Comics of the week #125

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Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.135

This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think.

Have you tried StylesInspiration yet? It is our web design showcase that aims to not only… read more

Now You Can Google Like It’s 1986

No, this isn’t the latest Google Doodle celebrating the anniversary of DOS.

Instead, it’s an imagining of what Google would look like if it was invented circa 1986. The design, by Squirrel-Monkey.com, has been kicking around for a few months, but an Austrian web design firm called Mass:Werk… read more

Friday Fresh Free Fonts #148

Friday fresh free fonts is a series of free fonts posted every Friday, yes I know it’s awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#148 and make… read more

10 Incredible Corporate Websites

If someone asked me to explain what a corporate website looked to them the odds are I wouldn’t use words like “attractive”, “visually pleasing”, or “creative.”  Unfortunately when I think of a corporate website the immediate stereotypes that come to mind are minimal design elements, lots of text, black and… read more

WDL Premium: Grunge Drips Vector Pack

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Here’s another good high-quality vector pack for our WDL Premium Members. These grunge drips vectors from GoMedia’s Arsenal will give your designs a stylish look. The drops are perfect to help you getting started on a white canvas. Enjoy!

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Smashing Special: What’s Going On In The WordPress Economy?

In a post on her blog last year, WordPress designer, business woman and author Lisa Sabin Wilson, talked about how thankful she is to be part of the WordPress economy. It’s an economy that thousands of people, the world over, are benefiting from (including me!). It is an economy built… read more

Free download: Exclusive Stylish User Interface Kit (PSD)

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25 Detailed Web Layout PSD Templates

Today we have a 25 fully-layered PSD web templates that have not only been designed with current web design trends in mind, but are also so detailed and professional you simply won’t believe they are free to download.

But, do you know something, they all are! Enjoy.

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30 Minimalist Logo Designs

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Every designer loves a foray into the minimalist — even if you make your bread and butter designing wildly grungy logos for metal bands using absurd, busy fonts and lots of black and red (not that this is a common niche for designers who do want to… read more

Astonishing 3D Computer Graphics

As computers get faster and more powerful we get to see better 3D renderings. Artists who opt to make photo-realistic pieces get to achieve some unbelievable results, so unbelievable that it may look more realistic than a photograph, which is insane.

During a visit to the amazing CGSociety I got to… read more

30+ Photographer Portfolio Website Designs for Inspiration

30+ Photographer Portfolio Website Designs for Inspiration

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Single Page Web Design is the Way to Go!

Single Page Web Design is the Way to Go!

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Web Design Blogs to Read in 2012

Web Design Blogs to Read in 2012

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24 Clean and Fresh WordPress Premium Portfolio Themes

24 Clean and Fresh WordPress Premium Portfolio Themes

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Digital Painting of F1 Heroes

Formula 1 has always been very popular all over the world, specially in Brazil. I remember watching Senna every Sunday with my whole family and the memories are great. Polish designer Piotr Buczkowski decided to make a tribute to the best F1 drivers by painting some portraits and the result… read more

Not Just Pretty: Building Emotion Into Your Websites

Emotional design has become a powerful tool in creating exceptional user experiences for websites. However, emotions did not use to play such an important role on the Web. Actually, they did not use to play any role at all; rather, they were drowned by a flood of rational functionality and… read more

How Much Time Should You Really Spend Networking with Other Freelancers?

We all know that we need to spend as much time as we can networking with prospective clients. But how much time should you spend networking with other freelancers?

Other Freelancers Aren’t Just Competition

As a freelancer, other freelancers have to seem like competition. But those other freelancers can also be… read more

Grunge Photoshop brush roundup

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30 Logos of Professional Designers

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It is no a secret that a logo is one of the most important elementa of identity design. People might not remember you, but they will definitely remember your logo. That’s why every company should have a well planned identity design in order to send the… read more

Logo Design: Hats

We keep going through our weekly journey checking out great logos! We’re thinking ahead and we want to find new topics, good ones, to share with you guys. Last week we had a great post about logos with cakes, and today it’s all about logos with hats!

Every week we search… read more

We’re Giving Away 3 Personal Copies of the Impressionist UI Pack from DesignModo!

DesignModo has invited us to host this giveaway for them, and since this is a great resource for us designers we just had to say yes!
 

 
Impressionist UI is the world’s biggest user interface elements pack, containing over 300 elements for web design that represent almost anythng… read more

50 Resopnsive Web Design Examples For Your Inspiration

50 Resopnsive Web Design Examples For Your Inspiration

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Ultra Realistic Oil Paintings by Pedro Campos

Photorealistic paintings on canvas are definitely in a whole other level of awesomeness. Seeing a painting for the first time and thinking it’s actually a photograph is definitely a compliment for an artist like Pedro Campos.

