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Every web project starts from an idea, a design. Most designs are made using design tools like the very popular Photoshop which can transform your ideas into great pieces of art. The ease of converting a PSD file to HTML depends, of course, on how detailed a design is. The old-school schema was to slice the design into images and implement them into the webpage using CSS. Recently, CSS decided to

What are icon fonts? Like their name says, an icon font is a custom font which stores icons instead of letters. It seems to be a new trend in web design, and I can affirm that is somehow influenced by the responsive madness(building responsive websites raise a problem when normal icons are scaled on retina-display but this issue can be solved using icon fonts. But why to use icon fonts and not ico

Dribbble is one of the biggest design community where designers, developers and other creatives are sharing sneak peeks of their work and occasionally, freebies like icon sets, psd elements and other stuff. Because the service is based on an invite system, only best designers are accepted, therefore the quality of the shots is outstanding. Freebies, especially Photoshop freebies are the best way t

Nowadays, people are browsing websites using multiple devices like PCs but also smartphones and tablets and adapting the website layouts to fit each gizmo is becoming a must. It seems that web designer`s mission is harder than ever. But is it true? Welcome to post-pc era. People are slowly but certainly switching from PC use to phones and tablets.Looks like this new devices are receiving more atte

The popularity of smartphones and tablets and the development of CSS just opened a new era in web design: responsive web design! There`s a new trend of switching from traditional PCs and laptops to tablets and smartphones when it comes to reading emails, blogs, and news. Therefore, upgrading your traditional website, based on a fixed layout, to a responsive layout which can make your website mobil

DeliciousThemes Freebies: 75 Seamless Photoshop Pixel Patterns These days I was working on a Photoshop pixel pattern set and today I`m happy to give it away for free. The package has no more or less than 75 patterns which can be used for your personal or commercial projects. I`m sure they will come in handy! Seamless Pixel Patterns (31874 downloads) Here`s a preview of some of the patterns you`ll

CSS3 buttons brings with them some awesome styling features, like rounded corners, gradients and borders, but also brings a lot of headaches to those who want to implement it inside web pages, due to Internet Explorer lack of support for these great features. If you feel guilty for making use of CSS3, don`t be, because I`m going to show you how you can create web elements only with CSS3 which are

UI Kits are those elements of design which are responsible for the user interface of any applications. Buttons, info boxes, text fields, input fields, dropdowns, progress bars, I`m sure you know them all and I`m sure you`re seeing them everyday in apps like online email services as gmail, yahoomail, etc, admin panels, or any website you`re surfing on, but I want to present you another 40 amazing U

Adding floral elements to any project adds a touch of spring, nature, even femininity. Flowers with bugs, vines with flowers, grunge florals — whatever style you need you are sure to find below. The following are some of the best fresh, new floral patterns for web design, postcard printing design, business cards, and more. Any one of them would make a great addition to your resource package for us

Every website should have a 404 error page to be displayed in case that the client is looking for a page which is inexistent. For the ones who don`t know yet,the 404 or Not Found error message is a HTTP standard response code indicating that the client was able to communicate with the server, but the server could not find what was requested. In other words, if you type in a bad address of a websit

Serif fonts are considered the easiest to read because the small strokes (serifs) simply emphasize each separate glyph and make it better recognizable.Serif fonts are not really style specific. You may find grunge serif fonts, comic serif fonts and so on. If you are a serif fan yourself, I am sure you’ll appreciate the collection of 20 free serif fonts I put together.Take a look below .. download

CSS3 is the latest member of Cascading Style Sheet family,born with some amazing new features,like rounded-corners,text-shadow and box-shadow or transparency.On the other hand,jQuery,the “Write less,do more” Javascript library is just amazing…its plugins simply kills Flash.Why to use Flash when we have jQuery and CSS3? Take your website to a new level by starting to use the power of CSS3 combined

Nowadays, more and more web applications are trying to take their stake from the internet, coming in your help and trying to make your internet`s life easier through their admin panels. Many people are using twitter and facebook, or other social networks to communicate, and as a reward, big networks are offering what is called “The API key” (application programming interface) to help programmers t

Hello everyone…This is the first post in the new “Freebies” category and I want to celebrate this by offering you something original and special.I`m giving away a free “Site Under Construction” Template ,to use it whenever you have a new website to launch or a re-design of your old website,or for anything else. This template is a simple one page “Under Construction” template that allows you to kee