Billboard Web Design: How to Win Your Audience’s Attention

Let’s say you’re driving down the freeway at 65mph and you see the roadside plastered with advertising posters on both sides. Some small, some large, all meant in some measure to cause you to remember a brand or identity, to keep that company name in your mind. By Thomas McGee

Test Usability By Embracing Other Viewpoints

As Web technology improves, users expect Web-based widgets to be useful, content to be relevant and interfaces to be snappy. They want to feel confident navigating a website and using its functionality. They crave being able to get things done with little friction and on demand. And demand they do. By Ben Gremillion

Five Useful Design Techniques and Coding Solutions For Web Designers

As designers, we have to create an intuitive user experience, solve design problems and provide a beautiful and functional user interfaces. By Kayla Knight

50 New Useful CSS Techniques, Tutorials and Tools

These are great times for front-end developers. After months of exaggerated excitement about HTML5 and CSS3, the web design community now starts coming up with CSS techniques that actually put newly available technologies to practical use instead of abusing them for pure aesthetic purposes. By Vitaly Friedman

The User Is The Anonymous Web Designer

We invest time, money and effort into understanding our audience, and the movement toward a more socially networked Web has made us realize the power that visitors have over how our designs are engineered; and we try to meet their ever-growing needs. By Alexander Dawson

CSS Inventor Talks About the Web’s Visual Future

Web Design Inspiration: 30+ Beautiful Coffee Websites

Coffee is considered as an effective stimulant that keeps the consumer alert and awake. With our usual busy lifestyle, it helps to have a beverage ready to keep us active all throughout the day. By Youthedesigner

10 Random CSS Tricks You Might Want to Know About

CSS is the fundamental way of styling our web pages. Its deceptively easy syntax allows us to do many things to affect the visual layer of our work. And especially with CSS3, the language has gotten even more powerful. By Catalin Rosu

Information Architecture 101: Techniques and Best Practices

Information architecture (IA) is an often-overlooked area of website design. By Cameron Chapman

5 Tips for Developing a Global-Friendly Website

One of the most important aspects of the Internet is that it is location agnostic. Socio-political barriers aside, a website can be accessed by a user in Siberia or Silicon Valley. By Christina Warren

How to Create “Touchable” Web Designs

What are touchable web designs? When most people check out a new website, they sometimes think “yikes, this website looks like crap” or “wow, this is one of the best websites I’ve ever seen!” What is it that makes the great websites look so great? By Eric Rowell

Online Copywriting: Make Your Website Copy Dazzle

If there’s one generalization you should make as a website writer, it’s that your visitors have short attention spans and are overly saturated with information. By Alan Martin

Effective and Powerful CSS Tools & Generators for Designers

CSS has come a long way from formatting the structured content. It was used to control layout of documents precisely and to apply different layouts to media types. By Siva Kumar

Coding a Design: SEO Best Practices and Mistakes to Avoid

For any online business, website has become the foremost important asset. It is really indispensable that it should be designed and developed in a way that it facilitates and boost the business activities and ultimately become the revenue generating medium for the business. By Justin Spencer

5 Ways to Add Value to Your Work as a Web Designer

Let’s face it… we’re in a day and age where someone can buy a domain, hosting, and install a premium WordPress theme in the same time that some designers take to respond with a job quote/request for proposal. By Nathan Hangen

What Is User Experience Design?

Websites and Web applications have become progressively more complex as our industry’s technologies and methodologies advance. What used to be a one-way static medium has evolved into a very rich and interactive experience. By Jacob Gube

How To Convince The Client That Your Design Is Perfect

As designers who deal with clients, we all have to face one situation, no matter how difficult and uncomfortable, and that is guiding the client to accept that your design is perfect. By Robert Bowen

Test Usability By Embracing Other Viewpoints

As Web technology improves, users expect Web-based widgets to be useful, content to be relevant and interfaces to be snappy. They want to feel confident navigating a website and using its functionality. They crave being able to get things done with little friction and on demand. And demand they do. By Ben Gremillion

Five Useful Design Techniques and Coding Solutions For Web Designers

As designers, we have to create an intuitive user experience, solve design problems and provide a beautiful and functional user interfaces. Unlike print design, we don’t have the luxury of designing in a static area; rather, our canvas is ever-changing in its content, browser width, page length and more. By Kayla Knight

