Dribbble is a fantastic place for designers to share their works in progress and is also a great place for designers to gain inspiration and pick out recurring trends across the design spectrum. This post rounds up a collection of snapshots of rich interface design elements from both website designs and app designs. Each one has been carefully crafted for its detail, use of textures, subtle lighting effects, and various tones & colours.
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Best Mac App Design: Showcase & Trends
Website designs for premium Mac application websites are amongst the most beautiful web designs on the net. Here’s an inspirational showcase of some of the best Mac app web design trends, along with a look at some common trends and features.
15 Essential WordPress Plugins for Aspiring Designers
If you want to show off your web design credentials to the world, then WordPress is the perfect blogging platform to use: it’s simple, accessible and highly customizable. Nevertheless, you’re not going to be able to create a professional standard WordPress blog with great work and creativity alone, you’re also going to need some rather nifty plugins.
HTML & CSS Editing Apps For Windows Designers
Our recent roundup of HTML and CSS editing apps for Mac users proved to be really popular, but the Windows-based designers were feeling a little left out. This week’s roundup pulls together the most popular editing application choices for PC users.
These HTML & CSS editing apps for Windows users will help designers build standards-compliant websites with the help of powerful tools features such as live preview, validation, live editing, HTL5 support, drag and drop systems, FTP editing, troubleshooting, browser support, auto-completion features, and more.
Choose your favorite editing app from the list below.
Top HTML & CSS Editing Apps For Mac Designers
When it comes to web design, every designer tends to have their own favorite coding application. Luckily for Mac users, there are plenty of options to choose from, this roundup of HTML and CSS editors pulls together the most popular editing apps with a brief overview of their features.
30 Inspiring Examples of Texture Use in Web Design
The use of texture is one of the important principles of good design, and the use of subtle textures is becoming more and more popular in the world of web design. These textures help give a tactile and realistic feel to the interface, which can help a website seem more familiar with things we come across in the real world. Here’s an inspirational showcase of 30 websites that are perfect examples of texture use in web design.
35 High Quality Photoshop Web Design Tutorials
If you’re looking to get to grips with creating websites, one of the first skills you’ll need is to be able to create a concept website design in Photoshop. This post rounds up 35 of the best Photoshop web design tutorials on the web. Learn how simple effects and techniques are used to create detailed layouts in a range of different styles and how page elements are mocked up into complete page designs.
Showcasing 65 of the Best Website Designs of 2018
Throughout the year I’ve showcased my favorite website designs findings in the Line25 Sites of the Week roundups. This special near-end of year post showcases the best of the best, pulling together the best website designs of 2018 into one showcase of super cool sites.
Learning jQuery – Tutorial Roundup for Beginners
jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML. It is free, open-source software and also one of the most popular Javascript libraries, used by designers and developers to enhance a website design beyond the confines of CSS and to easily create complex JavaScript effects with just a few lines of code.
35 Creative Examples of Doodles in Web Design
The everyday doodle is often left hiding away in a designer’s sketchbook, never being fulfilled in life as a complete design, but every now and again doodles get their chance of being part of the big picture. In web design, designers often strive to inject creativity into their interfaces and layouts. The good old pencil can be a highly useful tool that can easily add personality to a design, giving that feeling of originality that you just don’t get with crisp, smooth digital effects. This showcase of creative doodles in web design provides a wealth of inspiration and shows how hand-drawn elements can add that tactile and low-fi feel to a website design.