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2010

30

AUG

51 Tutorials for Creating 3D Animations and Artworks

We’ve gathered up 51 tutorials for creating 3D animations and artworks, for a variety of software including Blender, 3D Studio Max, After Effects, Cinema4D and Maya, so whichever program you use, you’ll find some tutorials to get you started, from beginner to expert.

design, graphic, tips

129

0 comments

2010

29

AUG

5 Best Resources for Build a Memorable Brand

In this resources you'll find the basics, series, tips and strategies that will help you to build unique and memorable brand.

285

0 comments

2010

25

AUG

Running More Effective Project Meetings

People always cringe when a meeting request hits their inbox, especially web designers and project managers. To us, meetings are boring and endless, taking far too much of our time. Perhaps that’s an overstatement, but the fact remains: meetings can be tedious. But what if our meetings with clients and project stakeholders weren’t tedious?

inspiration, misc, tips

10

0 comments

10 Powerful Points Proving Necessity Of RSS

RSS(Real Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary) is widely becoming a VERY powerful marketing tool on the NET and for Internet marketers around the world, the question is… … “Are you using RSS to syndicate your content?”

194

0 comments

2010

23

AUG

CSS3 Sidebar Full Height Background Color

This is a small CSS3 trick which can do the Faux Columns trick without using image. The problem with sidebar in layout is it cannot extend automatically full height along with the content. We usually do it by creating an image background and repeating it the way down for content container. Today, I will show you how we get the same result with CSS3. This technique is using the CSS3 gradient.

css-html, tips, tutorial

1177

0 comments

2010

18

AUG

The Problem With Creativity

Helping resolve issues that block our inherent creative abilities.

design, inspiration, misc, tips, tools

231

0 comments

External Tip - 13 Fascinating Photoshop Tutorials You Should See

In this category we want to give you an advice to other great sites, where you can get a lot of very useful information, inspirations and materials. I collected 13 fantastic Photoshop tutorials, which can help you to expand your skills.

graphic, photoshop, tips, tutorial

276

0 comments

2010

11

AUG

30 Job Boards for Finding Freelance Jobs

Freelancing is great! but finding a Freelance Job isn’t always easy. We all have to start somewhere, but do not always know where. The job boards are a great starting point for any designer

612

1 comment

2010

9

AUG

6 Free or Cheap Altnerative Image Editing Tools to Adobe Photoshop

Whether you are a casual snapshot photographer or someone looking to go pro, you should be able to find editing software that saves you money yet still gives you the control and options you need.

graphic, photoshop, tips

347

0 comments

2010

7

AUG

5 Best Resources for Better Typography in Brand Identity Design

This week we have tips, common mistakes, presentation, example and resources that highly recommended for better typography in your brand identity design.

261

0 comments

2010

24

JUL

4 Ideas For Styling Link Hovers With CSS

Let people know they can click your link with style, by learning four awesome link hover techniques you can apply using simple CSS and CSS3.

801

0 comments

5 Tips and Tutorials for Creating Memorable Business Card

Below is a roundup of very usable tips and tutorials, that will help us for creating unique and memorable business card.

design, tips, tutorial

499

0 comments

2010

23

JUL

40 Website Design Layout Tutorials that Yield Professional Results

We’ve collected up 40 website design layout tutorials (for Photoshop) that yield professional results and will teach you a variety of valuable techniques.

css-html, design, graphic, tips

583

2 comments

2010

21

JUL

20 websites to find Web Design jobs

Lay off and job cuts have been a major problem in today’s context because of these economic crises people are losing job and are in search of new one.

tips, trend, usability

webanddesigners

658

1 comment

2010

19

JUL

How to Fix IE7 Submenu Hover Problem

Internet Explorer 7, among many other drawbacks, does not know what :hover in CSS means, so drop down menus may not work well in IE7 when using :hover.

browser, css-html, design, tips, tutorial

593

0 comments

2010

18

JUL

5 Great Logo Design Tips and Tutorials

For this week we have roundup of great and very useful tips and tutorials about logo design process.

logo, tips, tutorial

489

0 comments

2010

16

JUL

Is Freelancing Right for You?

Freedom is the most basic of all human rights, Freedom is all about authority, the willingness of every single human being to pursue its dreams, aspirations, and ideals .

tips, usability

webanddesigners

237

0 comments

2010

13

JUL

WordPress 3 and What You Can Do!

A deeper look at new features of Wordpress 3 and see what we can do.

design, tips, tutorial, wordpress

2470

0 comments

2010

10

JUL

35+ Great Places to Find Web Design Jobs

Designers and developers are always looking for a job, whether it is full-time employment or freelance opportunities. There are some great websites taht can help you to find these types of jobs. This post contains a collection of 35+ best websites that include specialized job boards to find the right job for you.

design, misc, tips

581

0 comments

2010

9

JUL

What CSS3 Can Do For You: Typography and Special Effects

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Doing typography with CSS3 is awesome.

css-html, design, tips, usability

569

0 comments

2010

6

JUL

When a Client Hates Your Work

What do you do if a client truly wants to work with you, but they just don’t like your work? I’ve had the pleasure of working with some clients on multiple projects where they approve nearly all my outputs except for that one outlier project in which nothing seems to look right in their eyes. Here are some ways to work through the situation without losing your cool.

design, inspiration, tips

439

0 comments

Illustrator tutorials roundup: June 2010

Last month has brought us lots of new stuff to learn, fresh tutorials filled with new and creative techniques for us to enjoy and apply to our future artworks. Here are the most relevant ones.

design, graphic, tips, tutorial

318

1 comment

2010

1

JUL

Create a cute monster girl in Illustrator

Today I will explain how to create a cute little monster girl and in the same time, you will learn to handle multiple layers and maximize their efficiency.

design, graphic, tips, tutorial

245

0 comments

2010

29

JUN

Create a dynamic nature poster in Photoshop

In this tutorial we will create a nature poster using stock images, vectors and brushes. Tools: Adobe Photoshop CS3 Difficulty: Intermediate – Advanced

design, graphic, photoshop, tips

223

0 comments

2010

27

JUN

Essentials of Web Designing, Development, And SEO

Designing a website is not a child’s play. Its not something that you randomly throw on a particular place that has some graphics and some other information such as the name and the contact information. This kind of practice arises when there is a lack of understanding to harness the Internet as the valuable source of business.

design, seo, tips, tools

963

3 comments

2010

26

JUN

16 Great Mootools Examples and Tutorials

MooTools is a compact JavaScript framework designed for the intermediate to advanced JavaScript developer. It has custom implementations to dramatically improve JavaScript performance over the browsers. With such improvements, it allows web developers to continue advanced JavaScript coding while still ensuring a good customer experience.

ajax, javascript, tips

504

0 comments

2010

25

JUN

What CSS3 Can Do For You: Animation and 3D effects

I went over the great ways to develop buttons and how to effectively use imagery transitions. Now we will move on and talk about the great ways to use CSS3 for animation and 3D effects.

css-html, design, tips, tutorial

290

0 comments

2010

24

JUN

A Design Trend That Might Cost You Your Job

If you’re involved in the world of design, whether it is by trade or business necessity, then you are probably familiar with the term spec design, also known as crowdsourcing. The basic principal behind crowdsourcing is working for little or no compensation. There are entire companies devoted to spec design. For example. . .

design, graphic, misc, tips, trend

398

0 comments

Performance-Friendly Javascript Packing w/ PHP & Caching

How to use PHP, Caching and Apache to provide automatic Javascript packing and/or obfuscation without taking a measurable performance hit.

javascript, php, tips, tutorial

davidstinemetze

465

0 comments

2010

23

JUN

The Solar Method (of building websites)

Unlike more traditional professions, web design does not have a standard practice model. The Solar Method is my proposition and, I believe, a healthy candidate for the title of Website Building Standard Method.

css-html, design, misc, tips

284

0 comments

Create a Cool 3D Graffiti Text Effect using Line Art in Photoshop

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to take a line art sketch of text and turn it into a 3D graffiti style text effect using some simple techniques and stock images.

design, graphic, photoshop, tips

294

0 comments

2010

22

JUN

The Greatest Sites to Submit Your Web Design and Development News

There are dozens of websites out there that allow web designers to submit links to their articles. During a few months of blog promotion, I have been able to

design, tips, tools

214

0 comments

2010

21

JUN

Pricing Page And Plan Comparison Tables: Tips, Tricks, Advices and Showcases

Pricing Pages and Product comparison tables are being used extensively in modern sites. Here, we will look into tips, tricks, advices and examples of cool pricing pages and product comparison tables.

inspiration, tips, trend

447

0 comments

2010

20

JUN

12 Ways You’re Scaring Away Your Readership

There is a bunch of reasons why you lost your readers. This is a list of some reasons why your readers never come back. Blogging tips to gain more readers.

310

0 comments

2010

19

JUN

Great Backup Plugins & services & Online Storages For WordPress

Today WordPress is one of the most popular blogging tools on the Internet. If you have a blog powered by WordPress you need to take regular backup of your WordPress database and your essential files (uploads, plugins, themes, etc.). If your blog gets hacked, you can simply reload the database and files and your blog will be normal within a few minutes.

tips, tools, wordpress

364

0 comments

2010

18

JUN

The huge checklist: 341 tests to make your site perfect!

It's sometimes difficult to know if a site is good or not. You paid a web designer to create a website but you have no idea if he did a good job or not? You are a web designer yourself, and you want to make sure you didn't forget anything to make a great website? Whoever you are, this huge checklist is for you. It features 341 tests to make sure your site is perfect!

misc, tips, usability

389

0 comments

2010

16

JUN

Interpreting Perspective

Often, the truth of a situation is all in how you look at it. For example, from a train platform, does it not appear the parallel lines of a railroad track converge at a point near the horizon? But anyone reading this understands that the tracks are not actually converging. What appears to be the truth is actually false: the convergence is a visual illusion . . .

design, graphic, misc, tips, usability

383

0 comments

2010

15

JUN

CSS Color Values and Shades

CSS colors are defined using a hexadecimal (hex) notation for the combination of Red, Green and Blue color values (RGB).

css-html, design, graphic, tips, tools

383

0 comments

What CSS3 Can Do For You: Streamlining Buttons and Imagery Transitions

We figure out ways to start rolling out new techniques so we don’t have to wait. CSS3 is the third level of CSS to be created, and isn’t compatible with all browsers or officially launched quite yet. With that being said, there are some great techniques you can start using today to get yourself familiar with.

css-html, design, tips

466

0 comments

2010

10

JUN

Intelligent Manipulation - Edward Bernays

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society… In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons …

design, inspiration, misc, tips, trend

206

0 comments

2010

9

JUN

How to Easily Run Internet Explorer on Your Mac

Here we're going to use a neat little program to install Internet Explorer on your Mac computer so that we don't need to reboot or use buggy third-party software just to test a web design.

freebies, misc, os, tips, tools

608

0 comments

2010

8

JUN

6 Ways to use a seamless pattern in Photshop and Illustrator

We want you to get the most out of our vector patterns so to make your job easier, we've made a list of methods you can use to apply patterns to your artwork, for both Illustrator and Photoshop. Difficulty: Beginner Completion time: 5-10 minutes

design, graphic, tips, tutorial

317

0 comments

2010

7

JUN

Typography: The Clothes Your Brand Wears to Work

If you had to wear only one set of clothing to work everyday for the rest of your life, how much time would you spend considering what you are going to wear? You might take some time to ask a few questions. Is this suit still going to hold up for another 20 years? Are these heels still going to be cute and comfortable in 2019?

design, inspiration, misc, tips, trend

443

1 comment

Quick Tip : Make A Post Automatic Excerpt With Image Thumbnail on WordPress 2.9+

Excerpt is a wordpress feature which will facilitate you to display a summary of the article on index pages automatically. However, this feature has a weakness, namely a picture in your article will not appear on index pages automatically. Lucky, start from WordPress 2.9, theme authors can easily enable Post Thumbnail

tips, tutorial, wordpress

488

1 comment

2010

6

JUN

45 Of The Most Wanted Adobe Flex Tutorials

Looking for Adobe Flex tutorials? I know it’s hard to find them but fortunately I’m searching in every corner of the internet (ok, ok, maybe not in every corner) to find these tips and techniques.

flash, tips, tutorial

368

0 comments

2010

5

JUN

WordPress 3.0 Features Every Theme Developer Should Know

WordPress 3.0 offers several exciting new features including: multiple sites, custom menus, custom post types and a new default theme. This article highlights important enhancements from theme developers point of view and provide links to some really useful resources.

php, tips, tutorial, wordpress

385

0 comments

2010

3

JUN

Build a HTML5/CSS3 Website Layout Without Images – Part 2

In the first part of this article - Build a HTML5/CSS3 Website Layout Without Images – Part 1, we have finished explaining all the HTML5 elements used in the code of our demo's index.html page and today we will discuss the CSS properties used to make it pretty.

