Jason Beaird is a designer and front-end developer with over ten years of experience working on a wide range of award-winning web projects. With a background in graphic design and a passion for web standards, he’s always looking for accessible ways to make the Web a more beautiful place. When he’s not pushing pixels in Photoshop or tinkering with markup, Jason loves sharing his passion for the Web with others.
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Read A Brief Look at Screen Resolutions and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
Read DesignFestival: Resizing: Fixed, Fluid, or Responsive Layouts and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
Read Resizing: Fixed, Fluid, or Responsive Layouts and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
Read DesignFestival: 3 Text Spacing Principles Every Designer Needs to Know and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
Many typographic decisions are based on spacing. This is something that has always been true with printed type, and became applicable to web type with the advent of CSS.
This is the introduction of the article DesignFestival: A Few Design Trends, by the author Jason Beaird.
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Read DesignFestival: Bread-and-butter Layouts and Inspiration and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
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Read DesignFestival: Special Entities of HTML and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
Read Special Entities of HTML and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
Read DesignFestival: Emphasis in Design and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
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Read DesignFestival: Unity in Design and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
Design theory describes unity as the way in which the different elements of a composition interact with one another. A unified layout is one that works as a whole rather than being identified as separate pieces.
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Read DesignFestival: Grid Theory and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
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Read DesignFestival: Web Page Anatomy and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
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let’s take a closer look at color temperature, chromatic values, saturation, and the basic theory behind how colors are produced, in print and on the web.
Color psychology is a field of study that’s devoted to analyzing the emotional and behavioral effects produced by colors and color combinations.
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