Archive for the ‘Web design’ Category
What’s difficult in designing a menu for mobile design is a small size of the screen. The idea is to arrange everything intelligently, and thus facilitate the users’ interaction with a site. The way menu is organized determines easy and intuitive navigation throughout the website. Much attention should be paid to designing a menu and all that buttons in order to make the site work.
The following post is focused on such elements of navigation in mobile interface as menus and buttons. Here you’ll see the existing examples of Menus And Buttons in Mobile Design cool execution and wise implementation in the layout. Hope, this post will inspire you for your own great designs.
A bit more inspiration is waiting for you in the post dedicated to Search Forms Solutions in Mobile UI.
Menus
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The Rooms
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Login Mobile
The ideas worth spreading – this is the key point of TED, a small nonprofit community. Technology, Education and Design – this is how you can transcribe this abbreviation. It started in the early 1980 as an opportunity to connect all those who were passionate about speaking.
The coolest thing about TED is all that interesting experiences and ideas that people share in short talks. And of course, the quality of speakers. The variety of subjects covered in these talks is immense: internet marketing and advertising, industrial design, graphic design, etc.
Today we want to focus on web design TED talks that will reveal interesting and inspiring ideas from this sphere. So, choose a comfortable seat and enjoy.
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David Carson on Design + Discovery
David Carson will tell you about his ideas concerning the emotional response to design and about the artist’s intuition. He advices to take into consideration the personal perspective to achieve the original approach to work.
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Don Norman: 3 Ways Good Design Makes You Happy
Happiness is the leading point of creativity. It helps solve problems easier, work better and succeed. This is what you’ll find in this talk. You’ll be interested in three emotional cues that a well-designed product will evoke according to Don Norman’s idea.
What’s new for today? A fresh freebie for restaurant website. If you’re going to set up one, feel free to check out this Free Website Template in visually rich design with acute attention to images. That’s what you need to present a restaurant business online.
Let’s see what’s inside. The elegant style is focused on showing the refined visuals of the menu. Large slider in the top attracts attention, and the featured blocks with the special choices make the visitors interested in what the cafe offers. The set of 6 pages offers you to place all the information you have to make people familiar with the place this site promotes. Easy on the eye in sappy colors, this template invites the audience to taste the delicious food and drop a visit to a restaurant.
Here is free template live demo to see this theme in action.
Free Website Template for Restaurant Site:
To download the whole package of this template, visit the Free Website Template for Restaurant Site download page at TemplateMonster and type an email address that you want the free template package to be delivered to (don’t forget to uncheck the newsletter subscription checkbox in case you’re already subscribed, otherwise you may not be able to download the zip file). Feel free to use this template for your business, but you cannot resell it as a template.
Download Free Website Template for Restaurant Site with PSD files (25,4MB)
IMPORTANT NOTICE:TemplateMonster does not provide support services on free templates – including this one. We only provide support for the products that are being purchased from TemplateMonster. Our free templates are produced according to the latest web standards and we’ve been trying to make the process of working with them as easy as possible, so for people with minimum web development experience it should be easy to work with them. However, if you don’t have any experience, we recommend you to refer to the tutorials or community forums on how to work with platforms that each respective template is made with, or to hire someone to do the job for you.
Let’s hit up this Tuesday with elegant and stylish goodie that is intended for beauty sites – Free Website Template for Spa Salon. If you’re looking for a perfect dress for a beauty salon, massage salon, beauty parlor, beauty spa, manual therapy website, consider this theme from professional designers. It’s completely free, and this fact doesn’t effect its quality in any case.
The delicate tone of this template in pleasant to eyes purple color invites the viewers to start a trip around the site. The set of pages allows you to display all the information about your services, show the portfolio and get people interested in your business. The large background image complements to the whole visual attractiveness of this design. You can change it into the one from your portfolio. Before you start, make a short virtual trip around this theme with free template live demo.
