked Question) pages have become commonplace on many websites for many reasons. The main, is that they offer a way to provide support, most commonly, customer support, without having to re-iterate solutions to common problems. For larger companies, a good FAQ page can even have an effect on the amount of support staff that are needed to be hired, yet browsing the internet, I continually find FAQ pages to be neglected, and a navigational nightmare. Similarly, Google for some articles on FAQ page design, and you’ll find near to nothing that’s helpful. While designing a recent project in Photoshop (a software sales theme), I decided the support area was something I wanted to get right, with the focus falling heavily on the FAQ page.
45+ Free Design Template And PSD Files Here is many useful graphic design files with guidelines, resolutions for better and faster design creation like business card, credit card, icon, document, sticky note, dvd cover, cd cover templates and much much more. I believe in the right hands this collection will become marvelous time saver at least I feel so ever since I found these resources. Why should You create again and again something, that’s already out there? Also be aware about license terms and agreements before You put them in use. Well, while there a lot of quality free psd files and graphic design resources available, at least sometimes I don’t have enough time to browse for them, cannot find what I need and I struggle from waste of time. There is also some other solutions – lately a lot of high quality file marketplaces like GraphicRiver, or for example Mojo-Themes for themes have been opened where you can buy high quality files very cheap!
Options to Consider When Looking for Stock Photos: Free vs Paid Solutions As designers and bloggers, pretty much every project we do is going to involve photography in some way, form or fashion. With the way the internet is today, there are photos floating around everywhere and it’s very easy to grab one for use even though it may land you in some huge trouble. This isn’t a post on which is better so much as it is weighing in on the different uses for free and paid photos. I’ll interject some of my opinions in here but mostly keep it factual so the information is as correct as possible. Create a Fantastic Landing Page for Your Next Product Using Photoshop Let us start the week with another PSD tutorial here at 1stwebdesigner! We will create a Product layout using Photoshop in a step-by-step manner. Techniques will be discussed in this tutorial which include the use of proper spacing, typography, and colors. Keep in mind that these techniques can also benefit you when you’re working on other designs in the future, so keep your mind focused and do not skip a single word!
How to Safely Match Web Design and Typography As web designers, our designs have to be both usable and attractive, communicate information and create a name. Our designs must be technically proven and tested for our dear readers. With that in mind, web designing is definitely a form of communication and nowadays, this type of communication is very, very important. As a form of communication, we, as web designers do the speaking and we hope our readers and viewers listen. For all types of communication, the most important thing is to be able to fully transmit the message to the receiving end.
Focus on Effective Coming Soon Pages When first launching your own website, it can be troubling deciding how to handle the first few weeks. This is generally a time when your website may not be ready to go live online but you own the domain name and branding rights. In these scenarios a properly designed coming soon page can affect the culture of your site tenfold. 8 Free High-Quality Fonts for Your Designs You should know the routine by now. We do the searching, find the freebies, and tell you about them. That way you can spend time doing what’s important, like creating awesome web designs.
20 Free Most Useful Photoshop Files to Inspire Designers Designers around the globe need some inspiration to motivate themselves when they going to start a creative new project with photoshop. Today we present some useful free downloadable psd files to inspire designers. Are you looking to contribute to our design community ? Photoshop WebDesigner Toolbox: Resources You'll Ever Need If you’re using Photoshop daily it’s essential to have an asset library. Having a pre made toolbox or asset library can be extremely handy. Having the right toolbox can save you a whale of a time and provide you with nifty resources. If you’re a web designer, your asset library will probably differ from a photographers library, however there are things which should be found in every Photoshop user’s toolbox. While you could spend countless hours making your own resources, usually there’s no need to do that.
Don't Reinvent the Wheel - 100+ Links of Design Elements and Resources This time we will review some helpful resources for designers, how you can find them, and how can they help you. Have you ever thought that every day, while you are busy doing your work, there are a lot of people doing almost the same thing as you? And they are releasing it. For free. And sometimes we just forget all this stuff and lose a lot of time doing things that just didn’t need to be done. Someone else has done it for us.