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• Showcase of 20 Mobile-Friendly Popular Design Blogs

  • Thursday, 11 Mar 2010, 06:03 GMT+7 (14 hours ago)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  Roughly 3-4% of our readers view this site via a mobile device and that percentage is growing week-to-week. They aren’t very high percentages but it was certainly high enough to prompt me into action – I started considering a mobile version of this site.
  Let me start by saying that…

• 50 Examples of Creative 404 – Page Not Found Pages

  • Wednesday, 10 Mar 2010, 09:04 GMT+7 (Yesterday)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  There are two ways you can go when designing a 404 page for your website – you could go the sensible route and make it usable and try to help the reader find exactly what they were looking for or, you could design a 404 page that not only defines…

• Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.31

  • Sunday, 7 Mar 2010, 01:46 GMT+7 (4 days ago)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
  Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to…

• Falling Off the Wall Text Effect – Photoshop Tutorial

  • Thursday, 4 Mar 2010, 03:02 GMT+7 (1 week ago)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Typography

  
  At some time or another we have all seen it – neighbourhood walls with old and deprecated graffiti or, just as common, you may have seen some flyers or posters that have been stuck for so long on these walls that they start to peel and hang on by their…

• Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.30

  • Saturday, 27 Feb 2010, 07:10 GMT+7 (2 weeks ago)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
  Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to…

• A Showcase of 50 Amazing Personal Blog Web Designs

  • Thursday, 25 Feb 2010, 06:18 GMT+7 (2 weeks ago)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  The importance of a unique, memorable and well designed blog, especially within the design community, should not be underestimated – First impressions will always count and your blog gives you an opportunity to showcase your skills and highlight how professional and serious you are as a designer.
  For most web…

• Top 20 Free Fonts for Distinctive Headlines and Titles

  • Wednesday, 24 Feb 2010, 03:28 GMT+7 (3 weeks ago)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Fonts

  
  Whether you are reading a printed magazine or a web article it is very rarely the content that draws you in at first, the hook is always the title or the headline. A well written and thought out title or headline are fundamental, it has to not only describe with…

• Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.29

  • Saturday, 20 Feb 2010, 04:03 GMT+7 (3 weeks ago)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
  Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to…

• Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.28

  • Saturday, 13 Feb 2010, 04:48 GMT+7 (4 weeks ago)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
  Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to…

• 50 Beautifully Crafted Corporate Ecommerce Web Designs

  • Thursday, 11 Feb 2010, 06:18 GMT+7 (4 weeks ago)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  Imagine a representative from a huge corporate company walking into your office and he drops on your lap a proposal for there new website, you read through the huge document and then you ask: “What is your proposed budget for this project?” – He gives you the answer, and… WOW!!!…

• Design Evolution of 40 Famous Corporate Company Logos

  • Wednesday, 10 Feb 2010, 05:30 GMT+7 (5 weeks ago)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  Do you know the reason why there is small cut in the Apple logo? Or did you ever wonder what the Microsoft logo looked 20 years back? Or perhaps you may have wondered the actual meaning behind BMWs logo? This article showcases 40 famous company logos and describes how each…

• Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.27

  • Saturday, 6 Feb 2010, 02:16 GMT+7 (6 Feb 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
  Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to…

• 50 Free UI and Web Design Wireframing Kits, Resources and Source Files

  • Friday, 5 Feb 2010, 07:04 GMT+7 (5 Feb 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Smashing Magazine Feed

    Planning and communication are two key elements in the development of any successful website or application. And that is exactly what the wireframing process offers: a quick and simple method to plan the layout and a cost-effective, time-saving tool to easily communicate your ideas to others. A wireframe typically has…

• 25 UI Inspiration and Design Pattern Resources

  • Monday, 1 Feb 2010, 03:42 GMT+7 (1 Feb 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  Are your fresh design ideas no longer fresh or are you a designer who continually re-uses the same old and trusted design patterns that have followed you for many a year? Or, you might just be a UI designer that is stuck in a rut? If you are looking to…

• Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.25

  • Saturday, 23 Jan 2010, 01:32 GMT+7 (23 Jan 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
  Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do.
  Send us your…

• 45 Creative Examples of Typography in the Wild

  • Friday, 22 Jan 2010, 08:10 GMT+7 (22 Jan 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Typography

  
  For many ‘designers’ today, the ‘art of typography’ consists of picking a typeface – and, maybe if the audience is lucky, experimenting with leading, tracking, and kerning.
  That’s not to say that there aren’t many extremely talented designers working with type today. Typography is, of course, an intricate art-form.
  As…

• Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.24

  • Saturday, 16 Jan 2010, 02:12 GMT+7 (16 Jan 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
  Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do.
  Send us your…