css-html, tips, tutorial, usability

365

0 comments

2010

2

JUN

How to create a damask seamless pattern in Illustrator

In this tutorial we will learn to create a damask seamless pattern based on a few vector flowers. Difficulty: Intermediate Completion time: 1-2 hours

design, graphic, tips, tutorial

201

0 comments

2010

1

JUN

Ways to tame anger at work

The input that you endow in your work gives an output of satisfaction in whatever you perform and your organization is happy with you. A problem free work environment is only seen in dreams or stories which is beyond reality.

misc, tips, tutorial, usability

webanddesigners

298

1 comment

12 Useful Mac Dashboard Widgets for Web Designers and Developers

My little secret playground - mac dashboard. I have been using heaps of widgets, and most of them are pretty handy and useful to accomplish small task and display information.

design, os, tips, tools

15186

3 comments

How to code an HTML Email Newsletter

In this step-by-step tutorial, I’m going to show you exactly how to code an HTML email; be it an HTML Email Signature or HTML Email Newsletter.

css-html, design, template, tips, tutorial

516

0 comments

33 Specific to WordPress Category Hacks And Useful Resources

Here are 33 Specific to WordPress Category Hacks and Useful Resources, focusing on RSS related to category, control through .htaccess file, plugins specific to category resources to reduce time and give us a better understanding of Wordpress.

php, tips, tools, tutorial, wordpress

blogwebdesigner

372

0 comments

2010

31

MAY

A Complete To-Do List & Plugins for WordPress Site Maintenance

If you own a WordPress site, it will probably be operational 24/7. As time passes, the number of different site operations will cause your WordPress site to slow down. Just like your computer or house, your WordPress site requires scheduled maintenance checks in order to keep it running at its prime condition.

tips, tools, usability, wordpress

261

0 comments

2010

30

MAY

Quick Tip : Replace The Horizontal Page Menu With The Categories in WordPress Navigation Bar

In some wordpress theme, usually the category navigation menu often we get on the sidebar, but I think the position of the category navigation menu on the header section will be more beneficial, because it helps the reader to further explore our site content.

tips, tutorial, wordpress

421

0 comments

Designing and Optimising Websites for iPad

How big is iPad screen? What's the user agent string? How to specify a custom CSS for iPad devices? What technologies are supported on iPad? Find out all about Designing and Optimising Websites for iPad.

css-html, tips, trend, tutorial

449

0 comments

2010

28

MAY

Quick Tip: Photo enhancement in 10 seconds – Photoshop

In this quick tip I will explain how to easily enhance a photo using a very neat trick.

design, graphic, photoshop, tips

419

1 comment

2010

26

MAY

5 WP Plugins for Easy Reader Contact

Since Wordpress is a very versatile platform, you may have readers or users that wish to get in contact with you, either to discuss a topic or possibly to

tips, tools, wordpress

286

0 comments

2010

25

MAY

Photo reconstruction: Venus de Milo

The concept of this tutorial is my response to the overwhelmingly magic power of the new Content Aware Fill tool, which is part of the new Photoshop CS5. You could also call it "Why humans are better than machines", even.

design, photoshop, tips, tutorial

438

1 comment

2010

23

MAY

Quick Tip : Exclude Pages From Menu Navigation Bar Manually

Sometimes we wanted to create pages in WordPress but don't want them listed in the header or footer navigation areas. For example you want to make the page "Guides for using RSS feeds," and you think this page should not be displayed on the navigation menu. You can do this by excluding pages and in this article will show you how to do it.

tips, tutorial, wordpress

554

0 comments

2010

19

MAY

A Marketing Approach to Gain More Clients

Some good marketing tip to gain more clients in the design industry: showcasing your talents, starting a blog, business networking ...

371

0 comments

Save The Day with a Coupon

With the economy slowly recovering it’s always a good idea to keep an eye out on those little expenses. I use a lot of paid web services and they quickly add up to a fair amount of my monthly expenses. Luckily I always google around for coupons and discount codes, which I can use for the web services I signed up for.

design, freebies, tips, wordpress

354

1 comment

Leave Facebook For These 11 Alternatives

You might have heard recently that Facebook has gone wild with the privacy issues. Facebook is plain evil, they now allow third parties to get your information with no strings attached. While its the second most visited site on the planet, the reputation of Facebook is going down.

tips, trend, tutorial, usability

517

1 comment

2010

18

MAY

Top 7 Wordpress 404 Plugins

Error 404 pages show up usually because of a misspelled, or deleted url. When this happens the ugly 404 page shows up, and scares the visitors away. You probably wonder ‘how can i fix this, without manually messing with the php code?’

tips, tools, tutorial, wordpress

431

0 comments

2010

17

MAY

How to Keep From Getting Burnt Out

I have had the pleasure of interviewing many designers and developers and one thing they all seem to have in common is they all agree that they love their job.

misc, tips, tutorial

275

0 comments

[CodeSnippet] Twitter-like Input Using CSS3

Twitter has a nice effect in presenting their tweet box by adding outer glow effect on it while the tweeps are tweeting. If you’re webkit-based browser user you must’ve notice that glowing effect works with the animation. We’ve discussed that technique on previous post (Stylize Input Element Using CSS3), the thing we’ve not yet do is adding the animation on it.

css-html, tips, tutorial

439

1 comment

History’s Infamous 5: Lessons Freelancers Can Learn From Them

Mao Tse Tung, Saddam Hussein, Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Kim Jong-il all have something in common. Each of them has affected the lives of many people, largely in a negative manner.

inspiration, misc, tips, trend

281

1 comment

2010

16

MAY

Get your designs to pop: Part 5 – Typography

You know how, often times, clients demand that your design needs to pop more? Well, welcome to the last post of our 5 part miniseries jam packed with easy to follow tips and tricks. In this episode we’ll be covering the basics for: Typography.

design, font, tips, tutorial

407

0 comments

How To Make Your Website Mobile

The mobile industry is heavily growing. Many people don’t have a computer while commuting, but what they do have is their smartphone. Now a days you probably heard of the iPhone, Palm Pre, or Android phones. These are all smart phone used by millions of people each day.

tips, tools, tutorial, wordpress

468

0 comments

Quick Tip : How to Enable Threaded Comments Function in WordPress

Threaded (nested) comments is a wordpress feature that in our opinion is must be owned on a blog, because allow your users discuss and reply to each other in up to 10 levels. But default, this feature is not enabled by wordpress. So here a quick tip how to enable this feature.

tips, wordpress

270

0 comments

2010

13

MAY

How to detect wordpress and wordpress plugins

Ever wanted to know whether a site is based on WordPress or not? and what about detecting which WordPress plugins are used? Well, the task is not as difficult

css-html, tips, tools, wordpress

333

0 comments

2010

12

MAY

Drawing vector portraits Part 3: The Nose

In the previous post, I’ve explained how to properly draw the eye. Further, I will explain how to draw the nose easily from scratch and with not too much strain.

design, graphic, tips, tutorial

401

0 comments

13 Best Web Form Design Tutorials and Resources

All of blogs designed these days have at least one form. Forms are the real workhorses of the Web design. If you’re a web designer then you’ll know that creating a good form is essential if you are to be efficient in your work.

design, tips, tutorial, usability

618

0 comments

5 CSS Methods to Style a Block with Background

Find out the different ways to style up a block with background with CSS and CSS3! This post is great for beginner who want to know most common methods to style up a website.

css-html, design, tips, tutorial

10581

14 comments

2010

11

MAY

A Different Type of Vintage: 40s Movie Inspired Retro

One of the most popular styles of late is the vintage look. So, in today’s tutorial I’m going to show you how to pull off a specific kind of vintage, inspired by the awesome art of 1940s cinema.

design, graphic, tips, tutorial

277

0 comments

2010

7

MAY

Get your designs to pop: Part 3 – Colors

You know how, often times, clients demand that your design needs to pop more? Well, welcome to part 3 of our 5 part miniseries jam packed with easy to follow tips and tricks. In this episode we’ll be covering the basics for: Colors.

design, photoshop, tips, tutorial

382

0 comments

2010

6

MAY

Bulletproof of Mind Mapping: Overview, Benefits, Tips and Tools

The process known as mind mapping has proven itself to be a helpful and very useful instrument for both individuals as well as corporations from all areas of the globe. In this article we’ll talk about mind mapping, why you need it, how to produce effective visual mind maps and the tools.

design, tips, tools, usability

484

0 comments

Most common SEO mistakes

There are several SEO mistakes those are being made knowingly or unknowingly by webmasters. These mistakes can be rectified with small efforts but can affect negatively in the listing of the website in different leading search engines.

seo, tips, usability

webanddesigners

482

0 comments

How to Add Social Media Links to Wordpress Without a Plugin

Adding social media links to a Wordpress theme is a necessity these days. Here you'll learn how to add the most popular social media sharing links to your Wordpress theme without bogging it down with another plugin.

css-html, php, tips, tutorial, wordpress

488

1 comment

2010

5

MAY

Get your designs to pop: Part 2 – Light & Shadows

You know how, often times, clients demand that your design needs to pop more? Well, welcome to part 2 of our 5 part miniseries filled with easy to follow tips and tricks to get that lovely design of yours to pop! In this episode: Lights & Shadows.

design, photoshop, tips, tutorial

356

0 comments

Optimizing Images for a Faster Website

The way you handle images in your website can have a substantial effect on your site performance. There are several actions you can take

design, tips, tools

517

0 comments

10 tips for getting your next client on Linkedin

Linkedin is a great tool for research, communication, and booking clients.

306

0 comments

2010

3

MAY

How to Show Category Descriptions in Wordpress

A quick tutorial teaching you how to show category descriptions in Wordpress, which are for some reason turned off by default.

php, tips, wordpress

340

0 comments

Drawing vector portraits Part 2: The eyes

In this article I will explain how to properly draw the human eye based on anatomy. We will discuss all details based on this pencil sketches I made.

design, graphic, tips, tutorial

375

0 comments

20 Powerful Time Management Tools

Time tracking is very important when it comes to designing. You need to know exactly the amount of time you have spent working, and get paid the exact amount you deserve. Many times graphic designers and freelances just roundup the hours they worked, but not any more. The tools we have listed below are very useful, and are destined to help any working designer keep track of time.

freebies, tips, tools, usability

477

0 comments

2010

2

MAY

Get your designs to pop: Part 1 – Textures & Patterns

You know how, often times, clients demand that your design needs to pop more? Well, welcome to a 5 part article filled with easy tips and tricks to get that lovely design of yours to pop, without compromising quality

design, photoshop, tips, tutorial

415

0 comments

2010

1

MAY

Infographic: Important aspects of SEO

Recently, I stumbled across a great SEO Infographic which addresses many common questions raised by Webmasters or Search Engine Optimizers

seo, tips, tools, trend

557

0 comments

2010

30

APR

Really Useful Tutorials You Should Have Read in April 2010

This update covers really useful tutorials, tips and techniques that you should have read in April 2010. Featured authors include: Roger Johansson, Ashley Ford, Louis Lazaris, Inayaili de Leon, Remy Sharp, Nick La, Burak Guzel, Siddharth, Justin Tadlock, Alex Denning, Chris Spooner and more.

415

0 comments

Don't work Hard, work efficiently

Doing right thing at the right time helps you ace in life. More people fail in life not because they are unable to reach their goals, but there are inefficient to manage there time and plan there work accordingly.

tips, usability

webanddesigners

413

0 comments

Photoshop Effect vs CSS3 Properties

In previous tutorial I was explained how to stylize input element with photoshop effect (color gradient, smooth border, box shadow, drop shadow) using CSS3 only. In this post We will play in depth with them, since they have advantages on their own field I’m not going to compare both of them nevertheless.

css-html, tips, tutorial

349

0 comments

2010

29

APR

Top 60 Wordpress Resources

WordPress is one of the most popular blogging tools online. If you run your website using WordPress you will be able to benefit from plugins, addons and all sorts of free resources. We round up the best Wordpress Resources on the web arranged by category.

cms, inspiration, tips

503

0 comments

2010

28

APR

Eight Important Phases of Web Development Projects

Before you start a web development project, you need to understand the project milestones, and also all the different phases or steps that you will go through during the entire process.

browser, tips, tools

504

0 comments

5 Principles for Effective Web Design

A website forms the face of a company, product or service. Therefore, it is of great importance to make the website communicate clearly with its users. Web designers always need to keep in mind about the needs of the users. This leads one to the kind of web design required for the subject.

design, graphic, tips, trend

625

1 comment

Tutorial: Retro vector illustration in 15 Steps

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a retro vector illustration using stock vectors and simple distortion techniques.

design, graphic, tips, tutorial

409

0 comments

20 Websites For Logo Inspiration

If you’re a logo designer you might find yourself lost when you start your logo design project. Right of the bat you have an idea of what you would like to do, but don’t know how to quite get there. These logo inspiration website offer tons of creative logos, helping you get ideas. If you know of any others that we missed comment below.

browser, inspiration, logo, tips

518

1 comment

2010

27

APR

9 Photoshop Editing Tips Web Developers Should Know

There are quite a few reasons why having basic Photoshop skills beyond slicing PSD’s to XHTML/CSS is essential to any web developer. I have discussed some of those reasons

design, photoshop, tips, tutorial

325

0 comments

11 Website That Help You Discover Web 2.0 Tools

The internet is growing daily, there are tons of new websites and services launching each day. There is so much going on that you might feel left behind, but don’t worry. We have gathered the best web 2.0 blogs and directories. These websites are updated daily, and will help you keep up. If you know any we missed, please comment below.

gadget, tips, tools, usability

468

0 comments

2010

26

APR

Love to Work vs Work to Work

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Success comes with determination, right thoughts and right efforts which will inevitably bring about right results. Work turns to accomplishment only when you add love and passion to and get genuinely excited about your work.

inspiration, tips

webanddesigners

279

0 comments

2010

25

APR

CSS3 Transitions – Are We There Yet?

