Since 2000th the need for graphic designers has been constantly growing. With all those IT companies, growing like mushrooms after the heavy rain, the number of design projects has also increased. Successful web design career requires the fundamental knowledge in this sphere, great skills and a bit of inspiration. All this can be acquired with the help of various educational programs. Each program has its own area of concentration, certain job opportunities and certain degrees or certificate that a student gets at the end of process. If you start exploring all the education establishments providing the programs for acquiring creative and technical skills, you can spend too much time without getting the idea about the best ones. Here is the review of the Best US Universities that Offer Web Design Education. Each item goes with the short description, while following the link you can learn more about the particular one.
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This program is for those who want to learn the core principles of web designs, and the rules of efficient website designing. Choose the courses from this University to learn how to make the best out of website designing. Here you’ll get (BFA): Specialization in Web Design.
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Lettering, typography, graphic design – all this fundamentals of web design are clearly explained in the online division of The Art Institute of Pittsburgh. Choosing it, you’ll get all the skills you need to have the best job prospects. Among the degrees you can get there is Bachelor of Science in Web Design and Interactive Media.
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It was released two months ago, and now is gaining its momentum. Yeah, we’re talking about Joomla 3.0. that can be described with two main points – Bootstrap and responsive design. Let’s see what bunch of features it offers.
Quick Installer.
You’ll be able to install it just in 3 steps.
Bootstrap.
Joomla3.0 templates are created on Bootstrap CSS Framework, thus their layouts use 1152px, 1132px, 1116px and 1104px grids. This means that these themes are not compatible with the ones of the previous versions, ‘cause those used 940px wide layout.
Responsive layout.
This Joomla version offers you a great opportunity to present your sites on the hand-held devices. From now you’ll be able to control your sites from mobile devices with ease.
One more strong point.
Due to extensive Bootstrap’s functionalities, the necessity to use Gantry and K2 frameworks fell off.
As you see, Joomla 3.0 goes as a separate product, and its themes are not compatible with the ones of the other versions.
And now about Joomla 3.0 templates. What should you know about their new features:
• the gallery section goes as a single page with four columns;
• bootstrap instead of Gantry and K2;
• these templates are responsive and are based on the 1152px wide grid. You can change the width of the content area;
• four custom modules are produced on the basis of “Articles Newsflash module” functionalities.
And now let’s see how all the mentioned above is implemented in Joomla 3.0 templates.
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Ready to get the Monday freebie? Here it is – the tasty-looking Free Website Template for Culinary Site. It was produced by the skillful designers from TemplateMonster.
The appetizing look of this theme will make the visitors interested in your site the deals with culinary theme. It can be a cooking school site or a project dedicated to healthy eating – in any case this theme will be a perfect fit for such kind of sites. Easy to eye color scheme makes this design even more appealing. The thought-out choice of typography is one more effective point of this theme. The original set of pages will help you present all the information you have in the effective and comprehensive way. Free template live demo will show you this template in action. Try it and make your site tasty-looking for your visitors.
Free Website Template for Cooking Site:
As usual, people get what they pay for, but there are certain exceptions. For example, you are always welcome to check out our series of weekly freebies to find the professionally done goodies that are tailored for your designer’s needs. These visually-attractive images can come handy in your works, bring the desired tone and act as catchy elements in the whole design concept. Feel free to download this nice Free Vector Illustration of a woman in fashionable clothes on the abstract background.
This free vector illustration is presented in two formats (.PNG, .CDR) and the following resolutions: 581 x 692, 1210 x 1442, 2421 x 2884. As a vector image, this item keeps its high quality while being printed in different formats. Downloading is affordable and easy. It is possible after the registration at Templates.com. This registration is completely free!
Please note: This free vector illustration is free only for one week (starting from today). You can download the particular free illustration only during one week, the next week it will be changed for another one.
! You can use this free vector illustration only for your personal or educational purposes. Do not use it for commercial purposes, it is forbidden.
Be ready to get this goodie!