Free Website Template for Spa Salon:
To download the whole package of this template, visit the Free Website Template for Spa Salon download page at TemplateMonster and type an email address that you want the free template package to be delivered to (don’t forget to uncheck the newsletter subscription checkbox in case you’re already subscribed, otherwise you may not be able to download the zip file). Feel free to use this template for your business, but you cannot resell it as a template.
Download Free Website Template for Spa Salon with PSD files (58,6MB)
IMPORTANT NOTICE:TemplateMonster does not provide support services on free templates – including this one. We only provide support for the products that are being purchased from TemplateMonster. Our free templates are produced according to the latest web standards and we’ve been trying to make the process of working with them as easy as possible, so for people with minimum web development experience it should be easy to work with them. However, if you don’t have any experience, we recommend you to refer to the tutorials or community forums on how to work with platforms that each respective template is made with, or to hire someone to do the job for you.
Responsive Web Design Testing Tools
Responsive website design is a good tone of today’s web, and the demand for it is going to become even more intense in the nearest time. Most designs that you can get all over the web are adaptable for different website layouts. That’s good when the job for you is already done. But what can be done to find out whether your design is really responsive. A lot of designers face a problem of testing when the design is done. Tools to Test Responsive Websites is what you need to see how you design is displayed at different screen sizes. The simpler is the process of testing, the more convenient the tool is. Some of them are completely free, the others are not, but all of them are good for testing. Let’s see what these tools offer you.
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Responsinator
To test your design using this site enter URL, and see how it looks as being put in frames of mostly used smartphones and tablets (iPhone, iPad, Kindle and a number of Android phones).
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Jamus
The site is intended to show you the process of testing in the way “everyone gets”. It’s the clearest site where you can test your responsive design in various screen widths.
How jQuery Works. Sources to Learn jQuery
The motto of every successful designer is “never stop learning”. It works at the first stage of your career and it helps improve your existing level of knowledge. Bearing it in mind, you can achieve great results. If you are a beginner, find out some time to learn a bit more. If you’re a beginner who is interested in jQuery, spend this time on the useful resources that will help you grow all the must-have developer’s skills. These websites offer you all kind of stuff that deals with jQuery: tutorials, articles, tips, techniques, codes and whatever you need to master it.
Here I’ve compiled this list of the useful Sources to Learn jQuery that can help you become a real jQuery ninja. If you have you own, let’s check it out. If you run into some unfamiliar sites, feel free to add them to your list.
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Learning jQuery
You’ll learn a lot from the masters of jQuary: useful tips, techniques, see the professionally done tutorials and a lot of more.
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jQuery for Designers
The aim of this project is to teach the designers with a little programming experience to add some simple, and even more complicated effects to their pages. The main goal is to make them understand what they are doing. All the stuff that includes tutorials, demos, screencasts, codes, etc you will find here.
News About Bootstrap 3.0 + Some Bootstrap Themes
Today there is a huge number of web application frameworks that are designed to support development of dynamic websites, web applications, web services and web resources. Bootstrap has proudly taken the place of one of the greatest frameworks on the design market. Since it’s release in August, 2011, Bootstrap has undergone enormous changes and turned from an ugly duckling into a beautiful swan. But as always there is some more space for improvements which is why ever and anon his fathers release significant updates.
All web enthusiasts have been expecting the Bootstrap 3 release since December, but it is not announced still. You can check out the official preview site for Bootstrap 3 to learn more about its forthcoming launch. Just for today it can be said for sure, that the new version will drop some of the existing functionalities and gain the greater ones like improving responsive CSS, and centralizing community efforts. It is going to be “mobile first” and it means mobile friendliness from the start. Another fact about Bootstrap is its mostly flat design.
To make your anticipation of Bootstrap 3 release more pleasant, check out the existing Bootstrap themes of the previous versions that are perfectly designed to make your websites sleek and intuitive.
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Night Club Template
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Religious Template
If your relationship with WordPress reminds a bad romance, don’t get upset. Here you will find some tips on how to get it better. If you want to learn how to create WordPress business themes, allow some time for reading this post featuring Photoshop Tutorials dedicated to this theme. The designers have taken their secrets public, and you can learn about them checking out the tutorials below.