I’ve split this topic in two articles. In this first article I’ll make a generic overview on CSS3 Transitions. Additionally, I’ll introduce some of the basic implementations and evaluate few CSS properties, meant for creating transformations and transitions.

341

0 comments

2010

23

APR

Kick-ass CSS3 Support in IE6, 7, and 8

A script hack that helps you enable CSS3 support in IE (even with IE6) with new CSS3 properties, including: border-radius (rounded), box-shadow ( shadow), text-shadow (the shadow of the text).

css-html, tips, tools, tutorial

772

0 comments

18 Effective Domain Name Tools & Generators

Finding the perfect domain name is a challenge, lucky for you were here to help. If you are making a website and want to find a cool name, these resources should definitely help. These tools will help you find available domain names, and domain suggestions. If you know of any other great tools, please list them below.

browser, gadget, tips, tools

516

1 comment

2010

22

APR

Drawing vector portraits Part 1: The facial structure

In this tutorial I will explain the basics for portrait drawing. These guidelines are a must to know and will help you a lot in your future portrait drawings.

design, graphic, tips, tutorial

416

1 comment

Top 5 Autoblogging Wordpress Plugins

Autoblogging Wordpress Plugins can make a blogger life easy. These autoblogging plugins post articles based on the keyword and niche the blogger configures

css-html, design, tips, tools, wordpress

421

0 comments

2010

21

APR

FireBug Tip – Switching Elements Quickly

For those of you who don’t know FireBug, I highly recommend learning some of its wonders, even if you are not a web developer. One of the coolest features is

browser, css-html, tips, tools

364

0 comments

10 Wordpress Plugins for a More Interactive Design Site

Wordpress is a great platform from which to setup your own design site, here I want to showcase ten plugins which are great to increase your readers involvement on your site. They also increase the users time on the site and make them feel more valued as a reader.

cms, tips, wordpress

464

0 comments

2010

20

APR

The definitive guide to formatting CSS

Learn how to format your CSS stylesheets for both maintainability and legibility. Make your CSS fit your project, not your personal preference.

css-html, design, tips, tutorial

492

0 comments

Building a live news blogging system in php. Spiced with HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery [part III]

A series of tutorials on building a live news blogging system. Developed using HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, XML for front end and php and jsp for backend. In this third part we create methods to add new news items to our database.

mysql, php, tips, tutorial

399

0 comments

12 Ways To Market Your Brand Better

In this article, Geoffrey explains different ways to market your brand so much better. Very informative read for everyone, especially serious designers and business owners...

311

0 comments

2010

19

APR

11 Tips for Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

The popularity of a web site gives more profit to a business organization by reaching to more people. The best and probably the cheapest way to reach to more people, is by increasing the listings at search engines.

seo, tips, usability

webanddesigners

484

1 comment

10 Social Media Monitoring Tools to Monitor Your Brand’s Performance And Results

Monitoring your social media profile is really hard. Luckily we have these 10 social media tools to help us track and monitor your brand's performance and results across the internet.

387

1 comment

2010

18

APR

Freelance Omen! 9 Ways Not To Get Hired

There are many things an employer will look for when interviewing for a new employee, and most people know these, but what no-one talks about is the things you shouldn’t do. So here I have compiled a list of ways to not get yourself hired and why. Some of these also apply to what you add into your work.

305

0 comments

2010

17

APR

12 Tips To Increase Subscribers To Your Blog

In this article, we will discuss some techniques blogger can use to increase the number of subscribers multiple times to their blogs.

design, tips, tutorial

437

0 comments

2010

14

APR

Where to Submit Your Web Design and Development News

Quickly drive traffic to your website by submitting your content to websites featuring user submitted community news. Featured in this article are over 110 websites supporting community news.

design, seo, tips, tools, trend

letscounthedays

509

1 comment

Quick Tip: Display Timeago For WordPress If Less Than 24 Hours

This small code snippet will help you to display the time ago for WordPress post if your post was published less than 24 hours ago.

php, tips, tutorial, wordpress

415

0 comments

2010

13

APR

Best WordPress latest News Sites

If you want to know anything regarding WordPress, today I am compiling a list of the most popular WordPress-focused sites for latest news and information.

tips, wordpress

312

0 comments

8 Ways to Increase the Readibility and Beautify your HTML Code

Learn how to tidy up your html code with these methods. These are the methods I have been using, and it will able to guide us to produce code that are easy to read and neat.

css-html, design, tips

8527

8 comments

2010

10

APR

List of Really Useful Tools For CSS3 Developers

This roundup covers CSS3 generators, cheat sheets, reference guides and JavaScript based solutions that will assist you in learning and applying CSS3 today.

css-html, design, tips, tools

451

0 comments

2010

9

APR

40 Great Examples of Facebook Fan Page Designs

Facebook is the second most visited site in the world. Just from that sentence alone you should be hopping on and creating a Fanpage for your business. But before you do that, you need to get some good old inspiration. Now whatever your business is, Facebook Fanpages are not all the same. Unlike Twitter, Facebook has more usable features than just status updates.

design, graphic, tips, trend

1008

0 comments

2010

7

APR

Why Caring for Users is More Important Than Caring for Search Engines

Would you buy from your own store? This is a very important question one should ask oneself when one is running a store of any kind. This article talks about user experience and how important it is for building trust in your customers and not just Google.<br>

design, seo, tips, usability

298

0 comments

2010

6

APR

33 Firefox Addons Made Popular by Users

You know Firefox is the most popular browser of all time and there are a lot reasons for this kind of popularity.I think one of the most important thing is the Firefox Addons.

freebies, tips, tools

502

0 comments

2010

5

APR

Cross Browser Pure CSS3 Horizontal Accordion

This tutorial shows you how to build pure CSS horizontal accordion. It uses CSS3 to add transition effects and rotate panel heads. Rest of the structure and behavior will be written in cross-browser CSS that will work in IE7+ and all other modern browsers.

css-html, tips, tutorial

885

1 comment

Making Your Website Multicultural

Do you know half of all Google users are searching in languages other than English? Read this interesting article about 'Making Your Website Multicultural'

design, tips, trend, usability

348

0 comments

2010

4

APR

[CodeSnippet] jQuery : Fade In Webpage

The following short code is a way to add a fade in effect to your webpage. The main task we want to do are hiding our webpage content then display it with fade in effect when the user load the webpage. These step will use two jQuery built-in function, hide() and fadeIn().

css-html, javascript, tips, tutorial

881

0 comments

2010

3

APR

5 useful tips on developing WordPress theme

Some tips and hacks for WordPress deveopers.

php, tips, wordpress

436

0 comments

2010

2

APR

40 Brilliant Examples of Mascot Designs

Mascot design is a huge key to your brand, and are thought to bring luck. A mascot usually represent a corporate brand or a public identity. Since human picture memory is better that text, a mascot easily helps people remember who you are. I strongly suggest considering a mascot, before you build your business.

design, inspiration, logo, tips

579

0 comments

2010

31

MAR

DIY Startup: Get a name

DIY Start-up Series is exclusively featured at AEXT. Get a Name, will take you to a different perspective of why the importance of a name. From thinking through a business name to acquire an existing business name.

tips, tools, trend, tutorial, usability

354

0 comments

2010

29

MAR

Ten Tips to Improve your Freelance Portfolio

A great freelance portfolio should highlight your talents and give potential clients a meaningful way to choose you amongst your competitors. Here is 10 tips to improve your freelance portfolio.

design, graphic, tips, wordpress

476

0 comments

Everything You Need to Know About HDR Photo Effect

This article provides you with a useful collection of HDR tutorials, tips and some inspiration.

graphic, photography, tips, tutorial

288

0 comments

2010

28

MAR

5 Excellent Footer Design Tutorials

Footers are the usually the last thing you see on sites and blogs But has become useful for many reasons. To be different from the standard design, you can utilize the footer to provide links or shortcuts to other areas of your web site.

design, inspiration, tips, usability

784

0 comments

2010

27

MAR

51 Examples of Funny & Creative Advertisement

Advertisement has evolved dramatically in the past decade. Marketing is a huge business and will only keep growing. Print advertsing is a difficult task and takes creativity. Most of the ads below get the message across, while making you laugh.

graphic, inspiration, photography, tips

632

0 comments

2010

26

MAR

Quick Tip: Free-hand drawing brushes setup for Illustrator

I bet that when you start drawing in Illustrator you only have a few default brushes that are not really of much use unless you customize them to your drawing style.

graphic, tips, tutorial

460

0 comments

Progressive Enhancement: What It Is and How To Use It

There's plenty of controversy between developers about whether or not we should continue to support IE6, especially with the addition of CSS3 and HTML5. No matter what side of the IE6 fence you're on, you should understand that a website cannot, and should not, look exactly the same in every browser.

browser, tips, trend, usability

520

0 comments

2010

25

MAR

10 Mistakes You Don’t Want To Make As A Freelancer

Tips on mistakes which you don't want to make as a freelancer. By following these suggestions you will have a better chance at succeeding.

design, tips, tools, trend

519

0 comments

2010

23

MAR

5 Ways To Introduce Social Media To Small Businesses

Social Media can enhance a Business Online Strategy. This article will show you the benefits of having an extended online relationship with their customers through social media.

422

0 comments

10 Most Commonly Used Colors In Web Design And Their Examples

Color is one of the important part in web design. Here we share 10 most wanted colors in web design.

588

0 comments

How to Find and Remove Broken Links in Your Website

Broken links are links that lead to pages that do not exist. When clicking on a broken link, the page you land on is called a 404 error page, a standard HTTP response that indicates that the requested URL doesn’t exist. What do you do when you happily surf the web and suddenly come across a 404 error? For most of us

design, seo, tips, tools

398

0 comments

2010

22

MAR

13 Company layout Design Using Photoshop

There are some very easy to follow tutorials on just how to design Company layout using photoshop .Company layout should be pleasing to the eye. Choose colors, graphics, text fonts, and other background items keeping in mind both aesthetics and convenience

design, inspiration, photoshop, tips

570

1 comment

Tips For Calling Visitors To Action

A blog is a blog. But without a call to action, you risk losing readers. Find most effective methods & associated tips for calling your visitors to action.

design, tips, usability, wordpress

471

0 comments

How to Optimize CSS Selectors for a Faster Website

Browsers render optimized style sheets faster than messy ones. Therefore, making your CSS code as short and clean as possible is an efficient method to improve page loading time. To make your CSS short and clean, you need to remove redundant selectors carefully, in a way that

css-html, design, tips, tools, tutorial

527

0 comments

2010

21

MAR

80+ Websites To Submit Your Design News

Getting exposure is not easy, this is why i made this post. I feel bad, because there are many talented blog writers, that don’t get noticed. They provide great content, but only get a few views a day. This is where i come in and help.

design, tips, tools, tutorial

401

0 comments

3 FireBug Tips Every Web Developer Should Know

It is nearly impossible to overrate FireBug as a web development tool. One of its awesome qualities is that it lets you test design changes on the fly, without actually changing the code. Here are some examples:

css-html, design, misc, tips, tools

952

1 comment

2010

20

MAR

Create Your Own Image to Change The Default Gravatar in Wordpress

Wordpress provides some images to choose as the default gravatar, this gravatar will be appear if a comment doesn’t have gravatar. Can we change these default gravatar? We want our comment section is unique and give a more personalized touch. In this tutorial we’ll take a custom image and add it as the default gravatar.

photoshop, php, tips, tutorial, wordpress

832

4 comments

2010

19

MAR

Wallpapers of the month: March

This months wallpapers are from Deskotopography. This community has some of the best designers on board, creating highly detailed and surreal wallpapers. Be amazed by this collection of great landscape wallpapers that make your mind just wonder off and walk around in surreal worlds and places.

design, photoshop, tips, wallpaper

565

0 comments

How to Speed Up Your WordPress Blog by Having Less Plugins

Many articles that present methods to make WordPress load faster, There is however, one more thing you may do to improve your blog’s performance, and that is reducing the number of plugins that are loaded into memory for each post and page in your blog.

javascript, php, seo, tips, wordpress

464

0 comments

7 Extremely Useful Chrome Extensions for Web Developers (with quick tutorials for each)

The community has made some amazing Chrome extensions. Here is the list of 7 Extremely Useful Chrome Extensions for Web Developers which are very easy to use for every day work.

browser, seo, tips, tools

503

0 comments

2010

18

MAR

Understanding the CSS Float Property

CSS floats are used everywhere in modern web design, but many people don't understand how they work and behave. This tutorial will help.

css-html, tips, tutorial

543

0 comments

Engage 2 CSS Positions : Relative & Absolute

As a web developer or designer we must be frequently facing a task to create a webpage layout. In creating that, positioning a stacked-random element usually put through a nightmare for us, fortunately CSS and its beautiful properties help us cure that nightmare and in this post i will explain how to take advantage of the two CSS positions, relative and absolute.

css-html, design, tips, tutorial

402

0 comments

2010

17

MAR

Growing Traffic for your Web Startup

Just like conventional offline marketing, every startup marketer needs to understand the basic marketing tenets of Segmentation, Targeting and Positioning if you’re to succeed. Once you’ve identified your target segment and customer - you’ll need to find the best way to reach these target customers.

