Articles by Spyre Studios from March 2011

If you're been reading SpyreStudios for a while now you probably already know we like minimalist designs. In fact we've showcased many websites featuring a minimalist design in the past. We thought it...

This set of plaster and concrete textures contains 25 hi-resolution images as well as 5 tileable texture images – perfect for repeating backgrounds. Some of the big texture images are up to 5400...

More and more content is being published everyday and site owners need to find ways to categorize all this content. And with more content and categories comes greater navigation problems. Sometimes na...

A while ago we shared 25 great web-design and development books and since this earlier post got a great response (and we've read a lot more books since), we've now gathered another 25.In this list you...

Usability "" a term that we hear almost everywhere we go on the web and for good reason. Good usability can mean the difference between one site's success and the downfall of another.Usabili...

There's never been a better time to start or upgrade your blog. The tools available are fully-featured, polished solutions that make getting a professional and robust blog up and running ridiculously ...

There is a lot of psychology in colour, and while I don't claim to be an expert, every now and then I come across something that seems to be rather counterintuitive.I suppose there are some cultural i...

A while ago Designious started releasing their Design Cocktail bundles and it quickly became very popular. Today they're back with Design Cocktail 5, with $729 worth of design resources still for the ...

We all have our techniques for obtaining a great combination of readability and design. Many designers like to fine-tune the font stacks and sometimes add a nice shadow to bring text to life.Others li...

Usability is ridiculously important to your website. It doesn't matter how cool your website looks or how amazing your content is if visitors can't quickly, easily, and enjoyably access and use it. Ma...

We've featured Photoshop brushes sets a couple of times before on SpyreStudios and this time we've collected over 600 ink, paint, watercolor and splatter brushes from various sources.Most of the sets ...

Following trends is a part of many creators in all creative mediums: design, fashion, music, film, whatever. It's only natural: you see what people want, then you give it to them. What's the problem, ...

The Android platform is growing in popularity every day, and for good reasons. Obviously being an open-source project and having Google behind it makes it a great choice for developers. Unfortunately ...

Let's face it: it's hard working on multiple things at once. Focusing on just one thing is much easier than trying to juggle multiple projects and clients. Yet the reality for most designers and firms...