Now what, may you ask, is “The Design Gnome Week in Review?” Well, here at The Design Gnome, we spend a good amount of time on the internet, as you may imagine given that this is, after all, a web design blog. Every so often we come across articles or tutorials that are just soo [...]
There’s a lot to be said for texture in web design. It can bring a whole new level of depth to the design. Lately, a popular texture to use has been the texture of wood. Without further ado: 20 Lovely Wood Textured Web Designs.
Remember how when you were a kid, your parents used to tell you to clean your room? Well, chances are you know longer have an adult telling you to clean your room, so maybe you sometimes forget to. Imagine that your HTML code is your room. Open tags, close tags, attributes, id’s, and classes strewn [...]
Now what, may you ask, is “The Design Gnome Week in Review?” Well, here at The Design Gnome, we spend a good amount of time on the internet, as you may imagine given that this is, after all, a web design blog. Every so often we come across articles or tutorials that are just soo [...]
The Design Gnome launched on Tuesday of this week, and to celebrate, I put up one Dribbble invite for the person with the best portfolio piece they submitted. It was a tough decision, but now, drum roll please, I will announce the winner.
When you are first starting out with Cascading Style Sheets, it can be daunting to face the seemingly infinite properties that the language supplies, much less the values that you can input for those properties. In those troubling times it can be helpful to have a library of common bits of code, called snippets. I’m [...]
While there are many wonderfully designed websites on the internet, occasionally you’ll come across one that really stands out to you, almost like they’re coming off the screen to you. This is what I mean when I say “depth,” and here are 50 great examples of it.
Lately there’s been a huge number of CSS3 experiments on the web. And while they’re all doubtlessly cool, very few go through and explain how it was done in tutorial form. Most simply give a list of properties used or just show their code, without explaining the why of their source. In this tutorial, I’m [...]
Two very important elements in not only web design, but many forms of design and even architecture, are Form and Structure. However, too often these are confused and understood to be the same thing. In this article, I hope to change that, which, in turn, will change the way you think about design.
Hello there! My name is Max Luzuriaga, and you’re currently looking at The Design Gnome, a design blog founded by me! I know that there are already plenty of design blogs out there, so what makes us different? Well, instead of just tutorials, just articles, or just inspiration, on here we feature all three!