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FAQ Pages: Best Practices and Examples
FAQ pages are a vital part of many websites. While not every site needs one, if you’re selling something, providing a service, or giving information about a complex subject, an ...
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Graphic Design Theory: 50 Resources and Articles
As designers, we often focus on the practical aspects of design above all else. We focus on what works, with little regard for why it works. And in our day-to-day work, that outlook ...
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30 Useful Abstract Photoshop Design Tutorials
By Janos Racz Abstract works have many uses in design: they can serve as a vibrant desktop background, a mysterious webdesign header or they can be beautiful art pieces by themselves. ...
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Getting Ready for a Website Redesign: Advice, Resources and More
By Robert Bowen There is a season for all things, and this holds true in the world of web design too. Naturally with the technologies and languages evolving at the rate that they tend ...
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Breaking the Rules: How to Effectively Break the “Rules” of Good Web Design
We’ve all seen articles devoted to the various web desing “rules” out there. In fact, they’ve probably been drilled into all of our heads ad nauseum. And for ...
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Scalable Full Body Backgrounds in Web Design
By Mike Takahashi It is reasonable to assume that most users have a display resolution higher than or equal 1024×768 pixels. As display resolutions continue to increase, there has ...
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Multi-Layered Design: Guidelines and Examples
There have been tons of posts about minimalist and simple web design. It’s something every designer should consider and study, as minimalist and simple design principles are ...
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15 CSS Habits to Develop for Frustration-Free Coding
It’s been said that the key to a civilization's success is mastery of the food system. Unless a group of people can effectively control the basic needs for survival, they will never ...
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Single-Page Websites: Examples and Good Practices
Single-page websites are becoming more popular among web designers, both for their own projects and for client sites. There are a lot of cases out there in which a single-page site ...
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Preparing Photoshop Files for Web Developers
By Brian Rhinehart Whether you’re a freelance web designer or part of a team at an agency, handing off Photoshop files to a client, developer, development team or even another ...
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Women in Web Design and Development
By Andy Walpole The 20th century was witness to phenomenal social and economic changes in the status of women. Suffrage has been widely adopted around the world, anti-discrimination ...
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Showcase Of Formula 1 Website Designs
The 2009 Formula 1 season had an audience of over 520 million viewers, most of whom stayed up to date with the latest news on the official Formula 1 website, as well as their favorite ...
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55 Beautiful Business Card Designs
By Janos Racz Long gone the days when you simply handed over a white piece of paper with your name and contact info on it to potential clients. Nowadays, who do you think clients will ...
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Photoshop Plugins: 3D and Beauty
Over the last years Adobe Photoshop’s developers have been integrating some powerful 3D tools. Many of them require you to import a model from a 3D software or to gain profound ...
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The AIDA Marketing Model in Web Design
By Louis Lazaris If you’ve been formally educated in marketing, more than likely you’ve learned about a marketing model called AIDA. AIDA is an acronym that represents the ...
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Free Grunge Styles and Resources
Today we are glad to release five grunge styles for Adobe Photoshop. These styles were designed by the german Photoshop artist Dirk Metzmacher and released especially for Noupe and its ...