Interactivity in Web Design: A Beginner’s Guide

The Internet is a different place than it was 10 years ago. Back then, the only way people could find information was by surfing the Internet using search engines and then jumping from link to link in order to find other websites. By Poonam

Online Web-design tools for the beginner

If you're not an advanced Web designer, and you don't want to pay a company to create a Web site for you, there are services across the Web that can help you create the site you want. By Don Reisinger

Showcase of Designs Optimized for iPhone

Over the last couple of years, mobile devices have managed to gain mainstream popularity. With iPhone, making mobile Web applications finally usable by broad masses, web design can now be applied to mobile applications as well. By Adeel Raza

7 Ways Of Handling 404 Error Messages

Good article by Web Analytics, on how various sites are dealing with 404 error messages and provide your 7 ways of handling 404 pages on your site.

45+ Inspiring Examples of Vintage in Web Design

Who said old style was never been cool in web design? In fact, using Vintage photo, paper and fashion became trendier now a day. By Naldz Graphics

The Creative Critique : A Concept Feedback Review

Being members of a creative community, you're always looking to improve our designs and hone our skills as we refine our craft. One great way to strengthen your designs is through constructive feedback on your concepts and on the executions of your ideas. By Angie Bowen

27 Best WebSites to Download Free Seamless Patterns

Searching for a perfect background for your design is always a bit difficult process, To make the Pattern Searching process little bit easier for you, here i’ve listed 27 best websites to download beautiful seamless patterns, hope you find this collection useful. By Dzineblog

Create a webdesign company layout in Photoshop

In this article, Jean-Baptiste Jung will show you how to create a modern looking Photoshop design for your web design company.

25 of the Best Websites of Bands and Musicians

Websites from various types of entertainment-related industries can often be a source of design inspiration. Bands and musicians need to have a website that is attractive to visitors and provides all of the necessary information that fans will want to find. By Vandelay Design Blog

5 Ways To Be Incredibly Persuasive On The Web

A website that isn't persuasive will fail to convince users they should spend the time to perform what actions are required to convert. By StylizedWeb

How to Add a Fixed Position Banner to a Website

One trend in web design that has been gaining popularity is the use of fixed position banners that remain at the bottom of the browser as visitors scroll vertically. By Steven Snell

15 Top Premium Template Websites For Web Designers

Compiled here are a list of 15 top premium template sites. On these premium websites, there are many templates listed covering WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento, Blogger, Flash and pure HTML and CSS templates. By WebDesignDev

Getting started with Wireframing

Jack Franklin, brings us a nice intro to wireframes. He explains what they are, how they can benefit you as a web designer and information on using grids and so much more.

A Guide to Website Promotion

David Silvester shares with us his 5 most important points to optimising a website.

A shorthand for designing UI flows

Flows are just as important to good interfaces as individual screens are. Customers don’t land on screens from out of nowhere. Specific sequences of actions lead customers through your app as they try to accomplish their tasks. By Ryan Singer

How to Effectively Organize your Photoshop Layers

Imagine what it’s like opening a Photoshop file (PSD), only to find a jumble of poorly labeled layers and folders, plus a heap of unchecked hidden layers and other half-baked ideas that didn’t make it to fruition. By Josh Sears

Interview with Web Usability Guru, Jakob Nielsen

In this article, the focus is on web usability and more specifically, on the views of world renowned usability expert, Jakob Nielsen. By Walter Apai

The History of Web Browsers

The tool that we use to browse our favorite websites has a (relatively) long and rich history. By Jacob Gube.

10 Easy jQuery Tricks for Designers

There are plenty of jQuery tricks and techniques out there, and the vast and powerful jQuery library can meet almost anyone’s JavaScript’ing needs. By Kayla Knight

Can You Be a Web Designer?

Do you have what it takes to be a web designer? By Jacob Gube.

Why Your Next Website Should be Designed with Wireframes

Getting a design to click can take time. In many cases, it takes several rounds of revisions to even get to an effective starting point. What can you do to give yourself a better chance at designing something great sooner? By Zach Dunn

OptimalSort

Optimal Usability is a consulting company in New Zealand. They've run numerous information-architecture projects and got frustrated with the limitations of existing card-sorting tools. Check out OptimalSort.

Integrating Prototyping Into Your Design Process

Using appropriate fidelity for the situation by Fred Beecher.

My Last Portfolio Sucked, Yours Might Too

Insights to creating a good portfolio by Astheria.

Sites of the week

Here are several web site worth reviewing as provided by Abduseedo.

Beyond Goals: Site Search Analytics from the Bottom Up

Avinash Kaushik demonstrated that site search analytics (SSA) is a powerful tool you can use to assess customer intent quantitatively. In SSA, as with all flavors of web analytics (WA), you can work from the top-down; by starting with clear, measurable metrics based on your organization’s goals, you can benchmark and continually optimize the performance of your content and designs. By Lou Rosenfeld

Internal Site Search Analysis: Simple, Effective, Life Altering!

Understanding of your site visitors’ intent is one of the most delightful parts of web data analysis. In this article, you'll learn five ways to analyze your internal site-search data—data that’s easy to get, to understand, and to act on. By Avinash Kaushik

Testing Search for Relevancy and Precision

Despite the fact that site search often receives the most traffic, it’s also the place where the user experience designer bears the least influence. By Jonh Ferrara

Search Results Design: Best Practices and Design Patterns

If you’ve been assigned to design or provide the architecture for a large e-commerce project or other information-heavy website whose success depends on content findability, it is vital that the design and layout of the search functionality for that website is considered carefully. By Louis Lazaris

How To Respond Effectively To Design Criticism

Winston Churchill once said: “Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” By Andrew Follett

63 Popular And Promising Web Design Blogs

It’s difficult to create something exceptional when you are working to a strict deadlines. If you can’t come up with a good idea in a stressful situation, it’s best to take a break and look for inspiration. By Andrew Valums

5 Things about SEO to learn

Some quick tips to learn about SEO by Swami Stream.

Search Engine Ranking Factors

Some information regarding top 5 ranking factors, along with negative ranking factors. Information by SEOmoz.org.