20 Best Free Websites to Learn HTML5, CSS3 & Webdesign

Learning web design is an amazing experience to specially design students and enthusiasts. Web design is such a world class study you can learn it from anywhere else in this world basically when design courses are available to download from internet as a PDF version and almost free. There are different cores of learning web design as there is a combination of programming languages and web design technologies so a student needs to learn both of these two things to be a complete designer. To create responsive website design a designer needs to depend on advanced web design technologies HTML5 and CSS3 but these are very advanced level programming codes for fourth generation and to master these languages a person must be a code savvy.

Read: 10 Best Free Resources for Web Designers & Graphic Designers

So I think all of you who want to read this blog are code savvy basically on regular web design codes HTML, CSS, JavaScript etc. Now it's you turn to take Masters even Phd. on web design codes by learning HTML5 and CSS3. 

This article covers some of best resources, articles, and goodies of advanced web design technologies HTML5 and CSS3. In addition you can learn other codes like JavaScript, PHP, jQuery etc.

1. HTML5Rocks

HTML5Rocks

HTML5Rocks has a group of highly experienced web designers who provide articles to educate people HTML5 with addictive experiments, examples, visual content and demonstrations. The sole purpose of this website is to educate students to build mobile applications, develop browsers extensions like chrome, opera, safari, Firefox etc. and learn responsive web design with step by step guides. Note that HTML5Rocks is a Google project so  people can get additional support from the biggest giant of web developments and technologies.

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Top 5 Alternative Fonts to Gotham & Proxima Nova

You might be knowing that Gotham and Proxima Nova are of the those most popular font typefaces around the web as well as expensive too. But fortunately we have got some premium alternatives of these fonts available at Google Fonts. Proxima nova is created by Mark Simonson who has created total 7 condensed, regular, bold and bold italic fonts for Proxima nova and all these are so beauty fonts that are supported by every web page.

Gotham is world class font typeface which celebrates the attractive and unassuming lettering of the city. Public spaces are teeming with handmade sans serifs that share the same underlying structure, an engineer's idea of "basic lettering" that transcends both the characteristics of their materials and the mannerisms of their craftsmen. Gotham supports three font families Gotham Narrow, Extra and Condensed.

Here top five alternative fonts to Gotham and Proxima nova fonts. Four of these fonts are from Google fonts and another from Linotype.com who specially provides quality web fonts paid and some of them are free licensed. Note that, these lists are chosen by my own accord and hope that you will like them to design typography of your sites.

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30 Free Creative Web Design Courses for Beginners 2015

Web design is the ultimate creativity by human which is similar to art, and beauty. What artist does? just to emerge the ideas from his mind and make them appear through a simple brush. In such case web designer is an artist since he/she gathers the most efficient and beautiful ideas from his mind and make them appear with coding. The only difference is, Art we can see on paper and web design we see on the web. Mastering the web design is what i can say a "cherish" which requires hard working, attentiveness, correct focus, and almost patient. If you have all these elements then you can be a perfect web designer just it needs time or nothing more. 

Today I have come across a gather of free handful web design courses arranged by world's leading web design resource site Tutsplus.com. All the most important, newest and popular collections. 

The benefit is that every tutorial includes video guide which ensures your power to master crafts swiftly. You just only need to signup to get accessed all the guides, if you wish you can purchase the entire guide just by $15. Let's begin.

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15 Web Design Inspirations − Design Elements, Tools & Resources.

To the web designers what necessarily is most important is freebies no doubt. Design elements are the first priority to them before starting any new design. Choosing the correct icons, buttons and other elements is most important that makes your design look trending, fresh and smooth. Web design resources are everywhere but choosing one among the loads online can be a bit overwhelming.

In my previous guide I have discussed best free resources for web designers but now these are most useful stuffs you need to download and use in web development purposes. There are massive number of design resources remaining on the web but i have preferred top 15 design resources for making your design more powerful and robust.

You The Designer

Best shop for web designers which offer lots of freebies you need ever. It does offer a wide variety of stock graphics such as icons, Photoshop brushes, UI kits ranging from various themes like drawing, grunge, and minimalist. They do offer Vector packs, Photoshop brushes, UI kits, Ribbons and labels, Icons etc.

