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Creativity is like a cat. Sometimes it gives you head butts and rubs against you. Then it delivers you nothing but dead prey or stays away completely for days. As a creative professional you need to find ways to get creativity back, while your cat just needs you to patiently wait as long as it takes. Sparking your creativity is best done by inspiration and inspiration comes from many things, not the least other people’s work. In the face of this fact we’ve put together yet another set stuffed with HTML, CSS and PSD templates and added the best UI kits. Your cat will not be interested, but you should keep the following list safe and warm….
Design resources are great in many ways. Some of us might just use them as they are, building their next project upon them. Others simply take them as an inspiration to create their own. All of us collect these resources. There’s no denying, we are hunter-gatherers. In the face of this fact we’ve put together yet another set stuffed with HTML, CSS and PSD templates and added the best UI kits. Bring it to the fireplace and hear everyone whoop with joy.
Hello world! Another month has passed and here we are, back again with another collection of the most awesome fresh and free design resources we were able to dig up. We’ve put together a set stuffed with HTML, CSS and PSD templates and added the best UI kits. One important information before you read on: All the following elements are freely usable, though some will require a registration to download.
Hello global design community!. We are back with another edition of our monthly collection of the freshest design resources. Today, we’ll show you, what October 2013 had to offer. If you know our series already, you know you can expect the best HTML, CSS and PSD templates, as well as UI-kits for your next great web or native app. All of the resources showcased here are fresh, free and easy to download, suitable for experienced and amateur web designers, so be sure to download the ones you love and share them with everyone you know!
I do a fair bit of trend spotting while I’m browsing for cool website designs to feature in my Sites of the Week roundups. One popular design trend I’ve noticed is becoming more and more popular is the split layout, where the page is divided vertically into two halves to display separate areas of content. Often these two halves are contrasting with light and dark colour schemes and allow the user to make a decision on the type of content they want to see. This post rounds up 10 great examples of websites boasting this vertical split layout. I wonder if we’ll start to see it become more common in the near future.
It’s merely a few weeks ago, that we brought you a comprehensive overview of 22 of the online learning resources the planet has to offer. Just today we stumbled upon another effort for web designers, developers and programmers. An offering by the name of Bento curates the best learning resources in its field. The collection is community-based and as such more helpful than any Google search result could ever be ;-)
This is the second compilation in our monthly series of brand-new HTML/PSD themes and UI elements. All the works exposed here are fresh resources from the month of July 2013. You will find another big set of ready to use themes, templates and elements for the web as well as completely editable files for your favorite image or vector editor. We got something for everybody…
Following on from my recent showcase of websites featuring full screen videos, today’s post looks at the sub-trend of big video headers in web design. HTML5 and jQuery make it easy to add dynamic video content to your site without bogging down the browser with Flash. This means designers can start to play with video as part of a website design as well as its content. This post showcases some great examples of video background headers, followed by some links to help you create the effect yourself.
If you develop websites and your environment is not WordPress, you still don’t need to live your online life in visual darkness or hide beneath the sheets. We curated a list of awesome templates layered in HTML and CSS to make your work easier, and with a lot of different grooves to find the appropriate one for your web. Or, if you are you more confortable developing your own theme based on some pre-built elements, here is the inspiration you need to create an awesome theme or application. Starting with the PSDs and UIs shown below, you can create your own awesome design. Take a look!
We’ve all seen videos on websites restricted to a specific frame size, but why not make use of the user’s whole monitor? Once upon a time only Flash was capable of such wizardry, but these days Javascript and HTML5 make it perfectly feasible to stretch your video footage to fill the browser window. This post showcases 15 website that all make use of full screen video techniques.
Sup folks, it’s Mike here again, your design guru and this is the third part of our Basic Web Design Video Course. This time we are going to completely markup the HTML using the tags that we have learned in the previous videos. After that we are going to style it using CSS. Also, we are going to cover CSS reset, Clearfix Hack and new CSS3 properties to solve the most common issues encountered when you are starting to learn web design.
Buckle up and let’s get started.
Part 1: Basic Web Design Video Course – Wireframing, Photoshop Tools & Panels, and Designing
Part 2: Basic Web Design Video Course – Basic HTML Tags, Structure & CSS Properties
Part 3: Basic Web Design Video Course – Complete HTML Markup & CSS Styles
Finally, we’ve completed the markup and styled our very first layout. Always remember to reset your CSS before styling the whole layout and apply CSS3 box-sizing to all the elements. Also, if you encounter some issues with things like the wrapper and posts just apply the Clearfix Hack.
So, that’s it for this part. I hope you learned something and found the videos helpful. If you have any suggestions regarding the videos and for the next part to be covered feel free to mention it below. Thank you!
Howdy, guys, it’s Mike here again and this is the second part of our “Basic Web Design Video Course”. This time we will talk about the tools needed before starting out with HTML and CSS, then we will learn the most commonly used HTML tags. We are only covering the tags that are very useful to beginners, we will cover more tags at a later time. Then, we will style the tags using basic CSS properties. No worries guys, in the next videos we will go more in-depth and learn together.
Have you seen the first part? So if you missed out the first chapter make sure to watch it!
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Part 1: Basic Web Design Video Course – Wireframing, Photoshop Tools & Panels, and Designing
Part 2: Basic Web Design Video Course – Basic HTML Tags, Structure & CSS Properties
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We will talk about the most commonly used tags that you’ll see on a website. We will cover headings, paragraphs, links, images, list items and divisions. Also we will familiarize ourselves with the basic structure of HTML markup and how to open and close a tag.
In this video we will learn to style a certain element or tag using CSS properties by changing width, height, colors, floats, etc. Using these basic properties we can turn our HTML markup into a well presented website.
