There are many ways in which a web designer can create an engaging website that will keep its viewers connected. Today’s article focuses on subtle motion effects which, when used right have a major impact on a site’s desirability. Designers are using more and more animations to improve their overall design and to increase the website’s appearance. These can surely make the difference between a simple visitor and a potential client.
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20 Free PSD Templates To Mockup Your Logo Designs
In today’s post, we’ve rounded up over 20 free PSD templates to mockup your logo designs, with a variety of different mock up environments.
There’s an easy way to impress your clients and score extra points when presenting your logo design concepts. An experienced designer knows how to use a PSD mockup template in his favor, with outstanding results. Showing your client’s newly designed logo printed as an expensive foil stamp or constructed as a huge wall mounted sign can really add value to your designs.
These free PSD templates will help you showcase your logo designs in a professional manner, and thus making sure you’ll get the attention you want.
20 Powerful Dark Websites for Design Inspiration
While bright flat website designs are continuing to illuminate our screens and sometimes burn our retinas, some designers are taking the opposite route and creating powerful website designs with dark, subdued color palettes.
25 Innovative Websites that Buck the Design Trends
Certain trends have become so mainstream that the majority of modern web designs have similarities in their layouts and styles. Still, there are a lot of unique web designs which you can use to create a one of a kind project.
Showcase of Parallax Scrolling Effects in Web Design
The parallax illusion is one of the coolest effects to hit the world of web design. This showcase rounds up the best examples of websites that have scrolling parallax effects. Some use the effect to add a subtle effect to the website’s background, whereas others use the parallax effect more prominently to create an exciting browsing experience.
30 Web Designs that Fully Embrace the Hero Image
Today’s roundup showcases 30 sites that fully embrace the hero image, granting the maximum amount of space possible to this design feature and shifting all other content thousands of pixels down the page.
Hero images prominently fill the screen to wow the user, often only accompanied by a heading or a sentence and a single call to action such as a signup form or button links.
20 Powerful High Contrast Black & White Web Designs
Designing a website using just black and white provides the highest contrast possible between text and background elements. Combined with black and white photography, this produces powerful designs that grab the attention of the viewer and draws them in with their seductive qualities. In today’s showcase I round up 20 beautiful examples of monochromatic website designs that master the use of black and white in their interfaces.
Adding Video to Your Website: Why’s and How’s
There is a lot of buzz around the video background trend at the moment, along with video as a marketing tool and short explainer videos that introduce a product or company. In this week’s article Julia Blake takes a closer look at video as a design phenomenon and explains some of the pros and cons of video use in web design.
25 Free Resume/CV Templates to Help You Get the Job!
Are you in need of a slick design for your resume or CV? If so, this roundup of free templates is just what you need! We’re not talking about Microsoft Word documents here, these are layouts for professional designers that use industry standard software such as Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign. With structured layouts and neat graphics these templates will definitely help you stand out from the crowd and secure the job.
Showcase of Web Design Layouts with Angled Lines
Website layout designs naturally tend to make use of horizontal and vertical lines due to the blocky nature of the coding behind them, but designers are breaking free from these constraints by using dynamic angles in their designs. Sometimes these angled lines are simply background images created in Photoshop, but others are animated elements made directly in code. Check out today’s web design showcase to see some great examples of website interfaces with angled lines.
