How to Enhance Your Website Layouts With SVG Shapes
Principles for Successful Button Design
There are a thousand ways to design and create buttons today and you only need to spend a small amount of time looking through work on dribbble to get a sense of them. A great deal of these...
Designing for responsiveness
Responsive Images: How they Almost Worked and What We Need
With a mobile-first responsive design approach, if any part of the process breaks down, your user can still receive a representative image and avoid an unnecessarily large request on a device that …
Create a Swish CSS3 Folded Ribbon in Five Minutes
Take one line of markup, a couple of CSS3 rules (no images), and you can have yourself a swish folded ribbon effect in five minutes. Let's see how.. Step 1: Markup We'll begin with an empty...
@font-face Solutions & Suggestions
«So what are the options for implementing web fonts? I'm going to review the three main methods of incorporating @font-face and explain the pros and cons of each method. […]»
Responsive design using CSS3 Media Queries
When we initially sat down to discuss features for FaultPress you may imagine the words "bugs, tickets, milestones, priorities" being thrown around a lot.
How To Get Sign-Off For Your Designs
“How did you do that?” My colleague Leigh sounded impressed. He had been working with a problem client for weeks trying to get design approval. Then I came along and was able to get signed-off in a single conference call. “Can you teach me how you did that?” he asked. I mumbled something about years of experience, but the truth was I didn’t have a clue. It just seems I can find design approval easier than most.
A Guide to Creating Professional Quality Logo Designs
Logo design is often seen as a quick and easy job; you create a small graphic, stick it next to some text and the job is done! In reality there’s a lot more to it, which makes the whole process of creating a logo or identity a challenging task. Let’s take a look at some […]
Working With RGBA Colour
Drew McLellan kicks off our 2009 season with a look at some of the tools CSS3 provides for applying levels of transparency to colour values, enabling you to avoid weighing down a site design with heavy PNG images.
11 Parts of a Business Card
Most business cards will have at least a name of a person or company but there are other essential and useful elements of a good business card.