When you’re building website templates, user interfaces or initial application prototypes there is often the need for placeholder images or dummy images. Rather than wasting time and effort finding and cropping custom images you can simply use a free image placeholder service that will automatically create an image for you with your specified dimensions. Here are some of the best free image placeholder services on offer.
Read More »CSS Sticky Footer sticks your footer to the bottom of the page
There are many ways to keep your footer stuck to the bottom of the page, but the cleanest and most well tested method I have come across is CSS Sticky Footer. It’s very simple to implement, uses semantic code and has been tested in over 50 browsers. Keep your footer at the bottom of the page with CSS Sticky Footer.
Read More »A systematic approach to logo design
Designing a logo can be a very time consuming process as it is often quite difficult to come up with logo design ideas that match our clients requirements. There are so many different elements you need to consider when designing a logo including colours, typography, balance and symbolism to name a few. So where do you start? Today I’ll show you a systematic approach for designing any logo which will hopefully add some logic and structure to the very creative and sometimes haphazard logo design process.
Read More »Embed fonts in your website with Google Web Fonts!
As web designers we’re all getting a bit bored of using the same old web-safe fonts. Do Arial, Verdana and Times New Roman sound familiar to you? Luckily it’s very simple to embed custom fonts in your website these days. There are plenty of different ways to do it including sIFR, Cufon and @font-face but one of the easiest and best ways to do it is using Google Web Fonts.
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