363

0 comments

20 Firefox Plug-ins for Web Designers and Developers

There are whole sea of Firefox plug-ins out there for you to sift through, but we've done the hard work for you and selected 20 of the best.

browser, design, tips, tools

11050

13 comments

2010

16

MAR

How To Create A Custom Background For Twitter

First impressions are very important, even when it comes to twitter.Your background on twitter represents you and who you are. Whenever you visit someones twitter page it shows you personality of that person. Sometimes your background might even get you new followers. Because of this i strongly suggest you should have a personal background on twitter, that will represent you or your company.

design, tips, tutorial, wallpaper

343

0 comments

2010

15

MAR

Using Vectors for Header Design + 38 Websites with Vectorized or Illustrated Headers

The beauty of using vectors for header design and showcase of 38 websites with awesome vectorized or Illustrated headers.

design, graphic, inspiration, tips

511

0 comments

Quick Tip : How to Sticky Your Best Article in Feature Post Area

Feature area in a theme serves a place to put the best article, breaking news or important notice for the readers. As you can see most online magazines and many high profile blogs have a featured post section.In this tutorial we will create a post that will sticky in feature post area.

tips, tutorial, wordpress

542

0 comments

2010

14

MAR

Letterpress Text Effect Using Photoshop and CSS

So here today we will learn how to achieve Letterpress effect with photoshop and also with Css and in the end of this tutorials we have also collected some tutorials on Letterpress around design community.

css-html, photoshop, tips, tutorial

772

0 comments

2010

12

MAR

8 Design Elements Your Blog Should Have

There are certain design elements that all blogs should have to keep readers happy and engaged in your content. With the evolution of blogs and social media sites, the expectations for a blog are much higher.

design, tips, wordpress

611

0 comments

10 Useful Web Design and Development Books

There are thousands of online tutorials to help you master the profession and there are dozens if not hundreds of books on all aspects of web-based creativity. Not having access to any one book will stop you from learning your desired skill but some books will greatly assist you in the process. 10 of these such books are below.

571

0 comments

Quick Tip: How to Get Great HTML Meta Tags

Meta tags are capable of telling search engines and other interested parties key information about the contents of the page, the meta tag is arguably as important as the page's actual title

634

0 comments

2010

11

MAR

Brand Spankin’ New Google Chrome Extensions You Should Be Trying

There are twenty-three Google Chrome extensions and two themes to try out. The following extensions are no more than a few weeks old, and thus, it's highly unlikely that you've seen them yet.

browser, inspiration, tips, tools

321

0 comments

2010

10

MAR

Connecting Twitter account with Useful Applications

Twitter is fast becoming one of the more popular methods for communicating online and has a large number of loyal followers who stick with it despite the growing pains and competitors.

313

0 comments

Most Effective Method to Reduce and Optimize PNG Images

A friend of mine showed me this simple but effective technique to reduce PNG image file size without compromising too much of the image quality. I was pretty amazed and I want to share it with you all and I hope this will help you.

design, graphic, photoshop, tips

9559

16 comments

2010

9

MAR

Twitter placement on the web

How to place Twitter update on your site the best way.

css-html, design, tips

355

0 comments

5 Things You Need to Know About Raytracing

Ray tracing is a widespread technique in computer graphics. You've probably seen stills and movies that involved ray tracing, whether in the graphics community or in movie theaters or on TV.

graphic, misc, tips

356

0 comments

2010

8

MAR

How to Troubleshoot Slow loading Site and WordPress blog

Once you have your WordPress blog up and running, you will need to maintain it. This involves keeping the site’s databases optimized and keeping the blog’s theme and plugins up to date with theme maintenance and plugin security patches.

tips, tutorial, wordpress

359

0 comments

2010

7

MAR

8 basics of regular expression that can make you expert

Well, regular expressions have been something that I was scared of when I started coding as a serious stuff

577

1 comment

2010

5

MAR

30 awesome Google Chrome Extensions for Web Developers and Graphic Designers

Google Chrome is now developing craze among the Web Developers and Designers with some greatly designed extensions. This is a list of Google Chromes Extensions for WebDevelopers and Graphic Designers.

browser, freebies, seo, tips, tools

463

0 comments

50 Awesome Examples and Tutorials of Illustrations in Web Design For Your Inspiration

Illustrations on a website can be found in many places, including elaborate backgrounds, part of a header, or as an accent in the content area. Today, lets take a look at 50 awesome examples and tutorials of illustration in web design for your inspiration.

design, inspiration, photoshop, tips, trend

designtutorials4u

548

0 comments

2010

4

MAR

10 Fantastic Free Apps [March Collection]

Collection of free web apps and tools.

design, freebies, tips, tools

416

0 comments

Debugging and Testing in Internet Explorer Made Easy

In this article, I’m going to list and review different set of tools, which will help you and make your debugging and testing process in Internet Explorer much more enjoyable.

browser, tips, tutorial

365

0 comments

2010

3

MAR

Button Height and a Broken Box Model

Buttons don't behave like normal elements when it comes to the CSS Box Model: they break the box model in all modern browsers!

browser, css-html, tips, tutorial

470

0 comments

Photo Manipulation Techniques to Enhance Portrait Photography

Even the best photographers need to 'touch up' their photographs – no magazine portrait photography is straight from the camera. Small adjustments can make a big difference to an image, and this tutorial will show you how to execute a few changes to make a big impact on the final result.

graphic, photoshop, tips, tools

459

0 comments

2010

2

MAR

21 Mistakes Freelancers Should Avoid

A freelance web design business was my first venture and I made many mistakes that eventually resulted in the loss my business. In this post, I try to highlight what I did wrong and hopefully help you avoid the same mistakes. Despite the title, this post applies to anyone starting out on their own - not only freelance designers or developers.

347

0 comments

Hospitality in Web Industry: Good Service is Good Business

Hospitality, the art of making guests feel treasured and welcomed, is the core dictum of the service industry. However, hospitality is not just crucial to the tourism and hotel industry, but also in the web design and development industry as well.

design, inspiration, tips, trend

328

0 comments

8 amazing WordPress contact form plugins

Contact forms are highly needed on every website and blog.If you have blog you also need contact forms to allow your readers to stay in touch with you,sign up for updates using their email, sign up for email newsletters, or even to reach your customer service if you have an online business.

tips, usability, wordpress

463

0 comments

2010

28

FEB

10 tempting titles surely make you crave for content

Bad titles can really repel your readers. It often happens with unattractive titles that you prefer just scanning them and not actually reading.

394

0 comments

Really Useful Tutorials You Should Have Read in February 2010

This update covers really useful tutorials, tips and techniques that you should have read in February 2010. Featured authors include: Jonathan Snook, Chris Coyier, Marco Kuiper, Christian Heilmann, Mike More, David Walsh, Chris Spooner, Soh Tanaka, Kevin Liew, Lam Nguyen and more.

437

0 comments

2010

27

FEB

99 Alternatives to 99designs

Just getting started in design? Tempted to try out crowdsourcing or spec work? Before you head down that path check out these 99 alternatives to build your portfolio, expand your skill set, and make a few bucks.

599

0 comments

2010

26

FEB

Integrate SexyBookmarks into your Personal page with JavaScript

In this post, I’ll show you how to add SexyBookmarks into your personal page, only with HTML, CSS and JavaScript; no server-side requirement. Obviously, you (and your visitors) can have some little limits without PHP; but this release still satisfy most of the circumstances. With different platforms, please query the search engines for the installation guides.

css-html, design, javascript, tips

573

0 comments

2010

25

FEB

The Firefox Input Button Line-Height Bug

I recently ran into a bug in Firefox and Opera when I tried to set the line height of text inside a button. The bug? The line height can't be changed!

browser, css-html, tips

299

0 comments

2010

24

FEB

The Smashing Book is indeed… Smashing!

A complete and detailed review of the Smashing Book by Smashing Magazine, containing information about the book as a whole and its contents chapter by chapter.

css-html, font, tips, usability

332

0 comments

50+ CSS Techniques Designers Should Know

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is just an important part of Web Designing. Without CSS, Websites can look untidy as it used to happen before.

css-html, design, tips

778

0 comments

2010

23

FEB

How to Use jQuery to Make Slick Page Transitions

Adding the final touches to a site can be the difference between a polished and beautiful site that looks “refined,” and a mediocre site that leaves no impression on visitors. jQuery, the versatile JavaScript library, can be leveraged to create all these fine tuned elements.

css-html, javascript, tips, tutorial

1057

0 comments

2010

21

FEB

120+ Design Showcase Websites to Submit your Designs

A design showcase is a website dedicated to seeking out the latest and greatest designs from the web, whether it’s a website, flash presentation or a piece of print work.

design, seo, tips

526

1 comment

2010

19

FEB

Tutorial : Separating Trackbacks From Comments in Wordpress 2.7-2.9

Trackbacks are the messages displayed in the comments list whenever another blog links back to one of your posts. In this tutorial we will separating trackbacks from comments and modify the comment counts to only reflect the number of comments minus trackbacks.

php, tips, tutorial, wordpress

459

2 comments

20+ Exceptional Online Professional Image Editors and Drawing Applications

Here are the list of some popular and Professional Image Editors And Drawing Applications that work online.

design, graphic, inspiration, tips, tools

386

0 comments

2010

18

FEB

11 Tips for better blogging

In my first post, i will give you some tips on how to be a better blogger and how to success in your blogs! I’m not very experienced blogger but i think that i can give some advices that are useful. These advices aren’t something difficult and they will increase the quality of your blog.

misc, tips, usability, wordpress

363

0 comments

Creating a new blog: What to watch out

There are some things that you have to watch out when you will start a new blog. If you want lots of readers, you have to follow some steps that will reach you to the top. However, the best advice is to stay calm!

misc, tips, usability, wordpress

282

0 comments

Tips to creating an email signature for your online brand

Email signatures are not new and they have been around for as long as email itself has. So if you have a website/blog, you might want to look at designing a email signature that represents your brand and yourself online.

design, tips, tutorial

607

0 comments

Don’t abuse of uppercase letters

Some tips on typography with regards to uppercase and lowercase letters, explaining when one should use a certain type of letter styling.

font, tips, usability

282

0 comments

2010

17

FEB

How To Create Automatic Sitemap in Wordpress

A site map (or sitemap) is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users. In this tutorial we will create a sitemap automatically, but the design layout, category featured, and the order of categories, free ... in accordance with our wishes.

seo, tips, tutorial, wordpress

633

0 comments

User testing and thirteen ways of selling a book

By conducting simple user tests, you can improve the effectiveness of your online banners. Find out how Smashing Magazine is selling their book.

design, graphic, tips, usability

359

0 comments

How to Build Web Cred as a Designer

Credibility on the web is not easily earned. To be a successful designer, you need people to recognize you as skilled, competent and professional. Here are some tips to put your name out there and earn some legitimate Web Cred.

design, misc, tips

452

0 comments

2010

16

FEB

Six Project Management Skills Every Web Design Freelancer Must Have

Managing web design projects is one difficult job. There are communication and organizing issues, negotiation and networking, and most of all, a strong need for planning. Effectively wielding the skills necessary to implement a successful project can be painful.

design, inspiration, tips

445

0 comments

11 Fresh Google Buzz wordpress plugins

Google Buzz is growing rapidly these times, its more of a necessity to have Buzz integrated to your bog theme right now for more interacting with your readers and fans.I hope these Buzz tools will help you integrate Google Buzz in your wordpress blog

tips, tools, usability, wordpress

407

0 comments

2010

15

FEB

15 Essentials of a Successful Website with Examples

When hundreds of web sites are designed up every other day, your website need to have something special to attract your potential customers.

446

0 comments

How to Create Favicon using IconBuilder Filter in Photoshop

This tutorial will show you how to create favicon for your website using IconBuilder filter plugin in Adobe Photoshop.

photoshop, tips, tools, tutorial

graphicidentity

420

0 comments

2010

14

FEB

23 Wordpress E-commerce Plugins To Set Up Online Store

In the last few years Wordpress improves itself so much and every day and maybe every hour new plugins are being released for Wordpress.When Wordpress was first released it was hard to imagine to use wordpress platform as a shopping

tips, wordpress

712

0 comments

2010

13

FEB

Google Buzz Quick Guide

Google is taking big step with the introduction of a new product, Google Buzz.It is a new way to start conversations about the things you find interesting. It’s built right into Gmail, so you don’t have to peck out an entirely new set of friends from scratch — it just works. If you think about it, there’s always been a big social network underlying Gmail.

