10 essential tips for your company’s web design project
Guest Post As a 15-year veteran of the digital marketing world and a captain of our agency's recent remodel, I have gathered years of insight into necessities of a website relaunch.
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Add to your design toolbox with The Name Your Own Price Designer Bundle [VB Store]
There's no doubt that “name your own price” bundles are becoming increasingly popular, so we’re bringing one to VentureBeat with The Name Your Own Price Designer Bundle.
Flat UI is a cleaner, sexier Bootstrap for HTML apps
March 4, 2013 3:01 PM
Jolie O'Dell
If you like Bootstrap, you'll love Flat UI, a free interface kit for smooth, sleek, drop-shadow free web apps.
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Become the ultimate developer with The Learn to Code Bundle [VB Store]
Sponsored Post This VentureBeat offer won’t just help you up your coding knowledge and expertise, but it will do so in a way that allows you to go at your own pace – and at a fraction of the regular cost.
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Create stunning websites with MacFlux 4 [VB Store]
Sponsored Post MacFlux is an incredibly versatile and robust website creation app, and it can be yours through the VB Store for only $35 for a limited time. So grab it while you can – and start creating exceptional-looking websites today!
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99designs gives you amazing graphic design services for less [VB Store]
Sponsored Post With this VB Store time-limited promotion is that you can get $140 worth of crowdsourcing credit and upgrades for your next 99designs design contest for only $40.
Extreme product makeovers: The biggest redesigns of 2012
December 29, 2012 12:00 PM
Jolie O'Dell
The things these aging apps will do to keep our interest... Here's who went under the knife in 2012 -- and whether it worked.
Design trends of 2012: The good, the bad, and the ‘die already’
December 27, 2012 9:00 AM
Jolie O'Dell
Editor's Pick Modal pop-ups! Crazy typography! Larger-than-life images! Here's all the best -- and worst -- from web & mobile design in 2012.
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Level up with the Learn to Code Bundle [VB Store]
Sponsored Post Want to learn about web development, design, and coding? Then the VB Store Learn to Code Bundle is tailor-made for you.
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Supercharge your skills with the Learn Everything Tech Giveaway [VB Store]
Sponsored Post This Learn Everything Tech Giveaway offered by the VB Store is going to give someone a great opportunity to supercharge their tech knoweldge and skills. Why shouldn’t it be you?
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Boost your skills with the Learn to Design Bundle [VB Store]
Sponsored Post For a limited time, we have an offering at the VB Store that is ideal for the budding web designer. This deal features a robust set of video training courses that will allow you to pick up the skills needed to take on design projects using several top applications. The great thing about this bundle is that there is something in it for everyone. No matter what area of web design you'd like to work in, this deal -- the Learn to Design Bundle -- has got you covered.
Web designers, rejoice: Monotype buys Typecast, more webfonts to follow
October 30, 2012 9:05 AM
Jolie O'Dell
An oldster in the type business gets in bed with a youngster, and the May-December union is sure to bring many beautiful type-babies into the world. Mazel tov!
Now at its critical mass, LinkedIn launches new profiles
October 16, 2012 10:38 AM
Jolie O'Dell
We got a small sneak peek at the new design a couple months ago, but today we're finally getting the full story -- including the man-behind-the-curtain mechanics of how it works.
Here’s a sneak peek at Adobe’s all-in bid on responsive design
September 24, 2012 11:22 AM
Jolie O'Dell
Reflow is Adobe's Creative Suite-level tool for responsive design. It lets developer/designers pull in images and motion graphics, create HTML divs and CSS styling on the fly, and then quickly adjust sizes and elements for different screen sizes.
If you can’t handle pure Internet magic, do not read this article about CSS FilterLab
September 24, 2012 10:46 AM
Jolie O'Dell
We've just had our first "gee, whiz!" moment at Adobe's Create the Web event. The company announced Edge, its new suite of tools for web and mobile devs and designers, and one of the coolest tools (that we've seen in demos so far) is the open-sourced CSS FilterLab.
Adobe launches a developer’s version of Creative Suite
September 24, 2012 10:00 AM
Jolie O'Dell
Today, Adobe is unveiling Edge, a suite of tools for developing and designing modern web and mobile apps and sites.
Has adaptive design failed? Of course not
Guest Post
Yesterday morning I read Peter Yared’s provocative article, ‘What’s next for mobile now that adaptive design has failed?’ which is based entirely on the misassumption that mobile users don’t scroll. If that were true, the reasoning might be valid, but …
Dylan’s Desk: Design goes minimal, online and off
March 7, 2012 7:00 AM
Dylan Tweney
Last year’s big fashion trend was the color block, and this year’s tech trend follows suit: It’s the square.
More precisely, it’s the big, colorful rectangle filled with a solid color (like Windows 8) or a photograph (like Pinterest).
Mondrian …
StyleCaster to launch redesign with influence from Pinterest and Tumblr
March 2, 2012 7:27 AM
Sean Ludwig
Fashion and style media company StyleCaster is just a few days away from launching a redesigned site that’s heavily influenced by social media darling Pinterest and blogging service Tumblr.
StyleCaster’s main website, Stylecaster.com, and its social channels offer news and …
The future of user interface design: understanding context & behavior
Guest Post
Whether you design software or physical products, the role of the designer is the same: to build a bridge between the user’s intent and the actual outcome of that intent.
The most successful designs are the ones that make the …
