Effective Ways to Increase Web Traffic...and why it matters

No matter what kind of website you have, traffic is important to you. Even if your website is just a hobby, you still want your message to get out to the world. By Anders Ross

Things to Remember Before Launching a Website

Maybe you’re about to launch a new website. Well, hold off for a moment and read this article before taking the final plunge. Things can go horribly wrong if you haven’t prepared a checklist and carried out certain tasks. By Dkumar M

15 Attractive Music Web Designs For Inspiration

Web designing is not easy task for every designers. On internet, designers can take help of thousand inspirational websites available in every field such as business design, education website design, ecommerce designs, social network website design, blog design, music website design and many more. By Web Disignish

Progressive Enhancement 101: Overview and Best Practices

With an ever-growing variety of browsing situations and platforms that must be supported, the concept of progressive enhancement has become a hot topic of conversation. By Lars Kappert

Four Constants in the Ever-changing Web Design Industry

The web is like a living, breathing organism. It’s constantly changing and evolving. You might say this animal has a serious caffeine addiction, considering the lightning-fast pace at which things move. By Brian Casel

The Bright (Near) Future of CSS

In this article, the focus is on what’s coming: styling techniques you’ll use in the immediate and near-term future. From styling HTML 5 elements to rearranging layout based on display parameters to crazy selection patterns to transforming element layout, these are all techniques that you may use tomorrow, next month, or next year. With partial browser support, they’re all on the cutting edge of Web design. By Eric Meyer

The Design Matrix: A Powerful Tool For Guiding Client Input

One can think the beginning of a website design project is the best part. Hopes are high. People are full of great ideas. Nobody is disappointed yet. But as you gain experience, you discover that learning about a client’s brand, competitors and customers doesn’t always give clear direction about design goals. By Bridget Fahriand

8 Tips for Freelance Designers to Get Paid Faster

Cash flow is crucial for any business, but especially important for small businesses and freelancers. By Darius Bashar

The Price is Right: Breaking Down the Design Process

Like with most creative fields, there are those who operate outside them who do not necessarily understand all of the time and energy that goes into the design process, and as a result, they tend to undervalue our contributions and imaginative creations. By Robert Bowen

33 Creative Web Designs Inspiration

This post is to inspire you (and me) with the fresh inspiring designs submitted by designers worldwide. By Dzineblog

Create a Fantastic Landing Page

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a Product layout using Photoshop in a step-by-step manner. Techniques will be discussed in this tutorial which include the use of proper spacing, typography, and colors. Keep in mind that these techniques can also benefit you when you’re working on other designs in the future, so keep your mind focused and do not skip a single word! By Michael Burns

Options to Consider When Looking for Stock Photos: Free vs Paid Solutions

As designers and bloggers, pretty much every project we do is going to involve photography in some way, form or fashion. By Jared Latigo

Cross Platform Scalable Vector Graphics with svgweb

Pity Scalable Vector Graphics. It’s been an official standard since before IE6 was released yet has never found much of an audience on the web, certainly not the one it deserves. By Jim Ray

Open source gesture library

GestureWorks ships with a library of over 200 built-in gestures. This library is built upon an open source gesture framework, allowing developers to customize and extend the “gesture object” to create support for new gestures. By GestureWorks

Guide to Website Navigation Design Patterns

In web design, there are certain common design patterns that are used for interaction. Site navigation has a wide variety of common and familiar design patterns that can be used as a foundation for building effective information architecture for a website. By Cameron Chapman

SEO and Web Design Trends 2011

Over the past year much more has been changed in the world of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and web design than thought. By Cyber DesignZ

New App Created to Make Surveys Easy

Let’s face it, creating online surveys can be a real pain, especially if you want those surveys to be hosted on your own server and integrated directly into the existing framework of your own website. By Brant Wilson

30 Beautifully Simple Websites

Looking for a little design inspiration after a long night. Look no further than our latest collection of beautifully simple websites. Enjoy! By Brant Wilson

Make it glow! A more appealing call to action button.

It’s very easy to implement. The only down side to the glow is browsers not supporting webkit won’t be able to see that gorgeous attractive pulse. By CreativityDeb Blog

Free Icons For E-Commerce Websites

Most e-commerce websites use icons to direct their visitors for an easy shopping procedure. By Citra Sudiro

The Rising Importance of Flexible Web Layouts

Just a few years ago, creating a fixed-width design and the coding to stick to that width was practical, as long as it could accommodate a wide range of users. By Kayla Knight

Use SWOT Analysis for Your Next Design Project

SWOT analysis is a useful marketing tool which has been developed to evaluate Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats which may affect a project.

