WordPress Themes for Photographers: Top 4
Almost all users think WordPress is more than just a blog manager. It contains a lot of super-specialized templates. And…today it’s time to talk about WordPress themes for photographers 😉
How to extract images from a Word document? Designer’s Dilemma
I’m sure most of you know of what I speak. You’re waiting for the pictures of your client to incorporate them into your design. You have everything ready, the reserved space, and the precise dimensions. You do not care if the work is a web or a graphic design or even an editorial job. You need that logo, those images. There comes an email. It’s your client.
Top Best WordPress Themes of 2014
This year will be very interesting in terms of new trends in web designand elements that are being incorporated into the WordPress themes: we talk about responsive design, mobile first, parallax, flat design… Who though WordPress was just a blog manager, is very wrong. With this listing we will gather the best WordPress themes that you can download and will make your website an interesting design.
Range of colours: uses and combinations
When choosing a range of colours for our designs, there is no absolute truth to choose the right one, as there is no way to be totally wrong in the election (well, maybe this does happen .) We must choose the range of colours that best suits what we want to reflect.
Simplicity: Downloadable print
I think Einstein was almost never wrong, so he was not wrong about this either. Most of the time we give meaningless explanations in compound sentences or very long speeches that lead to nothing, but things, in fact, are much simpler than that.
How to create a pattern in Illustrator
You already know us, so we cannot deceive you: we love the flat design. However we won’t say no either to a good pattern, provided that it appears in the right place at the right time ;).
5 Sans Serif Google Font combinations. My favourite: the 3
It is well known that we love Google Fonts for its versatility and ease in web and graphic designs (if there is a clueless, they are also free 😉 ) Thus, today, the combinations that I propose are Sans Serif Google fonts, with the peculiarity that we will only use one font family in this article.
Images in responsive web design with CSS
The main change in conceptualization that responsive web design has brought is certainly the replacement of the pixel by relative units.
Orange: the underrated Colour
We do not like all colours equally. There are colours we like more than others because we identify with them. The fashion, for instance, is largely responsible for this. We will always prefer colours that make us feel better and happier, colours that make your friends think “how pretty you are”
Typography in design: combination and use
Thanks to one of my Christmas presents, a Typodarium, I am discovering great fonts of new artists, but I will talk about them another day because today is the time to open-source fonts like Google Fonts. Thus, today I am sharing with you some of the Google Fonts we usually use at SiloCreativo.
Inspiration: Downloadable print
Everyone wonders, one time or another, if one day their inspiration will go. We have designed a typographic print showing the difficulty that inspiration disappears ;).
How to Optimize WordPress categories to improve your SEO
One of the least optimized options for a WordPress website or blog are often Categories and Tags. The Taxonomies (the way all categories and tags are called, either for default or custom post) are used to organize the content of our website in an efficient manner, making it more navigable for the users.
Web design with HTML5: Structure and Composition
One advantage that HTML5 has brought to the field of web design is that it includes a HTML tags structure much more semantic, i.e., a markup with a meaning for what will truly serve said identifier. In other words, HTML5 has made to the web designer the job much easier than with previous versions, especially when we have to modify a web design of a colleague.
Creative 404 Error Pages
We have talked many times about the importance of having clear objectives when creating a website. Not all websites are designed with the same function, or all users search the same item.
When designing a website, we want this to be original and different from all others, so we have to take care of the small details, responsible for this. In fact, although it is very unlikely to happen with premium templates.