513

0 comments

3 easy steps for scheduling regular backup of your MySql database: Be safe

Apart from my previous article on safety features ,it is a well known fact , that it is extremely important to take backup of your MySql database of your live website.

500

0 comments

2010

12

FEB

How To Mobilize Your Website

The mobile industry is heavily growing. Many people don’t have a computer while commuting, but what they do have is their smartphone. Now a days you probably heard of the iPhone, Palm Pre, or Android phones. These are all smart phone used by millions of people each day.

tips, tools, tutorial, wordpress

539

0 comments

2010

11

FEB

The Simple Secret to Good Dropdown Navigation

Almost every example of dropdown navigation on the web today relies on the nested unordered list. That makes well-formed lists critical to the entire process.

css-html, tips, tutorial, usability

329

0 comments

2010

10

FEB

Safety saves – 3 steps towards a safe web Application

For malicious attackers attempting to compromise your web application, the network is no longer the path of least resistance. A simple configuration error or a little carelessness and sometimes not being aware can give an attacker direct illegal access to your database or sections that require aunthentication.

425

0 comments

2010

9

FEB

Buttons and usability

An article about buttons, links, and a lot of usability. Studies on a couple of websites, devices and applications showing how one can improve user experience by improving simple buttons.

design, tips, usability

725

0 comments

2010

8

FEB

Pre Print Basics: Generating Originals

In this postwe are going to talk about some pre print stuff, generating originals. As you can imagine there are a lot of things involving the creation of originals, pixel images, text, vector and/or bezier curves based images, more or less. In this post I`ll try to explain or help in the construction by giving information about original components.

design, graphic, tips

261

0 comments

Using Philosophy to Better Understand The Methodology of Design

While these facets of the design process are undeniably crucial, it is high time designers took a step back to fully understand and absorb the structure of the design process and its subsequent application in the industry.

design, misc, tips, trend

261

0 comments

Creating Search Engine Friendly URLs With Apache and PHP

Utilizing URLs on your site that are search engine friendly is simple and easy to do thanks to PHP and Apache. We will be utilizing permalinks that get rid of all the nasty $_GET data that trails the end of most PHP scripts.

php, seo, tips, tutorial

612

0 comments

2010

7

FEB

Four Common Steps Every New Blogger Would Face When Starting A Blog

In this article I will give you "Four Common Steps Every New Blogger Would Face When Starting A Blog" along with some helpful tips that will save you time when starting a new blog or website.

design, tips, usability

499

0 comments

2010

4

FEB

5 Groovy things you can do with htaccess

An htaccess file is a simple ASCII file, such as you would create through a text editor like NotePad. Many people seem to have some confusion over the naming convention for the file, so let me get that out of the way.

757

0 comments

2010

3

FEB

10 effective tips to slow down and decrease your blog traffic

It is really something weird, yet funny , to write how to decrease your blog traffic. But again i think to learn things in a humorous way is easy and can be memorized for good long time. This is what i am trying to do here.

misc, seo, tips

660

0 comments

A Complete Guide to Writing Guest Articles

Guest articles (articles written for a website other than your own) are popping up all over the place. Web design websites are rapidly growing at a rate that would not be possible without the help of guest articles.

inspiration, misc, tips, trend

658

0 comments

2010

1

FEB

20 Ways to Streamline Your Web Business

Making more money and working less. Here are twenty different ways you should know to streamline your web business.

design, tips, tools

493

0 comments

13 Useful WordPress SQL Queries You Wish You Knew Earlier

WordPress is driven by a MySQL database. This is something active WordPress users would know. However, if you only just read about it here from us, here’s what you should know. MySQL is a free relational database management system available in most web hosting services.

tips, wordpress

484

0 comments

2010

30

JAN

Digging Into E-Commerce Website Design: Overview, Best Practices and Examples

The World Wide Web is a privileged channel for spreading good ideas and, in this time of crisis, it could be very useful to improve a business. Internet provides many possibilities to enhance, in different ways, our activities and one of this surely is the electronic commerce.

design, inspiration, tips, trend

663

0 comments

2010

29

JAN

Should I use on hover behavior?

An article that tackles the problems that one can encounter while using on hover events in web development, and tips on how to fix them.

javascript, tips, usability

514

0 comments

2010

28

JAN

10 Best Open Source Tools for Web Designers

Many open source tools have features comparable to expensive applications, and also free. This can save money and you can accomplish everyday tasks with having all the equipment and applications. In this article I want to share information about 10 best open source tools for web designers.

freebies, tips, tools

11175

4 comments

2010

27

JAN

Photoshop Variables: How to Import External PSD Smartly

When working on large projects, with many mock-ups and style-sheets, even the smallest change on a re-occurring component can take quite some time.

design, photoshop, tips, tutorial

532

0 comments

2010

26

JAN

10 baby steps to install Memcached Server and access it with PHP

Thinking of implementing caching for your php application , you are at a right place. Just in 10 simple (copy and paste) steps you can install and access

os, php, tips, tutorial

586

0 comments

2010

24

JAN

Monday Morning Inspiration #30

This Post belongs to our “Monday Morning Inspiration” Series. Every Monday Morning we’re give you a bunch of cool design Inspiration. Do you wanna share your Work, next Monday, in this Post join our Flickr Group!

design, graphic, inspiration, tips

500

0 comments

2010

23

JAN

Job Board Solutions for Wordpress

It’s a great idea for people running popular blogs or sites to launch a job board. A lot of blogs have very focused and dedicated audiences, and job board makes it possible to make extra money for blog owners

cms, tips, wordpress

4605

0 comments

2010

22

JAN

How To Emulate a Foreach Loop in JavaScript

JavaScript lacks a true 'foreach' loop contstruct, which often trips me up. Here's how to fake one.

javascript, tips, tutorial

506

0 comments

2010

21

JAN

Redesign Vs. Tweaked Design: What’s Best for Your Website

When the urge to redesign hits, take time to consider what’s best for your website: an all out makeover or simple, calculated tweaks? This article examines both and helps you decide.

466

0 comments

2010

20

JAN

Essential jQuery Tips, Plugins and Tutorials for Building a Fancy Website

In this post, I'm going to let you know all the plugins and scripts that I used in my recent project that requires intensive AJAX calls and javascript fanciness. I have listed them in a list of plugins and tutorials and I know it's going to be really useful to all of you.

design, inspiration, javascript, tips

17298

9 comments

2010

13

JAN

Strategizing Web Content: The Right Strategy for Writing for the Web

Users do not commonly browse the internet looking for a good design or decent user experience. Users browse in search of good content. The more effort you put into your content the better the pay off.

design, tips, usability

letscounthedays

483

0 comments

2010

12

JAN

Top Flash Trends for 2010

Here are described the latest trends in Flash technology that will enter the Flash fight arena and have all chances to be popular in 2010. Flash, along with other Internet technologies, have a long road left to travel and new horizons.

cms, design, flash, tips, trend

868

0 comments

2010

8

JAN

15 Tutorials That Helped Me Grow As a Designer

As a Trainee in a Advertising Agency, I’m learning every Day awesome new things. As i started designing, I followed these Tutorials. They showed me the “Way’s” in Photoshop and co.

design, graphic, photoshop, tips, tutorial

854

0 comments

2010

7

JAN

6 Ways to Improve Quality in Your Projects and Reduce Stress

Anyone in the web design field has likely experienced the burn of project management before. How do you protect the quality of your work and yourself from the ensuing stress? I've identified a few ways that can help.

design, inspiration, tips

544

0 comments

The 6 Don'ts of Web Development

Over the years i have found (usually the hard way) that there are a lot of guidelines we need to remember whenever we are working with the web. So keep these in mind next time you're building a website!

css-html, inspiration, javascript, tips

737

0 comments

2010

4

JAN

How to design an attractive web page

We have listed some of the efficient tips for creating a good web page. So just have a look at it.

design, graphic, tips, tools, tutorial

1059

0 comments

2009

30

DEC

How to Add favicon into Wordpress Blog and Website

Favicons are those little 16 x 16 icons that appear next to the URL in the address bar of a web browser. They also show up on the tabs (if you’re using a tabbed browser), in your bookmarks.

tips, wordpress

915

0 comments

2009

18

DEC

A Full-Width Centered Navigation Bar

This attractive horizontal navigation bar stretches the full width of the screen but centers the navigation over your content. It's and easy, clean, and CSS-only solution.

css-html, tips, tutorial

1325

0 comments

2009

17

DEC

Retro Style illustration in Photoshop

In this photoshop tutorial we will show you how to create retro style illustration effect in Photoshop. Mainly we will work with lights and colors.

design, graphic, photoshop, tips

602

0 comments

2009

14

DEC

8 Online Screen Capture Services for Consistent HTML CSS Layout

Online Screen Capture Services make screenshots of your web design in different browsers. I have collected 8 Online Screen Capture Services for you. Most of them provide free trial and some of them are totally free.

browser, freebies, tips, tools

10754

7 comments

Facts About Dedicated Hosting and Shared Hosting

In this article we will take a look at the issue of dedicated hosting vs. shared hosting.

640

0 comments

2009

11

DEC

Eight Ways to Combat the Content Crunch

Web design is an exciting field to be involved with. Many times, clients are relatively new to having a professional online presence, which leaves us a lot of room to be creative. The downside, however, is lack of content. Organizations that haven’t had a good web site before don’t have the copy needed to propel their new site.

568

0 comments

Color Theories In Advertising Design #2 Green Color

Today we are going to talk about the green color and how it reflects on consumers, what are the feelings and moods that green color produces, and how can we use that in design. What are the main groups of products that mostly utilize green color packaging, what are the trends, and what are the expectations. Think positive, think green. In a good way.

design, graphic, misc, tips

763

1 comment

2009

10

DEC

Speed Up Firefox

Firefox is an internet browser that is preferred by many web designers and internet savvy people because they know that it is more secure, more standard compliant, and allows better customizations. Although Firefox is a very fast browser it can be better. In this article we will give you some good tips to make your Firefox preform better and faster.

browser, javascript, misc, tips, tutorial

792

1 comment

Web Application Interface Design Guide

A guide covering the basics of Interface Design. From the initial planning stages to the final touches.

design, graphic, misc, tips, usability

1046

0 comments

2009

9

DEC

All About Generative Art

Generative art is any art practice where the artist creates a process, such as a set of natural language rules, which is then set to motion with some degree of autonomy contributing to or resulting in a complete work of art.

design, graphic, photoshop, tips, tutorial

744

0 comments

2009

8

DEC

20++ jQuery Introduction Tutorials and Resources for Beginners

jQuery is an amazing Javascript library that makes it easy to create astonishing web effect in just a few lines of code. This post gathered all useful jQuery tutorials to kick start your learning process.

javascript, tips, trend, tutorial

28875

26 comments

2009

7

DEC

Essential Tips and Tricks for Coding and Debugging AJAX Based Website

AJAX combined different web technologies to work together, as a result, it would a major headache to debug it if problems arised. I have a few tips and tricks that I learnt from my journey of ajax web development.

css-html, javascript, php, tips

12378

9 comments

2009

6

DEC

Free Web Traffic - Leanne reviews Affiliate Code Program.

By now, you've probably heard all about The Affiliate Code because I mean, it's all over the blogs, and the Alexa ranking for this site is insane right now. Take a look at the review it will shock you.

seo, tips, trend, tutorial, usability

leannegriffiths

919

1 comment

2009

2

DEC

Planning More Effective Milestones in Web Design Projects

Most successful web design projects are organized into a system of milestones with each one representing a critical piece of the project. Milestones are simple in concept, but they can be tricky to nail down.

847

0 comments

36 Do It Yourself Gift Box Tutorials For Your Christmas Presents

Make this Christmas special by giving it a personal touch. All these tutorials are fairly easy to follow, although there are some harder ones too. Materials should be easily accessible because they are mostly made of paper, card board, and plastic. Whichever gift box you choose to make, we are almost certain that you will succeed.

design, inspiration, tips, tutorial

730

0 comments

2009

1

DEC

10 Useful Code Snippets And Plugins To Spice Up Wordpress Avatar

This entry provides us 10 most useful code snippets and wordpress plugins that help us control, customize our avatar in wordpress better.

tips, tutorial, wordpress

860

0 comments

Things to consider before you start your blog

Blog is a tangible demonstration of creative effort. It is in a simple term a platform where an individual can share its feeling, expression, guideline through text, pictures, and videos.

design, tips, tutorial

webanddesigners

815

0 comments

2009

27

NOV

11 Lesser known SEO Ranking Factors. Analysis of Just Search

Not for the SEO beginner! 11 advance SEO techniques are presented that are not known to the average web developer. Master these and beat your competitors!

