Fixed elements in web design are getting more and more popular these days. This technique is an emerging web design trend in 2011 and will surely be popular in 2012. The most popular element that is being fixed in the browser is main navigation menu. Usually it is pinned to the header. So while you are scrolling down the page navigation menu stays on top. Of course other functional website elements are being placed on fixed positions as well. For example our post contains several websites with fixed menu in footer or sidebar. This technique is a very creative way to enliven your website navigation although you should be careful with this trick because it also might hurt the usability of your project by “eating up” the user’s attention. Anyways we’ve collected these websites with fixed position elements to inspire you for creating more original and interesting projects with creative navigation solutions. If you are ready to experiment then this stuff is what you’ll love.
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TemplateMonster’s developers have produced fresh freebie that may be interesting for you. It can be used for the online cooking project where you can share your own recipes with a number of other culinary fans. The theme we are talking about is Free Website Template with Slideshow for Culinary Site – the ready-made solution that features professional execution and catchy layout.
Within this theme you’ll find the effective slideshow in the header of the main page – the ideal place for presenting the hot recipes of the day or a week. Its thought-out design can help you arrange all the needed information in the correct way that will make it interesting to the viewers. The background image is one more element of the design that makes it visually arresting and memorable. This free website template is presented in 6 pages with the following sections: Main, About, Courses, New Recipes, Calendar, Contacts. It can be delivered in two packages – with PSD source files included and without them. If you need PSD source files, please go to the template download page at TemplateMonster to leave the e-mail address that you want the free template ZIP package to be delivered to.
Free Website Template with Slideshow for Culinary Site:
Don’t forget to see its free template live demo!
It is hard to find a technique in graphic design sphere that would be more valuable than and as widely used as typography. Moreover, it is not just a technique because you can easily call it an art and there are many brilliant examples that prove this statement. From typographists to comic book illustrators – everyone knows that creative typography is priceless. Today we will show you really inspirational smoke typography examples. We are sure that you’ll enliven a lot of various designs with inspiring smoke effects added to your typographical objects. So if you are going to create some unique artworks – don’t hesitate to use smoke typography there, this effect will add some spice and charisma to your creation.
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Today there is a lack of comprehensive HTML5 Canvas Tutorials, but we’ll try to fill this gap with this post that is dedicated to this interesting theme. All of you have heard about HTML5 canvas element (the subject-matter of our today’s post) that allows to create and modify graphics. It can be used as any other element on the page that makes it undoubtedly handy. It means that you can easily apply jQuery animations on it or integrate it into layouts. Using HTML5 Canvas, you can draw lines, arcs, paths, text, images and perform pixel manipulations on what you’ve drawn. Cool, isn’t it? HTML5 Canvas Tutorials will show you all the possibilities that HTML5 Canvas can offer, and will teach you how to apply them effectively. You are welcome to browse the most interesting of them and try in your own works!
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It’s high time to give the new Free Full JS Website Template for Photography Website a try. It is a fresh freebie from our friends TemplateMonster.com that features the changeable background. Besides, this is the second autumn template that contains the animation that is done in JavaScript. And this fact makes the presented theme similar to the Flash sites. Along with these characteristics, today’s free website template offers you a well-done gallery for presenting all your works in the effective way. You can also notice the pleasant to eyes color scheme that is ideal for creating a soft and delicate background for your professional photos. The background images can be changed for your own photos, thus adding the stylish tone to your project. And don’t forget to see free template live demo before you start working with this theme!
Speaking about the general characteristics of this theme, we should mention that it is presented in 5 pages: Home, About Us, Portfolio, Services, Contacts. It can be delivered in two packages – with PSD source files included and without them. If you need PSD source files, please go to the template download page at TemplateMonster to leave the e-mail address that you want the free template ZIP package to be delivered to.
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Curly fonts are perfect for funky and sophisticated designs. Original shapes and thin lines create unique atmosphere of sophisticated style and give great charisma to any website that is decorated with curly fonts. Of course it is hard to call these fonts very user friendly, but their main mission is to enliven design and attract visitors with mannered shapes. These fonts are excellent for creating various birthday cards, cover pages and websites for kids or girl-teenagers. You are welcome to download these fonts absolutely for free, but please read terms of use for each of them to avoid contentious situations. Also don’t forget to share your favorite free curly fonts with us in the comments section.
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Tutorials are made for all those who want to learn something new. If you are going to design the icon, for example, view several tutorials and find the professional tips on how to do it. Even being an experienced designer, you can always learn something useful from these tutorials.
20 Icon Design Tutorials for Photoshop is a compilation of the best tutorials that show the effective way of designing icons – the essential part of the website design that brings it a distinct identity and individuality. You need icons to promote your website through social media, and that’s why they should be creative and possess high quality. Icon Design Tutorials for Photoshop can help you create the icons that will have a lasting impact on the site visitors – the very thing you need to get more visitors inflow. I hope that these Icon Design Tutorials for Photoshop will help you achieve your goal and create the desired effective icons.
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How to code website seamlessly and without any “pain in you know where” issues – that is the question that troubles the minds of thousands of developers from all around the world. Of course there are few serious players on the pitch such as Dreamweaver or Publisher but the growing need in new and intuitively indented code editor gave us a release of Muse from Adobe several weeks ago. Without a doubt this event has caused interesting media reaction including various discussions on forums, reviews from trustworthy online sources etc. It is obvious that there is no dominant leading site builder software or online service that will suit majority of target audience and Adobe is trying to fill this gap with their solution. Adobe positions their product as the software of a new generation which simplifies the process of coding a website taking into consideration new HTML5 Web standards (which is the most intriguing moment for the developers).
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Before starting Adobe Muse review we must warn you that Adobe has released only a beta version so far. So, it is up to you whether this program will be installed at your computer or not. If you’ll decide to try out Muse than consider that it works only with Adobe AIR application installed on your computer. Even if you don’t have an Adobe AIR installation package it will be installed along with Adobe Muse. Now let’s get back to our app.
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This month will bring you new portion of freebies from our friends TemplateMonster, and here is the first of them – Free Website Template for Yoga Center. Full JavaScript. This themes presents the main feature of the month – photo in the background. The following several free website templates will be as well created with this feature integrated in them.
One more thing that will be interesting for you is that this theme is full JS animated. It means that its characteristics are close to those of the flash template, but all its animation is done in JavaScript. Using animation in JavaScript is extremely popular today, ‘cause such sites are not as resource-intensive, as Flash are and they can be easily modified for mobile devices. Check out this free template live demo to find out all its cool characteristics, and feel free to try this Full JavaScript Free Website Template for your yoga project!
And some more information about this template. The following theme is presented in 5 pages: About, Our Teachers, Schedule, Prices, Contacts. Its resolution is 1024 x 768. This one and larger resolutions are statistically in great demand among users. It can be delivered in two packages – with PSD source files included and without them. If you need PSD source files, please go to the template download page at TemplateMonster to leave the e-mail address that you want the free template ZIP package to be delivered to.
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Eye-catching banner is the cornerstone of successful advertising campaign. Any designer knows what it is like creating really beautiful and attractive banner that brings tons of clicks. Here are banner design tutorials that contain useful tips and visual information with superb examples. Overall, we must notice that the process of creating a banner requires good designing skills, color theory knowledge, and user experience basics. So, you should consider all these things before starting a work. Besides, it is quite hard to find fresh and useful banner design tutorials. That’s why our collection contains interesting tutorials even from early 2009. Here you’ll also find few interesting animated banner tutorials, which as we believe would be useful for you too. Enjoy!
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