May 20

Web Design Articles, Inspiration and News – May 2009

With RSS feeds overflowing with great material, it’s often a little overwhelming to keep up with everything that great in design, photography, and all the rest of our creative undertakings.

Here’s our list of some great articles, news, and inspiration that showed up this month.

10 Cool Things We’ll Be Able To Do Once IE6 Is Dead

Well, the bell has pretty much tolled for IE6. SitePoint goes over some of the cools things we’ll finally be able to use in our design

10 WordPress Themes designed for Photo Galleries

Photographers rejoice! WPZoom’s list of 10 great WordPress Themes will certainly help you get started on putting together your web portfolio.

How to Spot Quality within Web Design: Examples & Tips

What makes a web design sparkle is sometimes difficult to discern. Function’s article goes over several areas that bring quality to a design.

Overcoming blankcanvasphobia

I always found it helped to toss down some paint on a canvas before starting a painting. Cameron Moll has some good tips for how to combat the blank canvas when it comes to web design.

20 Talented and Impressive Illustrators

Looking for some illustration inspiration? Smashing Magazine goes through 40 talented and impressive illustrators – their work is inspiring, creative, original and beautiful!

Tilt-Shift Maker

Here’s a neat little tool for quickly putting together one of those “miniaturized” styled photos called tilt-shifting.

20+ Online Invoicing Services To Help You Get Paid

Every creative has gotta get paid. Site Point puts together a list of online services that help you get the money to the bank.

22 Professional Photoshop Image Enhancing Tutorials

Six Revisions puts together a top notch list of tutorials for enhancing your photos.

Captivating Winery Websites For Your Inspiration

I’ve always wanted to work on a winery website. Check out Smashing Magazines article on some beautifully done wine websites.

Steve Jobs Discusses His Logo Designer

Think all big companies pay peanuts for their logo design? *cough*Nike*cough* It’s nice to see when a client seems to actually value their logo designer.

Want a cheap logo? Go and get some clip art then

And here we have the other side of the logo coin. How to justify a well designed logo when a client thinks that all logos are just adapted clip art.

50 Inspirational Web Design Blogs

Design Reviver looks at some of the big name blogs in web design with a quick visual run down.

48 Excellent Examples Of Blog Post Footer Designs

Sometimes a designer will run out of creative steam when it comes to the website’s footer. Here’s 48 slick footer designs to get your creative juices flowing.

25 logos with hidden messages

Graphic Design Blog has a fun little article around logos with a hidden message within the design. See if you can spot them all!

35 Examples Of Masterful Lighting Effects In Web Design

Lighting has hit web design in a big way. Smashing Magazine goes through 35 great examples of this technique in action.

Taking the Guesswork Out of Design

A wonderfully detailed article by A List Apart on how to keep the designer and client on track when it comes to the design process.

Make High-Impact Backgrounds for Your Designs with Photoshop

Although bringing up the back end of the design, website backgrounds are a very important part of the overall look of a website. Six Revisions details how to make your backgrounds deliver.

Styling your Lists: 20+ Brilliant How to’s and Best Practices

Styling your lists can often be pretty boring. devSnippets helps add a little spice to list design.

The Do’s & Dont’s of Modern Web Design

A great website completely dedicated to what can get your design a high five or a slap on the hand.

The Evolution of a Website Design

How has web design changed over the years? ThinkVitamin goes over how the StackOverflow website has continued to evolve through the ages.

By Travis

Comments

David Perel May 20th

“The Evolution of a Website Design” is a cracker of a post. Nice collection once again!
brian May 20th

well that should keep me busy for the next day or so ;-) great stuff
john May 21st

10 WordPress Themes designed for Photo Galleries – was released 1 year ago in April, what it have in common with May 2009?
javo May 26th

wow, the great post, tnk

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Travis King is a Canadian web designer, owner of Green Tea Design, and a travel blogger. He loves all things Asian, but he only pretends to like sushi.