It could be applied to almost every kind of business project because it is really flexible. It could be a useful basis for a strategic plan. By Ester Liquori

6 Time-Tested Applications for Freelance Web Designers

If you work as a freelance web designer or developer, you probably rely on a number of applications to perform daily tasks. From crafting code and pushing pixels to productivity and business management, it’s usually safe to say, “There’s an app for that.” By Brian Casel

Free vector net icon set

This icon set is very detailed and beautifully designed by Kirsten Shannon. By Desizn Tech

A guide to creating user friendly website navigation

An often overlooked part of website design involves the creation and placement of a website’s navigational links. If your links are badly placed, your visitors may become frustrated and leave your website before ever finding your navigation. By Desizn Tech

30 Dark and Inspiring Web Designs

It’s always nice to remember that a dark layout also has it’s beauty, specially when everybody is talking about clean white web designs. So check out some examples of inspiring dark websites and start thinking about giving dark colors a try. By Gisele Muller

25 Video Tutorials for Getting Started in Web Design

The best designers never stop learning. Only the mediocre ones think they know it all, that there’s nothing else to learn. But you don’t don’t want to be a mediocre designer, do you? By Oleg Mokhov

How to Measure the Effectiveness of Web Designs

At the end of the day, the quality of a web design can only really be measured quantitatively in the results it brings a site. As they say, results speak for themselves. By Claudiu Murariu

Noise, Textures, Gradients and Rounded Rectangles

Often, it’s the little details that turn a good layout into a great design; details such as subtle textures, shading and smooth shapes. By Marc Edwards

Web Design Trends in 2011

There is a thin line between design and development, and as we move into a new decade, this line is becoming extremely blurry. Is it enough to draw beautiful mock ups in Photoshop? Maybe 5 years ago. By Jacqueline Thomas

Key Elements in Designing a Product Landing Page

Landing pages for product sales can be seen everywhere. Affiliate marketers are constantly examining some of the newer techniques to mastering digital e-commerce. When the situation involves just a small market segment, the rules for landing page design can change. By Jake Rocheleau

25 Examples of Subscription Forms and Buttons in Web Design

Here are some great examples of subscription forms and buttons. By Gisele Muller

8 Useful Online Tools for Web Designers and Developers

Finding stuff to make your life easier is one of our passions. Whether it be freebies like fonts and icons, or tools to help you do your job...here some online tools that are useful for design and development tasks, and the best part is…they’re all free to use. By Henry Jones

URL design

You should take time to design your URL structure. If there’s one thing I hope you remember after reading this article it’s to take time to design your URL structure. Don’t leave it up to your framework. Don’t leave it up to chance. Think about it and craft an experience. By Warpspire

Dezign Folio: Create A Detailed Portfolio Homepage Design In Photoshop

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a Portfolio homepage design with a unique slide show and welcome message design. Also choosing great resources around the web to make our design more cooler. By Michael Burns

The Battle Between Psychedelic & Minimalist Design: Which Side Are You On?

A minimalist would say Less is more, but on the other side of the spectrum, an advertiser would argue: The bigger, the bolder, the better! Who would you believe, and which is really better–all, or nothing? By Rachel Arandilla

How to Safely Match Web Design and Typography

As web designers, designs have to be both usable and attractive, communicate information and create a name. Designs must be technically proven and tested for our dear readers. With that in mind, web designing is definitely a form of communication and nowadays, this type of communication is very, very important. By Luanne Manreal

Making User and Customer Experience a Business Competency

Some very good articels on UX from the client's perspective. By Harley Manning

Immersive Mobile E-Commerce Search Using Drop-Down Menus

Video games and book readers have shown that it is possible to create interfaces that promote engaging, immersive experiences even on the tiny screens of mobile devices. By Greg Nudelman

UX Benefits to Building Mobile Web Apps

Craig Villamor proposed "there are many business benefits to building HTML5 mobile apps, but few, if any, user experience benefits." By Luke Wroblewski

Mobile UX essentials

Rachel Hinman (Nokia) talked about where and how to begin designing for mobile in her presentation on Mobile UX Essentials.

Read Luke Wroblewski's notes that capture the highlights.

When & Where Are People Using Mobile Devices?