Pedro is a Spanish artist that makes these astonishing pieces of oil on canvas. He’s… read more

Interesting Things Designers Can Do With Extra Time

A little R&R can go a long way to refresh the body and fill your mind with all the great ideas you need for creative success. In this article, Divya Rawat shares a series of things you can do during your off time to keep yourself productive, energized,… read more

A Book Apart: Essential Reading for Anyone Working on the Web

When’s the last time you read a technical book that didn’t make your head spin? One that you actually learned something from, and didn’t fall asleep while reading it? One that inspired you to get up and create something better?

Book reviews aren’t exactly what you’ve come to expect from AppStorm…. read more

65 Fresh and Creative Portfolio Website Designs for Inspiration

Portfolio is the reflection of one’s work and skills; any potential employer actually goes through your portfolio and sees your previous designs and work you have done. Going over your portfolio he decided to either hire you or not. Most employers search on the net; those portfolios which have something… read more

10 Awesome Websites With Wood Texture

Every now and again I’ll get a client who already knows exactly how they want their website to look.  Now, some times this can be quite nice as it makes the design process quite a bit easier on my end, other times it can be a bit frustrating as their… read more

Say hello to DeveloperDrive.com

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11 Extremely Useful Fresh Free Fonts

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Looks like we almost let an entire month go by without finding some fresh free fonts for our readers. If you’ve been a WDL reader for while, you know that we take great pride in finding and letting you know about hight-quality freebies. It’s all about… read more

DesignModo’s Impressionist UI Pack (The World’s Biggest User Interface Elements Pack) Giveaway

DesignModo is running a contest, where Impressionist User Interface Elements Pack for 3 winners (1 developer license and 2 personal license) are givingaway. Well, you guys know what is Impressionist UI Pack? Let’s say it once again for n00bs.

Impressionist is the world’s biggest user interface elements pack. It contains over 300 elements… read more

40+ Useful Free Online Books for Web Designers

Today, Web site Design is a very important part of current Graphic Design. To keep up with the fast-paced web design industry you must look out self education sources, such as books, books are very important, helps us to build our spirit, give information, helps us to write and think… read more

What’s new for designers, April 2012

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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.127)

This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)
If you would like to receive our daily updates and keep up to date with the latest and greatest articles and resources from the… read more

30 Awesome Dark Web Designs

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We know the conventional wisdom says that black text on a white background provides the most user-friendly experience. There’s plenty of whitespace to guide the eye, and the text is easy to read. It’s harder to get the same feeling with black designs: even with equivalent spacing,… read more

Architecture Inspiration: Vienna Way in Venice, California

Architecture Inspiration: Vienna Way in Venice, California

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Focus On: Social Media Badges and Viral Marketing

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There is a lot of talk about Internet marketing and the new era of social media. It is now easier than ever before to create accounts on many infamous social websites to build up your own brand. But this technique requires strategy and a bit of… read more

30 Warm Yellow Website Designs

30 Warm Yellow Website Designs

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Inspiration: A Collection Of Retro Web Designs

Inspiration: A Collection Of Retro Web Designs

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Free PSD UI Kits and Templates for Web Designers

Free PSD UI Kits and Templates for Web Designers

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The Perfect Office #134

We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?

Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more

Photoshop CS6 Beta: What Makes This Update Great

Since Adobe announced the beta for Photoshop CS6 a little over a week ago, it has been downloaded more than half a million times. Even if you’ve managed to miss the onslaught of tweets and reviews, the magnitude of eager testers should indicate how anxious photographers and designers were for… read more

Amazing Typography & Illustrations by Jordan Metcalf

Jordan Metcalf is a Graphic Designer based in Cape Town, South Africa. His love for illustration and typography translate into his amazing works. His creativity with type and detail on the execution is what make his work so special. Check it out!

For more from Jordan visit his Behance & jordan-metcalf.com

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Giveaway: Win Impressionist UI Packs

We are again excited to present you with special, more exciting prizes. InstantShift again came up with cool freebies giveaway as promised. This is our way of saying thanks to our readers for being part of the iShift community and helping us make it to where we are right now.

