All New Design!
Here’s something we’ve been working on for a while now; an all new design! If you’re reading this in an RSS reader, please click through and check it out!
I’d love to hear your thoughts! Nicer than the old version?
The Pros and Cons of Art Directed Blog Posts
When it comes to blogging, for a designer, the art can feel somewhat lacking in, well, art. So it is natural for the designer inside us to begin craving a new approach to this task, which can at times feel a bit tiresome and trying. Blogging can often feel this way for a designer, because we are not necessarily the best at expressing ourselves through our words. We tend to be much more visual creatures.
We are better at finding the right look than at finding the right words, so blogging can move us a bit out of our comfort zone, even though we tend to have a firm enough grasp on the topics that we tackle.
Art directed blog posts are posts that are designed individually to match the subject of the post, and they tend to break from the usual look and setup of your site. This allows you as a designer to keep a proverbial fresh coat of paint on your site, without having to take the time and make all of the considerations that come with a complete redesign.
Design Critique: B2Bbloggers.com
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.
Write Better CSS With Best Practices
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.
40 Extraordinary Photoshop Text Effects
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!
7 Essential Elements of Blog Design
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.
40 Creative Navigation Menus
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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