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In case you’ve missed it, I recently released a free vector set of Social Media Icons at IconDock. It includes 50 icons of the most popular social media networks. The icons are available at 32px and 16px in EPS, PNG, and GIF format. Feel free to use it in your blogs or client’s projects. If you like it, don’t forget to spread the love by blogging or tweeting about it. (more…)
It has now been two weeks since our launch of Design Reviver Answers, and we couldn’t be happier. Even more members, yet more visitors, an abundance of questions and a hell of a lot more answers – we really are building a great web design community portal!
We felt it would be nice to share with you our favorite Questions and Answers, and ask you: “Have you asked a question yet?“
Would I Possibly Be Able To Know What Language My Websites Visitors Use?This question was asked by Rollback999:
Answer from Themans?:
“Sure! This is mostly used for detection and then translation of a webpage.
Function getPreferredLanguage() {
$langs = array();
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'])) {
// break ...
Web design is all about learning new techniques, discovering new and useful resources and, ultimately, it is about pushing the web experience forward. There is a lot of responsibility on the shoulders of all web designers and a lot of pressure trying to keeping up with it all – Everyday there is a new technique for this, a new technique for that, how can you possibly keep up?
Today’s news does not answer that question, what it does is give you an opportunity to break away from the norm, to kick back and enjoy this collection of not resourceful, but insightful articles on web design for web designers. No work required, just good reading!
How to Grow as a Web Designer
Getting in a rut is ...
Here is a compilation of 47 jaw-dropping CSS3 animation demos. They demonstrate the possibilities of the CSS3 transform and transition property. Some are very useful and can be used as Javascript alternatives. Most of them are simply to look cool. In order to veiw these effects, you need a webkit browser such as Safari and Chrome (sorry to the Internet Explorer users). Enjoy!
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Over the past few years we’ve seen an increase in awareness and interactive use for AJAX, it’s becoming more and more popular and it has empowered web apps with the functionality of desktop applications.
This is Ajax, a powerful web-based scripting language that stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It’s main use is to allow an application to communicate with a server without having to refresh your web page.
Within this article we’ll discuss a variety of ways for you to embed AJAX into your web designs, we will also touch base on how they can benefit you.
Web Forms and Validation
Working with forms for the most part can be a hassle, however, using AJAX you can develop much better web forms with several features such as ...
Graphical icons offer an opportunity to project to the user an instantly recognizable message – that is something that would normally take an entire paragraph of words. Of course the icons need to be well designed in the first place to successfully convey your message effectively.
In today’s news round-up we have five fresh tutorials that are both easily recognizable and certainly well designed.
How To Create a Detailed Apple iPad Icon in Photoshop
The Internet world exploded with the news of the Apple tablet launch last week. Named the iPad, it’s set to bring yet another revolution to the way people access and browse the web. An iPad icon would be a sensible addition to any web designer’s resources toolbox, so let’s fire up Photoshop and ...
Guest Post by Chuck Longanecker
In January of each year, we flip over the hourglass and, once again, we have everything in front of us. The new year gives us a clean slate, a chance for change and encouragement to evolve the way we do things. In the past, we’ve yielded to client and user requests to pack our website designs full of unrelated features and countless pages of duplicate information. The change we have been waiting for has come - our users have matured. 2010 is the year of Design Simplicity.
It is now been just over a week since we launched Design Reviver Answers. And what a week it has been!
We have simply been overwhelmed by the response from the design community, it has more than beat our expectations and we very much appreciate the support from everybody.
Color is the integral element with design. It can bring a bland idea to life, it can revitalize a boring and dreary web site and can bring lifeless art to, well, life. Why is it so powerful? Because different colors can invoke different emotions with different people, thus altering our perception of how we see art.
In today’s news round up we have collected some color related articles, some tools for your inspiration and learning.
Color Theory for Designers, Part 1: The Meaning of Color
Color in design is very subjective. What evokes one reaction in one person may evoke a very different reaction in somone else. Sometimes this is due to personal preference, and other times due to cultural background. Color theory ...
PHP is a powerful and widely recognized scripting language that enables you to build interactive applications and websites. If you’re new to using PHP, then you’ll most likely benefit from know how you can use it to make your website or applications more interactive and aesthetically pleasing.
With PHP you’re rarely limited to functionality and restrictions, if you can code it, you can build it. Below we’ll touch base on 5 Interactive and Creative Uses for PHP web and desktop oriented.
Graphical User Interface
There are instances were web developers make the switch from only knowing how to create apps for the web, to building desktop applications. And they use PHP as a transitional vehicle since many are already familiar with the programming language.
Creating a GUI made for ...
