There will be times in design career that web pages or photos are not enough for inspiration. This is when you need to look elsewhere; videos are a prime example. This is another guest post from a regular author – Stelian Stubolin of Rocketgraphs: Stop motion (frame-by-frame action) is an animation technique that makes a […]

So what is a Flash Preloader? What is it for? Who uses it? Flash preloaders are those “growing horizontal bars” that let you know how much (usually percentage-wise) time is left for your software to run. It is for users to know how much longer they have to wait – until their website is loaded. […]

For Blue Rooster theme, we have made considerable improvements especially in performance, size and visual effects. I had to completely rewrite the slide show – which had lost it’s ability to automatically play. I had to simplify, meaning leaner code without the means of a plugin. This theme can be downloaded at this link. More […]

I’ve recently received a couple of comments from users of Blue Rooster. This theme has a slide show in the the home page template, along with pretty photo plugin that have stopped working once jQuery is updated. Looking back at the code – I see where I’ve mistakenly called some files that I shouldn’t have. […]

This is a follow up from my previous post: 16 Beautiful Restaurant Websites. I’ve always been fascinated by the amount of attention web designers have poured into these pages. From excellent photography, artistic layouts and ingenious typography – Food websites have come to be very attention grabbing and downright creative. The following is a list […]

Running an online business is an unforgiving task. It takes real discipline for one to succeed. Since you’re pretty much on your own: you set your own hours, create your own rules and at work at your own speed. In this article we’re going to take a look at 7 tips that can really help […]

Ooooh, you’re gonna like this one. This is a homepage of a phone app that I had sitting in my hard drive for some time. It was one of those deals that the client never got back to me. “Lessons in life” kind of deal. That’s why now I ask for a deposit up front […]

Sometimes when you’re designing, you come across a roadblock such as what colors to combine with what. Especially clients that already have their chosen colors – that roadblock becomes more obstructive. If your chosen color is green, then take a look at these websites that I’ve gathered. Hopefully it will spark that inspirational fire within […]