30 Awesome Website Designs With Use of Cloud Effect

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There is one thing web designers are always in need of and that is good high quality inspiration. I thought it would be a great idea to share some awesome websites for your inspiration. So here is Developers Paradise compilation of the awesome website designs with use of cloud effect. Hopefully these beautiful and creative art work will give you Inspiration for your next design project .            more...

7 Tips How to Optimize Website Content with Good Use of Sidebars in Website Design

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In the real world, you can make a point by speaking smartly, interacting and building real relationships. But on the web, the world is different. You don’t have direct interpersonal interactions – your website is your representative and the medium to reach people.                 more...

5 Tips To Achieve A Perfectly Designed Website

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The planning process for a website is absolutely crucial. It is the stage that lays the foundation of your entire website, and decides how it will perform once it is developed. Design is one of the most important elements in website planning. If your design is perfect, your website is bound to achieve phenomenal success. Let us take a look some tips to design perfect websites.                  more...

MUD: Minimum Usable Design

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No matter what stage of a design I am in, I am always halfway there. This is why you might find yourself always saying that you need two more weeks to finish up all the details. It will always be two more weeks no matter what, because all you did was get halfway from where you were to where you are trying to go. Using this mentality can wear you down, but if you twist it around a bit, it can be used as motivation to achieve a successful design.              more...

What is Pixel-fitting

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Most icons and logos are stored in vector image files that specify perfect mathematical representations of their shapes. Unlike JPG and PNG images, vector graphic files don't tell the computer how to display their contents in pixels; for a vector graphic to be displayed, the computer has to perform a translation from the mathematical vectors into something that can be displayed with pixels.
This translation process is relatively simple: the computer takes vector lines, lays them on top of a pixel canvas, and then fills in each pixel that the lines enclose. The result looks like the one in the diagram. more...

7 Best iPad Apps for Designers

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The iPad is the ideal tablet computer for all kinds of professional requirements, entertainment and games, and facilitates every possible task.
Thus it meets all the business needs, the educational needs of the student, entertainment while on the move, games and videos for children, music for those who enjoy it and design apps that will simplify tasks for every type of designer. Designers love its larger screen, its multi-touch capabilities and it portability with its light weight, extra slim design and small form factor. Designers can use the iPad as and when an idea strikes them, make sketches while waiting or working in an inspiring environment, and have rough drafts that can be finished later. This helps creativity take shape immediately.  more...

The Difference Between Print and Web Design

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Both Print and Web Design are powerful mediums that have the power to pack a lot of impact and persuade the viewer to take action. If you’re looking to cross over into web design, or vice versa, it can be beneficial for you to understand the inherent differences that exist in each medium. And while these fundamental differences exist, each has made huge strides in working around their respective nuances to enhance the viewer experience.
This article seeks to uncover the differences (and similarities), and how both print and web design has advanced in acknowledging these disparities.  more...

Useful Photoshop Tutorials for Designing Abstract Backgrounds

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An attractive and compelling background adds depth to your graphics, banners or ads; and for this reason is of great importance. Sure there are some people who might not notice backgrounds, but the role they play in making the entire artwork look more interesting and visually alluring is paramount.  more...

7 Free Metal Textures

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Textures can form a principal element in your designs. They add details to images, giving a great deal of depth to a composition. Textures could come in the forms of high resolution images such as detailed surfaces of rocks, fabric, wood etc or can just be regular pictures. We have produced 7 exclusive free metal textures for you to download along with a step by step tutorial showing how they were made.  more...

How to Design and Program a Facebook Landing Page

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We all know that Facebook provides a great opportunity for organizations to connect with their target audience and interact with their clients. To do this more effectively, organizations are creating custom Facebook pages to differentiate themselves and represent their brands on Facebook.  more...

