Design Tips

New Website Inspiration Area

Jun 30, 2009Comments

If you look to the right of this excerpt you’ll see a photostream that I’ve set up on Picasa of web design inspiration screenshots. These screenshots will hopefully help to serve as inspiration for your web design projects as they have mine. If you know a site that could go here shoot me an e-mail with the URI. I’m at vernonkesner at gmail dot com.

Photoshop Tips To Make Your Photos Look Better

Mar 26, 2009Comments

Ever wish that the photos you use on your website or blog looked a bit better? You know you’d love to see those dull, lifeless images have a bit more vibrancy and spark to them right? Well, jump inside to learn some different techniques to make it happen.

30 Textures for Vintage Style Design

Jan 29, 20091 comment so far

If you are doing a vintage style design, one of the most important parts is authentic textures.  Since these can be hard to come by, I wanted to share this awesome resource that I found on Web Design Ledger.
The post is a great list of 30 of the best vintage textures you’ll probably ever see.  [...]

2009 Web Design Trends

Jan 22, 2009Comments

Smashing Magazine has a couple great posts that present Web Design Trends for 2009.
The first post presents recent developments, new design elements and new graphic approaches.  This covers things like embossing letters, rich user interfaces, big typography, carousels, and PNG transparency.
The second post covers new layouts, visual approaches and design elements.
Overall, it’s a great look [...]

Content is Nice, but Context is King

Apr 16, 20081 comment so far

We’ve all heard the following, “Content is King”.  Content is nice, but thanks to Cameron Moll I think the new saying should be, “Context is King”.
As some of you know, I’ve recently acquired a copy of Cameron Moll’s Mobile Web Design book.  I also have a full project load and am getting ready to sell [...]

Blog Design Madness… Nominate your blog design

Mar 21, 20081 comment so far

Vandelay Website Design is having a blog design competition in the spirit of March Madness.  For those readers outside of the USA, this is a huge NCAA College Basketball Tournament that happens every march that’s dubbed, “March Madness”.
The tournament will work just like the NCAA basketball tournament, head-to-head matchups, single elimination, winner advances to the [...]