A clean set of social icons, simple yet elegant.
Monday Design Picks
The font used for the header image is Franchise and the pattern, Random Grey Variations. All free.
As Web Designers it’s important to stay on top of the latest trends in web design. Inspiration helps us to come up with fresh ideas or build on the ideas of others. Let’s start this week off with a few awesome designs that caught my eye.
6 tools to increase traffic
When it comes to building, launching and maintaining a website, there are countless things that need to be taken into account. There are companies out there that deal specifically with the whole process, with teams that work full time on maintenance. Fortunately for us lowly bloggers, there are tools available that help with maintenance, allowing us to monitor and even increase traffic to the site of course is also important if you’re using subdomains, since these are different to market, so it is essential to learn the difference between a subdomain vs subdirectory and how to improve the marketing and SEO for these.
. I’ve put together a list of the tools I use to keep an eye on site traffic and to help increase it.
Monday Design Picks
The font used for the header image is Tallys and the pattern, Checkered Pattern. All free.
As Web Designers it’s important to stay on top of the latest trends in web design. Inspiration helps us to come up with fresh ideas or build on the ideas of others. Let’s start this week off with a few awesome designs that caught my eye.
Free Minimalist Portfolio
- Best viewed in Chrome and Safari
- Basic HTML knowledge required
- Includes HTML, CSS and javascript files
- Also includes photoshop file
When it comes to web design I’m a huge fan of both minimalism as well as heavy imagery. If you’re a photographer, artist or designer, minimalism is a great way to emphasize your work.It allows the user to focus on a single aspect of the site at a time while still remaining visually pleasing.
Monday design picks
The font used for the header image is Ostrich Sans Rounded and the pattern, 3px Tile. All free.
As Web Designers it’s important to stay on top of the latest trends in web design. Inspiration helps us to come up with fresh ideas or build on the ideas of others. Let’s start this week off with a few awesome designs that caught my eye.
Fullscreen slider
Often times when a client asks for special customizations or animations to their site, I will dig for a jQuery plugin that accomplishes my goal. However, on occasion, when the customizations become overly original, I will need to put something together on my own. At least with the help of multiple plugins.
Huge iPhone 4 PSD
Here is something that every designer should have stashed somewhere. An all in one iPhone iOS 5 psd. Everything from buttons, to keypad, to the phone itself. Download it, store it somewhere, it’ll come in handy one of these days. Trust me.
Tumblr Video Overlay
I recently came across a bug with Tumblr. Now this could just be the theme itself, I’m not sure. Whether you’re getting the same bug on Tumblr or something else you’re working on, this fix will apply to most sites with embedded videos.
10 Retro Designs
I’m a huge fan of the Retro styled site designs. I often find myself spending far more time digging through a site that has a retro feel to it, trying to unveil their techniques. Over the past couple of months I’ve kept track of the ones that inspire me the most. Here’s 10 of my favorite retro sites.