• 50 Creative Examples of Vintage and Retro in Web Design

  • Friday, 15 Jan 2010, 08:00 GMT+7 (15 Jan 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  
  Web design trends change with the wind – what is popular this year will undoubtedly not be popular next year. There is only one web design style that you can rely on and be deemed timeless – and that is the Vintage style. And alongside that, and similar in style,…

• Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.23

  • Saturday, 9 Jan 2010, 11:17 GMT+7 (9 Jan 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  

  This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
  Thanks for all recommendations, and we hope you like these sites as much as we do.
  Send us a recommendation for next…

• Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.22

  • Saturday, 2 Jan 2010, 05:48 GMT+7 (2 Jan 2010)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  

  This is our weekly selection of beautiful web designs, as recommended by our readers and sites that we have discovered in the past week (in this case the past two weeks). Surprisingly, with it being Christmas and New Year, there is a lot of new high quality web designs around…

• 50 Creative Examples of Illustrations in Web Design

  • Monday, 28 Dec 2009, 08:39 GMT+7 (28 Dec 2009)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  

  Using illustration in web design gives the designer the opportunity to convey there own personal and unique style, and be able to say "this site is mine, and look what I can do". Very few web design styles give an artist this opportunity.
  What makes the examples below stand out…

• Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.21

  • Saturday, 19 Dec 2009, 06:05 GMT+7 (19 Dec 2009)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  

  This is our selection of reader recommended and sites that I have discovered in the past week. There is a lot of new high quality web designs around this week, I hope you like them.
  Send us a recommendation for next weeks Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration (for our…

• 50 Professional Web Design Agency Web Sites

  • Wednesday, 16 Dec 2009, 04:59 GMT+7 (16 Dec 2009)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  

  When designing the homepage of any web design agency, it basically comes down to what clientele you are targeting: Is it corporate businesses and professional individuals or is it small corner-shop stores and and personal homepages and blogs?
  How your agency is first portrayed to any potential client is one…

• Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.20

  • Saturday, 12 Dec 2009, 06:32 GMT+7 (12 Dec 2009)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  

  This is weeks outstanding design has to be N.Design Studios redesign, with its beautiful illustration, lovely color selection and well structured layout making it a refreshing change to your typical blog design. The rest of this weeks designs are not too shabby either, just have a look.
  Send us a…

• Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.19

  • Saturday, 5 Dec 2009, 03:37 GMT+7 (5 Dec 2009)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  

  This is our selection of reader recommended and sites that I have discovered in the past week. Again, there is a lot of new high quality web designs around this week, I hope you like them.
  Send us a recommendation for next weeks Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration (for…

• 50 Bright and Vibrant Web Designs – Color Inspiration

  • Wednesday, 2 Dec 2009, 04:19 GMT+7 (2 Dec 2009)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  

  The conservative web designer can design a dark web site or a light web site, and will design everything in between as gray. Are you this type of designer? Or, are you bold enough and brave enough to let your creativity rein free and allow bright and vibrant colors to…

• Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.17

  • Saturday, 21 Nov 2009, 01:29 GMT+7 (21 Nov 2009)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Inspiration

  

  This is our selection of reader recommended and sites that I have discovered in the past week. There is have been a lot of new high quality web designs around this week, I hope you like my favorites.
  Send us a recommendation for next weeks Weekly Web Design and Development…

• 50 Examples of Effective Uses of Typography Within Web Design

  • Wednesday, 4 Nov 2009, 04:26 GMT+7 (4 Nov 2009)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Typography

  

  Currently, two of the most popular web design trends are: taking the minimal approach, which we will look at next week, and the use of clever and creative typography. Today we focus on typography.
  Not only do we showcase typography in the classic sense, but also illustrate that the combination…

• A Showcase of 35 Beautiful Typographical Illustrations

  • Tuesday, 20 Oct 2009, 07:09 GMT+7 (20 Oct 2009)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Typography

  

  Illustration and typography are not typically associated with each other, they each evoke a strong and separate visual statement in relation to there own style. Can this type (as a figure of speech) of illustration be regarded as illustration? Or, on the flip side, can the art of typography, mixed…

• 50 Essential Web Typography Tutorials, Tips, Guides and Best Practices

  • Monday, 31 Aug 2009, 03:56 GMT+7 (31 Aug 2009)
  • By: Paul Andrew, Speckyboy Design Magazine » Typography

  
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  Web typography is the most undervalued and misunderstood aspect of web design. There are many reasons for this, probably, the most common factor is it is ignored purely for simplicity. Why over complicate something that works fine as it is? Web typography is all theories and opinions, that is…

 
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