Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

Web designers know that the industry involves plenty of change, and continuous adaption and development of skills is required in order to stay up to date. In the past few years, one of the biggest areas of change has been the amount of Internet users who are accessing websites via phones and mobile devices. As a result, Web designers have [...]

What Is White Space? Put simply, white space is the space between different elements of a design – the area between text, images, paragraphs, headers, footers, links, etc. It is the space between different elements on a page, the space between letters, and the space between lines in a paragraph. White space allows for easier scanning of a website. It [...]

Web and graphic designers are always looking for excellent sources of inspiration. Of course, web design and CSS galleries are common sources, but there are countless websites that provide inspiration from other types of design. In this post you’ll find categories such as product design, architecture, fashion, illustration, logo design, typography, motion graphics, and more. Continue reading Design Inspiration Toolbox: [...]

Six Revisions has an excellent list of 40+ Useful Cheat Sheets for Designers. These sheets are for Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. You may also find 27 Adobe Photoshop Cheat Sheets and Quick Reference Cards for Adobe Photoshop CS4, CS3, CS2 and Below useful. If you’re looking for cheat sheets for coding, check Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Developers Edit 12/8/08: [...]

Just Creative Design has compiled The Ultimate List of The Best Logo Design Resources. Resources include: Logo Design Inspiration & Galleries Logo Design Articles Logo Design Interviews & Discussions Logo Design Tips Logo Design Blogs Logo Design Trends Logo Design Showcases Logo Design Tutorials Logo Design Books Logo Designers Logo Design Awards History Of Logo Design Logo Design Resources Just [...]

One of the pet peeves of being a web designer is that you sometimes end up not feeling very creative and in need of inspiration. Of course there are thousands of CSS galleries out there, but we thought we could just go ahead and make our own list of great website designs. Hoping this will help you get your creative [...]

As web technologies progress, websites and web applications are becoming more responsive, providing us with more ways and techniques to interact with the users. Form, more than ever, has been superseded by function. The following websites deal with interface design, user experience, user-centered design, usability, and everything in between – all with the goal of enhancing the user’s interface. Continue [...]

It’s hard to define design. We have a broad range of definitions to choose from: design refers not only to graphic design, but to design strategy, too. It is used in a variety of industries, such as engineering, architecture and Web design. This means that design is not just graphical in nature (which is a form of visual artistic representation), [...]

Noupe.com has created a small showcase of more than 70 outstanding header graphics with excellent use of visual elements and interface design. This is an excellent example of current trends in Web development. Take a look at this article @ http://www.noupe.com/design/70-visually-impressing-header-graphics.html

Usability and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a web-site. Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric design has established as a standard approach for successful and profit-oriented web design. After all, if users can’t use a feature, it might as well [...]