Web Design Stuff We’re Reading
On a typical day at here at Cloudburst (after brewing up a strong pot of coffee, and enjoying the Colorado early morning sunshine), we start off by scouring the Web for the latest and greatest design news, trends, and design inspiration. We find it’s a great way to stay current on everything that’s happening in the design world, and helps spark our creativity as we get started on your project! Here are some of the design articles we have been reading (and are reading right now):
Extensive Roundup of the Best WordPress Plugins You’ll Ever Need: Year 2012 Edition
Besides being a beautiful, easy to use and powerful platform by itself, WordPress is also loved because of it’s high level of customization and optimization. Plugins are the best way to optimize and enrich your WordPress blog. And it’s not limited to performance only. The plugins WordPress offers range from page speed optimization, user engagement, advanced backup, full theme modification to...
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WordPress Plugins to Help Make Your Site Responsive
With the galloping development of modern technologies the screen size margin of your readership can be anything in-between a 30″ desktop monitor and the iPhone’s 3.5″ screen. Responsive design techniques kills two birds with a single stone by helping improve user experience by displaying a screen sized optimized version of your website.You can help your WordPress website become more mobile-friendly,...
50 Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts for Your Designs
Typography is the art and techniques of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Display typography is a potent element in graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using type in an artistic manner.The proper selection of typography can convert your normal design into very attractive piece of art. Among other things, effective typography manages...
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The Proxority Principle in Web Design
Advertise here with BSAIn web design, the position of design elements and the layout of web pages is everything. So many cool, exciting techniques are available to help us lay out our designs (especially with CSS3 at our disposal) that we often forget that structure is as important as aesthetics.How do you determine where content should appear, and how can a well-oiled interface increase website readability?...
The Psychology Of Color In Design
Have you ever wondered why you seem to be getting hungrier while waiting to place your order at a fast food place or why you eat faster than any human should ingest that poison? Have you ever heard of a “power tie” in business?There are things that excite the human senses. Aromatherapy and the sense of smell bring about mood and emotional change. Taste, touch and audible sensations bring about...
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Building Websites and Browser Apps with jQuery Mobile: Designing Custom Themes
In our earlier jQuery Mobile tutorial I had introduced much of the underlying framework and how to go about setting up your first website. The JS library is both lightweight and easy to pickup in regards to learning difficulty. There is also generic a CSS stylesheet included with the files so you can further customize the elements in your layout.For this second segment I’d like to spend a bit of...
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15 top web design and development trends for 2012
Read moreNew High-Quality Free Fonts
Every now and then, we look around, select fresh free high-quality fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually time you should be investing in your projects. We search for them and find them so that you don’t have to.In this selection, we’re pleased to present Homestead, Bree Serif, Levanderia, Valencia, Nomed Font,...
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26 Free High-Quality PSDs to Download from 2011
Advertise here with BSAEvery web designer should love freebies. There are so many artists offering their work for free download on the web, and with hundreds of thousands of blogs these links are reaching a new audience like never before. The year 2011 has seen substantial numbers of free releases and 2012 is on-par for an even better year! So in celebration I’ve collected 26 of my favorite downloads...
35 Beautiful Brochure Designs
Advertise here with BSAIn this post we have compiled some amazing brochure designs for inspiration. Enjoy!!CHP BrochureSandera ResortsBrochure For Recreation CenterBrochureLake Shore BrochureWWF Climate Change Publicationcorporate style brochureEco Freako – Brand DevelopmentSight & Sound 3Coqo’clock self-promotionMatrix for Regular Events 2010/11ZIMAT BrochureMareiner HolzMVM 360° Panoramic...