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20+ Best Free WordPress PSD Templates - MacBook Air, Nexus, Thinkpad

WordPress themes are much easy to robust design with beautiful templates. There are thousands of PSD templates the resources sites offer almost premium and free to download. PSD templates can be easily design and convertible into HTML format so that any WordPress user can use this. Today i have come across some beautiful designed PSD resources of templates you can use on your WordPress site. These are fully scalable, vectored PSD templates that are perfectly sized for the latest collections of PSD templates. The resources are covered from Elegantthemes who are the big resources of premium WordPress themes and templates.

6 Free ThinkPad PSD Templates

This Lenovo ThinkPad pack offers 8 beautifully designed templates to show off your website designs. The minimal design of these devices lets your work do the talking, and they are all available to download for free! Using these templates, you can quickly create photo-realistic mock-ups of your work at any size. These Templates are released as Open Source under the GPL (GNU General Public License) 2.0. Enjoy them and use them for whatever you’d like!

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35 Amazing Lists of Bootstrap HTML5 Themes & Templates

Bootstrap is a powerful theme framework which works with Wordpress CMS and most useful and popular specially for corporate based websites. Bootstrap is a responsive grid based framework to design and develop website easily. It is the most popular front-end framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web. The researchers prove that “Big B” as Bootstrap is sometimes called is one of the most successful trends that came into industry lately.

This article is the second part of our previous Bootstrap themes and templates collections. But these are the advanced bootstrap collections of HTML 5 with higher compatibilities in web design. There are some themes are also compatible with the version below 3. Here, you will find the multi-niche templates such as responsive, portfolio, business, e-commerce, simple, landing pages, coming soon templates, gallery blogs and much more.

Also Read: Download Best Free Bootstrap Themes and Templates

Below is the best list of 35 best themes that are fully featured. The main features that most of the themes have: the dropdown menu, custom slider based on J-query, portfolio section and footer widget section. I think you will enjoy this tutorial.

SiteName – Free Flat Bootstrap Responsive web template

SiteName is a free Flat Bootstrap Responsive web design template. Use this template for any type of website. It is built in a Fancy style however it can be used  as per the user requirements.

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27 Web Design Inspiration and Tools For Web Designers

If you're a web designer then you must know how importance the designing tools as per your busy schedule almost half your entire job can be performed by online web designing tools. You might be knowing Firebug, Browsershots, these are browser extensions to develope a site's forntend design but more efficient are those tools who are client side based like Invision, Webflow etc. But I'm not going to elongate words much more because there is delicious staffs awaiting up next. Yes today i will share some awesome resources for web designers and developers. I hope you will find them almost helpful, let's move on.

01. Google Web Designer Tool

Google launched Web designer tool which is more than a powerful design software to create beautiful, engaging HTML5 content. With GWDT you can interact animatiosns and elements to bring creativity upon your project. It's ready to use software available for Mac, Win 7+, and Linux OS. It's such advanced tool that you can add more effects while designing pages.

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30+ Best Google Fonts To Design Web Typography

Before the web design superiority there had too little resources for designers having to build up awesomeness across the design field entirely. Google fonts has come into industry and alleviated millions of designers headache across web typography, typekit and @font-face. This is so flexible, smart, easy, free and open source that you can design body text, titles, headlines so fast that you haven't made that before.

Google font is the primary choice to pick up any font suggestion instantly before to put correct type face format for any theme, template. You can choice the perfect one from 600 more stylish font collections. These fonts can be used both commercially and non-commercially for web development. Having vast portfolios of Google fonts it's too crucial to choose the perfect one for your next designed sites. 

Google fonts is quite easy to implement on any platform i.e. Blogger, WordPress, Drupal etc. Only you need to install the font family style sheet in a CSS link, or embed the javascript code close to <head> tag then apply font style on your website. For self hosted websites like WordPress you can host the font family on your server and use the CSS code.

As there are over 600 font families in Google fonts so it's much crucial to find out the perfect font for your website, here I have accrued 33 best and favorited font families according to popularity and  my own choice. I hope they will help you to match your site typography easily.

01. Actor

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