This post will be helpful for all those who don’t have years of designing experience. Such tutorials that show everything in details are a great way to start and learn more about design tricks. All this will help you create your first WordPress business themes, and, perhaps, share your experience with others in some time. Are you ready to start with it? Don’t hesitate!
PS. People differ, and not all of us are ready to spend 1 hour or even more for mastering these tuts. For lifehackers we can offer the ready-made WordPress business templates that are already designed by skillful professionals with all you needs in mind.
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Corporate WordPress Style Layout Tutorial
Good tutorial about creating a corporate WordPress styled layout. .PSD files are attached.
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Create Business WordPress PSD Layout
Learn how to create the contrasting business WordPress layout for your website. Can be also used as a corporate layout.
We are happy to cherish all web design enthusiasts with a new freebie Free WordPress Business Theme. It’s a good theme for making your visitors focused on your business ideas. This contrasting design is perfect for starting up your business online and gaining more interest of your clients.
Here is the attractive to eyes layout with acute attention to the details. Use it to bring life to your ideas, and stand out among others. Apricot and brown colors create a pleasant tone and a warm welcome to the clients. This layout is good for even a content heavy sites, ‘cause it features the wise arrangement of all content blocks. The visually effective slider in the header is a good place for presenting the key points of your company. Try it for communicating your business goals, and winning the clients’ interest. Free template live demo will show this theme in work.
Free WordPress Business Theme:
To download the whole package of this template, visit the Free WordPress Business Theme download page at TemplateMonster and type an email address that you want the free template package to be delivered to (don’t forget to uncheck the newsletter subscription checkbox in case you’re already subscribed, otherwise you may not be able to download the zip file). Feel free to use this template for your business, but you cannot resell it as a template.
Download Free WordPress Business Theme(18,6MB)
IMPORTANT NOTICE:TemplateMonster does not provide support services on free templates – including this one. We only provide support for the products that are being purchased from TemplateMonster. Our free templates are produced according to the latest web standards and we’ve been trying to make the process of working with them as easy as possible, so for people with minimum web development experience it should be easy to work with them. However, if you don’t have any experience, we recommend you to refer to the tutorials or community forums on how to work with platforms that each respective template is made with, or to hire someone to do the job for you.
Does art imitate life or does life imitate art? There is no strict answer for this question, but one thing is for sure – skeuomorphism imitates life in all the details. It’s a design trend that shows objects close to their real life analogues. In such a way it makes them familiar to the viewers that can act with them as they do in the real life. When the user sees the button in skeuomorphic design, he pushes it, when a switcher – turns on/of, etc. Elements look like objects from real life, and that’s why are inviting for the audience. For example, Apple widely uses this principle in its iOS devices, and all of them are immensely popular for the crowd.
All of you are familiar with audio and visual skeuomorph in design. The first one are most audio effects that accompany your operation with some elements of design (camera, calculator, buttons, etc). The latter are all that textures that are used to make objects close to life.
If you think that skeuomorphism is only a web product, you’re mistaken. There are imitations in the real life too. The fake leather, the hubcaps of wheels in cars (resemble earlier wheel construction), electric chandeliers that look like real candles, etc.
Of course, as each trend, this one has its pros and cons.
Pros
Users feel comfortable with it, it is quite engaging, really sells, it is appealing to the viewers and acts as a good communicator.
Cons
It overlooks functionality, it can confuse, good only for certain sites.
And that’s not all. More about this creative design trend you can learn from An Interactive Infographic about Skeuomorphic Design. If you still have question about:
• History of Skeuomorphism
• Types in Web Design
• Pros and Cons
• List of Free Skeuomorphic Textures
• Examples of First Skeuomorphic UI’s
• Real life examples of Skeuomorphism
feel free to check it out. Being interactive, this infographic will show you everything in creative manner. Revealing the hidden of information will be a captivating journey that you can start just now. Click the objects placed on the shelves, and see what happens. Here you’ll see the full version.
Interactive Infographic about Skeuomorphic Design:
