17 Comments // 6 Aug // by Michael Martin
B2Bbloggers.com is a B2B marketing site that features a lot of guest posts on B2B marketing, and highlights a lot of content from around the niche.
We’re going to take a look at the site’s design today, critique it, and work out how we could improve it. As we do hopefully you’ll learn to apply this same methodology to your own site.
We’ll be working through this design as a case study, redesigning each section along the way, so you get to see each item as we rework it, including the full before and after design.
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126 Comments // 22 Mar // by Michael Martin
Everyone has a slightly different approach to CSS. That’s part of the reason it can be a nightmare to edit someone else’s code.
But there are a few good practices you can use in your CSS to make your stylesheets easier for you to read, and easier for anyone else that ends up modifying them in the future.
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56 Comments // 8 Mar // by Narendra.s.v
The trouble with Photoshop Tutorials is that there are a lot of them out there, but you only want the very best, most creative ones.
In this post, we’ve collected 40 of the very best and most extravagant tutorials for working with type. After working through a few of the most appealing looking ones to you, you should have more than a few ideas for creating your own, unique effects!
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55 Comments // 25 Feb // by Angie Bowen
The blogosphere continues to expand almost on a daily basis, and as a web designer we often inform clients of the numerous benefits of attaching a blog to their site. It is always a great way to continuously update your readers as to what new developments are being made in your business and what to look for as they stick with you on this journey.
This in turn, keeps your site well trafficked by the online masses as new content is added on a regular basis. And while there are a plethora of points and elements that are vital when designing a blog, some take precedence over the others.
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66 Comments // 22 Feb // by Tehseen
One of the first things to do when planning out a new website is to work out all of the content that will be in the site. You then divide that up into sections and then into various levels of navigation.
The result is a boring list of links.
That list of links is one of the most important part of your website though, it goes without saying that every visitor to the site will be using them to get around.
In this post we’ve pulled together some of the best designed navigation bars (both horizontal and vertical) to help give you ideas to enhance your own.
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55 Comments // 25 Jan // by Lee Ka Hoong
Color is difficult to get right. There’s a near infinite number of combinations out there, but only a few that will actually look right for your project. Because it’s so important to a design’s success, it’s worth taking a little time to work out your palette.
There are a lot of online tools to help out with this. They all vary slightly to suit designers with different preferences on how they work. We’ve collected together 25 of the best here, with a quick overview on each to help you decide which to try.
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51 Comments // 4 Jan // by Michael Martin
With 2010 started, the new decade has begun. But how did we get to here?
In this article, we’re going to look at the major events from each year in the past decade that have helped develop the web design industry. Try keeping a tab on how many affected you, I bet you’ll run out of fingers quite quickly!
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