764

0 comments

How to Use Twitter with Prospects and Clients Before, During and After Web Design Projects

There’s no question that social media has reshaped the way we do business online. Used correctly, Twitter can become an integral part of your projects from client screening to web site integration to ongoing client education and interaction. In this post I will step through some ideas on integrating Twitter with your projects and clients before, during and after the project process.

design, inspiration, tips

530

0 comments

2009

24

NOV

25+ Awesome Websites to Make Funny Pictures Online

The presence of many online tools and applications makes it very easy and also fun to play with your images(not necessarily) or with your friends. The best part of these websites is that most of them are free to access, and you do not even need any technical knowledge to operate.

design, photography, tips, tools

2366

1 comment

2009

23

NOV

Top 20 Business Cards

In this article we give you our top 20 business card designs in hopes that you will get inspired by them to create your own masterpiece.

design, graphic, inspiration, seo, tips

833

0 comments

How to make a website: the nature of Web Design

Understanding the nature of web design is necessary for anyone who wants to be a good web designer. But, what is web design? In this article I'm going to give you a simple yet effective definition which will help you to improve your web design skills.

misc, tips, tutorial

729

0 comments

Adding line breaks in Flash via XML

How to add a line break to a text coming from XML in Flash (AS2/AS3)? Discover the simplest and cleanest solution to add line breaks to a text field from XML.

flash, font, tips

1086

1 comment

2009

22

NOV

Bubble Effect with CSS

Create a similar menu with bubble effect by using CSS only. Although it doesn't have as smooth of an effect as jQuery Dock, it's helpful for those that just want to make a cool menu by using pure CSS.

css-html, design, tips

1396

1 comment

2009

20

NOV

83 Awesome Firefox Add-ons every Web Designer must have!

We all know that Firefox is the best browser for web designers. One thing that makes Firefox so special is quality of its unique add-ons. That's why I carefully selected and organized the best 83 add-ons for you!

design, tips, tools

1489

0 comments

2009

19

NOV

21 Best CAPTCHAs: Bloggers Boon & Spammers Bane

Do you know about “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart,” terminology? If you are a blogger then you must have used this in your various projects, while designing a contact form, login form or any other type of registration forms.

design, php, tips, tools, wordpress

1099

0 comments

PR Project - Quick And Stylish Photo Frame In Photoshop

The time has come to give something back to the fabulous community. This project is just a small step towards that goal and in the future we hope we will do some bigger and more interesting ones.

design, photoshop, tips, tutorial

815

0 comments

2009

18

NOV

12 Extremely Handy Online Tools for Web designers and Developers

Here is a list of useful online generator for web design and development. They are small web applications but can easily save up large amount of times and efforts. Make sure you bookmark this page for future reference.

freebies, misc, tips, tools

13822

9 comments

2009

17

NOV

Defend your Designs Against Unexpected Defaults

Surprisingly, there are a number of websites out there that are subject to being hijacked or broken by unexpected browser defaults. Is your site at risk? Read more about why this happens, and what you can do to defend your sites against it!

browser, css-html, design, tips

704

0 comments

2009

16

NOV

7 Design Elements and Techniques that will make your Website stand OUT!

Introducing some of the most used and well known design elements that make websites stand out and look better.

design, graphic, misc, template, tips

984

0 comments

2009

12

NOV

17 Terrific and Easy to Follow Photoshop Product Box Tutorials

Although there are some professional tools out there made specifically for this purpose, sometimes you need to make it on your own and what is the best way to do it than to see how someone did it before. We made a compilation of seventeen terrific and easy to follow Photoshop product box tutorials in order to save your time so you can concentrate on the design itself.

photoshop, tips, tutorial

670

0 comments

2009

11

NOV

30 Free Online Tools to Test Your Website

Testing is one thing that you cannot afford to take lightly. The reason being simple, just like a minor negligence while constructing a building can cost life of millions of residents , the same way a small error left unnoticed can prove to be fatal for your website.

667

0 comments

2009

10

NOV

7 Amazing Presentation Slides to Teach you How to Code with jQuery

Want to learn to code in jQuery? These 7 slides from SlideShare are what you need to get started with jQuery.

css-html, javascript, tips, tutorial

1503

0 comments

2009

9

NOV

5 Fresh and Useful jQuery Plugins You Should Try

This post contains 5 fresh and useful jQuery plugins that you should try for your next project.

ajax, javascript, tips, tools

951

0 comments

How to code Six Revisions' layout better than Six Revisions

Last week, I taught you how to slice Six Revisions' layout in 12 easy steps. Today I'll show you how to code their layout better than them!

css-html, tips, tutorial

762

0 comments

Get By with a Little Help from Your Friends

As designers, artists and illustrators, we all need some inspiration from time to time. It’s what makes us creative people. We take in the things around us and our brains process it, turning what we’ve seen and heard into thoughts and ideas.

857

0 comments

Google’s Local Featured Listings

For long, small and local business have struggled to effectively capitalize on search engine promotion, be it organic or paid promotion.

seo, tips, tools

748

0 comments

2009

7

NOV

Forms. Can’t live with them. Can’t live without them.

The first part of a series of articles that are meant to provide valuable insides no how to develop web forms, what options are there, how to properly code a form and to validate it.

design, tips, usability

767

1 comment

2009

6

NOV

heatmaps, hot or not? Free alternatives for Crazy Egg.

The heatmap is a graphical overlay of your website which points out what content is hot and what not. The click-heatmap makes it possible to analyse the clicking behaviour of the visitor while the eyetracking-heatmap shows you where people actual look on your webpage.

tips, tools, usability, wordpress

1648

4 comments

Why do passwords appear as dots in a form?

When I want to subscribe myself for a newsletter, website, online application or want to sign in, I need to put in my password. This is the easiest way to protect websites/applications and it works, but what I really don’t understand is why a password need to appear as dots in the textfield.

design, tips, usability

691

3 comments

25 inspirational blogs for content and graphics

You have no idea what you want to talk about in the next post, nor have the inspiration to start designing a new project? Just have a look in here. A small collection of websites that gets me inspired.

design, graphic, inspiration, tips

703

0 comments

How to market your website with a confirmation email.

If you ever made an online purchase or subscribed yourself to a website you surely received a confirmation mail afterwards. Of all these emails you’ve received, how many times did you read information other than the obvious (your purchased books, the thank you note for subscribing)? All I see is a missed marketing opportunity because these emails are a powerful tool towards your visitors.

682

0 comments

2009

5

NOV

3 new and amazing CSS tricks every web designer must know

Yesterday evening, I took some time to imagine new interesting ways to use the text-shadow CSS property. And I found 3 New Amazing CSS Tricks!!!

css-html, design, tips

1034

0 comments

2009

4

NOV

Topsy Tip: Another Retweet Button to Embed Anywhere!

Topsy has just released a Wordpress plugin that gives you another retweet button. But, what if you can only work with a JavaScript widget? here is a small hack..

javascript, tips

690

0 comments

2009

3

NOV

Why You Need to be Using Gravatars

In this post, we are going to look at the importance of having your own Gravatar (Globally Recognized Avatar), in order to help solidify your online identity.

tips, wordpress

639

0 comments

15 Best Advertising Programs for Design Bloggers to Mint Money Online

Designer’s community is one such creative community, which along with other business domains is optimizing this moneymaking opportunity and using it well.

733

0 comments

2009

29

OCT

Slice Your Designs with One of Our Sponsors: PixelCrayons

The Design process alone is so time consuming that you are not left with much time and energy, if you are a designer, to even code it.

css-html, design, graphic, tips

561

0 comments

2009

28

OCT

List of Dofollow Links Submission Social and Bookmarking Networks

List of Dofollow Links Submission Social and Bookmarking Networks

1228

3 comments

101 invaluable questions to build your Web Design Client Questionnaire

With these 101 invaluable questions, you'll be able to build an awesome Web Design Client Questionnaire and gather all the information you need to create outstanding websites.

design, misc, template, tips, tutorial

1287

0 comments

2009

22

OCT

Social Networks And Their Place in Business

This prompts an interesting discussion into whether companies should use social tools to promote their business online, and if so, how exactly they should do it. In short, I believe that yes, companies should be making use of these tools.

692

0 comments

2009

19

OCT

All You Need to Know about Web Design Project Preparation

All You Need to Know about Web Design Project Preparation, from gathering information to meeting the client, in 400+ lines and 23 quotations!

misc, tips, tutorial

667

0 comments

2009

16

OCT

Better home link buttons (4)

Fourth article in a series showcasing best practices and tips to improve usability for logo's on websites.

design, graphic, tips, usability

787

0 comments

2009

15

OCT

Contact Us Page Best Practices with 22 Fabulous Showcases

In the entire world wide web, most sites, be it large or small, contain the Contact Us page. The purpose of the Contact Us page is to get your clients or customers to talk to you or enquire more about your services, ultimately it is to generate potential businesses for your company.

design, inspiration, tips, usability

994

0 comments

2009

14

OCT

All You Need to Know about Web Design Project Planning and Process

Having a keen understanding of Web Design Project Planning Process is invaluable. With a clear organization, you’ll be able to work better and more efficiently. Moreover, with this document you’ll be able to show your clients what they are paying for.

design, misc, tips, tutorial

841

0 comments

Must Follow Invoicing Practices for Freelance Designers

How often people have talked about the benefits that enterprises and businesses can derive from e-invoicing and streamline their invoicing process. Therefore, we now do from various survey reports and experiences that advantages of using online invoicing for SME’s are stupendous. But are these advantages limited to businesses or service providers only? I suppose not.

design, misc, tips

602

0 comments

2009

13

OCT

5 Techniques to Style Buttons using Images and CSS

Learn all the common ways to style a button. This tutorial will show how to create a search engine friendly, customizable, and expandable button and also style buttons with CSS sprite.

css-html, design, tips, tutorial

14723

6 comments

How To Display Form Fields Based On Selection With Or Without jQuery Cookie

Over these years, adding JavaScript to a form has become very common. The introduction of JavaScript has changed the way in which a user interacts with an online form.

javascript, misc, tips, usability

755

0 comments

2009

9

OCT

9 Invoicing Tips for Better Invoicing

When it comes to creating invoices there are instances where we end up in committing errors or entering partial details. Such ambiguous invoices not only delay the payment process but can also lead to disputes between the concerned parties.

805

0 comments

2009

8

OCT

Become A WordPress Theme Developer Who Rocks In Four Steps (and 50+ readings)

It has been proved. You can become a “RockStar” developing WordPress themes. Think at the audience, think at the creative process… in my opinion a great WP theme is like a great rock song.

template, tips, tools, wordpress

720

0 comments

2009

29

SEP

Why is my PHP script not sending emails?

It has happened to most of us; everything appears right but the email sent by the script never reaches the destination address. This article takes you through the steps to troubleshoot the problem.

misc, php, tips

795

0 comments

2009

28

SEP

15 Useful Code Snippet Tools That Will Help You Store And Manage Your Code Library

Every developer should have a way or tool to store their code snippets to speed up their daily work. If you have just started your programming journey, there might not be any code snippets you might want to keep or archive yet.

gadget, tips, tools, usability

1101

0 comments

2009

21

SEP

Graceful flash degradation, reloaded!

Second article of a series containing pointers to improve flash websites, accessibility and usability of websites that contain flash elements.

graphic, tips, tutorial, usability

917

0 comments

2009

14

SEP

10 Awful IE Bugs and Fixes

I have listed 10 common Internet Explorer bugs and solutions. I believe this will able to help you shorten the times spent on debugging the layout inconsistensies in IE.

36693

41 comments

Site redesign & how to lose 50% of your business

A case study based on guru.com's new homepage design, showing how you can miss 50% of your target without proper structure and layout.

design, tips, tutorial, usability

968

0 comments

2009

13

SEP

jQuery for Beginners: Selectors, Hierarchies and Attributes, Oh My!

jQuery is a javascript framework that makes it easy to edit markup and styles on a page, build advanced user interfaces, and update data sources with AJAX. Today, we’ll go over the first steps and the one major benefit of using jQuery: selecting and manipulating markup and CSS.

ajax, javascript, tips, tutorial

1129

0 comments

2009

11

SEP

Creating motion blur without special software

A short tutorial describing a nice trick on how to create blur effects without relying on graphic editing software.

graphic, photoshop, tips, tutorial

1574

0 comments

2009

9

SEP

The Encyclopedia of Typographic Contrast

Typography is an essential part of web design, and something I know that I could do a better job with. So, I figured I would start to assembly a mini-encyclopedia on some of the elements you can use to create contrast.

design, tips, tutorial, usability

866

0 comments

2009

8

SEP

Tuesday Morning Design Inspiration: I Need Coffee. Now.

