Understanding and Working With Aspect Ratio | Design Shack

Understanding and Working With Aspect Ratio | Design Shack Every image, every canvas, every frame has a shape. And often that shape is a rectangle. Even more common is a rectangle of a particular proportion based on medium. Understanding aspect ratios can save you time and rework as a designer. Consider all of the common…

33 Well-Designed Pro Sports Website Layouts – DzineBlog.com

33 Well-Designed Pro Sports Website Layouts – DzineBlog.com The ever-growing market for sports content has only strengthened through support over the Internet. Online interactive communities like forums or fantasy football leagues provide a digital connection to the real world. Nevermind the ability to track game scores, player stats, and a whole lot of other statistical…

Learning WordPress – Your Ultimate 12-Month Guide

Learning WordPress – Your Ultimate 12-Month Guide If you want to learn something new in 2015, why not make it WordPress? It powers a huge chunk of the web, you’ll understand your own website better, you’ll be able to communicate with developers better, and you can make some money helping out others. In addition, programming…

The Best Websites On The Internet

The Best Websites On The Internet The Internet is a big place, with a lot of content — about one billion websites, at last count of which 180 million are active. Because the web is constantly changing, it can be hard to keep track of which sites have the best content and resources. To help…

Designing With Your Clients – Smashing Magazine

Designing With Your Clients – Smashing Magazine Why do clients interfere in the design process? Why do they not trust your judgment? Much of the time, it is because they are afraid of the unknown. They are not experts in design or the web. They feel out of their depth in the process, and so…

BuiltWith Technology Lookup

BuiltWith Technology Lookup Build lists of websites from our database of 7000 web technologies and over a quarter of a billion websites showing which sites use shopping carts, analytics, hosting and many more. Filter by location, traffic, vertical and more.

A brief history of web design for designers. Explained with animations

A brief history of web design for designers. Explained with animations My interest in coding my designs was lost at the the moment I realized how much trickery had to be done to make it happen. Seemingly simple issues could be solved in so many ways. Yet it still might not have worked on some…

Choosing and Creating Backgrounds for Design Projects | Design Shack

Choosing and Creating Backgrounds for Design Projects | Design Shack From patterns, to videos, to images, there are a lot of things to choose from when it comes to selecting the perfect backdrop to any design project. While the texture or image you choose is not necessarily intended to be a main part of the…