It's hard to find advice about mobile design that doesn't emphasize the importance of context. By Luke Wroblewski

Top quesions on web form design

Knowing exactly how to design web forms is a struggle. Forms are often a critical step in a user’s journey. It’s easy to frustrate them if your forms aren’t well thought out or well crafted. Luckily, Luke Wroblewski is one of the world’s foremost experts on web form design. By Sean Carmichael

Interview with Clayton Junior

Clayton is based in London, but born in South Brazil. He works as a freelance illustrator since 1999. If you love colors, you'll admire Clayton's work. By Veerle Pieters

Sketching: the Visual Thinking Power Tool

The artistic quality of your sketches is not the point. The real goal of sketching is functional. It’s about generating ideas, solving problems, and communicating ideas more effectively with others. By Mike Rohde

The Miseducation of the Doodle

The art of getting words and pictures together. By Sunni Brown
Read the article by A List Apart here.

An Event Apart Conference

An Event Apart is an intensely educational two-day learning session for passionate practitioners of standards-based web design. If you care about code as well as content, usability as well as design, An Event Apart is the conference you’ve been waiting for. An Event Apart

What the mobile explosion means for content creators

2011, it seems, is the year of the tablet: from pocket rockets such as the Dell Streak 5 to ten-inchers from every tech firm imaginable, and by 2015 Forrester Research predicts that in the US alone, some 82 million people will spend at least some of their time tapping on tablets. So what does that mean for content creators? By Dell Creative Studio

Bringing Interactivity To Your Website With Web Standards

Adding interactivity and animations to a design doesn’t have to be complicated or make the website inaccessible when you use modern Web standards. By David Bushell

50 free Web UI, Mobile UI and more kits

Designers always need some basic user interface elements to create a model of user interface either of a website or software. For that, they need wireframing and UI design kits which help them mock-up the user interface. By An Jay

The Benefits of Wireframing a Design

Wireframing is an extremely important phase of the web development process. While it’s tempting to skip this step and proceed from the design brief and information architecture directly into design, it pays huge dividends to create wireframes somewhere in between of conceptual site planning and actual development of a site. By Brad Shorr

7 Common Project Management Problems (And How to Solve Them)

It doesn’t matter how talented you are, if you can’t manage your projects, then you will struggle to achieve success. By James Clear

15 Useful Free Android Apps for Web Developers

We are not suggesting for a moment, with this post, that your Android mobile device would be a good alternative as a development platform to your desktop or laptop. All it shows with the current apps available, that it could be and the potential for more is certainly there. By Paul Andrew

7 Simple Ways to Raise Your Rates and Keep Your Clients

Raising your rates. It’s something that every freelancer wants to do, but most of us are scared to do. Or at the very least, we’re not sure how to do it. By James Clear

Designing Websites with Personality

Like every person, web designers have unique and intriguing personalities. But even with the clearly obvious level of impact our personality has in our lives and our work, there is still a noticeable lack of individuality in the web designs we see on the web. By Jason Gross

Symmetry in Design: Concepts, Tips and Examples

Symmetry creates balance, and balance in design creates harmony, order, and aesthetically pleasing results. It is found everywhere in nature, and is probably why we find it to be so beautiful. By Kayla Knight

Karma as a Social Interaction Design Pattern in Websites

The principles of karma are understood worldwide. We all like to believe that the good deeds and actions we do will be returned to us in one way or another. At its core, karma encourages us to help others. By Jason Gross

Guidelines for Successful Communication With Clients

Let’s face it — it doesn’t matter how well you can design or code; as a freelancer or if you’re running a digital agency, if you don’t get the client management right, it can spell disaster for your business. By getting it right from the very beginning, you’ll most likely see things flourish. By Sam Barnes

Showcase of Beautiful (or Creative) E-Commerce Websites

Designers are constantly striving to create eye-catching designs without losing the usability features that add significant importance to the experience of online shopping. By Scotty Vernon

Making It a Mobile Web App

Ask any interactive agency nowadays what their clients are asking for when they need a mobile experience — the answer will inevitably be “an iPhone and/or an iPad app.” By Kim Pimmel

The Overlooked Importance of Professional Journalism

If you use your website to publish news, events, opinions or interviews, you should familiarize yourself with the basics of journalism. These tools can help us develop and share information that is exciting, intelligent, and responsible. By Dan Redding

Storyboarding iPad Transitions

If your clients are not yet asking you to design transitions, they will likely do that on your next project. Transitions are hot, and not just because they entertain the eye. By Greg Nudelman