It’s absolutely pouring rain right now in Ann Arbor, and as I’m sure you can guess, walking to class in the rain is about the worst thing in the world. It’s going to take a lot of coffee to motivate myself to do it, and I’m sure you all need some motivation and inspiration after the long weekend.

design, inspiration, tips, trend

809

0 comments

2009

4

SEP

Large Format Posters Giveaway

In this contest two very lucky Readers/Subscribers of tutsAZ will win (each one) a large poster that you can stick on your wall. The sponsor of this giveaway is LargeFormatPosters.com.

freebies, misc, tips, tools

689

0 comments

2009

3

SEP

Dump The Tables for Layout Designing

A very informative article about css based website designing. When website designer and developers are not in a favor of using tables while creating a web page and at the same time they can’t even explain why. I think this article will definitely give some solid grounds that people craft css based, table-less designs.

css-html, design, tips, tutorial, usability

seosemanticxhtml

871

0 comments

2009

28

AUG

10 Proven Useful Search Engine Optimization Guidelines, Tips and Tricks

It's easy to build a website, but do you know how to build a search engine friendly website? Search Engine Optimization is an inevitable topic to make a successful website. I will share some guidelines, tips and tricks that I used for my blog, they're proven working and very useful.

10176

10 comments

2009

27

AUG

40 iPhone Applications for Web Freelancers, Bloggers, and Designers

Here are the top 40 apps you cannot live without -- because we know not all apps were created equal, and the last thing you have time for is sorting through all the barely functioning ones.

759

0 comments

2009

25

AUG

15 Ways to Optimize CSS and Reduce CSS File Size

You know CSS, but do you know how to optimize it? I have gathered a list of CSS optimization and CSS File size reduction tips and tricks that will help you writing a more effective and efficient CSS code.

19429

17 comments

2009

24

AUG

How To Use Pure CSS To Style Web Form Dynamically

Everybody knows about web forms and it has fast becoming part of our daily online interaction.

css-html, javascript, tips, tutorial

1411

0 comments

2009

22

AUG

18 Factors that will Increase the (cash) Value of Your Website

How can you increase the cash value of your website? I have put together 18 factors to increase the value of your site. Score high marks in all of these and you can be sure your site will be worth more than a just a few pounds.

design, misc, tips, tutorial

891

0 comments

2009

20

AUG

5 Tips and Tricks For An Effective eCommerce Site With 10 Brilliant Examples

Customers appreciate the convenience of ordering online, but if a site is cumbersome, is veiled about its pricing and polices, or does not seem to provide personal benefit, they leave.

inspiration, misc, tips, usability

754

0 comments

2009

18

AUG

Web Analytics Tools – Analyzing The Traffic On Web

With diverse objectives, technologies and access of resources, it is important to select the correct web analytics tool compatible with your website or blog. Before taking a decision, it is essential to hold a brain-storming session so as to pick the ideal tool.

seo, tips, tools, tutorial, usability

785

0 comments

2009

6

AUG

9 Unusual Ways to Increase Traffic to your Website

If you’ve been doing online marketing for any time at all, then you already know the traditional methods of attracting visitors to your website and increasing traffic. But at some point, these methods begin to lose effectiveness and new marketing and promotion channels must be discovered. Listed here are nine non-traditional methods that can help you increase website traffic.

misc, seo, tips

917

0 comments

2009

5

AUG

10 Common Design Flaws That Frustrate Your Website's Users

At one time or another, we have all visited a website that is so confusing and poorly-designed that it is not worth wasting any time or effort on. Some webmasters are so focused on collecting information from their users that they overload their visitors with requests and instructions. Listed here are some of the most common features of a website that frustrate visitors.

design, tips, usability

1111

0 comments

Seven Tips to Use Colors in your Site

In this post, I will continue my discussion of the meaning and the use of colors in web design. As I have previously mentioned, color is one of the web designer’s most indispensable tools, because it is one of the main building blocks of a superior website. Below you will find my list of simple tips to improve the use of color in your site...

design, graphic, tips

1006

0 comments

8 Tips to Release and Reinforce your Creative Muse

Through my experiences, I have accumulated some useful tips that I have used to get inspired and release my creative muse.....

design, inspiration, tips

780

0 comments

12 Tips on Pricing your Web Work

In this post, I will discuss how to establish an appropriate price for a website, when you do freelance. So, you have started doing freelance, but cannot decide what to charge? I know the feeling. When I first started doing freelance, deciding the price gave me a great deal of difficulty. ....

design, graphic, misc, tips

984

0 comments

Tips for Starting your Own Web Development Business

Are you ready to start your own business, but are not sure where to start or how to accomplish your goal? I worked as a developer for a large company for almost six years, and I grew tired of receiving only a fraction of the payment and no credit for a website, when I did all of the work....

design, graphic, tips

1201

0 comments

Web Design Rules to Follow

Web design is the combination of graphic design, layout, content, color, and effects which culminate to give a great user experience. As I have previously stated, I think good design involves the use of excellent graphics, fonts, color, layout, web accessibility, and design, which together give a feel of uniqueness, style, personality, and individuality......

design, graphic, tips, tutorial

1057

1 comment

2009

4

AUG

How A Web Designer Can Make Your Email Campaign A Success

If you’re planning on making email campaigns a part of your Internet marketing strategy, consider enlisting professional help. Your website designer is a terrific choice when you’re ready to launch a successful email campaign.

design, tips, usability

807

0 comments

2009

3

AUG

Adding a Facebook Fan list to your blog or website

Today I would like to share that how to add a Facebook fan list to your blog or website (like I have added here at right sidebar). This is the best way for your blog/website readers to connect with you on Facebook.

css-html, design, tips, tools

1856

1 comment

2009

30

JUL

Increase sales by 70%

Brief article showcasing a case study regarding website optimization done for increasing conversion rates and sales.

tips, usability

741

0 comments

10 Simple Ways to Make Life Easier for Your Website’s Users

Compatibility, usability, interaction, visual appeal, and support for a website’s users are all important aspects for a designer to consider when looking to present the most interesting and user-friendly site possible. By implementing the simple suggestions below, you can dramatically improve your users’ experience and the overall performance of your site.

design, misc, tips, usability

919

0 comments

2009

28

JUL

Keep Your Website Alive and Thriving with Regular Maintenance

Practically every business knows they need to keep their services and offerings fresh and up-to-date if they want to please their customers. The same is true for websites. Search engines and visitors alike become bored with old, outdated websites that fail to offer anything new. Broken links, antiquated news and dated content cripple your website, impairing your ability to attract new traffic.

cms, design, tips, usability

980

0 comments

Possible reasons for IE CSS fail

A cause of major CSS background/layout fail in Internet Explorer is messy style code. When your code is poorly organized, it can lead to problems that only mainfest themselves in every web developer’s favourite browser, Internet Explorer.

css-html, design, tips

904

0 comments

Promote your article and yourself with us

All you need to have is sound knowledge of web design industry and a good control over the language (English). The post must be unique and free from plagiarized content. Before publishing, it will be moderated and edited, if necessary, by our experts.

716

0 comments

2009

23

JUL

Awesome navigation techniques

An article showcasing one interesting navigation technique, with multiple options given to the user, from basic links, to keyboard shortcuts rounding up with amazing gestures.

design, flash, tips, usability

1392

0 comments

2009

22

JUL

15+ CSS Tips and Tricks

A list of CSS tips and tricks that will make your life so much easier! I have also make a list of CSS shorthands for your convenience.

34524

31 comments

2009

21

JUL

Red sites showcase

An article showcasing good and bad usage of red to emphasize key elements on different websites, plus a beautiful sites showcase.

design, graphic, tips, usability

835

0 comments

2009

19

JUL

Get more visitors: 29 sites with community news form

We know that when you launch a new site, you have to make readers come to you. If they will follow you on Twitter or subscribe to your RSS is another thing, but they definatley need to read your post. And how to do that if you are new on the “market”? Well, there are [...]

tips, wordpress

849

0 comments

20 jQuery Tutorials And Plugins To Impress Your Friends

I have always loved jQuery and I’m sure many of you do too! In fact we’ve published some jQuery ‘getting started‘ guides in the past. So this time I thought we’d go more in depth and I’ve hand-picked 20 awesome jQuery tutorials.

ajax, javascript, php, tips, tutorial

1391

0 comments

2009

17

JUL

The Autopsy Of WordPress As CMS With 25 Great WP Plugins & Designs

WordPress clearly need no introduction for web devotees like us. Starting out from just a humble blogging platform in 2003, it had grow exponentially into a popular platform.

cms, design, tips, wordpress

871

0 comments

2009

16

JUL

Top 7 Social Marketing Resources

In this article, we are providing the list of resources which can be use to market your website by social networking. These website and applications helps in generating traffic and leads.

freebies, seo, tips, tutorial

1148

0 comments

2009

15

JUL

7 Things You Don't Learn In Design School

When finishing design school you will learn so many thing your teachers never told you. Here you have some of those things.

design, graphic, inspiration, tips

961

0 comments

15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website

In this article, we are creating a checklist of all the basic but essential tasks which should be done and tested before launching any new website.

design, tips, tutorial, usability

seosemanticxhtml

1001

0 comments

2009

14

JUL

The Importance Of Wireframes In Web Design And 9 Tools To Create Wireframes

A designer doesn’t have to reinvent the wheel with each new wire frame diagram, of course. Every page in a site will share some elements, even when the pages don’t follow the same template.

design, inspiration, tips, tools

890

0 comments

2009

9

JUL

Is Your Website in Need of a Facelift? The Pros & Cons of Redesigning Your Site

Many business owners who have seen success from their company website in the past are now stuck in the world of Web 1.0. Some do not feel a need to update their web presence and others do not understand how redesigning their website can result in increased traffic and sales.

design, tips, trend, usability

772

0 comments

25 Incredibly Useful WordPress Cheat Sheets & Checklists

Are you a WordPress fanatic? No telling how many people share your passion, but there are plenty of WordPress cheat sheets,checklists &blogs dedicated to the WordPress blog flexibility,open structure.

design, mysql, php, tips, wordpress

889

0 comments

2009

8

JUL

Where to use red color, information & advice

The first article from a series of article about colors. Also contains an interview with renowned color expert Igor Asselbergs.

design, graphic, logo, tips, usability

981

0 comments

12 Navigation Options That Help Users Navigate Through Your Website Effectively

Previously, we have discussed the 10 principles of navigation design and why quality navigation is so critical. Readers think differently about how to find content, depending on their training, profession or habits.

design, inspiration, tips, usability

3072

0 comments

2009

7

JUL

What’s the right price for PSD to HTML conversion?

There are many aspects, which determine the overall price of the code. Some of them are: Design complexity, etc.....

css-html, design, graphic, tips, tutorial

946

0 comments

Does Your Website Send the Wrong Message?

Your website should be custom designed with your customer in mind. You have spent time creating a brand and image for your company. Why destroy that brand with a website design that a thousand other people are also using?

design, seo, tips, usability

3233

1 comment

2009

3

JUL

Mark Prints for Self on Other’s Blog

For a change, this post is for readers from all niche, segment, interest, community and category. Even if you have no relation with the world of web designing you shall find reading it worthy.

design, misc, seo, tips, trend

979

0 comments

2009

1

JUL

22 Extremely Useful Tools for Web Designers and Developers

I have a list of firefox plugins, adobe air apps and some freewares (mac and win) that able to boost web designers and developers productivity and efficiency.

freebies, tips, tools

20692

17 comments

2009

26

JUN

16 Good Questions to Ask before hiring PSD to HTML provider

I am sharing my list with you all and feel free to add any question, which you think one should ask before awarding the project.

css-html, design, tips, tutorial

967

1 comment

2009

18

JUN

20 Best CSS Tips And Tricks Collection

Here I am providing you with the best collection of CSS Tips and Tricks available on the web, that will let you create drastically different and smashing looks with CSS. Use these tips to know how CSS used creatively can add life to your website!

css-html, design, tips

1625

0 comments

2009

15

JUN

What not to do in mobile web design (#2)

This is a second article of a series of articles about what one developer, or for that matter, a designer, shouldn't do in mobile web design. This second article also treats some serious usability issues, so the problems described in this article shouldn't be used on any site, not just on website's versions targeted to mobile devices.

design, logo, tips, usability

948

0 comments

2009

11

JUN

An Overture with HTML 5

With the passage of time, the versions of HTML start becoming obsolete. The daily up-gradation in the formats of creating a website gradually pushed the boundaries of HTML 4.

css-html, design, tips

1068

0 comments

2009

9

JUN

jQuery Sliding Tab Menu for Sidebar Tutorial

Learn how to create a sliding tab menu for your sidebar by using jQuery and jQuery.scrollTo. With this simple tutorial, you'll able to create a slick and attractive sidebar. It's so simple and fully customizable.

css-html, javascript, tips, tutorial

103080

55 comments

2009

6

JUN

bwin’s live betting system in the spotlight

A detailed review on bwin's live betting system, how it works, the things that are great, and its downsides.

flash, tips, trend, usability

2316

1 comment

2009

2

JUN

Vertical Scroll Menu with jQuery Tutorial

Create a vertical scroll menu that scroll automatically according to your mouse axis-Y movement. This tutorial will cover some jquery tips, tricks, and plugin.

css-html, design, javascript, tips, tutorial

179915

67 comments

2009

23

MAY

Minimal design and who started it

The basics about minimalism and how to learn more about it.

design, misc, tips

1292

0 comments

2009

20

MAY

What's Under the Hood: 8 Ways to View Page Source on Your iPhone

As a self-taught web developer, I learned a lot of what I know by looking at other people’s source code. It’s unfortunate that I can’t do this on my iPhone with mobile Safari, at least not by default. That said, there are several methods you can use to view the source code of a site on your iPhone.

browser, misc, tips, tools

1198

0 comments

2009

15

MAY

Mindblowing vs Ordinary article titles

Titles should contain such keywords in order to pre-blow you visitors mind before they read the first paragraph of your article. Make your title just like a spoiler!

