Articles by Vandelay Design from September 2012

If youre just getting started as a serious web designer, then most likely youve debated whether or not you need some kind of blog. Its fair enough to just have a website, but these days people are loo...

Today we have a free PSD file for download. With this PSD you can add Tron-style elements with glow effects to your own designs. The PSD includes elements like buttons, progress loaders, and ratings e...

Today's web professionals have to be always up-to-date about new tools, freebies and resources that may be handy for their daily work. This technological (geek) world changes every day, so it's not a ...

With e-commerce websites, the usability of the website and the ease of finding the right products can make a huge difference in terms of sales and revenue. Some effective e-commerce sites use very sim...

Photography websites tend to be somewhat simple, allowing the photos to take center stage rather than the design of the site. Logos of photographers often take a similar approach. In this post we'll s...

Zion is our latest WordPress theme designed specifically for churches and non-profit organizations. It features key functionality needed by modern church websites, and it uses an adaptive layout to pr...

While full-size background imagesin web design have been increasing in popularity for several years now, another variation of this trend is the blurred background image. Recently it seems that there h...

There are countless mobile applications which use list views in their UI. Both Android and iOS offer platform-specific designs to make building applications easier. But there is another template you c...

Unless youve been in a social media black hole for the last 12 months, youll be familiar with Pinterest. The love child of photo-sharing site Flickr and scrapbooking site Tumblr, Pinterest is your onl...

We've released a few sets of paper textures recently (brown paper textures, grunge paper textures) and today we're continuing that series with this set of 8 bleached paper textures. These textures wer...

The restaurant industry is notorious for having bad websites. With so manyrestaurantsout there in need of a website, many solutions have been launched specifically to target restaurants. While a resta...

Done the right way, there are few trust-building, explanatory tools as powerful as a business video, especially for businesses with particularly complex products. But, of course, a poorly produced vid...

Minimalism is one of our favorite styles of web design. A well-designed website with a minimalist style may look simple, but they're not always easy to design. This collection shows 25 excellent examp...

The use of ribbons in web design is a current trend, but ribbons are also frequently used in logo design. In this post we'll showcase 25 examples of logos that make use of ribbons. You'll see examples...

Concrete textures can be extremely useful and versatile for web and graphic designers. They can be used to create grungy and urban backgrounds, or they can be used subtly to create a soft texture that...

Mouth-watering probably isnt a word you would think of using to describe web design, but thats exactly the one that comes to mind when looking at these 35 sites inspired by and focusing on food.Big Ap...

Is the ability to design a talent you must be born with or is it a skill you can learn? Successful designers have shown that the answer to this question may not be so black and white.Famed designers l...

In-depth keyword research is the backbone of any effective SEO campaign. Fortunately, you don't have to go it alone. The Internet abounds with keyword tools. Some of them are free, and some of them co...