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41 Free Metro-Style UI Kits that Improve User Experience

It seems that Metro-style design has won hearts of many users and won’t let them go any time soon. This design style attracts people with its deliberate simplicity, colorful accents and content-centered organisation.

By Helen Stark 2014-11-04 5 18,480
Responsive Typography: Bigger, Brighter, Bolder

Despite the growing trend to visuality and great use of photos, pics and sketches to present data on the web, there is still much about text. Web is still 95% about typography and we still need to read lots of text to get all the necessary information. That’s why typography is still one of the

By Helen Stark 2014-10-30 0 8,543
Perfect jQuery Content Slider: Grab Yours of These 45 Cool Ones

Content sliders become very popular among website owners especially if they own online stores for their products. Such popularity is easy to explain. jQuery content slider adds vibrancy and freshness to the website. It helps with presenting the most important and useful content of a great amount of the website information as well as improve

By Helen Stark 2014-10-16 0 16,686
Conversion Optimization Design Elements: The Ultimate Guide

It’s no secret that a huge number of websites are meant for profit and business. Today companies that understand the importance of web promotion and social media services pay great attention to their websites and business pages. They add loads of useful content on their products and product-related topics but the main focus is on

By Helen Stark 2014-10-09 3 10,484
Flat Website Templates: Easy Way of Staying Trendy

Flat design appeared a few years ago when users started getting tired of various gimmicks of the traditional skeuomorphic designs. New style introduces alternative approach to the web design: simplicity of the structure, plain graphics and lack of textures. Flat website templates attract users with peaceful charms of the interface without overwhelming glossy elements. It

By Helen Stark 2014-09-16 3 10,629
What Color Palette Generator Suits You Best: 46 Cool Color Tools

Color is a powerful tool of many design fields. Beautiful color palette may attract visitors to the website, and vice versa – a poorly planned palette may ruin the impression and even kill website conversions.

By Helen Stark 2014-09-09 1 20,211
Symmetry and Asymmetry in Web Design: What Do You Prefer?

One of the main characteristics of a perfect website design is a sense of harmony and balance. Symmetry and asymmetry in web design are widely used to provide the website with a special image. In human mind symmetry is mostly associated with that balance, so most of us consider symmetry to deliver a true beauty.

By Helen Stark 2014-08-21 1 25,249
Why You Want to Use Whitespace in Web Design

The term Whitespace in web design is usually referred to the blank space around all other design elements (pics, graphics, text, columns, menus etc.). In fact, it doesn’t necessarily has to be of white color. It just doesn’t have any functional elements, buttons, pictures and typography. This white space can provide the website design with

By Helen Stark 2014-08-20 0 12,061
Grid-Based Design: Refined Simplicity

Grid-based design is simple and elegant. It uses pure classic forms like square and rectangle in various combinations. Such combinations are multiple and help to create unique layouts. Grid is the main organizing design for Metro style, but it’s not the exclusive Metro creation. In general, most of website layouts are based on grid structure

By Helen Stark 2014-08-14 0 12,772
Five Efficient 404 Pages Tips: Convert Errors Straight into Profit

Custom Error Page appears on every site when something unexpected happens with the page link. Technically, 404 error is a request error – this means the user has typed in the URL that doesn’t exist on the server. Even though it’s most likely the user’s fault, it’s still very disappointing for the user. Web designers

By Helen Stark 2014-08-13 0 14,113