70 New High Quality Free Fonts For Professional Designers

The world of typography can be daunting, to say the least. For a few dollars, you can download thousands of fonts in just a few minutes and tens of thousands free fonts are available if you are willing to sort through them all.

70 New High Quality Free Fonts For Professional Designers

Not only are there a plethora of font famillies but there are also the font styles within each family. So, really, the question isn’t whether or not you can get a specific font – it’s where to begin!

Read more...

11 Years of LinkedIn in Numbers [Infographic]

The social network is this month (on May 5th to be exact) celebrating their 11th year in existence. It has changed the way that the human resources industry has worked and has brought recruitment online.

11 Years of LinkedIn in Numbers [Infographic]

Linkedin allows members to show off their educational and work experience in a formatted manner. It allows members to highlight certain skills and achievements but also allows for others to recommend them or ‘endorse’ them for certain skills.

Read more...

Image vs. Video Background in Web Design

Do you follow the latest web design trends? Are you even abreast of what is going on in web design fashion? Personally I am interested in web design sphere and frequently read tons of articles related to the topic that is why I know a lot what people are writing and thinking about. I have read an imposing number of articles, where authors persisted on video-based websites to be the best options this year.

Image vs. Video Background in Web Design

Love it or hate, accept it or not, web designers will definitely keep on using blown up full width and height videos to create, as they think, cool websites. But I would prefer to make a research and analyze why are videos supposed to be better than images? Just to mention, image backgrounds were really trendy during last years.

Read more...

45+ Social Media Sharing Buttons PSD Designs

Presentation is a crucial asset of creative designers. Photoshop is an extremely powerful and accessible application for photo editing and image manipulation, and we can make it even more powerful by mixing our creativity while working with it. However, the software package itself is a quite hard to learn. And of course, Not all design lovers are web designers.

45+ Social Media Sharing Buttons PSD Designs

In this compilation below, you’ll find some of the best free Social Media Sharing Buttons PSDs which might handy for your design projects. This is not the traditional long list with all the available PSD templates on the internet but it’s an refined collection of best handpicked PSD templates.

Read more...

Interesting Techniques to Optimize your WordPress Site

Search engine optimization is a very integral part of your website. With optimization, you can ensure good speed as well as improved rankings for your website. You can even assure your audiences of content relevancy and curation if you optimize your site well.

Interesting Techniques to Optimize your WordPress Site

Let’s get this clear, you perform search engine optimization so that you can get conversions. WordPress, the current platform for creating websites and blogs, is undeniably the best and most popular version. Of course, it keeps changing with time and each day something new crops up that you should be aware of with WordPress.

Read more...

Symbolism in Web Design and its Impact on Users’ Perception

Bookworms are referred symbolism to the late nineteenth-century art movement. It began spreading through Russia, France and Belgium as kind of protest against naturalism and realism in favor of spirituality, imagination and dreams. Sounds beautifully, isn't it? The term "symbolism" has derived from the word "symbol" which, in its turn comes from the Latin ‘symbolum', a symbol of faith, and ‘symbolus', a sign of recognition.

Symbolism in Web Design and its Impact on Users’ Perception

Symbolism is related to the gothic component of romanticism. In painting, symbolism can be seen as a revival of some mystical tendencies in the Romantic tradition, and was close to the self-consciously morbid and private decadent movement.

Read more...