15 Stunning and Fresh Premium WordPress Portfolio Themes | Tom Kenny Design
A benefit of building a portfolio using WordPress is you have the ability to use the powerful blog features alongside your portfolio. A blog discussing your work or more about your processes and inspiration will add to the personality and allow potential clients to get to know you more increasing the attractiveness of you as a web designer. WordPress can also act as a more than adequate CMS for di
Fantastic Presentation Styles of Web Designers’ Portfolios | Tom Kenny Design
Portfolios are an important part of a web designer’s job hunting arsenal. In most cases they are the only thing that a prospective client or employer have to decide if you are the right person they are looking for. More importantly, portfolios are extensions of our own work so don’t just think of them as dumb pages to show off your work. Treat your portfolio design as just another piece of your ow
The Key Ingredients of a Great Single Page Website | Tom Kenny Design
Every now and then Inspect Element will be looking at a specific style of web design and picking out the best examples in that field and what makes them so great so you can learn from them and improve your own work. The first one we’re looking at is one page website designs. By far the most common use of single page websites are portfolios but they can be suitable to just about any business type.
10 Fantastic and Creative Web Design Styles | Tom Kenny Design
When designing a website, there are a number of different styles you can adopt to get the message of a brand across effectively to customers, users or readers. The important thing to consider is to pick a style that matches the brand you are designing for. Also, there’s no reason why you need to stick to one particular style. Multiple different styles can merge together perfectly fine as you’ll sp
Simple CSS Tips that Go a Long Way | Tom Kenny Design
Sometimes it’s the little things that can make all the difference and there are plenty of neat little CSS tips that can help with all aspects of design and development. Here are a few great tips that will help you improve your CSS work and help you get the most out of your code. Reset Browsers’ Default Styling By default, browsers assign styles to certain elements. The problem with this is differe
Overlaying Text on Images: What You Need to Consider | Tom Kenny Design
When overlaying text onto images, the most important thing you need to consider is readability. If the text being placed on top of the image doesn’t have enough contrast with the image itself, the message will get lost and frustrate visitors as they try to work out what it actually says. You don’t want visitors to have to work hard just to read something on a website. This can contribute to them i
Showcase of Some of the Most Inspiring Travel & Tourism Websites | Tom Kenny Design
The travel and tourism industry is a great source of inspiration when it comes to web design. The main goal of any site in this industry is to entice visitors to travel. Imagery plays a huge part in this because any potential customer wants to see exactly where they are travelling to. Here are a few great examples of inspirational travel and tourism websites. Australia’s Official Tourism Website J
Design Trend Showcase: Textured Backgrounds | Tom Kenny Design
Recently there appears to have been a trend towards textured backgrounds in web design. They’ve always been around in web design but have risen in popularity recently. They can add a bit of interest or create a much needed extra layer of depth on a web design. The following are good examples of textured backgrounds. Rocket Club Bright Creative Design Commission Happy Dangy Diggy Elliot Jay Stocks
The Principles of Good Web Design Part 1: Layout | Tom Kenny Design
This is the first part in this series of The Principles of Good Web Design. The other parts are listed below: The Principles of Good Web Design Part 2: Navigation The Principles of Good Web Design Part 3: Colour The Principles of Good Web Design Part 4: Content Good web design doesn’t just appear out of nowhere, there are many aspects of design that come together to achieve this. The first one tha
Showcase of Great Video Game Related Web Designs | Tom Kenny Design
Video games and web design share one thing, visual design. A lot of work in both industries is geared towards visual design. Some games keep the artwork consistent between game and website while others communicate the look and feel of their games through their web design. Here is a look at some of the best examples of video game related web designs. Left 4 Dead 2 Left 4 Dead is a zombie survival h
How to Design Buttons to Help Improve Usability | Tom Kenny Design
Buttons can play a big part in how visitors interact with a website. They come in varying shapes, sizes and styles but there are a few things to consider when designing buttons: Use of Icons Look and Feel Behaviour Importance Consistency Use of Icons Using icons as part of buttons can help improve usability by providing a visual aid making it more obvious to the user as to what function the button
Recent Web Designs that Don’t Follow Recent Trends | Tom Kenny Design
Last month I wrote an article on why design trends don’t have to completely disappear, explaining why design trends should live on beyond their acceptance. However, we are now starting to see designs that don’t follow any popular recent trends. What makes the following examples great is that they stand out from the crowd and are instantly memorable for being unique. Carsonified As you can immediat
Wallpapers of the Week 13: Colour | Tom Kenny Design
When used well, colour can be very inspirational so here some wallpapers to inspire you each and every time you see your desktop. Improve your design knowledge in just a minute or two a day, for free with... Great Design Details You'll get a free email every Monday to Friday with actionable design details that will increase the effectiveness of your designs. Each one only takes about a minute or t
42 Very Colourful Websites | Tom Kenny Design
Great use of colour can really make a design stand out but deciding on an effective colour scheme can be a difficult thing to achieve. The following examples all use a number of different colours to create a visual impact which is the first thing a visitor is likely to notice. If the colours blend well together then that initial impact will almost always be a positive one. Make Photoshop Faster Fe
Wallpapers of the Week 11: Typography | Tom Kenny Design
Good typography is an art so be inspired by setting one of these as your desktop background. Improve your design knowledge in just a minute or two a day, for free with... Great Design Details You'll get a free email every Monday to Friday with actionable design details that will increase the effectiveness of your designs. Each one only takes about a minute or two to read.
37 Brilliant Examples of Transparency in Web Design | Tom Kenny Design
Transparency in web design has been held back by IE6’s inability to display transparency in PNG files. Now that there are workarounds using javascript and the increasing lack of support for the aging browser transparency has become a viable option in web design. All of the examples below make use of transparent PNGs. Envato Fix Outlook Line25 Sam Brown Inspiration in a Box Postbox Holdfire eleven3
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