Articles by Design Modo from May 2012

Textures are found everywhere around us. Whether it is natural textures like stone, tree bark, and sand, or textures from some man-made item, like concrete, a brick wall, or a metal grate, textures ar...

In the recent years, there is an increasing demand for the WordPress products such as themes and plugins. Being the most popular online trading platform, WordPress themes could be one of the best choi...

Hello dear readers! Today we would like to ask for your help by answering some questions. We are also waiting on your comments and suggestions that you can leave below this article. We will soon be do...

One of the most essential aspects of designing a website is finding a balance between form and function, to ensure that the viewer can easily navigate through each page. We have all seen websites that...

While cloud technologies and applications have been around since the dawn of the Internet, they’ve caught on in a major way during the past two years. Cloud-based storage, computing and collabor...

So often, we look at a design trend as nothing more than that – a design trend. But it’s important to look behind these trends, to see the market influences and psychological movements tha...

The new Impressionist UI version has a series of changes that we considered to be important. We have added 4 totally new styles (Air, Aurora, Hybrid and Spice), besides the default style that it had u...

Topic: jQuery / CSS3 Difficulty: Advanced Estimated Completion Time: 1 hour In this tutorial we will code an Upload Form from Impressionist UI by Vladimir Kudinov. We will code it using the Plupload A...

Responsive design is quite popular these days. It is a new and revolutionary way of planning to develop websites which will be compatible for both PC, and laptop users as well as for the latest genera...

Creating and showing off a portfolio is such a fundamental part of a designers life, few people ever question its effectiveness. But the fact is, there are better ways to sell your services – an...

Although most of the rumors and discussions are right now focusing on acts such as SOPA/PIPA, which expand the ability of law enforcement all over the world to fight online trafficking in counterfeit ...

Do you like basketball? If you do and you are a web designer, you may take a liking to the design community Dribbble. If you hate sports, no worries! You still may like the network, especially if you ...

After the successful launch of Pandora UI premium pack by DesignModo, we have decided to share a part of it with our beloved readers. You can now download the free version of Pandora UI containing a h...

Building a website has become extremely essential for any type of business in todays modern internet world. It is the first point of contact for the customers or the future clients. As an artist or a ...

The Story and Problems If youre a web developer working with CSS (especially CSS3) in modern browsers, its more than likely that youve come across these things called vendor prefixes. Initially used f...

Hope you guys are enjoying our posts on UI Kits functionality. Its such a new topic that its even hard to find other opinions out there, all we find is UI Kits collections, but no reflections or creat...

Today I will try to analyze the most important of new features of Adobe Illustrator CS6, and will review the other less significant, in my opinion, improvements. After reading this review, you can get...

Adobe released the new version of itsCreative Suite toolkit, including Adobe Photoshop CS6, Illustrator CS6, Dreamweaver CS6 and others. Besides the updates, Adobe released and improved a set of produ...

In this tutorial we will code an Video Player from Impressionist UI by Vladimir Kudinov. We will code it with CSS3 for the styling and the MediaElement.js for the functionality. MediaElement.js is a H...

Yay! Its time for a new free giveaway and we are happy to present a wonderfully creative collection of Futurico – Free User Interface Components (PSD). We think that these are so far the greates...

In the field of web designing newer tools are invented and introduced in the market very often. HTML is a language that is used to structure and present contents for the websites. This technology have...

The Behance Network was created for creative professionals who want to expand their network and display their talents and services. With its many avenues for self promotion, Behance gives creative pro...

Serghey Shmidt has created some design elements for you, and we would like to share them with you for free! Wanna know why? Well it is simply because we love you! Today you will get the chance to down...

You know, old habits die hard. Therefore I got stuck to the HTML editor Homesite ever since I started to design websites more than a century ago. I took a look at other editors here and there but alwa...

Briefcase Pro is a premium WordPress theme. It contains more functionalities than the Briefcase Free WordPress theme that you can download for free. The Administration Panel for Briefcase Pro has a bu...

The parallax effect, also called parallax scrolling, is a special technique used in computer graphics at first, where background images move by the camera slower than foreground images. This is the ac...