Now that we have finished positioning our layout structure we can now proceed to the next part, which is marking up the HTML of our very basic design template and completely style it using CSS.
So, that’s it for this part. I hope you learned something and found the videos helpful. If you have any suggestions regarding the videos, or how I presented them, please leave a comment below. I’m really excited to hear your thoughts in the comment section, see you guys down there.
WinJS is a JavaScript framework for Windows 8, and David Rousset uses it here to create a quick RSS reader. He shows how in a tutorial series. This first article shows the way to build a welcome screen that employs WinJS ListView control. Blend and CSS3 are employed. The second tutorial shows work on the detail view displayed after a click-on-item. This uses a transition animation. Time to go through the two tutorials is estimated at 30 minutes. Check out the Windows 8 HTML5 WinRT RSS reader app.
This is the second part of my tutorial on How to Build a Website Using Twitter Bootstrap and SASS where we shall be customizing the Twitter Bootstrap-based web page using SASS. Just to set the context right, we will be starting out where we left off in the previous tutorial. If you haven’t seen it yet, please check it out and work through it. There you will learn how to setup your system for TBS, Ruby, and Compass.
In this tutorial we will be furnishing our webpage from the last tutorial using SASS. By the end of this tutorial you will be at the next level of developing beautiful websites and applications!
Lets remember that we are using the same file set which we used in the first part of this tutorial. Also, please make sure all the setup guidelines are being followed. Primarily, the Compass compiler should be watching our entire folder to make sure all the changes in the SASS files are being converted to the relevant CSS file.
We can customize the above page in multiple ways:
The latter is always preferable (we discussed in the first part of the tutorial, that it’s always recommended to use a separate stylesheet file to override rules of any plugins or frameworks), because when it comes to multiple theming of the page, we just have to change the custom CSS file to another one in order to apply different skins to the layout. So lets create a SASS file (extension of a sass file is .scss) and place it in the ‘sass’ folder. Since the page talks about 1stwebdesigner, I’m naming it ’1wd.scss’, and including it in the HTML. Also make sure you are including it after the line which includes all bootstrap styles. Our folder structure now looks like:
As a first step towards customization I always prefer adding a mother class to the body tag of the page, so that I can always group all the custom rules by referring to that class. So, lets start by giving the body tag of our HTML page a class – ‘fwd’. This helps us to maintain a first level of grouping in terms of selectors and makes sure we don’t override the bootstrap selectors directly.
We will also be using a pinch of CSS3 in our styles. So lets include the CSS3 mixins in our .scss files so that we can make use of most of the CSS3 features easily using a single line of code.
Lets start with the header.
Here is a comparison of our current header and the customized one:
The key changes that we’ll be doing here are:
.brand{ text-indent:-999px; width:169px; height:26px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0; background:url(http://cdn1.1stwebdesigner.com/wp-content/themes/1stwd/img/1wd-logo-rd.png) no-repeat center center; }
.navbar{ .navbar-inner{ background:#eee; border-bottom:solid 1px #ccc; .nav{ margin-left:20px; li{ a{ padding:5px; margin:5px 5px 0 0; @include border-radius(5px); &:hover{ background:#000; }; } } } .brand{ text-indent:-999px; width:169px; height:26px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0; background:url(http://cdn1.1stwebdesigner.com/wp-content/themes/1stwd/img/1wd-logo-rd.png) no-repeat center center; } } }
Next is the hero unit
Here is a comparison of our current hero-unit and the customized one:
The key changes that we’ll be doing here are (the final code for this section is given towards the end of this bulleted section):
.hero-unit{ background:#464646; color:#fff; h1{ @include text-shadow(#000 1px 5px 10px); span{ color:#F5821F; } } .btn-info{ padding:15px; font-size:1.2em; } form{ @include border-radius(10px); background:#6d6b6b; label{ font-weight:bold; font-size:1.2em; &.checkbox{ font-weight:normal; font-size:1em; color:#2d2d2d; } } input{ background:#464646; border:solid 1px #545252; @include box-shadow(inset #2d2d2d 1px 0px 3px); color:#8b7b6c; } } }
Now comes the thumbnail section
Here is a comparison of our current thumbnail section and the customized one:
The key changes that we’ll be doing here are (the final code for this section is given towards the end of this bulleted section):
.thumbnail{ @include border-radius(10px); background:#55626B; .caption{ position:relative; color:#ccc9c9; h5{ position:absolute; top:-19px; left:10px; font-size:2em; color:#fff; @include text-shadow(#000 1px 5px 10px); } } }
Finally the footer
I am just adding a custom pattern to the footer, add a border-radius and will be increasing the padding of the container to 20px. Please refer to the code of footer below:
footer{ padding:20px; margin-top:30px; @include border-radius(10px 10px 0 0); color:#fff; background:url(http://cdn1.1stwebdesigner.com/wp-content/themes/1stwd/img/bg_header.jpg) repeat left top; }
Finally after all the customization and coding, here is how our customized page looks:
This is just an intro to the power of SASS and TBS together. In the CSS file that we have used we can make use of variables effectively by storing color values in them and then importing the variable CSS to the main stylesheet at the beginning. With the complexity of each page, all the features of SASS can be leveraged in a much better way. Mixins, Extend, Variables and much more are in store for us to explore and implement.
Get started with this if you are planning to plunge into the world of SASS and wait for more to come your way. I’d appreciate your feedback on my approach and on this tutorial to help me improve!
Remember those cool interactive media rich websites that were built with Flash? They would often feature full screen layouts, animated elements and futuristic interfaces that made HTML websites look plain and boring. Unfortunately Flash brought along all kinds of problems from inaccessibility to high processor loads, but these days similar styles of website are being built using HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript libraries such as jQuery. This post rounds up a collection of super cool HTML websites that feature all those clever effects we loved about Flash websites of years past.
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