B2B Buyers Speak Out About Web Sites

Web sites and colleagues’ word-of-mouth recommendations are the top two influencers for B2B buyers making purchasing decisions, according to a study.

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25 Sources For Logo Design Inspiration

Looking for ideas to create a great looking logo?

Here's 25 logo showcase, portfolio sites and even few blogs which dedicate their life to help you become an expert as logo designer.

Getting Started on Designing Great Sites

Your design skills are up to par with the big boys and girls of the industry? Hopefully this article with help you get on the road to improving those skills and help you create a masterpiece… or at least something that will get you noticed in the right way.

Google’s guide to Analytics

Brett Crosby provides the inside track on how you can use Google Analytics to drive targeted traffic to your website, understand your visitors’ wants and needs, and make informed design improvements.

Five Minute Upgrade - Increase Scannability

When scrolling down a page, the last thing a visitor wants are miles of paragraphs, all in the same font and font size, with nothing to break them up or call attention to any parts of them. If a page looks overwhelming and monotonous, chances are you’ve just lost a visitor.

Table Layouts vs. Div Layouts: From Hell to… Hell?

Developers have moved from table-based website structures to div-based structures. Hey, that’s great. Do developers know the reasons for moving to div-based structures, and do they know how to? Often it seems that people are moving away from table hell only to wind up in div hell.

Introducing Avatar Wall: Show Your Avatar to the World

Avatar Wall, a brand new website dedicated to showcase avatars from around the world.

50 Stylish Navigation Menus for Design Inspiration

A site’s navigation menu is one of the most prominent things that users see when they first visit. There are many ways to design a navigation menu - and since almost all websites have some form of navigation - designers have to push their creative limits to build one that’s remarkable and outstanding.

In this article, you’ll find a showcase of beautiful, creative, and stylish navigation menus for your inspiration.

A fancy Apple.com-style search suggestion

The layout of Apple.com is simple and beautiful. Yet, one of the most awesome things about the website is the search functionality. It gives you suggestions (with images) about the several products they offer, making it really user-friendly.

When to outsource web work

When is it the best time to hire a full time web designer or outsource to a web design agency?

Post Web 2.0 Expo Show

If you didn't get to attend the recent Web 2.0 Expo Show in San Francisco, you can still gain access to the presentation files. Go here, and select from the 'Presentation Files' pull down.

How Google's Rankings Algorithm Has Changed Over Time

The importance levels of various factors in Google's algorithm is changing over time.

Meet Jos Buivenga: The Designer of the Museo Font

If you frequent design and CSS galleries, you may have stumbled time and time again upon an excellent typeface released last year that took the design world by storm. Those typeface releases from from Jos Buivenga’s font ‘Museo’.

Sites of the week

Here are some great sites such as Ballpark and the web app Chartbeat. Also there is the amazing flash site for Salinas.

Web Trend Map 4 - Final Beta

A map of leading currents of web thought and commerce.

UXWeek, 15-18 September 2009, San Francisco

UX Week is the premier user experience conference. With a mix of inspiring talks from recognized thought leaders and hands-on workshops delivering takeaway skills, this event delivers for user experience professionals at all levels — directors, managers, and practitioners.

The Perfect 3 Column Liquid Layout (Percentage widths)...SEO Friendly

The CSS used for this layout is 100% valid and hack free. To overcome Internet Explorer's broken box model, no horizontal padding or margins are used. Instead, this design uses percentage widths and clever relative positioning.

15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website

Your website is designed, the CMS works, content has been added and the client is happy. It’s time to take the website live. Or is it?

20 Useful PHP + jQuery Components & Tuts for Everyday Project

Web applications have made huge leaps and bounds in improving user experience thanks to a lot of recently developed Ajax technology. When you combine some neat functionality courtesy of PHP with the cleverness of jQuery you can produce some pretty neat effects.

The Future of Open Source CMS - by 23 Web Designers & Developers

Open Source Content Management Systems are the most used for almost any kind of site on the web.

Jesse James Garrett Slams One Door and Opens Many More

In this IA Summit Closing Plenary, given without slides while wandering amidst the audience, Jesse examines what he has learned at the conference, he thoughts on the nature of the discipline and the practitioner, and gives bold, perhaps even shocking advice for the future direction of information architecture.

Adobe Community Help

Adobe is now shipping the CS4 suite so that means all new applications and new things to learn. Judging from the amount of questions that I receive about Illustrator or Photoshop there are a lot of people who didn’t discover the Community Help yet.

7 Factors that Separate Good Websites from Bad Websites

We all naturally form opinions about the websites we visit. Some of them we love so much that we come back several times a week, and others leave us with a bad experience that causes us to never return.

10 Simple and Impressive Design Techniques

Simple effects and techniques are the building blocks of today’s designs.

14 Incredibly Useful Web Design Cheat Sheets

Here are 14 web design cheat sheets to use when building your next website.

How To Use Data To Drive Web Profits In A Downturn

The economic downturn has many of us personally looking to stretch our dollars and make the most of what we’ve got until budgets can be loosened again. For corporations and their websites, it’s no different.

Five Best Image Editing Software

Image editing software has become ubiquitous in this digital age. Whether you’re creating a web interface or simply cropping and enhancing your family photos – you’ll need your favorite image editor to do it.

50 Totally Free Lessons in Graphic Design Theory

Design theory is the missing link for many un-trained but otherwise talented designers. Here are 50 excellent graphic design theory lessons to help you understand the 'Whys', not just the 'Hows'.

44 Must Learn Web Design Layout Tutorials in Photoshop

Most web design layouts are normally done in Photoshop and since its the most overused application on creating web layouts. Here's some of the most helpful and nice photoshop tutorials on how to make a good web design layout to enhance your experience and ideas.

Finding Inspiration When Starting a New Web Project (Your first steps into uncharted territory)

The beginning stages of a new web project can often be daunting, especially if there are areas of uncertainty that lie ahead. Believe it or not, this a blessing in disguise!

Sliding Boxes and Captions with jQuery

All of these sliding box animations work on the same basic idea. There is a div tag (.boxgrid in my css) that essentially acts as a window where two other items of your choosing “peek” through.

Information Architecture Summit

The Information Architecture Summit is the premier gathering place for information architects and other user experience professionals. It’s grown from a special interest group’s efforts to define an emerging field, to a rich and expanding community of practice shaping and informing multiple disciplines.

You don’t have to be an IA or User Experience professional to enjoy the Summit. You simply have to love the art and science of structuring information.