Creating design elements in photoshop is a great way to add unique buttons and headers to your web design projects. In this tutorial, we’re going to be making a simple, easy ribbon banner in photoshop. This tutorial is perfect for beginners, but assumes you know the photoshop basics including opening a document, creating layers and duplicating layers. Step 1: Create the…
The hardest part of creating a website can sometimes be coming up with a ‘look.’ You’ve done the research, have the content, created a solid wireframe and now it’s time to dress up the layouts with photos, colors, and type. Whether you’re working on a personal project or a project for a client with no brand standards in place, applying…
WooCommerce for WordPress makes it easy to set up your e-commerce site and start selling your products. Because it’s simple to implement, WooCommerce has become a favorite among developers. With so many installations, it’s no wonder WooCommerce has an abundance of add-ons that can help you customize your online store to match your exact needs. We’ve outlined a few our…
When building a website it’s all in the details. Adding custom fonts, borders and backgrounds can create a cohesive look throughout the site. You can even take your customization a bit further by making these elements color-changing to fit your carefully thought-out color scheme. Making elements color-changing on your website is surprisingly easy using CSS. There are two main parts…
As a front-end developer, I have to say that Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are one of my closest friends. I can spend hours writing lines of CSS code to make my clients websites look and function beautifully. Plus, now not only can I control how everything looks with CSS, I can also control how elements move and animate with CSS3…
Icons are everywhere, both in the physical world and online. Integrating them into your website can be a fun, stylish, and easy way to foster engagement among your users. Here are 3 Benefits of Using Icons on Your Website 1. Communicate Information Incorporating icons into your web design can make content more easily understandable and memorable. Using icons on your…
Using photos on a website is a great way to create credibility and connect users emotionally to your brand. You can now take it a step further and ensure the photos on your site have a similar look and feel without the need for Photoshop or Instagram filters. CSS image filters allow you to change the look and feel of…
Each year brings new and continuing trends in web design. 2017 promises websites full of interaction and engagement. We’re checking out the layout trends that will be taking over the web in the next year. Video Background The use of high quality background images and illustrations has been on the upswing the past several years. That trend continues in 2017…
Icons and graphics are the universal means of communicating an idea. When creating a design concept, we rely on images to convey our message. Graphic designers have unlimited resources when it comes to finding icons, photos and illustrations but every once in a while it becomes necessary to create our own. Newer versions of Adobe Illustrator offer powerful tools for…
Why write a blog post about print stylesheets? Good question! This day and age it seems like most folks just save content to their tablet or mobile phone for later viewing. The question you, the site builder, need to ask is “What percentage of incoming traffic will print my content?” Think about it. Have you ever printed off a recipe…