One of the most important elements of a good website is ‘spectacular design’. Earlier, websites were static and design elements played almost no major role in them. But with the emergence of Web 2.0 and the new web tools and technologies, websites have become more dynamic with design playing a vital role. Today, you can use your website(s) to interact with your users, engage them and prompt them to take a call to action easily. However, there are many fine points to consider while designing a dynamic website that is in sync with the changes in WorldWideWeb. Let’s go through four such web design trends of 2012, which will help you pep up your website and make it an instant hit with the end-users.

Responsive Interface

It is no secret that most of the users nowadays access the Internet from a number of mobile devices due to speedier connectivity and unlimited data plans. Since most of these mobiles are touchscreen devices, clicking on various elements on a web page has become redundant. Today, web designers provide users with websites that sport responsive interfaces.

You can use dropdown menus, large buttons, search boxes, breadcrumbs and other such elements and make your website more responsive for your end-users, so that they can easily browse, navigate and use your website irrespective of their devices.

Infographics

Infographics are the latest sensation. They are commonly found in various social media sites and for good reason; they provide important information and put them together in a way that is easy to read and comprehend at one go.

You can use infographics on your websites to present interesting facts, statistics or anything and everything under the sun (as long as they make sense). More importantly, infographics can be shared on social media sites (and accessed on various mobile platforms as well), which will help increase your website’s visibility online.

Parallax Scrolling

Parallax Scrolling combines static images and scrollable text. This new method enables users to scroll website elements in different and more interesting ways and is particularly useful, when you want to show more information on a single web page and yet, maintain a clean, uncluttered and user-friendly layout. To get a clear idea about Parallax Scrolling, you can search for some of the best sites that have used this method on their web pages.

Minimalism

Small is the new big and less is the new more. Today desktops with 10 inch screens or laptops with 14 inch screens are making way for 7 inch tablets and 4 inch smartphones. This calls for minimalistic web design, where only relevant information is displayed on each web page and any sort of clutter is totally done away with.
These sites have a clear design; display only the important links; contain simple backgrounds and big fonts; use a color palette with 2-3 colors at the most; are easy to navigate etc. In a nutshell, minimalistic websites provide information to the site visitors clearly without distracting them with unwanted design elements and wasting their time.

To Conclude

These were some of the latest web design trends on 2012. Use them on your website to make it more attractive, engaging and last but not the least, interesting for your target audience. This in turn will help you increase your conversion ratios and also increase the footfalls on your site.

About Guest Blogger

Alan Hall is a Los Angeles based Website Design with PLAVEBAPPS and has worked on numerous successful projects for his company. He also likes to research and write on various technical topics for guest blogging platforms when he gets the time.

A blog is a  website that contains valuable information published on the World Wide Web shared among people at large. No matter how rich the content of your blog is, a unique blog design plays a vital role in making your blog successful. The internet is filled with ready to install themes but for bloggers who want make their blog a killer, read on to find out how you can design your blog from scratch.

When working on almost any kind of designer project, one of the most important yet difficult things is to choose the right font. Here’s when our smartphones can come to help us. There are many good font-related apps out there at iTunes, and some of them can even be used by professional designers:

 
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This is guest post by Daliah Kaif 
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This is guest post by Albert Vaung
When you are designing an eCommerce website, there are no half measures. Your eyes need to be on the ball, all the time. You cannot afford any laxity when it comes to design. This is because more than anything else, the design of an eCommerce site is all about getting the attention of the target audience and creating an environment, wherein they are willing to part with their hard earned money. A website that can attract visitors, but has a very minimal conversion ratio is regarded a failure.
So, this begs the question – What’s the art of creating that perfect eCommerce website? Well, the answer is pretty simple, really and that is ‘Don’t fall into the black holes that are waiting to swallow you, every step of the way, when you are designing an eCommerce site. But you can only avoid them if you are able to identify them.

