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More Web Design Trends For 2009

Last week we presented 10 Web Design Trends For 2009, our review of the most promising developments and techniques in web design that may become big in 2009. In the first part we covered embossing letters (”letterpress”), rich user interfaces, PNG transparency, big typography, carousels and media blocks. This post is the second part of our review. It presents design trends for 2009 in terms of layouts, visual approaches and design elements. Please notice that this post showcases trends and developments that were extensively covered in our previous articles (e.g. handwriting, retro and vintage etc.) and therefore weren’t covered in this post (they are all linked in the overview, so feel free to explore these single posts as well). Did you miss any recent development in this overview? Let us know in the comments!

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nice overview of programming languages

As I do my professional and personal work, I am always looking for the best tool for the job. In software development, there are several programming languages that can be used for a wide variety of reasons. I am often asked by people new to software development what is the best language to learn. They get confused when I ask them what they plan on doing. The reason is that people think there is going to be a best language for everything. However, everyone knows that there is no silver bullet. On the other hand, there are some languages which are better suited or more widely used in specific areas. So, given that idea, I came up with a list.

Good for ideas

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Nature Design

Fantastic designs here including one or two australia based ones. Special mention goes to the site with the interactive water, sift through until you find it, you'll be pleasantly surprised. The exploding earth coal site is equally brilliant.

During the past year or so, I have published 3 collections of colorful websites. Today we'll take a look at another 25 sites that make exceptional use of color. There is a wide variety of color schemes and design styles represented here, so I hope the work of these designers provides some inspiration for your own work. 25 Beautifully Colorful Websites 25 Beautifully Colorful Websites - Part 2 25 Beautifully Colorful Websites - Part 3 By Marina

When it comes to graphic design, Adobe Photoshop is a very popular option and for a reason. Photoshop really can do magic in the hands of a skilled designer. However, the software itself is really hard to use if you're not used to it. In fact, in Photoshop it usually takes ages to achieve something you have never done before. This is where Photoshop Tutorials comes to your help by guiding you though the many difficult steps needed to achieve a specific goal. In this article tripwire magazine present you more than 80 high quality Photoshop Tutorial that guides you step by step in building up a web interface all the way from scratch.

80+ Photoshop Tutorials: Practical Web Interface Design

Nice article about the design process. Particularly like the feature wireframes; I've seen features written out for each page before, but never as a non-layout wireframe.

A walk through the real-world process of redesigning a major site. Great stuff.

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From low-budgets to rush jobs to piss-poor project management, every designer has one time or another faced the inevitable, "I need a logo (brochure, website, etc.) done ASAP" scenario. Depending on the designers’ work situation, some can simply choose to decline these projects. But for many full-time designers, this “rushing creative” is a very real and necessary part of their job requirement. So when asked to “just slap a design together” or “crank it out,” how do we as designers maintain our standards and integrity when a logo must be created in three hours? Or a website in a day? And for that matter, can we?

How to cope with impossible deadlines. via VERB/LinkedIn.

Article about fast food design jobs

From low-budgets to rush jobs to piss-poor project management, every designer has one time or another faced the inevitable, "I need a logo (brochure, website, etc.) done ASAP" scenario.

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CSS Grid Layout Generators

Vários tutoriais para desenvolvimento de interfaces para sites

Here is a collection of 30 layout design tutorials that will help you with designing a decent looking website.

How to Create an Illustrative Web Design in Photoshop - http://sixrevisions.com/tutorials/photoshop-tutorials/how-to-create-an-illustrative-web-design-in-photoshop/

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20 great dark website designs for Inspiration

13 Beautifully Designed Mac and iPhone App Websites | Web Design Ledger

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Apple Style designed sites

13 Beautifully Designed Mac and iPhone App Websites

The Apple brand is synonymous with good design. It also seems that a lot of applications made for Macs and the iPhone seem to possess a little something extra when it comes to aesthetics. The designers of these apps do a great job in carrying over that same high level of quality in branding. This is evident in the applications themselves as well as their websites. Most of these sites all share certain qualities such as excellent use of color, big highly detailed icons, and pixel perfect buttons.

20 great Wordpress Footer Designs for Inspiration

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Amazing listing of some gorgeous, gorgeous web interfaces.

Fantastic E-Commerce Designs! Clean and Inspirational!

