As my first CreativityDen post I’ve decided to show you all, (mainly beginners to CSS), how to use it effectively in you designs. One of the most frustrating things when coding a website can be not having the skills to bring your .PSD file to life, it happens to most of us, (unless your like me and you learnt to code first), but it doesn’t have to be that way anymore.

These methods are trial and error, not every effect works in every design, which is why not every well done site has drop shadow and rounded corners everywhere, so be careful when and where you use them.

Typography is the art of placing and arranging text according to the ambience or requirement. Use of typefaces is no longer restricted to just articles or media of similar kind. Typefaces are more like music notes. Each note strikes a tone to create a song. Typography in itself is a vast subject. There are many branches to typography. One such branch is portrait making (or otherwise known as text art). Previously, ASCII art was the previous form of typography art we see today.

Whilst visiting various websites it has come to my attention that only about half use contact forms. The websites that don’t instead supply a mailto link which then opens an email client. Why do some websites choose to use a mailto link rather than a contact form? Is it because they’re too lazy to design and code a contact form or is it because they feel contact forms are unnecessary when you have well developed and easy to use email clients such as gmail. I am sure there are various reasons to why websites choose to display a contact form or supply an email address, but in this article I will be telling you why contact forms are the way to go.

The typical web design, you will notice, has advanced a considerable amount since the days of the animated and somewhat awfully designed geocities websites. With the improvements in the markup languages HTML and CSS and the incredible graphic software now available, website design has become an industry in itself. It is therefore important to stay up to date with the latest trends and to also to be imaginative and to spark new ones. It is because of this that many people have begun to experiment with depth, this article will take a long hard look at depth and explain various ways in which it can be achieved.

Every blog you come across is likely to have at least one sidebar. Usually positioned on the right, they tend to act as a great source for statistics and navigation. Statistics such as the most popular posts, the top commenters and navigation with links to pages and categories, the sidebar is almost a must have for blogs. Today, hundreds of thousands of blogs are equipped with a sidebar with each blog CMS providing a sidebar in their default theme…

Every designer will have different ways to stay creative and to keep the new ideas coming. Sharing ideas about this would be a great discussion we could have.It would help all of us as designers to keep the creative juices flowing. I have put together some things that I do to come up with new ideas. Please let us know what you do.

Hello everyone, this is my first article! Today I’m going to show you 5 free software packages that will help you bring out your creative side with your computer without spending any money! Although these free programs are not as good as if you were to shell out for the real deals, they still offer a wide range of features which will leave you with the same great end product!