While some say content is the king, I must somehow disagree. Content may be the king, but it’s all about delivery. No matter how brilliant and useful may be your writing, for example, users visiting your blog won’t look for those Google ads placed in a corner, or somewhere below the copyright information. Even more, colors and placement of page elements may turn interesting content into boring one, but – usually – not the other way around, so instead of [...]

If you ever feel down, just think about people who struggle daily with more than you ever had to face your entire life. If that doesn’t help you move on… I honestly don’t what will. Think about colors and the world around you, for example. Ever felt that you’re living in a grey, sad city? Think about people who are color blind! Today, it’s not about making your life better, but about colors, and Toucan can really help you bring [...]

The Aero-look has been around for ages, Vista only made it really popular (don’t tell me that more than 10% of those using Vista/7 now and enjoying the transparent interface and the effects coming with it ever used Stardock products or even heard of it – I’m not buying that!). Don’t get me wrong – I don’t have anything against it, but I think there was and still is too much hype around Windows’ looks… and now I will tell [...]

A few years ago, resolutions used by people going online were only a few, so designing sites using fluid layouts wasn’t something you had to do to be sure everyone’s happy. With the large scale introduction of wide resolution monitors, mobile devices like the iPad or the netbooks, fluid design became much more important, and so happened with tools created to help you get this job done. Today, we’ll talk about Tiny Fluid Grid, pictured below.

Tiny Fluid Grid was inspired [...]

Less than a month after Google Analytics Application Gallery, Google strikes again! That time, it was about various apps for Google Analytics, now it’s all about fonts, since the name says it all – Google Font Directory.

Another Beta product from the Internet search giant, Google Font Directory allows you to browse all the fonts from the tiny collection already available via the Google Font API. Just as it happened with the Application Gallery I mentioned earlier, there’s not much to [...]

I love vectorized images, especially when they are the result of a conversion operation performed on a good photo. Sure, this requires a good photo and a program that can turn your raster image to vector, right? Scratch that, just get some free vectors, and that’s all. With resources like LAFKON vektorDB, you can’t go wrong!

LAFKON vektorDB is a freely accessible database containing free vector images created by LAFKON Publishing. How many sets are available? That’s a good question, and [...]

When something becomes really popular on the Web, there’s always something good about it, no matter how bad could be the popular thing by itself (think about “two girls one cup” and the videos showing people’s reactions to it, for example). While I can’t say I am in love with Twitter, I have a Twitter account that I use from time to time (that meaning “almost monthly”) and checking out backgrounds and icons for this microblogging service was always something [...]

It seems too much time has passed since we talked about online pattern, texture, or even button generators, and today I will try to add one more item to this large category of online design elements generators. Sure, some may say there’s nothing special about such tools, and they may even be right, but they should also admit that, at least sometimes, it’s better to play with some already-made elements, instead of looking on Google Images for the right thing… [...]

I love free icons, but who doesn’t? Unlike other freebies, free icons are usually great, at least that’s what I can say. Unfortunately, others are not always like that – think about freely available articles or wallpapers. Oh, well, you can’t always get what you want, but if it’s icons you need… then glyphlab.com could be one of those excellent online resources that make me wonder “Why do they give so much goodies for free?” over and over again…

So… what’s [...]

Developing WordPress themes can be a real pain in the back, especially if you want to do this for a project of your own and you come up with new ideas on a daily basis. In times like these, you realize how easy can be to feel like killing some of your clients who have only one fault: no accurate idea on what they want, so new things appear during the entire development process. Today, you may get lucky – [...]