Viget Inspire has a great landscape background which makes this design unique.
kulturbanause has a great background concept, inspired by nature, makes an astounding impact
Legendary Aircraft is a great design, the blue cloudy sky background and zooming aircrafts make it a perfect concept
An appropriate definition for CSS framework can be : a library that is meant to allow easier, more standards compliant styling of website using the Cascading Style Sheets language.
As in any programming and scripting language libraries, CSS frameworks package a number of ready-made options for designing and outlaying a webpage.
The page layout structure is pretty standard across all Frameworks, it can be anything the Header; Main Content, Sub Content, Local Nav, Main Nav and Footer. They also have simple layout structures like Vertical Nav, Horizontal Nav, One Column, Two Column etc.
An appropriate background is one of the key elements, while you are doing web design. Most websites on web are made with simple solid background color or with a simple pattern. But these examples are simply, extraordinary, these can be considered as great inspirations, when you believe in Daring to be Different!
Shiny lights and bright colours are used in very unusual striking way, which simply make this a new age trend getting popular among the bold designers.
Catchdigital.com, Amazing Bold background concept which is using dark boxes overlaying striking colours. Amazing Video Background
Studio7Designs.com has a great background that combines bold and shiny colors with brilliant light wavy effects
Drew Wilson has amazing deep dark background with little shiny rainbow colors masking in, to highlight the logo.
Blogging is a very open communication with people you don’t even know but there are times when you seek a response from your reader. One way is to directly ask them in your blog post and expect some of them to reply in the comments section and the other thing you can do is to create a poll. Having a poll sometimes add a whiff of fresh interactivity which is sometimes really sought on a blog.
There are two ways to create a poll on your website, the first is to use the help of polling services which manage the polls for you and keep the complicated part to themselves.
Following are the easiest of all, Web2.0 services that you may use to get a ready-made poll which you can readily deploy on your website or a blog.
Well we all know how much we all love the Google Maps, since these were created, Life has been easier. Getting to, Getting there. From here to where were simply best answered by this. Not to forget how often we find ourseleves playing with Google Street View, it doesn’t stop amazing us.
In the Web2.0 times, we have been looking at plenty of useful online tools and web sites that have come up and which were created by using Google Maps API, check the following list, shows the best in use:
Real Estate Auctions - Ebay real estate auctions A great useful use of Google Maps API.
Also check Rofo, for a better User Interface and search, uses the same Google API for real estate listings.
Wikimapia - Amazing Website, which is in direction of becoming like mapish wikipedia, Lets users tag an area and add notes about it.
It’s only wise to check that your website complies all the standards and web accessibility is one area where not many developers tend to spend their time. Checking for web accessibility makes sense as you reach out to more audiences which is precisely the main motive behind having a virtual web presence. The other benefit of evaluating web accessibility is cleaner layout and better indexing on search engines. Developers can use the following tools to analyze the website’s accessibility and correct any problems they come across.
1. Firefox Accessibility Extension
This firefox toolbar allows developers to analyze that the style, equivalent text and navigation is standards-compliant so that even the people with disabilities can access web. This tool can be used to test the functional accessibility of the website as per the guidelines of HTML Best Practices. Firefox Accessibility Extension can also be used to run third party applications like WC3 HTML Validator and Link Checker.
Wow, so you ended up making a cool design and it looks perfect on your screen, but it is not complete yet, cause it needs to be checked on various browsers, screen sizes and resolutions. Every time a design is ready we go about testing it extensively on all kinds, so that the design looks universally alike.
This consistency is important, if you are serious about doing professional design work. When we go about asking, many times we face this that users really do not know which browser they are actually viewing the page in, also sometimes it’s difficult for them to judge which versions of browser they are using.
Especially in the current transitional period of going from IE6 to IE7, and FireFox2 to FireFox 3 where there are significant differences between the two browsers, it gets more important for you to make sure that your design works without problem in all kinds.
Most of the times while we are doing this test, If you see a problem in IE6, it is either working on Firefox or Opera. But ideally it is important that you are must initially test your page in Firefox or Opera, as both of these browsers are the most web standards compliant browser and have abundant resources for testing and debugging markup and code. If your code works in either of those, and the page validates in both html and css, then you can be sure that the webpage should work in all other browsers.
You must not miss doing the Browser compatibility test, cause it will let you to lose visitors if your web pages don’t work on all the popular web browsers. Your web pages may be inconsistent on each browser and the visitors would believe that the website is not professional or is buggy, no one blames the browser.
Browser display problems can basically just kill your web pages, and these display differences are caused by a lot of things such as different browser versions, different computer platforms, screen size, browser bugs, HTML errors, and multiple browsers.
Here is a list of few (19) tools below that let you view your site as other visitors do:
Validator.W3.org
This tool checks the markup validity of web documents in HTML, XHTML,etc. It can be used to check the issues in code to make it comply with any standard.
SortSite Professional v1.01
This tool is capable to check accessibility, usability, multi browser compatibility, broken links, legal compliance and search engine guidelines. Really Useful.
Browser Photo
Useful Tool by Netmechanic, it tests your webpage browser compatibility and lets you see how your pages look on different browsers and operating systems. We use it often.
Innovative Website, Multicolr Search Lab is a great web application that can sort and present Flickr photos that best match the color combinations you specify on their pallet. All you have to do is, choose the colors you want and it will showcase images matching to that scheme. Interesting Stuff!
This is developed by the visual search experts at Idée.
This is a cool howto, for you to use Google Analytics itself to track outgoing links, that too without adding the necessary JavaScript to each and every link. This is pretty easy, you will utilize Google Analytics and jQuery. This method will add outbound link tracking to any website. Make sure that your links to other sites open a new window, which will enable you to track them. to jQuery.com and download the latest version. Then add the script included into the header of your website.
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”js/jquery.flash.js”></script>
Now on your Google Analytics, if you do not have an account just set up an account and follow the directions to get your website tracking done.
CSS Type Set is a great useful for new designers, it is an online application that created to assist beginner CSS developers with the task of font styling.
It includes an AJAX-powered interface that automatically updates the preview in real time. The resulting CSS syntax can then be copied and pasted into a CSS file. Nice and useful stuff!
