Plixid Articles

Vintage Web Design

admin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:43:29 +0000

Recently, I saw a very nice collection of vintage ads posted by Abduzeedo (via Digg). Speaking of vintage design, I also have a nice collection of vintage websites that I dug up from my old bookmarks and Best Web Gallery submissions. I’m not a big fan of vintage design, but if you want to see [...]

10 Photoshop Masters

admin — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:38:19 +0000

I've been working with Photoshop for some time now. I really like the software and what can be achieved using it. What amazes me more is the quality of works that were done using it. There are people who really know how to push the boundaries of the tool and produce astonishing pieces of work. [...]

Horizontal layout trends

admin — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:15:58 +0000

While i was going trough CSS galleries i ran into couple of interesting web sites with horizontal based layout and asked my self is this going to be next trend in web site development and what are the good and bad sides of this kind of web sites and where we can use this? So [...]

30 Best Firefox add-ons

admin — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:38:50 +0000

As I am one of the many Firefox users I use many of its add-ons which make my work so much easier. And I would like to share with you list of 30 best handpicked Firefox add-ons, very useful for web designers and developers.

Top 50 free Wordpress themes

admin — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:33:21 +0000

Great Wordpress themes are pretty hard to find. Everybody who has run a Google search on “wordpress themes” knows that. So we thought an article like this will be useful.

Learn SEO basics

admin — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:04:36 +0000

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” (”organic” or “algorithmic”) search results for targeted keywords. In this article find out how to do basic SEO, code search engine friendly pages and how to do a basic promotion of [...]

Photoshop: Hand Drawn Design

admin — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:00:51 +0000

In case you haven’t noticed yet, the hand drawn style is one of the hottest design trends. There are several ways to create hand drawn images — you can create it from scratch in Photoshop or you can scan an actual hand drawn sketch. Personally, I like to use a scanned drawing because you get [...]

Clean and pure CSS FORM design

admin — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:56:08 +0000

Some readers of my blog hate html tables and often ask to me which is the better way to design FORMS with CSS, without using tables to place each form element in a table’s cell. How I said some time ago… tables are not evil. Sincerly, in some case I used pure CSS code to [...]

Beautiful CSS buttons with icon set

admin — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:35:29 +0000

I love clean design and in general simple solutions to design nice and attractive elements for my websites. This tutorial illustrates how to design nice clean buttons using some lines of HTML, CSS code and proxal icon set. The result is something like this…

Top 10 Blogs for Web Designers

admin — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:55:05 +0000

Today I’m doing a round up of the magazine-style blogs that are usefull for web designers. I prefer these over printed magazines as they’re quicker with the latest information and the quality is as good if not better than traditional mags.