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Website footers have become more than just a place to put the copyright information and a few links. Now web designers are making full use of the footer as way

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One of the things that I like most about web design is its results... yeap, I love to see great designed websites, and for sure we can find a bunch of those out there. Today we will show some beautiful blue layouts in web design. At this selection you wil

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Ah, the paradox of choice. This doesn't count as a "best of" or even "recommended" list. Sadly, it's probably not comprehensive, either.

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the steps to creating a css syle page using dreamweaver

You can use Adobe Dreamweaver to create CSS-based layouts a couple of different ways. One approach is to use the free CSS layouts that come with Dreamweaver and then modify the provided CSS code to suit your purposes. The other approach, which we'll walk through in this tutorial, is to create CSS-based layouts from scratch.

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Now a days you can see a increasing trend of using nature elements in web-design. incorporating nature elements like trees , landscape, sea, sky etc in to the design gives a more realistic and pleasant look to the website Here i’ve collected 30+ website designs base on nature theme, its quite interesting and inspiring to see how designers take colors and elements for nature and bring them in to web design, hope you all will like this collection

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A Showcase of Effective Minimalism in Web Design Minimalism in web design is all about stripping things down to only the necessities – so there is nothing in the way of the content. You’ll find that minimal designs have a focus on typography, simple layouts, and a lack of fancy design elements. So what makes an effective minimal web design?

Some inspiration for the Open Objects website perhaps?

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35 Fresh and Cool Web Design Interfaces for Inspiration

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35 Incredibly Creative Portfolio Website Designs

Although most websites use dark text on light backgrounds, but sites with dark backgrounds with light text can be very striking when executed effectively. In the past, I've published two collections of great dark designs (see part one and part two), and here is part three. BrandStorm

Typography is a beautiful element that magnifies a website’s creativity. The stunning letterforms and positions of the fonts can be moving and inspiring. Effective use of typography can also be combined grid placement, and allows users to better understand what it is you’re trying to get across. In recent times, we’ve seen our share of websites with beautiful introductions that are purely text-based. This sort of headlining allows you to read and comprehend words on a visual level. They are a great form of art that, if done correctly, will affect the minds and emotions of your visitors.

The Principle of Contrast in Web Design | Tips - http://webdesignledger.com/tips/the-principle-of-contrast-in-web-design

158 Paper Textures For Kickstarting Your Backgrounds & Designs When I design, I very rarely use a background with just a solid color or gradient. For me it’s just too smooth and clean, so I will go to my textures folder and grab one for adding some contrast and contour. If I want to keep it subtle I go to my paper textures and blend lightly over my background color. It’s one of the first things I do when starting a new project and almost always gives me ideas for where to go next in the design. Older Related Articles: * Create A Realistic Video iPod Nano In Photoshop * Breathe New Life Into Your Typography With These 22 Techniques * Photoshop Cheatsheets & Our Must Know Shortcuts 4 Retro Old Dirty Paper Textures Download From 6 Paper Textures Download From 13 HQ Old Paper Textures Download From 5 Scrapbook Paper Download From 20 Paper Textures Download From 5 Free High Res Brown Paper Textures Download From 7 Rough Paper Textures

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E-Commerce sites are often considered to be boring and unattractive, however, that is not always the case. This post showcases 25 e-commerce sites that demonstrate creativity in the design. It may be the layout, graphics, design style or site structure, but all of them break the mould of the typical e-commerce site.

We'll be looking at a few of the essential things you need to know about CSS3. With all of these new features, it's important to place emphasis on the most important ones to get you up to speed.

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15 分钟做一个APP

Winning entries from the 2008 annual Ruby on Rails coding contest.

15 amazing Web apps built in 48 hours: Earlier this month, the Rails Rumble 2008 announced the eight winners of its programming competition where teams of up to four people had 48 hours to build original (and somewhat complete) Web apps. Ruby on Rails is perhaps best known as the app development platform that built Twitter. But competitions like the Rumble prove how powerful the young platform can be. Here, we showcase the competition winners along with other cool apps of enterprise appeal from the 130 qualifying entries. Winners were selected by an open vote on the Internet and were judged on appearance, completeness, innovation and usefulness.

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15 amazing Web apps built in 48 hours

Collage is a cool style that deserves attention. Assembling random images to built a good looking site is one though task, but there are those who manage to do a fantastic job, worth of being showcased here.

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12 Valuable CSS Cheat Sheet For Upcoming Web Designers

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12 Valuable CSS Cheat Sheet For Upcoming Web Designers