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Adaptive images are the current hot topic in conversations about adaptive and responsive Web design. Why? Because no one likes any of the solutions thus far. New elements and attributes are being discussed as a solution for what is, for most of us, a big headache: to provide every user with one image optimized for their display size and resolution, without wasting time, memory or bandwidth with a client-side solution..............

In this tutorial we will take a close look at the technique of creating blend objects that will help us to create smooth color transitions. We'll also talk about the problems you may encounter and about the technique that will allow you to avoid unpleasant artifacts. Using the Blend Tool (W), we can obtain smooth transitions between colors, obtaining the shadows, glares, or simply color spots. Artworks below are examples in which blend objects were mostly used. Source: http://designmodo.com/color-transition-blend-tool/#ixzz2VR9hJtOF

On the 5th of March, Twitter is going to retire version 1 of its API. The replacement, version 1.1 is very similar, but with one major difference; every single call must be authenticated. This means that come March, your existing API calls will break; including simple things like displaying tweets on your site. To fix this, you need to move to the new v1.1 API, and authenticate with Twitter. Let's look at how to do this in WordPress, by embedding a list of tweets on your site

Many opinions lean towards hating pop ups for being intrusive, rude and a place to lose your soul (I joke, but see my recent tweet). There are however those who swear that pop up forms are super effective for increasing email signups (see Problogger's tweet). So maybe you're considering a pop up form on your site but are wary of how it will affect your visitors and rub them the wrong way. Thankfully there are ways to use pop up forms and still give visitors a great experience. Here are 5 things you can do that will boost conversion rates on email pop ups while not annoying your visitors.

There's a debate over which technique of creating mobile-ready websites is the best. Google advocates creating responsive web designs, while Jakob Nielsen, a renowned usability consultant, endorses the creation of dedicated mobile sites (but he was subsequently slammed by some web designers).

The World Wide Web gives anyone the chance to reach a truly global audience. But there's a lot more to successfully doing so than simply setting up a single English language site and hoping for the best. English is still the most commonly used language on the internet. An analysis of the technologies used in website construction suggests that over half of all sites on the web today are in English. If we take a look at the languages used by surfers however, English still comes out on top but only marginally. Around 27% of internet users speak English compared to 25% who speak Chinese, while Arabic, Portuguese and Spanish are all experiencing rapid growth. This is due largely to increasing internet penetration rates in developing countries (with Latin America accounting for the large rise in Spanish and Portuguese).

For most web developers, delivering the images to the low-bandwidth mobile devices could not be less than any brain teaser, where they feel like they have been stuck in a complex task, just like searching a needle in the dry haystack! Well, it could screw-up the brain! Even the developers, who are well-acquainted with responsive web design techniques, know that by setting the max-width of the images up to 100%, can't resolve this issue as the server will still render big size image to the user's phone. The mobile optimized web applications are designed to run smoothly for the low bandwidth connection with formatting according to the screen of the device.

WHAT ARE CSS TRANSITIONS? Well, transitions smooth out value change by allowing elements to gently change from one style to the next; it's adding an effect to the change. Take for instance a link, where you set its style to have a pink background on hover. What typically happens is that, on mouse over, the colour rapidly changes to pink and rapidly changes back on mouse out. With a transition, the processes can be smoothed out so that the colour change faces in and out.

I recently finished reading Tim Brown's new book "Combining Typefaces." It's 63 pages. You can buy it for less than $5 on FiveSimpleSteps, as a pdf or epub. Combining Typefaces is a dense book. It goes through a lot of concepts very quickly, but I'm a fan of that. The book may be primarily about combining types, but I think it serves as a great introduction to typography as a whole. It goes over anatomy and general terminology, but the book primarily approaches typography as a form of artistic communication, instead of just a set of guidelines and formulas. This is important, because that means it accepts subjectivity. There is no one answer to type, no winning approach; all we have are the techniques and patterns observed and used by of artists and designers throughout centuries. It challenges you to think about typography in your own way: how will you create what you want to communicate? What will you use? How will you use it?

Breads are one of the most popular stomach-filler and is considered as the basic food until now. Having a lot of styles, techniques and proportions of ingredients, it can come in a huge variations of tastes, sizes, shapes, appearances, colors, etc. It's no wonder why there are millions of bakeries operating around the globe. However, for these bakeries to stand out from the others, aside from having a tasty bread, it is just as important for them to have the logo design that would amplify their branding and in turn would make them easier to be recognized by the market. Today, we will be showcasing 26 Yummy and Creative Examples of Bread Logo Designs. Scroll down and observe this compilation that includes some of the most artistic bread logo designs and maybe get some idea and inspiration on how you want your own logo design to look like. Come, take a peek, and enjoy.