Design And Blog

13+ Fresh Photoshop Tutorials – How to Design a Website Template

2012-11-12T03:44:00.000Z

Here are 13 different tutorials that will show you how to deisgn a website templete.

How a Preview Image Increased a Landing Page's Conversion Rate by 359%

2012-11-07T19:00:00.000Z

A recent A/B test I ran examined how a preview image on a landing page affects the page’s conversion rate. The results of the test were conclusive – a landing page that includes a preview image of the offer had a 359 percent higher conversion rate than a landing page without the preview image.

20 Inspirational Landing Page Designs

2012-11-02T17:45:00.000Z

As all designers know, effective landing pages play a critical role in increasing online transactions and conversions. But, despite the well-known importance of proper, effective landing page design, there’s no one-size-fits-all formula for building a landing page that’s guaranteed to thrive.

One More Time: Typography Is The Foundation Of Web Design

2012-10-31T03:47:00.001Z

For years you have been searching for it. You hear the question being asked in your dreams as you go on an Indiana-Jones-type-crusade to find the answer. When the answer comes to you, you know that the confetti will fall from the ceiling and the band will start playing your favorite song. You might even get a kiss from that special someone. So what is this question?

24 Delicious Food-Styled Sites for Restaurateurs

2012-10-29T16:05:00.001Z

Folks who own and run their own restaurant are generally not concerned with the backing technology. But in this era it’s almost foolish to not have a website online. But where do you start? This handy gallery of 24 fast food and Restaurant-style websites should give you some great inspiration ahead. If you have your own restaurant website please let us know in the discussion area below! We would love to check out other sources for inspiration and share them with the many designers worldwide

10 Fantastic Features of Drupal

2012-10-27T15:19:00.000+01:00

Drupal Geeks uses Drupal for all professional websites and content management system implementations. The Drupal CMS has existed since 2001 and has evolved into a robust and flexible system, used for sites like Whitehouse.gov and FedEx. There are many advantages to using Drupal to run your website and online business; here are ten that we feel are especially important.

Group Micro-blogging Using WordPress

2012-10-26T17:12:00.000+01:00

To all the Net savvy social animals out there with a Twitter, Facebook, G+ and a whole lot of StumbleUpon accounts, here is a more exciting way to get going with your latest project.

Bring Your Charts to Life with HTML5 Canvas and JavaScript

2012-10-26T00:09:00.000+01:00

Abstract: This article demonstrates how to create an animated Bar Chart on the HTML5 Canvas using a little bit of JavaScript and a little bit of imagination

The Five Biggest Mistakes That Bloggers Make

2012-10-24T17:30:00.000+01:00

Are a few silly mistakes holding back your blog? I work with a lot of bloggers, and I see some mistakes cropping up again and again. There’s so much to learn about blogging that it’s easy to get things wrong … but these mistakes can really cripple your chances of success.

Create A Dead Simple Twitter Feed with jQuery

2012-10-23T14:59:00.000+01:00

In this tutorial, we will be creating a jQuery script that retrieve twitter tweets from user account. It's quick and easy, come with link, hash tag, alias parser as well as time posted (calculated relatively). Most importantly, everything has a class and will be flexible to style and match your design!

14 Attention-Grabbing Tactics for Launching a New Business Blog

2012-10-22T17:26:00.001+01:00

Optimizing your blogsite for search engines is critical, but just like any website, product, book or service you create, you have to promote the launch of a new blog.

27 Free Vectors You Can Use to Create Your Own T-Shirts

2012-10-17T10:30:00.001+01:00

You might have seen a number of websites selling really cool t-shirts packed on the front and / or back with awesome text, illustrations or typographic madness. Creating a t-shirt like that isn’t as difficult as you might think. The really hard part is creating the cool graphics that cover the t-shirt. Luckily you don’t have to as there are a number of free vector websites where you can find loads of great vectorial graphics ready made and fit to put on your t-shirts.

4 Google Analytics Features You Probably Haven’t Used

2012-10-17T10:30:00.000+01:00

With every new feature, Google Analytics becomes more powerful, but also more complex. Hidden in the nest of menus are four powerful features that you might have overlooked.

10 Best Website Places To Sell and Buy Sites

2012-10-16T10:30:00.000+01:00

Sometimes it happens that we get an amazing idea for our new website and we set it up quite excitedly. We also work on it for sometime but then we suddenly lose interest in it or get busy in some other things. So what do you do in such situations? Well, the easiest and best thing to do is to sell the website to someone else. But now the big question is where to sell or buy sites? To help you out in this situation, today we have a list of 10 Awesome Places to Sell Your Website. Check the list out!