We… read more

Integrating Google Calendar with your website

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23 Fantastic Examples of Dark Colors in Web Design

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Back in January we published a list showcasing dark colors in web design and it became very popular. Since a lot of readers asked for more, we decided to put together a new post of similar sites to give you some fresh examples. Choosing to use… read more

38 Useful and Effective jQuery Plugins for Responsive Web Design

38 Useful and Effective jQuery Plugins for Responsive Web Design

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20 Tutorials for Improving Your Mobile Web Designs

20 Tutorials for Improving Your Mobile Web Designs

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Our favorite tweets of the week Apr 2 – Apr 8, 2012

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Benefits of Testing the Website Design & Code before launching it

Benefits of Testing the Website Design & Code before launching it

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iPad App Website Design Showcase

iPad App Website Design Showcase

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1540 Social Media Icon Mega Set! [Free Download]

1540 Social Media Icon Mega Set! [Free Download]

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Comics of the week #124

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Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.133

This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think.

Have you tried StylesInspiration yet? It is our web design showcase that aims to not only… read more

Becoming a Freelance Web Designer

Becoming a Freelance Web Designer

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Best of the Week #217

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

Good Stuff on the Web #8 (web design news)

Good Stuff on the Web #8 (web design news)

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Key Elements of Responsive Web Design, with Some Examples

Key Elements of Responsive Web Design, with Some Examples

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The Avengers Kickass Wallpapers

The Avengers will be arriving in theaters everywhere in less than a month, and we keep checking amazing images promoting the movie that only make us more excited about it. If that wasn’t enough, Toys “R” Us brought great wallpapers for the fans.

Here you may check all the wallpapers, but… read more

44+ Creative Pattern Logo Designs for Inspiration

44+ Creative Pattern Logo Designs for Inspiration

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30 Cool Website Designs with Landscape Backgrounds

30 Cool Website Designs with Landscape Backgrounds

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Inspiration: Type, Colors & Textures from Signs

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I was browsing throughout Flickr looking for some inspiring typography when I found a really cool collection called signs+type. The collection is filled with great photography of signs, and the images are super colorful and inspiring. From great colors and textures to amazing typography and neons,… read more

Free download: Silver UI Kit (PSD)

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A Striking Inspiration of Web Designing for Beginner Designers

A Striking Inspiration of Web Designing for Beginner Designers

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WDL Premium: Web Forms PSDs

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This week for our WDL Premium Members, we have a set of PSD files with 2 different types of forms, each in 8 different color schemes. The set is from Vandelay Premier and it includes a sign up or registration form as well as a small… read more

15 Handpicked jQuery Drop Down Menus Tutorials

Here we are presenting another brilliant collection of 15 jQuery navigation menu that you can download for free and use for your next projects. Navigation menu plays a crucial role in any web design and a well designed, functional and visually appealing navigation menu truly adds beauty to the overall… read more

10 Incredible eCommerce WordPress Themes

In the past, creating your own online store would have cost you thousands of dollars, or more likely tens of thousands, to cover the cost of developing a powerful, eCommerce site.  Not only would the site need to have the store front consumer side created, it would also need a… read more

Filter Forge 3

Photoshop Texture and Effect Plug-in

Some of you may already know about Filter Forge because it’s one of the most popular plug-ins in the industry today. For those who don’t, it’s a pretty robust plug-in for Photoshop that’s aimed at everyone from novice to expert, so there’s something for everyone… read more

3 Questions to Web Design Pros: Resources for Mastering HTML/CSS Coding

3 Questions to Web Design Pros: Resources for Mastering HTML/CSS Coding

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Types of Posts and How to Successfully Combine These on a Web Design Blog

Having a blog could be dangerous because, for many of us, the entire process of administering and maintaining can turn into an addictive task, one not being happy until a new post is published; moreover, the addiction may be acute and one will wait for the first reaction of the… read more

How to make more as a freelancer

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A Showcase of Amazing Drupal Themes

Since its inception, Drupal has had the (rather infamous) reputation of being the developer’s CMS. Designing a website using Drupal meant hard-coding every aspect of the appearance of your website. However, over time, and with the advent of Drupal 7, the picture has changed. Drupal too, like WordPress, now boasts… read more

Exceptional New Examples Of Web Design Inspiration – 34 Websites

Exceptional New Examples Of Web Design Inspiration – 34 Websites

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40+ Simple & Minimalist Icon Sets for Website Design

40+ Simple & Minimalist Icon Sets for Website Design

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70+ Minimal Desktop Wallpapers

70+ Minimal Desktop Wallpapers

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25 Examples of Big Photography in Web Design

25 Examples of Big Photography in Web Design

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UI Design: Paper App

Following our not-so-regular series of UI Design, today we’re featuring a beautiful, simple app for sketching freaks out there! The Paper app for the iPad is definitely a must have, and rejoice: it’s free.

