Articles by Vandelay Design from June 2011

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Navigation menus are a critical part of web design because of their importance for usability and creating a position user experience. Websites with poor navigational structure or a lack of clarity in ...

The things that can be accomplished with Photoshop are quite amazing. Designers who are skilled at photo manipulation can use their creativity to produce stunning results. In this post we'll feature 3...

Standing out from the huge, and always increasing, numbers of web and graphic designers can be a very daunting task. If you are having a difficult time finding enough work to keep you busy you may w...

ThemeTrust has offered to give a premium WordPress theme to 10 lucky readers of the Vandelay Design blog! The winners will get the theme of their choice plus support....

Photoshop users can save a lot of time and create beautiful designs by using patterns. Photoshop's presets (like brushes, styles, patterns, custom shapes, and gradients) are highly-powerful tools when...

Most of us visit several different blogs every day. While the greatest factor in a blog being successful and useful is the content, having a memorable and attractive design can certainly help. With so...

There are many different challenges that bloggers face. Continually growing, adapting, and improving your blog is a significanton-going challenge. While all blogs attempt to provide useful content a...

Minimalism in web design has always been a favorite topic of our blog readers, and today we continue the series with our tenth edition of minimal showcases. The websites shown here manage to achieve a...

Macro photography, the art of taking close-up photos, can produce incredible results that show us the world in a different way than we normally see it through our own eyes. The details in macro photos...

For web designers, having successful client projects leads to happy clients, more referrals, a proven track record, and valuable experience and knowledge that can be used in future projects. But the...

TN3 Gallery is a new HTML-based customizable image gallery with slideshow, transitions and multiple album options. It's powered by jQuery to give your image galleries and sliders fantastic appearan...

Photoshop users can save time during the design process by making use of layer styles. Whether you are saving your own custom style to be used multiple times throughout your design (such as with a but...

JavaScript sliders, jQuery in particular, are a very commonly used element in web design. There are countless different ways that sliders can be used and displayed. In this post we'll feature 30 websi...

Every website owner or marketer needs to know what is going on with their website and visitors in order to know how to improve and get better results. Website analytics tools can provide data and show...

WPSubscribers is apremium WordPressplugin that will help you to attract loads of new subscribers to your mailing list or blog. It has many different features and functions to give you a lot of versi...

Some of the most intriguing photographs are those that perfectly capture a moment during intense action. Well-timed photos stop the action and present an amazing perspective. In this post we'll showca...