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Hey guys, we’ve done a bit of work for you – have handpicked nice design freebies from Dribbble.com. The cоmmunity of designers never stop releasing all that useful stuff and place it there. We have compiled the latest releases that were created during the last year. The designers were glad enough to offer these items for free, and now you have an opportunity to use them to make your works look great. Your creativity plus nice design elements can give great results, and you can check it out yourself. If you are always in the swim of the latest design trends, these cool items will come handy for you.So, here they are – 40 Dribbble Freebies – 2012.
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Today, when WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms around the web, WordPress themes are in a great demand. They turn out to be great solutions for creating whatever project you need, starting from online magazines to e-commerce web presences. As usual, premium-quality themes come for high prices, but we are always glad to find the free items of the same quality. Free Photo Gallery WordPress Themes from this compilation are quality designs with extensive functionality. Here you’ll also find responsive templates that can work on any browser and on any screen size, maintaining its overall functionality. So, here they are.
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jQuery doesn’t need any special presentation as this multi-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML has won many adherents. Today we can prove with all reason that jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library in use.
The software is free and open source which can be considered its incontestable benefit. jQuery was created to facilitate navigation, selecting DOM elements, creating animations, handling events, and developing Ajax applications. jQuery also provides numerous possibilities for web developers to work out various plugins considerably improving websites’ visual appeal and advanced functionality.
Bellow we’ve collected some new JQuery tools, plugins, effects and tutorials for designers and developers searching the ways to make their websites even more dynamic and catching. All of them have been released in November and are absolutely free to use. We sincerely hope that some of them will seem interesting and helpful to you!
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Adaptive Thumbnail Pile Effect with Automatic Grouping
This awesome jQuery plugin allows the automatic grouping of thumbnails utilizing a pile effect. The thumbnails will group according to their shared data-pile attribute, the pile will disperse and its thumbnails fly to their positions on click. The thumbnails can be slightly rotated or positioned with a delay as well.
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jQuery Dynamic Number Ticker
This is an amazing little script helping to display a dynamic JSON feed of numbers that automatically updates on the page by animating up or down to the current number. It’s a great addition as part of a realtime analytical dashboard.
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This week is the last one in autumn, and it’s time to see what has been done during this time. We offer you to have a look at the season compilation of Free Website Templates that were featured in our weekly series.
The greater part of this collection are Joomla themes. You can also find Free Bootstrap Responsive Template here, a good example of the popular today bootstrap themes. All themes from the featured below go with visually attractive layouts. Their styles vary according to the business spheres of these themes. You can notice themes with business-oriented style, modern design solutions, elegant and eye-candy layouts with the emphasis on the products. Being so different, all these free website templates have one common feature – they are created with your business needs in mind and oriented at your online success. Find the perfect skin for your site among this variety of professionally done themes.
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Dear readers, we wish you Happiness on Thanksgiving Day and always!
Today is the fourth Thursday of November and it means that Thanksgiving Day is here. It’s time for great mood and warm gatherings of friends and family. This is the very day of the year that we try to spend with the people we love. Traditional Thanksgiving feast with turkey on the table and its wishbone is a part of celebration. But the most important about this holiday is, of course, giving thanks. There are countless reasons to be thankful for, and we should remember about all of them.
We are thankful for your interest in our blog, and will try our best to nourish your creativity with more and more useful and original stuff.
May the good things happen to you over and over again!
Let’s start with the notion. What is landing page? Users get to them when click on a banner ad or a link from the search results. Good landing pages are of the previous importance for online business, ‘cause their goal is to turn the projects’ visitors into buyers. As usual, such pages have certain objectives like offering visitors to subscribe to some service, buy the goods, take part in the contest, and a number of others. The relevant and easy-to-perceive content, the focus on the most important elements, the security of page are the key points of the successful landing page.
To see the examples of well-done pages of this kind, check out the links below. What is interesting about them is the fact that these sites are responsive. The latter is considered a good style in web design today, ‘cause responsive sites allow their visitors to access them from various portable devices. How landing pages are implemented in such sites? The following examples of Responsive Landing Pages will show it in details.
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