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40 Breathtaking Graphic Design Examples

Nina — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:08:50 +0000

Graphic design refers to various artistic, inventive and professional disciplines that focus on visual communication, production, and presentation for its audience. There are many techniques graphic designers use to create and blend words, symbols, and images to form a visual representation that conveys a certain idea or message. Some of these techniques include typography, photo manipulation [...]

Improve your Typography – 20 Exceptional Free Fonts

Peter Olexa — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:37:12 +0000

There is an old saying: “Give a dog an ill name and he’ll soon be hanged”. Transposing this wisdom to the field of website design, it is possible to say that the success/failure of a particular site is predefined by a number of factors, including a domain name, page layout, and even font, chosen for [...]

What You Need to Know about Cross-Cultural Web Design

Christian Arno — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:57:45 +0000

How do you ensure your website will be well-received around the world? At Lingo24, we’ve learnt some valuable lessons about how affordable – and profitable – it can be to dip your toes into the foreign language internet by building websites optimised for different countries and language groups. Several years ago we built special sites for [...]

Creating Fancy Checkmark Icons with Pure CSS3

Nick Parsons — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:57:09 +0000

I was recently working on a personal project where I wanted to implement some cool “checkmark” icons like you see at left to spice up my unordered lists. I could’ve done it quite easily with the list-style-image property, but I was trying to keep my images and http requests to a minimum, so I wanted [...]

Exclusive Freebie – “Groovy” Social Media Icon Set

Nick Parsons — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:12:16 +0000

I’m glad to announce that today we have a special freebie release for Webitect’s faithful readers and subscribers – a fresh 8 piece social media icon set! This set has a clean modern feel, comes in four different sizes perfect for blogging (64, 48, 32, 22), and best of all has a completely free unrestrictive license, meaning that [...]

Quick and Dirty Content Filtering with PHP

Nick Parsons — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:31:24 +0000

The PHP language includes lots of helpful functions for easily filtering, cleaning and manipulating content, all of which are excellent tools in the hands of a skilled developer. A solid knowledge of these filtering tools will help you achieve enhanced security and functionality in your projects. Today, I’m going to give you a crash course on [...]

6 Under-The-Radar jQuery Animation Plugins That’ll Knock Your Socks Off

Nick Parsons — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:29:02 +0000

There are plenty of great, useful jQuery plugins out there. It’s great to have those kinds of plugins and know where to find them, and the community has done an excellent job of giving those plugins the attention they deserve. There’s a whole other class of plugins, however – brilliant masterpieces that make your jaw drop [...]

20 Free Stylish, Zesty & Modern Fonts You Probably Haven’t Seen Yet

Peter Olexa — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:32:48 +0000

We are always on the search for modern and trendy fonts simply because fonts are an important aspect of our creative designs. Just for this purpose, I put together a collection of 20 my current favorite modern fonts you may download and start using right away. All of them are free! Wanda Bold Arkitech Goca logotype beta Aunchanted Camelia Regular MANABU Cyclo Neogrey [...]

Experience the Power of Desktop Blogging – Tips & Tools to Get You Started

Joel Reyes — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:31:16 +0000

Entrepreneurs and computer savvy techs aren’t the only ones that hit the keyboard hard and blog. With today’s online frenzy with vast social media networks everyone wants their voices to be heard. Not to say the least, if you’ve been online for more than 2 months you must have come across one or two blogs [...]

Create A Simple Letter Press Effect in Photoshop

Nina — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:28:00 +0000

Letter Press typography is very popular at the moment in both web and graphic design. Here’s a little step-by-step tutorial that will make you master the letter press effect for sure. Step One: Create A Document First things first, create a new document with a 800 X 600 pixels in size and make sure it’s set to [...]