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60 Beautiful Clean and Light Web Designs for Inspiration

admin — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:23:10 +0000

To be unique and original, you need to have a good source of inspiration. You can get inspiration from music, family and friends, even other people’s work, to get a great design idea. To help, we bring you this collection of light and clean websites, separated into different categories

How to Create Inset Typography with CSS3

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:53:31 +0000

In this tutorial, we’ll create inset type, a popular text treatment , using CSS. If you follow Six Revisions closely, you’re probably thinking: “Jacob already wrote a Photoshop tutorial on how to do that.” That is correct, but this time we are going to do it using only CSS. I set out to recreate the How to Create Inset Typography in Photoshop tutorial, and after experimenting with some fresh and new CSS3 properties, I was able to make a similar type treatment.

The Comprehensive Guide to Saving Images for the Web

admin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:23:37 +0000

On the surface, saving images for the web can be a pretty straightforward process. However, if you dig deeper there’s a wealth of information and techniques you might be missing out on. This article will focus primarily on the diverse features of Photoshop’s “Save for Web & Devices” command along with some best practices related to saving images that are optimized for web use

Free XHTML Template Pack: Classic Luxury

admin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:18:24 +0000

Classic Luxury is a high quality, clean and simple CSS-based template with three custom pages created by CssTemplateHeaven exclusively for Six Revisions readers. It is clean and has a lot of whitespace and nice typography. The code is well-organized and uses standards-based HTML and CSS

10 Hand-Picked Tutorials for Beginning Web Designers

admin — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:24:07 +0000

So you’re starting to show interest in web design, but are having trouble figuring out where to start?

The Three Golden Rules of Site Redesigns

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:08:59 +0000

Last month I made a New Year’s resolution to schedule myself as a client and rebuild my website. Basically, the design and code had become entirely embarrassing to me.

Applying Mathematics To Web Design

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:03:55 +0000

“Mathematics is beautiful.” This may sound absurd to people who wince at numbers and equations. But some of the most beautiful things in nature and our universe exhibit mathematical properties, from the smallest seashell to the biggest whirlpool galaxies

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Applying Mathematics To Web Design

A Quick Look at Mobile Web Designs

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:35:39 +0000

If there’s anything web designers learned from the past year, it’s that mobile web usage will continue to soar .

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A Quick Look at Mobile Web Designs

Common Misconceptions about Web Designers

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:57:07 +0000

As a web designer, I’m proud to be a part of an Apple-loving, forward thinking, technologically advanced group of people that devour tutorials and web design blogs, hoping to create a stellar design that that gets posted in every CSS gallery out there. Yep, we’re a group of people that works hard, plays hard and strives to meet our deadlines, while learning something new along the way.

50 Free UI and Web Design Wireframing Kits, Resources and Source Files

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:51:10 +0000

Planning and communication are two key elements in the development of any successful website or application. And that is exactly what the wireframing process offers: a quick and simple method to plan the layout and a cost-effective, time-saving tool to easily communicate your ideas to others. A wireframe typically has the basic elements of a Web page: header, footer, sidebar, maybe even some generated content, which gives you, your clients and colleagues a simple visually oriented layout that illustrates what the structure of the website will be by the end of the project and that serves as the foundation for any future alterations

A Look into Registration Buttons in Web Design

admin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:20:28 +0000

Designing an informational/content-centered website (such as a portfolio or a blog) is much easier than designing a website where we have to deal with registered users . The target of websites that enable user accounts (such as Amazon.com or Gmail, for example) is to not only highlight their featured items and services, but to also convert visitors to signed-up users. Sites with user registration want to grab every visitor who goes their website

Well Designed Mac App Websites

admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:12:38 +0000

To a Mac user, the difference between one application and the other is, in part, how well it is represented. Even though several useful applications have simplistic sites, in the vast sea of websites that we have today, looks make a difference . The sites showcased here have incredible designs – they command attention and present their apps in the most compelling way.

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Well Designed Mac App Websites

Collaboration Tips for Designers Working with Developers

admin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:45:41 +0000

As the web design field opens up more and more to designers with a limited technical knowledge, the prospect of developing a website can seem like a staggering and scary feat. This may seem even more difficult if you are new to working with developers who will be engineering the website to your design specifications. In this article, we examine some fundamental tips and tricks to help you work with developers and ensure your designs are pixel perfect.