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10.10.2011
A website wireframe is a basic design draft done before any artwork and used in web design to show the structure of a website, custom user paths, most important user interface elements, their position and relationships between website pages. Wireframes lay out in black and white schematically most important elements in the interface such as header, footer, contact form, navigation.
06.09.2011
There is a lot of psychology in colour, and while I don’t claim to be an expert, every now and then I come across something that seems to be rather counterintuitive.
16.06.2011
Last year was brighter. This year is lighter. Your humble servants at LogoLounge.com were called out by some after last year’s Trends Report on allegedly favoring brightly hued logos. In truth, though, like with all Trends Reports, we were objectively reporting what we saw. The color dial was certainly pegged.
06.06.2011
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past year or so, I am sure everyone is aware of the Bokeh effect. This article will showcase the Bokeh effect in web design from bright and bold backgrounds to the subtle black and white. Some even go as far as to make the Bokeh effect animated, which looks really awesome. :) The thing that struck me was that I could remember (or so I thought) seeing a lot of website designs that utilized this effect, yet when I actually went scouring the web for them — there really weren’t that many. I hope you enjoy them and find some inspiration through them.
06.06.2011
At least once in his lifetime, every single web layout designer has had a quarrel with a designer over some non-standard form elements. But developers have come up with solutions for non-standard selects, so let’s look at them and spell everything out. We all know that standard selects with CSS tools possess quite a low level of styling. Some browsers render them a bit better; other do a not so good work with them, but the overall picture is pretty dim. And generally, where a generic HTML+CSS fails, jQuery comes to the rescue.
05.06.2011
Accessibility is extremely important to your website. Simply put, what good does your website’s content do if certain people can’t see it? Sure, your fancy new design with the tiny fonts and low-contrast colors might look slick to you and your friends, but those with poorer eyesight, color blindness, and any other visual hindrance won’t be able to navigate, much less read, your website. You want to—nay, must—make your website accessible if you want the maximum amount of visitors.
13.03.2011
Jeffrey Zeldman predicts exciting times ahead in web design Contrary to popular opinion, the phrase 'Web 2.0' was not coined by Tim O'Reilly and did not, originally, refer to web applications like Facebook and Twitter that enable Muggles, er, non-web-professionals, to share information online. More than a decade ago, Darcy DiNucci predicted that: «The Web we know now, which loads into a browser window in essentially static screenfulls, is only an embryo of the Web to come. The first glimmerings...