Using Vectors for Header Design + 38 Websites with Vectorized or Illustrated Headers

Though issues of layout, typography, and various other page elements are bound to take up plenty of time for web designers, many take a special delight in the creation of headers. Whether for corporate web pages or personal blogs, forum indexes or e-commerce sites, a good-looking header can make a lasting impression on visitors, and is likely to be one of the most important concerns for design clients. Using vector graphics for header design has been gaining momentum as a design practice for several years, resulting in clean and attractive visual schemes that leave out the potential pixelation and fuzz of raster graphics.

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Introducing 9lessons iphone Web Application.

Today I am introducing 9lessons labs iphone web application. In this post I want to present application screeshots and some tips about how to design iphone web application. It is so simple just some CSS width changes.

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slideGallery: Multifunctional Slide Carousel For MooTools

slideGallery is a MooTool plugin that you can use to add highly customizable slideshow / carousels in your webpage. You can configure it to display one or more images in a single slide and move either in horizontal or vertical direction. slideGallery is a cross browser plugin that works in all popular web browsers.

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How to Build a Lava-Lamp Style Navigation Menu

A couple weeks ago , I created a screencast that demonstrated how to build a three-level navigation menu. In a response email, one of our readers requested a tutorial on how to build a lava-lamp style menu. Luckily, it’s quite a simple task, especially when using a JavaScript library.

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WordPress Theme Releases for 03/13

Sky Light A combination blue dark and black color, with sky image as a background Magazine theme The theme has widgetized header, front page, sidebars, and single posts. For better SEO results, the theme uses custom fields to pull images to the front page. Simple Things Fixed width, 2 column theme with a minimalistic style and a touch of typography Chirp Chirp is a Twitter inspired Wordpress Photoblog/Videoblog Theme.

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Quick Tip: HTML5 Video with a Fallback to Flash

In this video quick tip, we’ll review how to work with HTML 5 video in your own projects. Because older browsers and Internet Explorer do not understand the <video> element, we must also find a way to serve a Flash file to viewers who are utilizing those browsers. Unfortunately, much like HTML 5 audio , Firefox and Safari/Chrome don’t quite agree when it comes to the file format for videos.

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Online Tools for Cross-browswer CSS3 Rule Generation

This week has seen the announcement of a couple of new online tools for generating cross-browser CSS3 rules, CSS3 Please! and CSS3 Generator. CSS3 Please!, produced by Paul Irish and Jonathon Neal, aims to simplify the design process by allowing designers to enter one value, and have this instantly synced and normalised for each vendor-specific prefix,

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Quick Tip: How to Get Great HTML Meta Tags

When you’re reading around the web about what to focus on when creating a web page, and you’re sure to find a host of opinions which, in total, insist that every single page element holds the secret to attracting traffic, pleasing visitors, or simply “doing it right.” Though some page elements are necessarily more crucial in terms of their uniformity than others, designers and developers can count on the essential nature of the HTML meta tag on any given web page. Meta tags are capable of telling search engines and other interested parties key information about the contents of the page, the meta tag is arguably as important as the page’s actual title–yet it leaves greater room for taking advantage of keyword use and relaxing the rules of style. Of the many attributes that can be defined using a meta tag, the description tag is likely to be the most meaningful for modern sites.

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WordPress Personas For Firefox

What WordPress is to Blogging, Firefox is to browsing, so what happens when we can get both of them to get together? WordPress personas for Firefox WordPress has released a new set of Personas for Firefox themed around, well WordPress, which you can install and use on the browser. The personas were designed by Chad Pugh and are based on Vintage Press and Inkwell.

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