Its UI design is really simple, yet intuitive, featuring many sketch styles, and even some painting methods…. read more

Instagram and Pinterest: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Marketing has taken more evolutionary leaps in the past two years then it has in the time since cave men adorned their spears and clubs with rocks and bones to differentiate their awesome possessions. Throughout the history of marketing and advertising, there have been a couple of commonalities: The first… read more

10 Amazing Responsive WordPress Themes

Responsive web design is a web development philosophy that has rapidly spread through the design community.  A responsive web site is one that is built using W3C and CSS3 media queries to allow the site to perform optimally across various platforms and screen resolutions.  Meaning the site will look correct… read more

30 inspiring calligraphy works

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21 Free Textures for your Delight

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We do love the work of browsing around to gather nice freebies for our readers. We do that so you know that when you need a new font, texture, psd, etc, you can count on us. Today we gathered some free textures to help you increase… read more

19 Bold Examples of Typography in Web Design For Your Inspiration

19 Bold Examples of Typography in Web Design For Your Inspiration

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A Showcase of HTML5 Tutorials for Web Designers

A Showcase of HTML5 Tutorials for Web Designers

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17 Awesomely Creative Bokeh Textures For Your Designs

Bokeh textures are getting quit popular in the web designing as well as digital art fields. Basically Bokeh is a term which is associated with the field of photography and it refers to the areas of light in the photograph that are out of focus. For web designs, the same… read more

Drop Caps: Historical Use And Current Best Practices With CSS

The practice of using a large letter to mark the start of a text has been around for almost two thousand years. Illustrated caps increased usability by marking important passages and guiding readers through the text. Unlike their historic counterparts, drop caps on the Web don’t add value in terms… read more

What’s the big deal with Pinterest? [Infographic]

In the past year or so a new social service has been gaining huge popularity, almost explosion-like you might say. You’ve probably heard of it, its called Pinterest. Now, I won’t go into detail about what Pinterest is or what it can do, I am sure you will… read more

Techniques for creating modal windows

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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.126)

This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)
If you would like to receive our daily updates and keep up to date with the latest and greatest articles and resources from the… read more

Creative Fuel #3: Sass Resources, 3D Virtual Tours & FontShop’s Photoshop Plugin

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Fuel Your Photography's Facebook cover photo of the month.

Creative Fuel is a periodic collection of design and creativity awesomeness found around the web. Find out about new apps and services, the best freebies, and other significant news from the design community!

35 Great Resources for Compass and Sass

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Tips for Planning your own Design Studio

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Getting started in freelance web design is an exhilarating process. Along with the added stresses of daily work you actually become your own boss, set your own hours, and even choose who you will work with. It’s truly a great way to earn a living!

Now consider… read more

Call to action buttons

Call to action buttons

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The Perfect Office #133

We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?

Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more

7 Ways to Increase the Value of Your Web Design Clients

7 Ways to Increase the Value of Your Web Design Clients

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5 News Sites For Your Design Inspiration

For many people, designing a content-based website is not unlike being the layout editor for a digital newspaper. It involves presenting headlines, stories, and images in a way that can cleanly convey a bigger picture and appeal to the reader – all while establishing a template suitable for constant updates… read more

Awesome Illustrations with Lines

Patrick Seymour is a designer Montreal, Canada and owns a very unique style of illustration. The line work of his pieces is what makes the entire illustration, filled with line work creating a giant piece very detailed by every single line. Enjoy!

For more from Patrick visit behance.net/patrickseymour

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Best of Tuts+ in March 2012

Each month, we bring together a selection of the best tutorials and articles from across the whole Tuts+ network. Whether you’d like to read the top posts from your favourite site, or would like to start learning something completely new, this is the best place to start!

Psdtuts+ — Photoshop Tutorials

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Turning propaganda poster images into modern web design

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Stock Photos: Pros, Cons, Fixes, and Strange Examples

Stock photos may be indispensable design resources, but they are also very prone to design abuse.
 

Like this.
(And hey, this post will also be adorned with a few stock photos too! Explanation’s in the next paragraph.)
 

The Pros of Using Stock Photos (and 1 Con)

 
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GitHub for Mac: GitHub Without the Command Line

Git. If you hail from the US, perhaps you’re thinking of the word “get” being said with a southern accent. Or if you’re from the UK then maybe you’re thinking of the rather unpleasant slang term.

I don’t mean either. I’m talking about the distributed version control system called Git. Or… read more

18 Beautiful Examples of Parallax Scrolling in Web Design

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The parallax effect in web design is something that has gained popularity over the past couple of years. When used properly, it can result in a rich and engaging user experience with seamless navigation. When used poorly, it can result in just a page with a… read more