webdesign

The digital revolution of music meant that songs were shared online, and music became an almost entirely digital medium, and it fused more strongly with other forms of art such as design and videography. Most popular new songs are accompanied by music videos, the album artwork is the digital icon for a given compilation of…

When most of us visit a website, we’re used to vertical scrolling. It just seems to make sense on most websites, that you’d scroll down to see more content, just like if you are reading text. But some websites use horizontal layouts, and it can be quite effective. When a website has limited content, or…

Pink is a light reddish color that is often associated with femininity, love, beauty and romance, and the name is derived from flowers called pinks and their frilled edges. Pink is most often used in design for feminine products, flowers, hygiene products and other related products, and it can be a difficult color to design…

One of the big trends of the recent few years has been flat web design, with little or no depth or layering of elements, with a simplistic approach that draws the eye to what design elements do exist, without distraction. While the craze for flat design does seem to have died down a bit, there…

jQuery is one of the many useful web languages that can help provide various enhancements to your website. Animated menus, loaders, mouseovers and other effects are all created using jQuery. Because it’s based off of Javascript, jQuery can be quite intense to modify and create, so most developers rely on plugins and other existing scripts…

The functionality and design of the menu on a website is crucial. It’s where users manage their process of navigating your website, and it’s what helps them find the content they’re looking for and accomplish the tasks they want to, and ultimately fulfill the reason they came to your website. CSS3 has made menu design…

In web design, managing user attention is incredibly important. Users typically have very short attention spans, and aren’t interested in reading large amounts of text. So when creating text for your website, it’s important to both maintain a visual hierarchy and utilize text effectively. By using heavy weight or large text, the user’s attention can…

WordPress is still the king of the blogging world, and it’s also taken the static and corporate website world by storm because of how simple it is to set up, and how many high quality themes and plugins are available for it. While you can easily build your own themes or use free themes and…

Parallax web design is one of the hottest trends on the web right now. The term refers to the moving of objects when viewed from different positions, but in web design, it generally refers to the moving of objects on the screen when scrolling up or down. Thanks to HTML5 and CSS3, the ability to…

For most people, learning and education are not fun things when they think about it. However, humans naturally enjoy learning, it’s just that our view of education and learning has been warped by the formal education system that emphasizes performance over actual learning, and frequently seems to drain the enjoyment from learning. For companies, apps…

There are so many new apps launching every day, with entrepreneurs, designers and developers alike all trying to capitalize on the social media and web/mobile app craze. After high profile IPOs and success stories of other apps and sites such as Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter, Groupon, Pandora and others, it seems everyone wants to make an…