55 Exceptional Examples of Bokeh Photography

2012-10-16T10:00:00.000+01:00

Bokeh is a Japanese word that in English we know as blur. Bokeh has become a very popular effect in photography. It’s easy to create and makes for impressive photos. In this post we are showcasing 55 outstanding examples of Bokeh photography. Enjoy!

30+ Free HTML Email Newsletter Templates

2012-10-15T11:00:00.000+01:00

Email newsletters play a significant role when it comes to interacting with your customers and keeping them up to date with all the latest happening in your company. The design and layout of your newsletter is very important for grabbing the attention of your customers instantly . Beautiful and interesting designs will obvious attract customers and spread information about your product or service. A good HTML Email Templates, which have handy modification options, are always liked by readers as they not heavy for the reader’s Inbox. So today we have a list of Some Awesome Free HTML Email Newsletter Templates to make your Email newsletter stand out from the rest

Free Wordpress Themes

2012-10-15T10:30:00.000+01:00

Here is a collection of free wordpress themes for your enjoyment.

Powerful New CSS- and JavaScript Techniques

2012-10-14T10:30:00.000+01:00

Since our last round-up of useful CSS techniques, we’ve seen a lot of truly remarkable CSS geekery out there. With CSS3, some of the older techniques now have become obsolete, others have established themselves as standards, and many techniques are still in the “crazy experimentation” stage.

Awesome Tips To Resize And Edit Images On Blogger & Picasa

2012-10-14T10:00:00.000+01:00

If you are using Blogger then all images you upload on your blog will be storeed in Picasa. Picasa is a Free Google Service. What does this mean ? when you create a blog, Picasa automatically create an Album for your blog.This album will have the same name as your blog. And all your hosted images are served with Google CDN.

5 Critical Blog Design Elements You Can’t Ignore

2012-10-13T11:00:00.000+01:00

You’re preparing to launch your first blog. Great! If you have some experience with WordPress or some other blog platform, this may be pretty easy for you. If you’re merely a beginner, you might have a bit of trouble creating a blog design that is functional and appealing. The following are 5 tips you should keep in mind, no matter what, as you design your blog.

(Really) Stunning Desktop Wallpapers

2012-10-13T10:30:00.000+01:00

Desktop wallpapers always come in handy. The more inspirational, beautiful and elegant they are, the better they can challenge our imagination and provide some fresh perspective in a rather tedious and monotonous workflow. However, desktop wallpapers sometimes can go far beyond offering colorful eye-candy; sometimes desktop wallpapers include calendars, funny cartoons and logos of favourite tools, services and companies. The latter is particularly true for Apple-fans and Microsoft-haters as well as for Google, Twitter and Firefox-users.

10 aggressively used jQuery Infinite Scroll Plugins

2012-10-12T09:30:00.000+01:00

With the emerging popularity and use of social media sites, people are signing up for existing social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and many more. To keep existing user base and new signees hooked onto their site; these social media websites constantly work on new technologies and features to enhance user experience. One such clever feature is ‘infinite scrolling’ based on JQuery. It is a technique to retain users on a single page of a website. When the user scrolls down, more content is fetched and loaded on the same page, so the user does not have to manually click on ‘next’ to go to the next page.

Website Valuations – How Much Is Your Site Worth?

2012-10-12T09:00:00.000+01:00

Most people who own a website have asked the question: “What is my website worth?” It’s also one of the most common questions we field over here at Flippa and the only easy answer is that it’s worth whatever the market is willing to pay. This is obviously not so useful for someone looking to price their site to sell, or for a bidder looking to place a bid on a website auction, so let’s dig a bit deeper.

21 Best Websites for Teaching Yourself Web Development

2012-10-11T10:30:00.000+01:00

I remember how popular web design was even 5 or 10 years ago. Kids in high school were teaching themselves HTML and building small web pages from scratch. And nowadays this is possible because of the thousands of free tutorials and code online. Open source has dramatically shaped an industry of high-tech and high demand.

Designing a blog with html5

2012-10-11T10:00:00.000+01:00

Much of HTML 5′s feature set involves JavaScript APIs that make it easier to develop interactive web pages but there are a slew of new elements that allow you extra semantics in your conventional Web 1.0 pages. In order to investigate these, let’s look at marking up a blog.