Mike Davidson, CEO of Newsvine a user-updated news blog, remarked that, “Because the competitive landscape of the web is such that the site which looks and works best gets the most traffic, developers and designers put a premium on the presentation of that content and let structural markup take a back seat.” Although thought provoking ideas and well written articles are important, a great deal of your success as a site has to do with design and performance.
In the book Mindless Eating, Brian Wansink describes a lot of the senseless food phenomena that influence our eating habits. One of his findings is that presentation not only would influence how likely someone was to buy a particular food product, but also that it’s packaging would influence the way it tasted. This same principle can be applied to your website. The design and performance of your website can not only influence how many people come to your website, but also their perception of your site as a whole. There are a few types of bad sites that we at A Small Orange typically see…

Most of us will not argue about the fact that the Internet browser is the most frequently used computer program on our personal computers. Without a browser we would have no route to our online information.

In the past, our browser interfaces were a bit dull however, nowadays, there is no reason why the user should have to tolerate anything lackluster. When it comes to searching for a browser theme, we now have a plethora of design options literally at our fingertips.

Designing and creating browser themes can be a challenging endeavor especially if you are wanting to create a design interface that performs within diverse browsers (Google Chrome, Firefox, and IE for example).

This being said, important consideration must be taken when figuring out your approach for internet browser interface design…

iPad has taken over the public like a storm. Owners of this magnificent gadget already have a huge selection of inspirational themes to choose from to brighten up their devices and express themselves. For those who are aiming to customize wallpaper in their new device once they have it I have picked 41 backgrounds with slight Apple touch…

ActionScript is using for development of website and software using Adobe Flash Platform and also used in dataset applications. ActionScript 3.0 is an object oriented programming language which called OOP. It’s based on ECMAScript which is also standard of javascript. In this post we are listing some ActionScript basic and advance tutorials…

Today we will let you know that How to make lamp with special effects in Photoshop. This tutorial is based on 2 major techniques of Photoshop “lighting” and “blending”. You will learn different ways to use of these “lighting” and “blending” methods. This is simple tutorial and you don’t have need any extra skills required for this. So let’s start tutorial and hope you will enjoy making this…

The demand for the usage of internets has been increasing day-to-day and many businessmen are opening many websites to develop their business. The early version of CSS2 which had many limitations has been replaced with extraordinary features of CSS3 web design and the CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. With the help of HTML code, the CSS styles are used to form a website layout and the latest trend is using the CSS3 styles or designs. The new styles of CSS3 include easy introduction of paragraphs, 1px clicks, change of text color, box shadow with RGBA on hover and the gradually changing links.

There are many creative and attractive ideas which have no boundaries in this type of web design. The unusual design concepts showcases the readable, colorful, simple, illustration, and custom models of web design and also the text design have different shapes like rounded corners, stars, badges and many more. The impressive new features of CSS3 type have also the CSS animation that enables to execute motion-based functions that is designated to JavaScript. Some of the inspiring examples of the animated CSS3 web designs are the rotating Polaroids, the Matrix, Trippy Spinning Column of Fun, DJ Hero, 3D animated cube, rocket ship, weather, leaves and many more…

Today I want to share with you some of my favorite Photoshop actions. First of all, let me tell you a little about it: an action is a set of recorded commands which you can use on several photos to obtain a certain effect. These actions will help you add more light, sharpen or add some extra effects to your image, they’re absolutely great and they help you save a lot of time!

So if you have a series of dark photos and you want to make them brighter, or you have really dull colors on your photos and you really want to bring some life to those photos or other great effects that will make your photos stand out, check out the collection of Photoshop actions below, you will certainly find something you like: