The battle between HTML5 and Flash has been raging on for the past year or so, with Steve Jobs and his friends at Apple making a strong case for a Flash-less future. And while HTML5 can do some pretty awesome effects, it’s not up to standards yet. Flash has always been buggy, and a lot of users often have Flash disabled for various reasons. Enter jQuery.
Our friends from Envato launched a new site last week completing their massive marketplace network with a tutorial outlet. Let’s all give a warm welcome to Tuts + Marketplace! We compiled a list with the most popular tutorials, screencasts & ebooks and the Envato crew was kind enough to offer $100 in credits for …
For the past 3 weeks, our friends from ustwo™ have been working on a radical new iPhone app with the latest member of the team, Jack McLean – a 16-year old work experience student. Here are all the details of the incredible story and an exclusive interview with Jack.
“Niche Wordpress themes” is one of our favorite topics – you know that by now. We had roundups for business, portfolio, shopping or super specialized themes, but this time we’re lining up the coolest 10 WP themes for iEverything – iPhone apps, iPad accessories, appstores and so on.
Do films require video to be entertaining? Take away the people in a movie, what left is there?. Add in cleverly designed typography, and you’ve birthed life into something that was lifeless. Below are fifteen examples of stunning kinetic typography pieces timed to fifteen different popular films.
All business writing has one goal and that’s to persuade someone to do something. Whether you’re writing a blog post or sales copy, you want your audience to act. Persuasive writing can often be the most difficult type of writing, especially when the average person is barraged daily by a never-ending flow of information.
Well since it’s Friday and everybody’s happy I thought we should get even more reasons to be cheerful so we invited Neil of Dennis and McGregor (one of our newest advertisers) to recommend us some insanely cool items to offer as a gift to a designhead. Or to crave for.
And I’m back with the ninth edition of Be Inspired! I’ve only had half a week to gather the best design so there’s fewer than normal but not to worry, everything will be back to normal for next week.
It’s 2010 and we’re still in the thralls of the New Great Depression. We’re waivering, for sure, and that’s a solid sign of fortune in times to come. But whether we choose to acknowledge the reality or stick our heads in the sand, there are challenges ahead, for sure.
Still don’t have a custom FaceBook page for your business? Well it’s time to inspire you to make one. The showcase below is a collection of 50 custom Facebook pages of top brands & celebrities. Some of them are just pictures, some use Flash or Javascript, but mainly they are plain HTML pages.
I’m not a really big fan of reading, but I like to think that a book cover can tell you a lot about what you’ll find in it! Book cover art is a great way for graphic designers to showcase their skills to the world at a mainstream scale. Most of the book covers I picked are made by designers so maybe I’ll start reading a little more.
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