Responsive web design

The control which designers know in the print medium, and often desire in the web medium, is simply a function of the limitation of the printed page. We should embrace the fact that the web doesn’t have the same constraints, and design for this flexibility. But first, we must “accept the ebb and flow of things.” By Ethan Marcotte

Findings from the Web Design Survey

The findings are in from the survey for people who make websites. By Ala Staff

11 Useful jQuery Tab Navigation Solutions

Sometimes using tabs just makes a lot of sense. For instance, if you have a limited amount of screen real estate, tabs can allow you to save room by giving the user a way to toggle between several items in a small space. By Henry Jones

50+ Creative Automobile websites for Your Inspiration

Automobiles, which are a comfort and luxury in today’s life has gone through a lot of trials to grow till this stage. With Internet revolution, getting an information has become so easy that you no longer search for an expert advice. By Siva Kumar

Pragmatic Prompt Planning & Prototypes

When your livelihood is dependent on your ability to be creative whether as a web designer, article writer, or something else, it’s important to leverage what little time you have to maximize your idea input and output workflow. By Alexander Dawson

40 Brilliant Examples of Sketched UI Wireframes and Mock-Ups

Creating wireframes and mock-ups is quite easy to do digitally these days. Applications are available everywhere, and there's one for every style. By Hilde Torbjornsen

User Experience: Using Empathy to Empower Your Users

Whenever we talk about the subject of user experience, one word pulls itself to the front of every discussion. This word is empathy. By Alexander Dawson

The Science Behind a Single Page Website

We have all come across them whilst browsing the web, and many of the examples that exist are quite awe-inspiring, the single page website is a paradigm of the modern web in which everything that needs saying can be placed in a single document. By Alexander Dawson

How to make a mega drop-down menu

Mega drop-down menus are not actually new, but more and more we see them on popular websites and blogs. By Jon Phillips

Fusing content strategy with design

The content strategy movement has captured the hearts and minds of Web practitioners everywhere. By David Gillis

40 Powerful Black Web Designs

When making a website it takes more than just being creative and making a lot of new solutions. Using too much color can definitely be a problem as it doesn’t always leave that professional look your client wants. By Hilde Torbjornsen

Usability Tips for Web Designers

With the online competition getting fierce day-by-day there has emerged a need for the web designers to make their website more of its worth. By Pixelcrayons

Some useful HTML 5 web sites

Here's a good list of various HTML 5 websites.

Personal Websites: 25 Examples for Your Design Inspiration

Personal websites are becoming increasingly popular and they are often provide an excellent source of design inspiration. By Vandelay Design

The simpler CSS grid

A grid is supposed to help you in design, not to limit your creativity. By Web Designer Wall

Creating Engaged and Passionate Users, Part 1

Great article about how teams need to rethink their design approach and focus more on the
Usage Lifecycle.By Joshua Porter

5 Fundamental Steps to Deploying a Website

Something that is overlooked by a lot of web designers and developers is what is actually involved in the deployment of a website; the process when you’ve finished developing the site, tested to make sure it works, and are ready to push it to a live web server. By Mark Biegel

I Want To Be A Web Designer When I Grow Up

One of the biggest misconceptions about designers (and usually Web designers) is that they're just Web designers — that the scope of their skills begins with Lorem ipsum and ends with HTML emails. This is ridiculous. By Michael Aleo

When Creative Conflict is A Good Thing

During your career as a web professional, whether you’re a designer, developer or copywriter, you’re bound to encounter creative differences either within your team, or between you and a client. By Rick Sloboda

Take Your Web Designs to the Next Level

When you start out as a web designer, you do all you can to grasp the basic design principles so that you have a solid foundation to start your journey on. By Shannon Noack

How Fun is Your Website?

The secret to success for a website these days is really no secret at all. Websites that really bring home the bacon are the ones driven by loyal visitors who frequent the site on a regular basis. Building a community like this often takes a lot of time and loads of great content. By Jason Gross

Emotional Design with A.C.T.

As UX professionals, we strive to design engaging experiences. These experiences help to forge relationships between the products we create and the people who use them. By Trevor van Gorp

So You Wanna Build a Library, Eh?

Design patterns and modular components are effective techniques for designing and building long-lasting, consistent experiences. You may reach the point where you ask yourself “Is it time to build a library for our team?” By Nathan Curtis