[Freebie] Interfaz Icon Set: 400 Free Social & Interface Icons

Icons are very important when creating a website layout. You can instantly change the mood of visitors by creating a good user experience using attractive icons. Effective use of icons can easily help bridge connection between the user and the website.

[Freebie] Interfaz Icon Set: 400 Free Social & Interface Icons

Being a successful creative web artist has a lot to do with the way you work. Sure, you can’t teach good design in some lessons or you can’t create icons for your daily needs, but it never hurts to pick a few free icons which are always available free to grub.

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Essential WordPress Plugins for Working With Animated GIFs

Once limited to tacky, flashing banners with neon colors and cartoons that floated through pop-ups and email headers, GIFs have changed for the better. With this change, they are here to stay, especially for WordPress users and developers. Designed specifically for the web, GIF files are typically small in size, making them perfect for adding a touch of movement to a post. In fact, animated GIFs can bring a refreshing sense of life to an otherwise static article or topic.

Essential WordPress Plugins for Working With Animated GIFs

However, animated GIFs come with their fair share of problems and frustrations. Since animated GIFs are comprised of many frames, they can quickly go from being small, unobtrusive files to being some of the most unwieldy graphics on your server. GIFs are known for slowing down load times on pages where they are used, making them a barrier to repeat traffic and a problem point for webmasters who understand the importance of speed in an age of impatience.

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Should You Keep the Above-the-Fold Design Principles?

Web design & development field prepares many dilemmas for you: to use clean style or not, to incorporate latest trends on your website or not, to make accent on visual front or functionality, to make design responsive or not, etc.

Should You Keep the Above-the-Fold Design Principles?

We cannot answer all these question at once; instead we’ll start with one very important aspect: the fold.

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Kids & Computers – Pros and Cons

Many of our readers are blessed with kids. And it's not a secret for caring parents that nowadays children have nearly unlimited access to computers (if they allow them to use those at all). It would be incorrect to assert that computers are absolutely harmful or useful for children. The usage of computers by the children is very controversial. We can talk about good and bad sides of computers till the end of time as their list is really endless.

Kids & Computers – Pros and Cons

Please make no mistake about the simplicity of the given topic. In fact it's much deeper than it seems. Actually, this post is more for parents than for their offsprings. Thus, if you, the reader of this post, are an underage, we advise you to show the entry to your parents as there is a lot of information and awesome tips which may help you improve understanding with them here.

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Cool and Unusual Lamps and Light Designs

Lamps and lights are indispensable items of any room or house or office. Lamps and lights are used very commonly to lighten up the darker corners of the rooms and also to add atmospheric lightning to your living room. Though, there are some standard designs for lamps and lights that we usually place in our rooms, offices and living areas, but here we have put together a very artistic and creative collection of some of the cool and unusual lamp and light design.

Cool and Unusual Lamps and Light Designs

These lamp and light designs greatly vary in their shapes, colors, dimensions and also in their lighting abilities. Such type of creativity can surely grab anyone attentions and this is the reason why these creative lamp designs are very popular these days on internet.

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Everything You Need To Know About Responsive Design – The Theoretical Side

The concept of responsive design has been around for quite a few years but it is in the past two years, responsive design has really become the talk of the town. Almost everywhere you see designers and website owners are talking about responsive designs. Some readers would find a lacuna in understanding the real definition and the need for having a responsive designed website.

Everything You Need To Know About Responsive Design – The Theoretical Side

There is a lot of buzz going around trying to understand the benefits that come along with having a responsive designed website. Some try to analyze the cost attached to the creation of such a website and whether it’s all worth in the end or not.

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