Patterns and Textures in web design

The use of textures and patterns in web design has been popular for several years. Textures and patterns add strength and a sense of realism to a web design. By Waheed Akhtar

Embracing and Using CSS3 Pragmatically

Web design is an industry where things change very fast. Over the last year or two, CSS3 has taken web design potential to a new level. By John Macpherson

Dear Web Design Community, Where Have You Gone?

As Web craftsmen, we are living in exciting times today. The frenetic pace of evolution in our industry has created remarkable opportunities for our work. Our established set of design and coding practices is more comprehensive than it has ever been before. By Vitaly Friedman

Hot Artist Blogs to Inspire and Engage Your Creativity

Blogs created by artists offer a unique look into the minds of these visual creators, showing how they view the world and where they find their inspiration. They are goldmines for creativity, mapping the way in which both the ordinary and extraordinary aspects of life and art get absorbed and transformed into new artistic works. By Alex

Weekly design inspiration

Here are a few inspirational designs worth checking out. By CrazyLeaf

30 Fresh Examples of Single Page Websites

Single page websites have been a hot trend for a while now, and their popularity doesn’t seem to be losing any momentum. By Gisele Muller

Focus on Effective Coming Soon Pages

When first launching your own website, it can be troubling deciding how to handle the first few weeks. This is generally a time when your website may not be ready to go live online but you own the domain name and branding rights.

In these scenarios a properly designed coming soon page can affect the culture of your site tenfold. By Jake Rocheleau

10 Best Websites For Flash Tutorial And Resources

Here's a listing of some good Flash resources to utilize. By Priya

Why User Experience Cannot Be Designed

A lot of designers seem to be talking about user experience (UX) these days. We’re supposed to delight our users, even provide them with magic, so that they love our websites, apps and start-ups. User experience is a very blurry concept. By Helge Fredhelm

Technical Web Typography: Guidelines and Techniques

The Web is 95% typography, or so they say. By Harry Roberts

Understanding the Elements of Responsive Web Design

Responsive web design is undoubtedly a hot topic in web design right now. To some degree, the popularity of the concept of responsive web design is well deserved because site users are increasingly diversifying their methods of accessing a website. By Jason Gross

10 Excellent SEO Tips That Will Improve Your Web Design

A great website design is important to any business trying to find success online, but if a website doesn’t have a chance at good search rankings, very few people may ever get to see it. By Adam Heitzman

CSS Typography: Techniques and Best Practices

This is the second part of a three-part series of guides on CSS typography that will cover everything from basic syntax to best practices and tools related to CSS typography.
By Kayla Knight

-CSS Typography: The Basics
-CSS Typography: Techniques and Best Practices
-CSS Typography: Examples and Tools (coming soon)

Most Attractive Magazine Style Web Designs

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, magazine website design and many more. By Vikas

User Interface Patterns for Dealing with Interactive Content

Websites and web applications are getting more and more interactive each day. Content on websites have the advantage over their printed counterparts in that, if we wanted to, we can let our users interact with them. By Cameron Chapman

CSS Floats 101

The float property is a valuable and powerful asset to any web designer/developer working with HTML and CSS. Tragically, it can also cause frustration and confusion if you don’t fully understand how it works. By Noah Stokes

A checklist for content work

In content strategy, there is no playbook of generic strategies you can pick from to assemble a plan for your client or project. Instead, our discipline rests on a series of core principles about what makes content effective—what makes it work, what makes it good. By Erin Kissane

10 Tips for Decreasing Web Page Load Times

Patience is a virtue, but for many, it is often a difficult concept to practice. That is especially true for web users visiting a website that takes a long time to load. By Adam Heitzman

Website + Dropbox

Whether it is for rapid prototyping or just to easily throw up a few thoughts online, the last tool you would think of is Dropbox. However its now possible using Droppages. By Paul Boag

CSS generated content

CCS tips by Trevor Davis.

40 Cool Website Design Ideas You Should Check

There is more to web design that meets the eye, but honestly, would you not like it to be a little creative, too? By Youththedesigner

Lean UX: Getting Out Of The Deliverables Business

User experience design for the Web (and its siblings, interaction design, UI design, et al) has traditionally been a deliverables-based practice. Wireframes, site maps, flow diagrams, content inventories, taxonomies, mockups and the ever-sacred specifications document (aka “The Spec”) helped define the practice in its infancy. By Jeff Gothelf

Perosna Template

A persona template has just been shared by the folks over at Orange Bus. By Wireframes

A Review of Consistent Designs on the Web

The visual language of a website impresses a visitor far beyond their first glimpse.

In fact, in observing the best websites, you notice that the small details speak to you subconsciously and that consistency improves your experience of the website and as a result makes you more likely to return. By Noam Almosnino

The 80/20 Rule Applied to Web Design

The 80/20 Rule, also referred to as the Pareto Principle, Juran’s Principle, the Vital Few and Trivial Many Rule, and the Principle of Factor Sparsity.

This principle, which I’ll refer to in this piece simply as the 80/20 rule, when considered in the context of website and web app design can have a profound effect on the user experience, and ultimately on the effectiveness of the content or functionality of your website or web app. By Louis Lazaris

Creating Flash Websites with Wix

There are some definite downsides to building websites with Flash (key being the lack of support for Flash on iOS), but there are still plenty of sites out there that are built on Flash, and that’s unlikely to change any time soon. By Cameron Chapman

Mediocrity vs. Excellence: What Separates Good From Great?

