Swish Templates – Alternative to Flash?
Being a web design studio we realize how important it is to have an appealing web site since most of the customers will judge about us from our web site. When we were starting up this enterprise we didn’t have time much time and needed a website developed virtually within a couple of hours.
We bought a Swish template from Flashmint.com because we had been told that Swish templates are as appealing as Flash but you need considerably less time to edit them. We trusted the Flashmint.com employees and we actually got what we had wanted – an impressive website within a couple of hours.
List of web safe and common fonts
Many of you have been asking, “What fonts are safe for me to use on the web?” and “Is there a list of web safe fonts for reference?” Well I am here to help. Web safe fonts are ever important but a lot of designers I have seen lately are forgoing this important step in their design creation. Some are taking the steps to use a font similar to a web safe font but because it is not in fact web safe they inevitably have to default back to a font that isn’t quite the same. Their design loses a little of itself and at this point they typically struggle to find a font that is close and web safe. There are plenty of web safe fonts available it just takes some creativity in using them to your advantage. I have a list of web safe fonts available in the article to help everyone out.Some of you that may have heard of the term web safe before and not quite known it’s meaning, others don’t fully know the reasoning behind it. I am here to clear all of these things up. First off, web safe fonts are those that are nearly universally available on any computer. So that when the end user, regardless of their machine preferences, goes to the web site they get the same experience as anyone else going to the web site. This is what web standards are all about and ensuring that you are using web safe fonts throughout your website is just as important as including a DOCTYPE and HTML tag in the beginning.
Inspiration Overload: 100 CSS Galleries You Need to Check Out
Whether you’re suffering from designer’s block, or just want to see what your competition is up to, design galleries are an excellent tool. Fortunately, there’s no shortage of them available, and we’ve found 100 of the best.
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If you’re looking for a specific color, style, or genre, check out these organized and searchable galleries.
- CSS Gallery: Search this gallery by color, content, date, and more.
- CSS Warfare: On CSS Warfare, you can find and rank sites in a number of different categories.
- Design Grabs: Design Grabs features loads of different categories and tags.
- The Daily Slurp: This gallery has more than 15,000 sites to check out, searchable by color.
- CSS Vault: On CSS Vault, you’ll find monthly archives from 2003 to the present.
- CSS Mania: CSS Mania offers a gallery with more than 9,500 sites, all organized by topics.
- Design Creme: Find some of the best CSS and Flash sites online, searchable by category, tag, and engine.
- CSS Impress: Find exactly what you’re looking for in this site with easy categories and a great search function.
- DesignFlavr: DesignFlavr is ultra-organized, with colors, categories, rankings, and more.
- The Designed Tree: It’s easy to find designs in all sorts of categories on this site.
- InspirationKing: InspirationKing focuses on high quality sites, and offers an easy way to find them.
- One Star Gallery: In the One Star Gallery, you’ll find awesome sites categorized by color.
- CSS Daddy: The designs on this site are heavily tagged and easy to search.
- CSS Leak: Great design is easy to find on this site with color, rankings, and more.
- Web Design Gallery: Search the archives of this site by color and more.
- Designs Creme: On this site, you’ll find awesome designs and all sorts of colors and genres.
- Crossmind: Find designs by colors, elements, layout, type, and more.
- Design Shack: On Design Shack, you can find designs based on color, category, or layout, so you’re sure to find exactly what you’re looking for.
How to organize a web-design studio?
Web-design studio. Get to know how much you need to organize it.
So what is necessary at the very beginning? At least it is a team of two people who look forward to achieve a common goal. The goal is satisfaction consumers’ needs in web-design area, and of course making profits. Therefore, to meet these needs you have either to possess designer skills yourself or be within easy reach with a web designer. So what are the secrets of design studio success?
40+ Carousel Home Page Designs
The home page is some of the most valuable real estate on a web site. For many web sites it is still the primary point of entry for the majority of visitors.
Consequently, web site owners want to cram as much enticing content on to the home page in order to attract visitors into the site.
Because of this, the carousel has become a very popular way to showcase multiple pieces of featured content within a fixed promotional area.
Epicurious has a typical home page carousel
I thought it would be interesting to showcase a variety of home page carousel designs to see what common themes emerged and also what different approaches designers took.
