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Essential CSS/HTML Lists Styling Techniques

Essential CSS/HTML Lists Styling Techniques

Certain elements in HTML lend themselves to many situations when marking up a website, one of the more useful of these elements is the HTML list. Using lists, a developer can markup horizontal navigation, dropdown navigation, a list of links, ...

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Excellent HTML Newsletter Templates – Best Of

Excellent HTML Newsletter Templates – Best Of

A well designed newsletter/email template can be the difference between success an failure. Whether its to update customers about a product, or to share information, having a well designed template can be a great starting point to guide your readers ...

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50 Examples of Effective Uses of Typography Within Web Design

50 Examples of Effective Uses of Typography Within Web Design

Currently, two of the most popular web design trends are: taking the minimal approach, which we will look at next week, and the use of clever and creative typography. Today we focus on typography. Not only do we showcase typography in ...

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Launch a Web Design Startup with Social Media and No Budget

Launch a Web Design Startup with Social Media and No Budget

This time on Inspired Talks we invited David Perel from Obox Signature Series to give some insights and tips for the creative community. Warning: lots of useful advice for freelancers and startup owners in the design niche. Recently we launched a ...

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50 Clever, Creative Logos

50 Clever, Creative Logos

If you’ve browsed through any logo design galleries, you’ve probably noticed some that take a very creative approach. In this post we’ll feature 50 clever logos for your design inspiration.

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Don’t reduce your designers and developers to stereotypes

Don’t reduce your designers and developers to stereotypes

Rob Borley warns against reducing your designers and developers to stereotypes if you want to get the best work from them: “I have the privilege of working with a group of very talented people. Both our development team and our ...

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50 Beautiful and Creative Blog Designs

50 Beautiful and Creative Blog Designs

The most recent collection of creative blog designs was featured here on Smashing Magazine back in July. Only three months have passed and we’ve got a new dose of inspiration for you. Beautiful and sophisticated designs are constantly appearing on ...

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The Unbelievable and Impossible Photos of Li Wei

The Unbelievable and Impossible Photos of Li Wei

Li Wei, a contemporary artist from Beijing China, has been taking self portraits to new heights… literally! His gravity defying photos have been mesmerizing the world, capturing impossible looking moments of apparent extreme danger. [...]

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Getting Clients to Embrace Fresh Ideas

Getting Clients to Embrace Fresh Ideas

The Web is full of brand new proof of concepts and ideas just waiting to be implemented on exciting new projects. Actually getting the approval to use these features is another story entirely. Some of the most interesting ideas turn out ...

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Trend Spotting: The Beauty of Using Two Colors, Black and White in Graphic Design

Trend Spotting: The Beauty of Using Two Colors, Black and White in Graphic Design

In the 90s, many areas of design- including fashion, home interiors, garden, and furniture, have evidenced a paring down to simple workable solutions. Nowhere is this trend more apparent than in graphic design. [...]

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The Future of Interface Design

The Future of Interface Design

Did you know the first “brain-tweet” was sent out this year? How about that we may someday be customizing windshields with widgets? In the not-to-distant future, we may be interfacing with computers in exciting and innovative new ways.In the grand ...

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The Future Of The Web: Where Will We Be In Five Years?

The Future Of The Web: Where Will We Be In Five Years?

We are approaching the end of 2009, and many people are wondering what the future will bring. While no one can predict for sure what the Internet holds in its future, there are indicators and trends that can point us ...

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How to Get Your Ideas Across to Clients

How to Get Your Ideas Across to Clients

We know all too well the common and frustrating design scenarios clients present us with, such as wanting us to stretch images disproportionally, cramming as much information as possible in a small space so that you need a magnifying glass ...

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Overlaying Text on Images: What You Need to Consider

Overlaying Text on Images: What You Need to Consider

When overlaying text onto images, the most important thing you need to consider is readability. If the text being placed on top of the image doesn’t have enough contrast with the image itself, the message will get lost and frustrate ...

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The Ails Of Typographic Anti-Aliasing

The Ails Of Typographic Anti-Aliasing

As printed typography enjoys the fruits of high-DPI glory, proudly displaying its beautiful curves and subtleties, its on-screen counterpart remains stifled by bulky pixels, living in a world of jagged edges, distorted letterforms and trimmed serifs. Until display manufacturers produce ...

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CNN’s New Website Design Deconstructed

CNN’s New Website Design Deconstructed

On Monday, October 26, CNN.com introduced a new website design, making a number of major changes to their information-heavy layout.The new design is beautiful, clean, organized and well-structured. It invites the eye to scan and find something interesting with the ...

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Anatomy of Colors in Web Design: Green and Environmental Concept

Anatomy of Colors in Web Design: Green and Environmental Concept

This article is the first of our upcoming series, Anatomy of Colors in Web Design. Over the next few months, we’ll be covering different colors selection, featuring web designs from around the world with particular to one specific color theme. ...

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40 Fresh and Free Icon Sets for Web Designers and Bloggers

40 Fresh and Free Icon Sets for Web Designers and Bloggers

One of the most sought after elements of any web design are icons. If you are creative enough to design your own icon set and tailor make them for your sites design, you are very lucky, and I am envious. ...

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Breadcrumb Navigation Examined: Best Practices & Examples

Breadcrumb Navigation Examined: Best Practices & Examples

Breadcrumb navigation is often overlooked in the design and development process. Some people may see it as unnecessary while others may feel it is too big of a hassle for what its worth. Fact of the matter is, breadcrumb navigation ...

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40 New Useful Web Development Tools and Resources

40 New Useful Web Development Tools and Resources

To become a professional web designer, you need effective tools that would help you implement beautiful designs with solid coding techniques. Handy ready-to-be-used solutions and smart design tools are always nice to have, but good ones are often quite hard ...

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