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):
Do’s and don’ts of typography
As so much of the content available on the web is text it’s essential for web designers to understand the basic principles of good typography. Having such knowledge allows designers to communicate more effectively, enabling them to create better designs and websites that are easier to use.For more experienced designers setting text may come naturally but for those who are just starting out I’ve...
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Deal of the week: Responsive parallax templates
Most sites have too much information; users are overwhelmed as CEOs wax lyrical on everything from their favorite charity to the dimensions of their first office.In today’s increasingly information-saturated world, what studies find users often prefer is a simple, straight-to-the point, presentation of key facts.One of the best ways to deliver that is a compact, single-page website.For this week’s...
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The Stock Photos Horn of Plenty
Advertise here with BSAApophenia is the experience of seeing meaningful patterns in random or meaningless data. Patterns have always played a big part of evolution and success and, bringing the cattle to their Adobe home, at the very least they can make the difference between a single page hit and a returning visitor regardless of the content. They are a way to spice a web page up without even trying,...
Planning Market Research for New Website Launches
Advertise here with BSALaunching a new startup or website idea can take a lot of effort. But most people gloss over the process of researching other competition within your market. It doesn’t take a lot of work, but it does take some time and effort digging around in search engines.Today I want to present a few tips for budding entrepreneurs who are looking to build a new series of websites. Specifically...
Maintainable Code: Using White Space For Readability In HTML And CSS
Right up front, I’ll offer some simple advice: In production, your code should be as performance-friendly as possible. This means, Gzip’ing, concatenating and minifying as many assets as possible, thus serving the smallest possible files and the least number of files. I don’t think anyone would argue that these suggestions aren’t best practices (even if we don’t implement them in every...
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Line25 Sites of the Week for February 1st 2013
Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs that I stumble across during my every day browsing. In this week’s collection, we have designs from Janko At Warp Speed, Blast Processor, Full Stop, Joey Rabbitt and Somos Liveroom.Janko At Warp SpeedView the websiteBlast ProcessorView the websiteFull StopView the websiteJoey RabbittView the websiteSomos LiveroomView...
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9 WordPress Plugins to Improve Images Performance
One of the main reason behind the popularity of WordPress is its repository of plugins. You’ve got a plugin to do almost anything – integration of social sharing buttons, managing mailing lists or creating static html files, etc. There are also plugins to optimize your blog for speed and performance.For a page carrying lots of images, it is necessary to optimize the images for best performance...
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14 Firefox Add-ons Web Designers Can’t Live Without
In recent years Firefox has become immensely popular, and one of the biggest reasons behind its popularity is the plethora of Firefox add-ons at your disposal that can extend the browser’s core functionality. It can come as no surprise that the Firefox browser is such a popular choice for many web designers, we have compiled a list of add-ons to make your lives easier. These add-ons are not in...
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14 Firefox Add-ons Web Designers Can’t Live Without
In recent years Firefox has become immensely popular, and one of the biggest reasons behind its popularity is the plethora of Firefox add-ons at your disposal that can extend the browser’s core functionality. It can come as no surprise that the Firefox browser is such a popular choice for many web designers, we have compiled a list of add-ons to make your lives easier. These add-ons are not in...
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10 jQuery Plugins to Enhance Your Web Typography
Web typography has come a long way thanks to the various custom font solutions like @font-face and Google Fonts, but we’re still lacking the precise control that we have over type in our design and desktop publishing apps. Thankfully there’s a range of jQuery plugins that give us some super useful features and allow us to manipulate our web text like never before. This post rounds up 10 of the...
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