All the mathematics involved in creating a responsive website design can be exhausting and time consuming, but thankfully there’s a range of responsive frameworks available that make the process quick and easy. These frameworks or boilerplates have all the complicated grids, layouts and media queries in place ready for you to add your own design and markup. Here’s a roundup of the most popular frameworks currently being used by designers.
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20 Free Sans-Serif Fonts Licensed for @Font-Face
Remember back when @font-face and Google Fonts were first introduced? We only had the choice of a handful of custom fonts we could use. Nowadays it’s quite the opposite, we’re spoilt for choice with hundreds of cool fonts licensed for free @font-face embedding. This post rounds up a collection of 20 stylish sans-serif fonts, all of which can be downloaded and used freely to spice up your website design’s typography.
30 Free UI Kits Featuring Detailed Web Elements
When working under time constraints or on a tight budget crafting every single UI element by hand in Photoshop just isn’t economical. Thankfully there’s a range of ready-made web elements available in UI kits that can be quickly copied over to your own website or web app design projects. This post rounds up a collection of 30 detailed user interface Photoshop kits that can all be downloaded absolutely free!
20 jQuery Tutorials Teaching Super Cool Visual Effects
We all love the fancy effects that can be produced with the jQuery Javascript library. The tutorials in this collection are all based on different topics, but they all include some kind of super cool visual effect as part of their finished product. Follow the steps to recreate the described design, or use the steps to migrate the effects into awesome creations of your own.
Showcase of Impressive Design Process Explanations
A common feature amongst the top design portfolio and agency websites is a visually presented explanation of their design process. This simple idea of describing how a potential client’s project will be handled from start to finish is a great way of securing projects and giving the customer an insight into what their working relationship with the designer(s) will be like. This showcase rounds up a bunch of impressive examples of how various designers have explained their design process with the aid of clever graphical elements.
jQuery Plugins for Styling Checkbox & Radio Buttons
The checkbox and radio button versions of input elements used in forms on the web are amongst the most difficult to style according to your overall web design. These elements will display differently depending on the user’s operating system, but we can change their appearance globally with the help of jQuery.
30 Web Design Blogs With Consistently Good Content
There’s a growing number of design blogs scattered around the web, each focusing on various aspects of design, such as web design, graphic design, web development, and even UX design. This collection of 30 web design blogs all have a primary focus on web design and web development, and each one consistently pumps out great content, whether it’s in the form of inspiration, discussion, theory or tutorials. If you’re looking for some scrumptious goodies to feed your creative inner geek, look no further than this feast!
