Tag Archives : Designers

Ever wonder what fonts other web designers prefer to use in their work? Ever wonder if your choice of font can help you set you apart from the rest? Ever wanted to know the answers to a question so badly that you would carry out a research to find out? Fellow web designer and writer of Hongkiat.com, Tomas Laurinavicius did just that. Granted it’s not a large sample size but the research revealed some interesting information like 3 Top 10 lists of fonts designers most love, most popular free fonts and most popular premium ones. With some help from our friends in Piktochart, here is the gist of the research bundled up in a short infographic, exclusively for Hongkiat.com readers. And if you would like to know more, check out Tomas’ write-up about the research to get som … Read the rest of the article on : hongkiat.com

When I was starting out with Web and graphic design, I was always wondering about the fonts that real designers use. So I conducted a research to find out the most popular fonts designers like to use, their best practices, and also out of personal curiosity, their typographical needs. It would be nice to know which font is good for which situation and today I am sharing with you the results of my research. Through a combination of data collected from Polldaddy, Forrst, Facebook and Twitter, I got feedback from 34 designers from 14 countries answering questions about their favorite fonts and explaining to me why they love them. By analysing all the input submitted I have uncovered some interesting information, which has been put together in an infographic by friends in Piktochart. … Read the rest of the article on : hongkiat.com

The May edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, jQuery plugins, grid tools, CSS tools, WordPress resources, productivity and business tools, responsive design resources, and some really great new fonts. Many of the resources below are free or very low cost, and are sure to be useful to a lot of designers and developers out there. As always, if we’ve missed something you think should have been included, please let us know in the comments. And if you have an app or other resource you’d like to see included next month, tweet it to @cameron_chapman for consideration. Read the rest of the article on : Webdesigner Depot

As a web designer you have distinct advantages over many other career choices. Your have the added opportunity to work from home; your hiring potential is more flexible; you can freelance; and best of all, you are working largely, online. Apart from the most prevalent benefit to working online (to procrastinate on sites such as YouTube and Facebook) the biggest benefit is your access to information and useful tools, which can be utilized to better your job. There are a huge number of free ebooks and whitepapers o … Read the rest of the article on : hongkiat.com

It’s rare nowadays to find a web designer who can’t code his own designs. With so many resources online and in print that teach the basics of HTML and CSS, and due to the fact that these languages aren’t rocket science, there are now a lot of graphic designers who have at least basic knowledge of markup and styling. But with an HTML and CSS foundation comes great responsibility. If an HTML or CSS feature doesn’t work in certain browsers, we need to ensure that we offer those browsers a secondary or fallback experience. So in this article I’m going to introduce a way to ensure that you’re designs are able to take advantage of new HTML and CSS features using the Modernizr JavaScript library and API. For most developers this is proba … Read the rest of the article on : Webdesigner Depot

Advertise here with BSA WebResourcesDepot is so focused on bringing awesome web design and development resources to your attention. Not only from the website, but the Twitter account is also another place to find exciting stuff. However, from lots of great articles read, very useful resources discovered and lots of suggestions received each day, there are much more to [...] Read the rest of the article on : WebResourcesDepot

A little R&R can go a long way to refresh the body and fill your mind with all the great ideas you need for creative success. In this article, Divya Rawat shares a series of things you can do during your off time to keep yourself productive, energized, and up to date! A designer friend with a creative block was amazed at how just a little time-out helped her rejuvenate and get her creative juices flowing. She’s one of those few lucky designers whose designs have found acclaim among the industry stalwarts, and so she can can afford to go on a well deserved vacation. Not everyone is that lucky though. Whether you work on your own time as a freelance designer or juggling a 9 to 5 design job (sticking to a time frame is rare in this field), it’s hard to combine both relaxing and making a decent living. The free … Read the rest of the article on : Speckyboy Design Magazine

If you love design inspiration, you should be on Pinterest. This free service has really taken off and designers everywhere are using it to collect and archive examples of great design. Whether you’re a typography nut, need some ideas for design books to read, or want some inspiration for out of the box brochure ideas, there are designers on Pinterest who are no doubt pinning exactly what you’re looking for. Much like, Twitter, the key to enjoying Pinterest is to find and follow users that share your interests. The trick here is that while every user has multiple “boards,̶ … Read the rest of the article on : Design Shack

The April edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, jQuery plugins, blogging platforms, coding resources, productivity and business tools, responsive design resources, and some really great new fonts. Many of the resources below are free or very low cost, and are sure to be useful to a lot of designers and developers out there. As always, if we’ve missed something you think should have been included, please let us know in the comments. And if you have an app or other resource you’d like to see included next month, tweet it to @cameron_chapman for consideration. Read the rest of the article on : Webdesigner Depot

Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) is a runtime cross-platform for building rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax, which can be deployed as a desktop application. Adobe AIR Applications can operate offline and upload data when availability of internet. Every designer and developer loves these types of tools which are simplify and takes less time. This is very simple and fast loading application. Adobe Air applications are most popular because of internet-enabled desktop applications. If you don’t have Adobe AIR installed, you can download it. If you are a designer or developer then this application is very much useful for you. Because it loads faster, takes less time and very advance for designers.  It enables you to run your favorite application on desktop. Here we have 22+ conventional and beneficial Adobe AIR Application for both Designer and Developers. Have look on these useful applicat … Read the rest of the article on : SaveDelete