Freebie Tuesday – 5th of February – 36 Circle Icon Set
Today’s freebie includes 36 unique circle icons. They are completely vectorized and can easily be made to any size without losing quality.
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12 Great Examples of Flat Web Design
Today’s I will be featuring 12 Great Examples of Flat Web Design but you may wonder what is actually “Flat Web Design?”, Well it just means designing without the gradients, pixel perfect shadows and skeuomorphism that’s been trending of quite a while.
With many site getting re-designed and new websites employing the flat design technique, the trend is appearing almost everywhere, both on websites and within app design. This technique has been made even more popular with the releases of Windows 8 and the new Google design, which includes a completely flat aesthetic.
Flat web design can be both beautiful and charming without lots of added embellishments, as it can be a clean and simple process to communicate a message or promote a product or an idea.
Freebie Tuesday – 22nd of January – Dark Social Media Circle Icons
Today’s freebie are a bunch of slick circle social media icons. Included in the free PSD download is the icon hover states as well. These might just be what you’re looking to use on your next website project.
Freebie Thursday 27th of December – Social Media Tabs
A unique, colourful and funky set of social media “tabs” to adorn the sidebar of your next design. Do something a little different to promote your social media presence with these vertical design elements – provided both as a PSD and coded in CSS, for a range of different social networks!
Using Google Fonts API – You Will Love Them Even More
If you haven’t heard this great news that everyone’s favourite company Google has introduced the Google Font Directory and Google Font API. This is a free web service that allows website owners the ability to utilise other fonts outside of the Web-safe fonts infrastructure in an easy, convenient and efficient way.
Further more due to the operations that is being performed behind the scenes at google, these custom fonts will even be recognised all the way back to Internet Explorer 6 and I for one are extremely excited about the possibilities.This including the font catalog is surely to continue expanding over the coming years.
If you decide to use Google’s Font API, here are some of the things you’ll be able to take advantage of.
- Keep using HTML text
- Web accessible
- Using Google servers (save on bandwidth & caching benefits)
