Category: Design

June 1, 2009

20 Quality examples of high contrast in web design

Posted in Design, Inspiration by Gergely Marton | Tags: Design, high contrast, Inspiration, List

My 10th grade art teacher told me that high contrast can be used only on white or black backgrounds to underline focus on things you want to communicate. I think it was a bold declaration of not thinking out of the box and not following design trends set by teenagers and young artists. Anyway, since [...]

March 30, 2009

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How to achieve the new and trendy letterpress effect with Photoshop

Posted in Design, Tutorials by Gergely Marton | Tags: Design, Tutorials, Typography

One of the most unexpected trends Smashing Magazine observed over the last months was the emergence of letterpress in Web design. Probably the most important reason for this trend is the simple fact that this technique has been rarely used until now. Few of the top web designers in various countries re-designed their website [...]

March 19, 2009

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How to get peace between designers and web developers by using Firebug?

Posted in Design, Development by Claudiu Murariu | Tags: Design, Development, firefox

http://www.webgurusdesignblog.com/2009/03/peace-designers-and-developers/

Pixel Perfect is a firebug extension for Firefox that allows web developers to easily overlay a web composition over top of the developed html.

February 9, 2009

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Color Scheme & Color Palette websites for web designers

Posted in Design by Gergely Marton | Tags: Color, Design, Freebies, List

I was searching for some cool color combinations yesterday for one of my new projects, and I found some great websites offering color combinations and palletes or just tools for you to create your wanted combination on the fly. I thoug it worth sharing with other designers so I made a list for everyone who [...]

January 18, 2009

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An alternative to sIFR: FaceLift Image Replacement

Posted in Design, Freebies, Web Apps by Gergely Marton | Tags: Design, Usability

Dind’t you have enough of Arial and Times New Roman and Verdana? Or maybe Tahoma as well? Well ME and some other briliant guys sure did have enough so the universe have given us sIFR. This sIFR thingie is an inline flash text replacement tool for web pages, so you can use any font-face you [...]