CSS shapes allow us to move away from boxy designs, towards organic magazine style layouts. In the photo below the text follows the contours of the image, as well as being shaped into a ball. Thanks to iOS 8, we can explore similar creative layouts in email by wrapping content around polygons, standard shapes like ‘circle‘ or an images alpha …
When people think of web writing, they think primarily of three things: blogging, feature article writing, and copywriting for marketing sites. Fortunately, the realms of web writing span far more than these narrow options. There are plenty of less-common writing projects out there. If you’re looking for work, and you’re ready for some creative adventures, here are a few places …
Website performance optimization, according to the Toronto Online Marketing agency the focal point of technologically superior website designs is the primary factor dictating success for modern online businesses. After all, unimpressive website performance kills business bottom line when the torture of waiting for slow Web pages to load frustrates visitors into seeking alternatives – impatience is a digital virtue! And …
Think of design as a road map for consumers, taking them where you want them to go. Design makes an efficient way to get across the message and still make it pretty. That last part is where things start getting sort of weird. Sometimes I just don’t know what to think anymore when it comes to designers. I’ve seen and heard …
The problem has boggled the minds of Web designers for years: fixed, fluid, elastic or a hybrid layout design? Each option has its benefits and disadvantages. But the final decision depends so much on usability that it is not one to be made lightly. So, with all the confusion, is there a right decision? By considering a few factors and …
The layout is the foundation of your website. It guides the user through the sections and tells them what is most important. It also sets the aesthetic of the website. Therefore, you need to carefully think through how you lay out content. via Original And Innovative Web Layouts | Smashing Magazine.
We all know WordPress as the perfect tool for running a blog or regular website. But due to it’s open architecture, WordPress is much more than just a CMS, with many developers taking it to a whole new level. Making WordPress into something more than a CMS is typically done with themes and/or plugins. In this article I’ll show you …
Google Web Designer is a graphical design tool for creating HTML5/CSS3/Javascript banners and advertisements using animations and 3D transforms. Using their graphical tools such as drawing, text, and 3D objects, you can animate these objects and events on a timeline using keyframes. GWD is clearly not designed to create fully-fledged applications or entire websites, but rather banners, popup ads, sidebars, …
The barrier of entering the web development industry as a web developer is still low, but it’s getting increasingly complex. The dynamic nature of the whole industry makes requirements shift often to the most popular and “next best thing” tools and programming languages. Gone are the days when only one programming language or a very specific process was required from …
Welcome to On Our Radar, a weekly round-up of news, trends and other cool stuff from the world of web development. This week saw the release of iOS 8, which arrived sporting a plethora of new features. Here’s a (very) thorough review of Apple’s latest mobile operating system, here’s the TL;DR version and here are some of the best features …