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Current Web Design Trends: Fullscreen Homepages
From the author: full-screen Splash Screen’s currently the most famous template on the Internet, in fact, the current trend in web design. Some people like him, others hate him, but let’s put aside your feelings and look at really worthwhile examples, and also talk about the best ways to use them.
A little bit about design convergence
The term “design convergence” means that all designs have a habit of being similar, i.e. converge over time or become more similar. @Jongold recently posted on Twitter:
He talked about the fact that today designers lack creativity, and they take up the easiest method in designing web pages. Fullscreen Splash Screens are a good example of his thoughts. Do we, as designers, choose the easiest way using this template? Do we intentionally not want to push the boundaries and bring something new? Is the Internet standing still just because you are so lazy? Continue reading
10 Photoshop plugins for design-accelerating designs
From the author: Photoshop was not originally intended for web design, but even right out of the box is a pretty powerful tool. But even such a wonderful tool may not always suit your requirements. The plugins in question are designed to fill in the gaps in the functionality that form when we reconfigure this graphic editor to work with web design.
Photoshop:
Extremely reliable, but not without unpleasant surprises
It has many styling methods that are suitable for web design.
Thanks to easy editing of SVGs and bitmaps, great for high quality web design Continue reading
The combination of colors in web design as an effective marketing tool
From the author: the web designer has in his arsenal many tools for interacting with users using color. The combination of colors in web design is an effective marketing tool, however, it should be used very carefully so as not to get a tear-eye design that leaves users unpleasant sensations and shaky nerves.
This, of course, is an extreme example. The main idea of my article is that design should be not only functional and useful, but also emotionally attractive. To do this, you need to carefully consider the color palette of the site, which is a set of colors used in the development of web design.
The site’s color scheme is subject to quite serious requirements, since the combination of colors for web design will not only determine the look of your resource, but will also be associated with your brand on the Internet. Most sites have a palette of 2 to 4 colors, not counting black and white. Let’s try to figure out how to create the most attractive and effective combination of colors in website design. Continue reading
