Posts Tagged ‘Showcases’
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Hand-Drawing Style In Modern Web Design
- January 3rd, 2008
- 69 Comments
The most valuable and innovative ideas had all been handwritten first. That’s no big news, since designers tend to produce first sketches as paper prototypes anyway; still it’s important, because web design is different from “usual” design. Of course, it also has a personal note and it is hand-made, however ...
Read more...Favicons Episode 5: The Delicate Beauties
- January 1st, 2008
- 31 Comments
The New Year’s Eve is a tricky time for designers. Some of us eagerly analyze deadlines, define milestones and refine the time schedule for the upcoming year. The other ones discover the need to update footers and copyright statements on their web-sites (by the way, have you actually replaced “2007″ ...
Read more...Dilectio: A Smashing WordPress Theme
- December 21st, 2007
- 123 Comments
Update (22.12.2007): the theme had some comment errors; Elena has just fixed them. Please download the new version, you’ll find the links below. Over the last year Elena Gafita, the creative mind behind Design Disease team, has designed a number of free WordPress themes, as the Smashing WordPress Theme we released ...
Read more...Paper Strips Menus
- December 17th, 2007
- 57 Comments
The beauty of an excellent design lies in designer’s attention to smallest details. Conventions are our friends; however, to stand out, a design needs a creative spin, an elegant play of colors, some unique flavour — a small detail that would make a big difference. Where the boundaries between traditional solutions ...
Read more...Pagination Gallery: Examples And Good Practices
- November 16th, 2007
- 101 Comments
Structure and hierarchy reduce complexity and improve readability. The more organized your articles or web-sites are, the easier it is for users to follow your arguments and get the message you are trying to deliver. On the Web this can be done in a variety of ways. In body copy headlines ...
Read more...Tag Clouds Gallery: Examples And Good Practices
- November 7th, 2007
- 110 Comments
Compared to conventional navigation patterns tag clouds don’t necessarily offer a more convenient and intuitive navigation. However, used properly, they can provide visitors with an instant illustration of the main topics, giving a very specific and precise orientation of the site’s content. Since human beings tend to think in concepts ...
Read more...RSS: Best Design Practices And Icons
- November 2nd, 2007
- 50 Comments
RSS is extremely simple and yet so powerful. Not only does every weblog need it for content syndication; the number of RSS subscribers is a metric for weblog’s popularity and its success in the blogosphere. However, although millions do use RSS, hundreds of millions don’t. That’s no good news, since ...
Read more...Smashing Pumpkins and Halloween Redesigns
- November 1st, 2007
- 25 Comments
Right, it’s the 31st of October. In spirit of the coming Halloween parties we’d like to spark some design flavour by showcasing Halloween redesigns we’ve stumbled upon over the last few days. Pumpkins, skeletons, dark colors and spiders can be found almost in every Halloween design. In some cases designers ...
Read more...65 Excellent Flash Designs
- October 30th, 2007
- 106 Comments
With Flash you can do more than just displaying videos. You can create stunning visual experience and offer your visitors incredible user interaction. Although Flash is definitely not the favourite medium for usability and accessibility advocates, it has its advantages and it empowers the Web with functionalities which make it ...
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