What Is The Worst Design or Programming Mistake You’ve Ever Made?

Mistakes are made every day in the design and development world. It’s nothing to be ashamed of; it happens. In fact, mistakes are one of the most powerful learning tools at our disposal. By Robert Bowen

iPhone App Designs Reviewed

If mobile developers want to create apps that people want to buy, they’ll need help with design and usability. By Alex Komarov

Useful Adobe Photoshop Techniques, Tutorials and Tools

As web designers, you're always having something new to learn. Over the last decade workflow has changed dramatically — it’s become more sophisticated and highly diversified. By Vitaly Friedman

Improve Site Usability by Studying Museums

Using a website should be easy. It should be intuitive. We should know what button or link to click to get to where we need to be. By Alexander Dawson

The Perfect Web Designer Should Not Exist

The web design community is both strong and deep. We support each other and quickly find out that everyone is encouraged to both grow with, and contribute to, the community. By Jason Gross

Testing Accordion Forms

Read Luke Wroblewski's article on accordian forms.

Forward Thinking Form Validation

Form validation has been a finicky business since the web was born. By Ryan Seddon

10 Usability Tips Based on Research Studies

This article discusses usability findings of research results such as eye-tracking studies, reports, analytics, and usability surveys pertaining to website usability and improvements. By Cameron Chapman

20 Questions to Know for Avoiding Website Project Disasters

When working on a new web design project with a client, especially a new site launch, it is vital to have a clear definition of the project’s scope and the expectations of the future website owner. By Jason Schubring

Using Power Structure and Gestalt for Visual Hierarchy

A core place to begin a website discovery process is to learn the goals and objectives of your client. It is imperative to understand what the website needs to do and which things are the most important. By Shawn Borsky

Showcase of Interesting Navigation Designs

Everyone is always looking for interesting and effective ways to organize their website and allow users to move about and find things. But there’s a fine line between unexpected and unusable. By Sarah & Adrienne Khan

Working for a web design agency

The most obvious job for a web designer is working for a web design agency, but if you’ve never done that before… then how do you know what to expect? Is it even the right path for you? By Webdesigner Depot

45 inspiring design agency websites

Here's a good collection of design agency websites. By WDL

13 Ways to Challenge Yourself in Your Career as a Web Designer

A career in web design or development requires a constant effort to improve and to stay on top of new technologies and changes within the industry. By Vandelay Design

Must know names in web design

Here's a list of few noteworthy companies in web design that are worth checking out.

CSS counters: counter-increment and friends

The CSS2.1 spec introduced a new technique allowing developers to combine three CSS properties and a pseudo-element to create auto-incrementing counters — similar to what is displayed in an ordered list. By Louis Lazaris

An Analysis of Typography on the Web

Typography is one of the most—if not the most—important aspects of web design. Some would argue that it takes up to 95% of web design, so why do we often neglect its importance? By Net Tuts

18 Website Speed and Performance Checking Tools

Google is taking site's loading speed into consideration in determining ranking. Even though this will not land a big impact, it it still something webmasters should really look into. By Dainis

25 websites to download free stock photos

If you are searching for free stock photo databases, there are quite a few sites on the web that do that, and even at high quality. By DzineBlog

23 unconventional ecommerce website designs

The snapshots gathered within this collection refer to a category of web designers that is willing to invest a great deal of resources in the looks of their pages. Ecommerce sites are very elaborate and striking original. By DzineBlog

7 important tips for website copywriting

Readers don’t read all the words. They skim through individual words and scan them. Readers also tend to read slower on the computer screen then they do when they when they read books. By DzineBlog

Futureproof your website

How do you keep your website up to date and relevant, without having to constantly overhaul the design, content and code? By .Net

50 Fresh and Beautiful Ecommerce Websites II

Well-designed ecommerce and shopping cart websites are regularly referred to for web design inspiration by creative and experienced web developers. By Speckyboy

9 excellent mockup and wireframing web apps

A wireframe or mockup tool is a must have tool for every web designer and developer. These tools have their importance in web designing and development world. By Muhammad Falsal

Translate this javascript button

TranslateThis Button is a lightweight Javascript translation widget that translates any page quickly (up to 52 languages) using Ajax and the Google Language API. By N.Design Studio

Creating a Web Poll with PHP

Polls are nearly ubiquitous on the web today, and there are plenty of services that will provide a drop-in poll for you. But what if you want to write one yourself? By Erik Wurzer

Advertising on Your Website – Considerations & Advice

Should you sell advertising space? There is no right or wrong answer to that question, ultimately you have control over what advertisements are shown, but will advertising turn off some of your readers? By Jared Thompson

Quality Athletic Websites

There are not many aspects in life that can bridge gaps between religion, race, and nationality. Although, one that has proven time and time again is sport. By Brady Nord

Less is more

“Simplification; using the simplest materials and forms available”. By DesignOra

40 Title Tag SEO for Google Ranking Factors & Optimization Techniques + Resources

Not all title tag optimization techniques are ranking factors for Google but they need to be implemented as well in a thorough on-site SEO campaign. By Tad Chef

6 terrible web design trends

Here‘s an eleven-year-old article discussing the web’s worst design mistakes. By Mathew Carpenter

20 Snippets You should be using from Html5 Boilerplate

Html5 Boilerplate, as they have named it, is a powerful starting off point for any website or web application. By Matthew Corner

Ultimate List Of Web Design Checklists: Get Work Done!

When building a website, there are so many things and aspects to keep in mind. It often happens that in that mess we forget about some basic things like favicon or maybe about dummy content removal from test site. By Daniels Mekss

Performance Optimization: How to Load your javascript faster!

Javascript is now extremely important. Some sites use javascript for a tiny enchantments, many of today’s webapps are depending on it, some of them are even totally written in js. By Przemek

5 Killer Ways to Streamline your Coding Efficiency

Matthew Corner talks about designers and developers, and the hourly rates they charge. One can be more efficient, and faster at producing quality work, as long as quality is not compromised for speed. Apart from practice, how can you actually speed up your coding you may be thinking?

PSD/HTML Conversion: Elegant and Simple CSS3 Web Layout

This is Part 2 of tutorial series. The first part dealt with creating a web design mockup of an elegant and simple blog web design. You should do Part 1 before attempting this tutorial so that you to gain the most benefit. By Eric Hoffman

Craftsmanship in Designing Websites

With high pressure from clients and crazy development schedules for web designers, it is easy to forget to spend the proper amount of time crafting a design. By Shawn Borsky

Designing By Numbers: Data Analysis for Web Designers

Judging what’s best for an audience is never far from the web designer’s mind. By Alexander Dawson

Use the 80-20 Rule to Increase Your Website’s Effectiveness

Want to increase your website’s conversion rate? Want more subscribers, opt-ins, members, customers? How about doing less work while you’re at it? By Oleg Mokhov

The Case for open-source design

In celebrating the merits of free software and the excitement over this radical networked production method, an important truth is left unspoken. Networked collaboration shines in the low levels of network protocols, server software and memory allocation, but user interface has consistently been a point of failure. By Mushon Zer-Aviv

Showcase Of Appetizing Restaurant Websites

They say the first bite is taken with the eye. If so, these appetizing restaurant websites succeed in whetting our appetites, inviting us to a savoury next bite. By Sam Wilson

Web Design Checkmate: Using Chess For Success in Web Design

The business of building websites is one of constant change, adaptation and strategy. The way designers and developers build websites is often informed by the methods of others and their own trial and error. By Alexander Dawson