As a designer, especially one without a lot of experience, it’s normal to look at the designs of others and think how great their work is compared to our own. By Cameron Chapman

Bad website architecture: the silent seo killer

If you manage your own website and you are a SEO do-it-yourselfer, you need to know what questions to ask and the answers to each. If you don’t, you need professional assistance from an SEO consultant. By Web Savvy Marketing

33 New Illustration-Themed Website Designs

Illustration is defined as a displayed visualization form presented as a drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that is created to elucidate or dictate sensual information. By Naldz Graphics

Legal Guidelines for Freelance Web Designers

Handling the legal side of freelancing could possibly be one of the more annoying tasks required for the job. By Jake Rocheleau

How to Design a Proper Banner – One That Actually Works

Let’s address the big pink elephant in the room first. Banners are not dead. They’re not on life support either. They’re doing fine and they’re going to be around for a while. By Karol K.

8 Best HTML5 Ebooks Every Web Designer Should Learn

Here are 8 HTML5 eBooks worth checking out. By Web Designish

Awesome Example Of Typography In Web Design

Now a days, website designs is the challenging task for designers. There is always one thing that comes in designers mind whenever they design websites, i.e. what design should they choose to make attractive websites? By Web Designish

Highly Useful Web Design Layout Tutorials In Photoshop

With amazing and creative features Adobe Photoshop is most popular software among web designers. By Web Designish

10 Best Websites Every Graphic Designer Should Know About

Graphic designers always play important role in website design because a website have some beautiful and attractive features of graphic design such as background pattern, logo, font, texture design , Vectors and many more. By Web Designish

2011 Web design trends

Sticking to the most happening design principles is one of the crucial aspects of starting a design service establishment. Last year was more or less a breeding ground for the thought process that the simpler the design, the better and more effective it is! By DzineBlog

10 vital tips to design web banner

If you're designing web banners, here are some tips to review. By DzineBlog

34 Best Landing Page Templates Design Inspiration

34 best landing page templates design for your inspiration. By Dzineblog

40 Websites Utilizing Texture

Here are featuring 40 beautiful examples of web design texture. By Dzineblog

HTML5 Tutorials and Techniques That Will Keep You Busy

Ever since the latest revision of HTML has launched, internet marketers have switched to HTML5 due to its several new features which facilitate Web development distinctly. By Aquil Akhter

Weekly Design News

Here are some design related articles, and resources for you to use. By Speckboy

CONFAB 2011

Content strategy is the next big thing. Is it your thing, too? Whether you're a content strategy veteran or curious about where to start, this is your conference. Real-world case studies. Hands-on workshops. All the experts. Get ahead of the curve in your business and career ... come to Confab. By ConFab

Designing For Start-Ups: How To Deliver The Message Across

Start-up organizations provide an extraordinary example of chaos organized into manageable chunks. Perhaps more than anyone else, the individuals who comprise a start-up team are required to understand their team’s goals across a variety of disciplines — research, marketing, design, development, architecture, etc. — as well as their own responsibility to move the company’s overarching objective forward. By Andrew Maier

The @Font-Face Rule and Useful Web Font Tricks

The possibility of embedding any font you like into websites via @font-face is an additional stylistic device which promises to abolish the monotony of the usual system fonts. By Ralf Hermann

In Search Of The Perfect CAPTCHA

CAPTCHAs, or Completely Automated Public Turing Tests to Tell Computers and Humans Apart, exist to ensure that user input has not been generated by a computer. By David Bushell

How Much Traffic Can Your Website Handle?

Most websites load reasonably fast when visited by their average number of users. However, performance rapidly deteriorates when a site is overwhelmed by peak traffic (the times when the site’s traffic is the highest) and during traffic spikes. By Jack Zhang

CSS Typography: The Basics

Typography is an essential component of a website’s design. This is for good reason: good typography is not only imperative for aesthetic appeal, but also improves site usability when text legibility and readability concepts are applied. By Kayla Knight

Anatomy of an Effective Product Page Design

The goal of any new e-commerce website appears to be to challenge (and be better than) Amazon.com. The well informed among us would say this is an impossible task and anyone suggesting different is overly ambitious or crazy. By Kean Richmond

Details Make the Difference in Web Design

Details make a world of difference when distinguishing between ordinary and extraordinary. By Jason Gross

The Importance of Historiography on the Web

The topic of history immediately draws to mind a dusty classroom in which professors tell stories of war, royalty and civilizations lost to the sands of time. By Alexander Dawson

6 Popular Content Presentation Design Patterns

Content is what is considered the "meat" of a website. Content should be usable and displayed in a manner that makes it efficient to read and act on. By Cameron Chapman

Web Cryptography: Salted Hash and Other Tasty Dishes

One of the most powerful security tools available to web developers is cryptography—essentially a process by which meaningful information is turned into random noise, unreadable except where specifically intended. By Lyle Mullican

Rapid Prototyping with Sinatra

If you’re a web designer or developer, you’re well acquainted with prototyping. From raw wireframing to creating interfaces in Photoshop, designers map out how sites will work before they create them. Over the past few years, the protoyping process has changed significantly. By Al Shaw