This is guest post by Rob Toledo

Hundreds of thousands of web pages are designed every day around the world, and the vast majority of them are...average. That's because not every web designer puts as much thought into their pages as they deserve. If you're not sure what the most important considerations are with your next web page, check this short list for some commonly-overlooked elements needed to design a great landing page:

In the world of website design, dynamism and originality make for excellent website concepts. Nowadays, people are after the unique, the scintillating, and the creative. However, despite the growing tide of overdone aesthetics when it comes to website design, more often than not, many professional website designers still veer towards the simple and often monochromatic themes that were the staple of earlier sites.

This is guest post by Brianne Walter on basic principles and techniques for web design . It's also helpful for you who want to make a custom template for blog .
The principles and the techniques are essential for any design. Therefore, in this case, the website design is no exception. For a good website designing, you will need to apply the principles and techniques in a wise manner. Therefore, you will need to know about these elements and its functions. Therefore, some principles and techniques are discussed for your need.

Email is still king. Even as other channels become more popular, email remains popular among Internet users. Marketers still value email as a way to communicate with consumers.
It's important for designers to understand the value placed on email and email design.
With this in mind, let's look at the essential elements of e-commerce email design.

In previous post ,I told you about data tags for some widgets . In this post ,we continue to the last and most important widget : blogpost widget . This widget is used to show posts in a blog . Without this widget ,we can't blogging .

As mentioned in previous post on blogger template structure ,there are 4 main parts in a blogger template . Part 1 contain information on xml format ,and we can ignore this part because there's nothing to do here .
For the part 2 ,the header ,here is the first thing we should care for a blogger template .

Knowing CSS can help you in solving Blogger template errors ,or make some customization . But how to do that ? how to find where is the trouble or find what CSS attribute you need to change when  make customization ? In this post ,I will show you what I did : using Firebug (a Firefox add-on ) to work with CSS

Believe it or not ,most of modifications in default Blogger templates that I did were CSS only . And the result are custom templates you see in SimplexDesign blog .Understanding CSS ,even a little can help you in changing elements in website/blog as you want .Changing in Font size,colors ,size of elements ,positions of elements... all of them are CSS ^^
But how can we remember all of them ,we are not developer and we have no time to do this . So here are 30 CSS cheatsheets ,that you can use for reference ,anytime you want to know about an attribute ,what they mean ,and the role of them ...
I hope this helpful to you

I took an eye surgery two weeks ago and now I think my eyes are good enough to use computer again . Now is the time for me to answering comments and post something new after a long delay ^^
Thanks for still coming in my blog and keep supporting me in this time .
In this post ,I want to show you a freebie,a beautiful nature business card template in psd (Photoshop file format ) , just need some changes in name ,address... and it's ready to use

In my design work ,I have to create sequential lists ,for example ,a list of blog comments ,lists of users ... adding counter to these lists will make it look better but sometime it's hard to do manually . I find out a solution from webdesignerwall.com ,using jquery to add numbers to the list .

In web design , finding icons and other resource for designing is a necessary task.We got icons for website ,for RSS ,and now ,icon sets for E-Commerce .This is the list of high-quality icon sets that I found on Webdesignledger ,and I want to re-post it here for you all because I think it maybe helpful . Enjoy it ^^

DeviantArt is a great community of designer . Many designers submit their product to this site .Most of them are free to use. So if you have free time to walk around this site ,you will find something that worth .
In this post ,I want to show a collection of free fonts in DeviantArt .

jQuery has been one of the more popular JavaScript Framework . I love its structure and plugins ,very interesting for web designer for making interactive website . It's fast and easy to use .
jQuery released version 1.3 in January 2009 and more plugins have been appearing online as well.
Here is the last collection of jQuery plugins in 2009 that shown on my blog .Check it out my friend .

Here is the list of useful Jquery Plugin .They can help you make a better web design . I hope this list helpful to you

Easy Slider 1.7 – Numeric Navigation jQuery Slider

As its name ,easy to install and use .

Agile Carousel

Jquery plugin that allows you to easily create a custom carousel.Many options for different transitions .

Sliding Boxes and Captions with jQuery

One man asked me for make a caption or title of image sliding up when mouse over and down when mouse out .And here is the plugin for him .

AnythingSlider jQuery Plugin

AnythingSlider is an attempt at bringing together the functionality of all of those previous sliders and adding new features. I don't use this slider in my template but in my opinion ,it's a good one .

