Identikit

A complete guide on all things related on how to make a website from scratch to finished product. Super helpful.

"Online community and social website where people communicate through visual symbols, logos, icons, or avatars. These images can tell a story, be a personal logo, or a new language. Users can purchase customizable t-shirts, stickers, writstbands, bracelets, hats, and mugs. Mikons supports charities, benevolence groups, and causes." --Another interesting way to promote your brand identity.

A good open source tool for creating customisable web pages, and applications.

Find themes in the tumblr theme garden or publish your own. Learn how easy it is to make themes for Tumblr. Share your theme with 25,394,118 Tumblr users. Leave attribution in your theme, and watch your traffic and popularity boom!

Because of ever cheaper devices, the ability to access the Internet via cellphone networks and increasing broadband reach, the actual number of people online won't plateau for decades. But the net is still mature enough for the growth in adoption to begin slowing down soon.

The State of the Web, Summer 2011 Jump to a section: Apple | Facebook | Google | Tumblr | Netflix | Spotify | Pandora | Microsoft | Social Traffic P.S. The above artwork is from this comic Note: The downloadable .zip file contains individual PNGs which can be opened by any image editor, as well as the original Adobe Fireworks PNG file, which is named tumbeasts_fireworks.png.

Wireframes can be one extra step in the beginning of any web design project that can save a significant amount of time later on. Besides improving productivity, it also improves the final result of each single webpage, and the website as a whole.

Effective web design doesn't have to be pretty and colorful - it has to be clear and intuitive; in fact, we have analyzed the principles of effective design in our previous posts. However, how can you achieve a clear and intuitive design solution?

There are two scenarios the calculator is designed for. The first is that you have a column with a certain width (perhaps to achieve a nice word:line ratio). You wish to find a matching column. Type in the width and use the left side, which gives you both a smaller and larger column.

A lot of great designers start simple…with a pencil and paper. No Macbook Pro, no Photoshop, just a #2 and Mead. Interface designers brianstorm their idea on paper only to apply it to Photoshop or a similar graphic application. I've compiled some great web design sketches for you to be inspired by.

The problem has boggled the minds of Web designers for years: fixed, fluid, elastic or a hybrid layout design? Each option has its benefits and disadvantages. But the final decision depends so much on usability that it is not one to be made lightly. So, with all the confusion, is there a right decision?

By Chris Coyier On 10/11/2007 With I've been thinking a lot about screen resolution lately and how the use of fluid width websites is the best way to accommodate all visitors screen resolutions. The alternative, static width websites, have to make a choice.

Kitten-themed placeholder images for developers :3

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In this article I am going to share some useful free Photoshop brushes for the web designers. Click on the image and you will arrive on download page. I hope my viewers will enjoy this article. Are you looking to contribute to our design community?