By Adham Dannaway on February 2, 2015
I created my first portfolio website way back in 2008 when I finally had enough design work to justify building a website. I was young, inexperienced and relatively unknown in the design community and I wanted to create a website concept that would help differentiate me from other designers.
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By Adham Dannaway on February 2, 2015
I’ve just finished reading The Mobile Book, put together by the very talented guys from Smashing Magazine, and I’m pleased to say that I thought it was an interesting and informative read. (more…)
By Adham Dannaway on February 2, 2015
(This article was last updated on 23 May 2018)
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. (more…)
By Adham Dannaway on February 2, 2015
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. (more…)