1248

0 comments

2009

23

APR

Examples and Tips for Great HTML/CSS Formatting

An overlooked aspect of websites is the formatting of HTML and CSS documents. This affects validation, SEO, and visual ease of use. Here are some examples of well formatted HTML and CSS.

2914

1 comment

2009

22

APR

18 Seriously Helpful Cheat Sheets for Easier Coding

That is no surprise since the skill set of many web designers today go beyond visual design. So whether you are a seasoned programmer or just starting to learn how to code, these cheat sheets are going to be a big help to you.

2889

0 comments

2009

20

APR

8 Characteristics Of Successful User Interfaces

Following guidelines from experts will likely lead you towards creating a good user interface — but what exactly is a good interface? What are the characteristics of an effective user interface?

design, tips, usability

3265

0 comments

2009

17

APR

Creating a Dynamic (xml) RSS Feed from PHP and MySQL (script)

This PHP script will query your MySQL database’s table where you keep your news, articles and such and basically create an XML file from that information. Once you look into the file itself, you can see that the query would need to be changed to suit your needs, but that’s pretty much the end of it.

mysql, php, seo, tips

5007

1 comment

What not to do in form design

I posted a few days ago an article regarding issues that can arise during mobile web design, and I am now posting an addition to that, regarding some issues that can appear on web form designs.

css-html, javascript, tips, usability, video

3040

0 comments

2009

15

APR

25+ jQuery Plugins that enhance and beautify HTML form elements

I have collected over 25 jQuery plugins that enhance and beautify html form elements. Some of them add more capabilities that able to increase usability and user friendliness to a website.

javascript, tips, usability

290944

112 comments

10 Exceptional WordPress Hacks

Today, let’s do it again with 10 new and totally killer WordPress hacks to make your blog stand out from the crowd. As usual, we won’t just list the hacks alone. In each entry, you’ll find an explanation of the code as well as the kinds of problems that the hack solves.

tips, tutorial, wordpress

2429

0 comments

Avoid spammers on your blog (2)

The previous spam avoiding post described a nice technique to hide URL input fields from spammer's eyes. The kind of spammers described in the previous post usually want to get their comment as close as possible to content areas. Current article describes a technique on how to avoid such spammers.

misc, tips, tutorial, wordpress

3525

0 comments

2009

13

APR

How to Spot Quality within Web Design: Examples & Tips

I’ve put together a few pointers, and collected some examples to explain just how I look for quality within a website design.

inspiration, tips, usability

2752

0 comments

2009

9

APR

CSS and Web Gallery List : Promote and Increase your Website Traffic

Promoting your website in these web css galleries can increase website traffic. Majority of them support do-follow, which can help your website rank better in the search engines. I have found 92 CSS & Web galleries with latest google pagerank, alexarank and submission links, so you can fire up your submission straight away!

css-html, inspiration, seo, tips

16580

38 comments

40 Exceptional jQuery Interface Techniques and Tutorials

In this article, we explore the strengths of jQuery in letting web developers create impressive client-side-based user interface components.

javascript, tips, tutorial

2885

0 comments

2009

8

APR

10 Tips to Design Usable Shopping Carts

Here are 10 tips to help you create usable e-commerce checkouts and shopping carts.

1788

0 comments

15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website

This article reviews some important and necessary checks that web-sites should be checked against before the official launch.

tips, usability

2057

0 comments

2009

7

APR

jQuery Tips and Tricks II

jQuery Tips and Tricks Part 2! Obviously, one post is simply not enough. I found some performance tuning, element manipulations tips and tricks that I believe will able to help you develop a more effective and efficient jQuery script.

css-html, javascript, tips

38012

22 comments

100+ Massive CSS Toolbox

In this article tripwire magazine provides a Massive CSS Toolbox giving you access to a really large collection of CSS Tools, Tutorials, Cheat Sheets etc.

css-html, tips, tools

2185

0 comments

A Simple jQuery Stylesheet Switcher

There are lots of reasons you might want to offer your users more than one CSS file for your website. Whatever the reason, it’s amazingly easy to create a function that swaps between multiple stylesheets using jQuery...

javascript, tips

3262

1 comment

2009

2

APR

10 Simple and Impressive Design Technique

With a “less is more” mentality, we’ve selected 10 very simple and impressive design techniques that can drastically improve the performance and appearance of your designs.

design, inspiration, tips

1828

0 comments

2009

1

APR

How To Create A Great Web Design CV and Résumé?

The economy is bad. No one’s job is really 100% safe, so it’s time we all bucked up and got our recession bags packed (just in case!). Your portfolio is already gorgeous, but have you created a drool-worthy résumé?

3791

1 comment

2009

31

MAR

12 WordPress Plugins for Theme Development

If you design and develop themes for you own use, custom themes for clients, premium themes for sale, or free themes to distribute, I think some of these plugins will be very useful to you.

tips, tools, wordpress

1678

0 comments

30 Fresh and Promising Design Blogs to Follow

This article presents 30 new and fresh design blogs that are worth checking out. Weblogs featured here discuss web, graphic, and print design. Hopefully you’ll find a link or two (or more) that piques your interests enough to prompt you to subscribe to them.

design, misc, tips

2566

0 comments

2009

30

MAR

10 websites comprising user link feed to submit your posts

Nowadays, submitting your sites articles, resources, tutorials, inspiration and graphics to other sites to increase traffic to ones site are being used a lot. So we are listing out 10 sites where you can submit your posts acknowledged as USER LINK FEED.

1897

1 comment

2009

29

MAR

6 jQuery snippets you can use to manipulate select inputs

When it comes to manipulating the DOM, fewer elements are more tiresome than the good old select input. Fortunately for us, jQuery makes what was once a headache, a walk in the park. This article lists 6 snippets which should make manipulating those selects more pleasant than say, pulling your own teeth.

javascript, tips

2749

0 comments

115 Insanely Useful Photoshop tips & tutorials

With a wealth of tips, tricks and tutorials on using Photoshop scattered around the web, we found some of the best resources throughout the day. It’s time to get started checking out these amazing links.

design, graphic, photoshop, tips, tutorial

1773

0 comments

2009

26

MAR

Designing Drop-Down Menus: Examples and Best Practices

In this article we take a closer look at the nature of drop-down navigation menus, analyze situations in which they should or should not be used, discuss various implementations and finally showcase a couple of bad and good examples of such menus. The article also includes various tips and suggestions to help you work with your drop-down menus.

inspiration, tips, usability

2588

0 comments

Designing Drop-Down Menus: Examples and Best Practices

In this article we take a closer look at the nature of drop-down navigation menus, analyze situations in which they should or should not be used, discuss various implementations and finally showcase a couple of bad and good examples of such menus. The article also includes various tips and suggestions to help you work with your drop-down menus.

inspiration, tips, usability

2588

0 comments

15 Surefire Ways to Break Your CSS

Here are fifteen ways I’ve found to break my CSS for sure — and fifteen things I always look for whenever I have a problem in my code.

4056

0 comments

2009

25

MAR

MySQL Admin and Development Tools Round Up

In the overview below we present some of the most useful and most popular MySQL Admin and Development Tools for Mac, Windows and Linux, for beginners and for professionals.

2101

1 comment

13 Tips for Working with WordPress on Client Sites

In this article I’ll discuss some things from my own personal experience, feel free to share your own thoughts in the comments.

tips, wordpress

1863

0 comments

Useful and Handy jQuery Tips and Tricks

I have a list of jQuery tips and tricks for my development project. Now, I want to share it to everyone. In this article, I will assemble all the jQuery tips and tricks and cheat sheets that I got it online in a single page.

css-html, javascript, tips

67719

38 comments

2009

24

MAR

Common Mistakes in Web Design

Many rejected templates here on Themeforest suffer from the same few common mistakes: typography (font, line-height, letter-spacing, color), alignment (grid), and spacing (padding). In this tutorial, we are going to take a closer look at how to avoid these common errors.

design, font, tips, usability

1874

0 comments

2009

23

MAR

A Really Simple jQuery Plugin Tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to create a simple jQuery Plugin that allow user to change some settings. I'm using one of my jQuery tutorials - "Menu with jQuery Animate effect" and convert it into a plugin.

css-html, javascript, tips, tutorial

56719

24 comments

4 Principles of Good Design for Websites

This post will discuss those four principles as they relate to web design. By keeping these design theories fresh in your mind, you will be sure to design cleaner, more aesthetically pleasing sites.

design, tips, usability

1952

0 comments

Tweetmeme - Make Your Content Popular

If you want to increase the popularity of your blog posts or your web content within twitter community Tweetmeme is great tool for it.

1488

1 comment

2009

19

MAR

IE Fix: Bicubic Scaling for Images

Devthought had a little CSS tip the other day that is definitely worth repeating. It’s not new, it’s just an important little trick to know. If you use width or height tags to resize images in your markup, IE will ensure they look incredibly awful unless you use this little snippet.....

browser, css-html, tips

2919

1 comment

10 Principles For Readable Web Typography

Readability is one of the more important aspects of Web design usability. Readable text affects how users process the information in the content. Poor readability scares readers away from the content. On the other hand, done correctly, readability allows users to efficiently read and take in the information in the text.....

font, tips, usability

2179

3 comments

23 Design Related Weblog You Should Visit

Before this I make a list of some good resource blog for designer, and this post I gonna put 23 good design related webblog, which is not only for resource but also to know the trend and find inspiration.

inspiration, tips

1700

0 comments

2009

16

MAR

Finding Inspiration

As a designer, I think we all have experienced the hard time of finding new ideas and inspirations. That’s why I’ve chosen to talk about this topic in my presentation at the FOWD conference. In this post, I want to do a recap of my keynotes – Finding Inspiration From Your Environment. Read on to find out how my work habits and environment influence my design.

design, inspiration, tips

1922

1 comment

20 Useful CSS Tips For Beginners

In the old days, we depend a lot of on developers and programmers to help update the website, even when it’s just a minor one. Thanks to the CSS and it’s flexibility, styles can be extract independently away from the codes. Now, with some basic understanding of CSS, even a novice can easily change the style of a website.

css-html, tips, tutorial

1978

1 comment

Unique Pages, Unique CSS Files

I received a question the other day from someone who was curious how I handle multiple different page styles and layouts across one site with CSS. It’s a very common scenario I think. For example, you have a homepage that is different from your blog post pages that is different from your about page that is different from your contact page.

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0 comments

Web Design Awards Sites : List of Website Design Awards Sites

We have collected web design awards sites from around the net. Not only is this a great way to promote your website design business, but it is also a great way to show potential customers that you are great at what you do. Just stick your web design awards on your site and you will show potential customers that you are the best of the best.

1980

0 comments

14 jQuery Plugins for Working with Images

JavaScript frameworks have become very popular in the recent years by making the creation of dynamic effects much easier. Lightweight, used in the Wordpress and Drupal core, jQuery is now one of the most used JavaScript libraries around.

javascript, tips, tools

2717

1 comment

2009

12

MAR

5 Writing Tips for Web Designers

Poorly written web writing misleads visitors and wastes millions of hours daily. For today’s more than one billion Internet users, that translates to frustration. For your web design clients, it means missed opportunities. Gain insight into highly effective web writing tactics that will help promote positive online experiences with every website you design and develop.

1480

0 comments

Essential Qualities of a Home Office

Being able to earn a living working from home is a great privilege, and something in which most freelancers and web workers invest a great deal of effort. Part of being successful in this setting is creating a work space that is conducive to getting things done, and that will help to keep you relaxed and at peace when things can get stressful.

inspiration, tips

1606

0 comments

2009

11

MAR

Conditional-CSS

Conditional-CSS . Allows you to write maintainable CSS with conditional logic to target specific CSS statements at both individual browsers and groups of browsers.

css-html, php, tips

1925

1 comment

2009

10

MAR

CSS Code Snippets for Web Designers & Developers

Why recreate CSS code that has already been created. Check these sites offering free CSS codes.

css-html, tips, tools

1863

0 comments

2009

9

MAR

10 Fixes That Solve IE6 Problems

We know IE is likely to be around for some time, but can we still support the browser and avoid hacks and conditional CSS? Here are 10 fixes to solve the majority of IE6 problems with valid HTML and CSS code…

browser, tips, tutorial

2882

0 comments

2008

27

JAN

5 Step Style Sheet Weight Loss Program

Does your style sheet ever feel bloated and overweight? If you notice some love handles growing on your style sheets, it may be time to stop and give it a good make over. Learn the following steps and your style sheet will be in shape in no time.

css-html, tips, tutorial

2852

2 comments

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