Creating a Slick Auto-Playing Featured Content Slider

In my previous blog post ,I talked about how I made slider for Simplex Darkness template . And here is another slider with content . You can use this one and still get the same result like Simplex Darkness template .

How to Make a Threadless Style T-Shirt Gallery

This plugin is very useful for saving space in your site . In the demo version ,they use this plugin for T-Shirt gallery ,but you can use them with images on blog ,start with thumbnails and show the full images when mouse over .

Create a gallery by using z-index and jQuery

Interesting gallery plugin . But I think it's only suitable for personal blog .

Create an Image Rotator with Description

Another solution for any one who want to make a slider in web . If you feel the instruction I wrote to create a slider so complicated and hard to follow ,you can take an eye at this one .

ImageSwitch

The main point of this plug-in is to make an easy-to-use, simple and fast plug-in to create effect when you switch between images. Minimize the arguments you need to input and still give some decent effects.

CrossSlide

At the first time I saw the demo of this plugin ,I think it created by Flash . In fact,it is really a product of Jquery . This is a great solution for creating dynamic effects fx. in a header.You simply have to see the effect for yourself demo here.

Highslide JS

Highslide JS is an open source image, media and gallery viewer written in JavaScript. Integrate it into a page and you have a gallery for your blog .

JQZoom

JQZoom is a javascript image magnifier built at the top of the popular jQuery javascript framework.jQzoom is a great and a really easy to use script to magnify what you want.

Easiest Tooltip and Image Preview Using jQuery

You can place thumbnail in your blog posts and use this plugin for showing full image when mouse over . A good solution for saving web page space .

jQuery spherical panorama viewer

A javascript viewer for displaying spherical panoramas. An alternative to Java and QuickTime technology. To use this plugin you need to generate views from your spherical panoramic image. You can download and install MPRemap from Helmut Dersch website for this purpose. I think it's very good for real estate agent websites because buyer can easily imagine the house they will buy with this plugin .

prettyPhoto a jQuery lightbox clone

jQuery lightbox style script that support images, galleries, flash, qtime, iframe etc.

jQuery virtual tour

This virtual tour plugin has the particularity to be accessible and can run even if javascript has not been activated.

Step Carousel Viewer

jQuery Cycle plugin

A greate plugin !

Fancy Box

FancyBox is tool for displaying images, html content and multi-media in a Mac-style “lightbox” that floats overtop of web page. Automatically scales large images to fit in window, adds a nice drop shadow under the full-size image, image sets to group related images and navigate through them. Also support media.

Jcrop

Jcrop is the quick and easy way to add image cropping functionality to your web application. It combines the ease-of-use of a typical jQuery plugin with a powerful cross-platform DHTML cropping engine that is faithful to familiar desktop graphics applications.

AnythingZoomer jQuery Plugin

You have a small area. You mouse over it. An area pops up giving you a zoomed in closer look. This is a jQuery plugin that does it. I’m not going to tell you what you should use it for or elaborate use-case scenarios. Your own creativity can help you there. Demo & Download

ImgAreaSelect

imgAreaSelect is a jQuery plugin for selecting a rectangular area of an image.

PanView

This plugin allows your visitors view details of a big image and move around with the mouse.

s3 Slider

This is an easy way to add a good looking image slideshows with text flyin to your website.

Lightbox Plus

Another Lightbox style plugin

Shadowbox

Shadowbox is an online media viewer application that supports all of the web’s most popular media publishing formats. Shadowbox is written entirely in JavaScript and CSS and is highly customizable. Using Shadowbox, website authors can showcase a wide assortment of media in all major browsers without navigating users away from the linking page. Can run alone but also has an adapter for jQuery and other frameworks.

Image Cross Fade Transition

Scrollable

Scrollable is useful jQuery plug-in for creating scrollable content.

jQuery Infinite Carousel

Image Loading

This tutorial will show how to load images in the background, and once loaded handle the event and create your own response. Try Demo | View Code

Creating a polaroid photo viewer with CSS3 and jQuery

A good gallery plugin ,you can drag the images . But I'm not sure this one is quite good in all browsers . CSS3 is not supported in old version of browsers .