If you guys read part 1, you’ll now know exactly how to design a slick, glossy navigation for your website design. In this second tutorial, I’m going to show you how to slice your design up, create your sprites and code your navigation up using clean HTML and CSS3. Before we look at any code, we’ll start by [...]
Landing pages are vital to website monetization. By definition, a landing page is nothing more than the page a visitor “lands” on after they click a link. This could be the homepage or any page within the website. In business, landing pages are used to convert visitors. The best landing pages contain specific elements that [...]
This web design tutorial will be split into two parts. Part one with show you how to create the graphical elements in Photoshop and in part two I will show you how to create the sprites and code the navigation using HTML and CSS. 1. Kick things off by opening up a new RBG Photoshop [...]
A website is a power tool that can change your life altogether. A website today has to be professional and must be appealing to its intended audiences. Here are a few steps that you must take in the sequential manner so that you have a better and well directed website. 1. Ideas: Ideas are the [...]
Web design is rapidly becoming more and more straightforward and nowadays even people lacking any formal training are putting together eye catching websites and blogs. This turn of events is mostly thanks to the improvements to web design software, which have made them incredibly user friendly, and aided further by the tools available for tweaking [...]
Managing an online business in today’s hyper competitive situations is not at all an easy task. It not only requires diligent efforts, but also the right strategies and software to make an online business an astounding success. An online portal requires robust and flexible software to handle the multiple tasks going on simultaneously. The larger [...]
Today I’m going to take a look at 5 plugins that, as a web designer, I recommend using when building customized content-managed websites in WordPress (all plugins are compatible with version 3.1.3). For more information on using plugins with WordPress, check out the Codex. 1. Custom Post Types UI There are a few plugins available [...]
Introducing the Google Plus WordPress theme called Reflex Plus developed by me (Naeem Noor). The theme is of course inspired by the new Social Media Site Google+. Reflex Plus is my first ever publicly released WordPress theme ever. It’s a simple minimalist 3 columns design, amazingly fast and jQuery Powered read more pagination. Theme Features [...]
Rumor has it that Google has been trying to get into the social media arena for quite sometime. And hence, one can say that Google +1 is Google’s very own “like” button with a little twist.