3 New Design Resources You Might Not Have Heard Of

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If you’re a designer, you’re probably filled with ideas that you want to unleash, toy around with, and get feedback on. But, the sun isn’t always shining its brightest. Every once in a while, you might also hit an idea road block and struggle to find any amount inspiration.
Thankfully, other designers have developed strategies to help solve your, as well as their similar problems. Here are threegrowing websites that designers are discovering and embracing. From platforms for sharing ideas with like-minded peers to inspiration warehouses, these sites are great resources with multiple uses for any designer. more...

20 Examples of Unique and Unconventional Typography

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Typography is such a field in which you can do experiments to express your thoughts. So, designers from all over the globe are exploring new horizons in this field, giving us a different viewing perspective. As a designer, you can work on typography in a great way to communicate your ideas precisely. Today, we are showcasing some of the exceptional typographic work. We hope it would be a great source of inspiration for your future work. more...

The Top 10 Secrets to Designing a Magazine

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Each avenue in the design world has its own unique challenges and tricks, and magazine design is no different. From style guides and gutters to editors and entry points, designing for a magazine comprises its own set of rules and considerations. Before jumping head first into the text-heavy, deadline-driven world of magazines, take a moment to get your bearings and familiarize yourself with the terrain. Using the road map below, your creativity, and a bit of luck you’ll have everything you need to produce a top-notch, reader-friendly magazine.  more...

Amazing 150 free css icons ready for BootStrap

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Just found this amazing resource, it’s a huge font (yes, it’s a font) with 150 css icons, ready to integrate with twitter bootstrap. (if you don’t know bootstrap, pls take it a look, PLEASE)  more...

25 Clever Examples of Negative Space Logo Designs

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Negative space is the space around and between the main objects in a logo design, photograph or work of art.  A designer can use negative space to convey even more meaning to a logo, making a brand memorable and distinctive.  Famous examples of negative space logos are the Fedex logo with its “hidden arrow” and the Formula 1 logo, where the No: 1 emerges between F and speed lines, the NBC logo with the body of a peacock between the colorful feathers.  more...

20 amazing tools to modify images

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Adobe Photoshop is not just a simple software or an amazing tool to modify images, it‘s a new possibility of creating art items. Obviously, it is used to retouch images, to create the layouts of various websites or any graphical designs but, in the hands of talented artists, it is the perfect tool to create amazing works. This software is pretty enough to check some galleries to see some of the works made with it and it’s impossible not to say “wow” and catalogue them as the exponents of a new kind of art.
Unfortunately, this powerful software is pretty expensive and not everyone may allow himself to buy a license. Under these circumstances, what should a common Internet user do when he must modify some images? Is the use of Photoshop mandatory?  more...

22 Tutorials for Designing Stunning Posters

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Adobe Photoshop & Corel Draw are the best options for poster design. However, it’s learning and mastering is a difficult task. Nowadays, numerous valuable tutorials are there to help you in Photoshop & Corel Draw learning and daily designers are sharing their work to help others new in this field. We are featuring today 22 useful Photoshop & Corel Draw tutorials for creating stunning posters. We hope you would learn some new ways with the help of these tutorials to enhance your Photoshop & Corel Draw skills while creating different types of posters. more...

Cinemagraphs video tutorials

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Cinemagrahs are cool photo animations where only a part of the photo is animated creating a very atractive effect, we have talked about them (best 150 cinemagraphs) in the past, but now I found these “very easy to follow” video tutorials from Microsoft research. You can find ton’s of tutorials to create this cool effect, but these are really simple to follow. Note: Not sure why they call them Clipets, these are cinemagraphs !   more...

Collection of 20 Best Free Fonts for Creative Typography

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As a web designer, we all use fonts both premium as well as free. It’s important to update our font list on regular basis. Keeping in mind the expanding need for different types of fonts, we are showcasing here 20 gorgeous fonts for you guys. These fonts are fascinating enough to fulfill your creative needs and at the same time, these are all free and easily downloadable. You can even make these fonts unique by giving your creative edge. more...

25 Inspiring Logos with Innovative Use of Typography

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A logo design is created on three significant pillars namely symbol, typography and color. While color and symbol are crucial to the development of a brand identity, typography plays a pivotal role in crafting a successful logo.    more...