Inspiration

Here are few inspirational web sites to check out. By Paul Andrew

10 Online Note Taking Web Services Every Internet User Should Know About

Majority of people take notes while surfing the web to jot down ideas, bookmark websites, use notes as reminders and much more. By Umar Anjum

Ten Great Online Apps To Help You Manage Business Tasks Efficiently

The best business management tools are that will help you keep track of variables affecting your business and finances, let you generate invoices and directly send to your clients and do more in aiding you with your business activities. By Umar Anjum

10 Robust Services To Determine How Fast Your Web Page Loads

Site owners often need to bookmark a number of web page speed testing web tools. These tests include site loading time testers, optimization testers, site comparison tools, and performance tools of any web page. By An Jay

Showcase of Inspiring “About Me” Pages

A creative about me page will attract a reader’s attention, and, more importantly, provide them with a quick sampling of what you or your company represents. Are you playful, stylish, corporate? All of this should be conveyed to your web site’s visitors. By Shaswat Chapagain

How to Create Diagonal Lines with CSS

A step-by-step process for creating diagonal lines with CSS. By Jeffrey Way

19 Important Features to Look for in a Web Host

While it’s often more fun to create a website than to worry about hosting it, web hosting isn’t a decision you should make lightly. Here are 19 things you should look for when choosing your web host. By Andrew Burgess

Ultimate Guide of Web Typography Tutorials, Tips and Best Practices

Web typography is nothing but implementing typography on web page. This is very important in order to identify oneself in the designing world. It is equally important that understanding and implementing typography successfully on your web page. This is an evolution in web designing to stand apart from all other websites. By Siva Kumar

Good Creative Brief for Better Customers

A good brief is the very first step for a satisfying creative project and this is true for both, the designer and the customer. It is the mile stone to ensure to the designer working with the right kind of customers and to the customer having best result and high professionalism. By Ester Liquori

80+ Excellent Examples of Creative Contact And Web Form Designs

A perfect layout, A Good Design and Nice resource can produce a creative output. Layout, textures and patterns are used more often than one may think but the outcome of different combination can result verity of designs. By Daniel Adams

70+ Inspirational Examples of Websites Designed With HTML5

The web is constantly evolving. New and creative websites are being created every day, pushing the limitations of HTML in every direction. HTML4 has been around for nearly a decade and now its time to move forward. To give authors more flexibility and interoperability, HTML5 is proposed as the next major revision of HTML. By Daniel Adams

Designing Your “Coming Soon” Page? 24 Creative Examples

When launching a new web app, or site, it can help to start marketing early. A “coming soon” page has several different purposes. Firstly, it allows you to show a teaser of your new app to people and to start the ball rolling with building the excitement. Secondly, it allows people to sign-up to email updates about your new app, and this lets you know how popular it might be.
By Dave Peiris

20 Biggest Mistakes Designers Make

In web design, the learning never stops. Some designers see this as an opportunity, others as a hindrance. You have to keep up with the pace of ever-changing technology, techniques and trends in order to be competitive. By Anders Ross

Understanding the basic web terminologies

Websites are becoming a new platform of communication in today’s world and every business, small or medium or large. Not everybody needs to know or understand the back end of Internet or website. By Design Tech

5 Principles of Good Web Design

It’s difficult to map out what works for web design and what doesn’t after all, there are so many different and effective approaches you can take. For one website, a crisp, clean home page looks great, and for another website, a messy, colorful home page draws you in. However, there are a few principles of good web design, that are universal. Here are five principles of good web design. By Lauren Bailey

Showcase Of Websites Using HTML5 Markup

In this collection are some amazing websites using HTML5. By Brant Wilson

30 Beautiful iPhone Application Websites

Here are some beautiful iPhone application websites. By Brant Wilson

Building an Elegant Tooltip Dropdown Menu Powered by jQuery

Within the jQuery library it’s possible to create some fantastic effects. These can enhance the overall user experience dramatically and often work hand-in-hand with new CSS3 and HTML5 techniques. As the field of web design has evolved, prominent new techniques have evolved as well. By Jake Rocheleau

Designing Pricing Plans for Subscription-Based Web Apps

When your business model revolves around reoccurring subscriptions — which is a popular model for software as a service (SaaS) products like Basecamp, FreshBooks and CampaignMonitor — the most difficult part of generating revenue becomes getting users to sign up. By Ravi Pathak

Stop obsessing over HTML5 and CSS3

As web designers, we all seem obsessed by HTML5 and CSS3 at the moment. Endless posts, tutorials and discussion about them dominate the blogosphere. But how much are we learning that can be applied today? By Webdesigner Depot

Redesigning vs Realigning: A Case Study

Cameron Moll famously stated that “good designers redesign, great designers realign“. But what does that mean exactly? To get a better understanding of the term, here’s a real-life example. By Attack of Design

The do's and don'ts of Flash

Zeh Fernando, senior developer at Firstborn, rounds up the ultimate do's and don'ts of Flash to explain how we can improve our workflow to create powerful, rich online experiences more efficiently.

anatomy of a typographic grid

Grids act as guides for the placement of elements in a design. No matter how simple or complex, grids share some common parts, each fulfilling a specific function. Not every one of these parts needs to be present in every grid. By Vanseodesign

4 types of grids and when each works best

Look at 4 grid types and when you might use each.

-Manuscript grid
-Column grid
-Modular grid
-Hierarchical grid

By Vanseodesign

Is Content Necessary Prior To Web Design?

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration. By Vanseodesign

The Web Designer’s Idea App Available Now

This powerful reference tool includes more than 1350 website designs arranged thematically so you can easily find inspiration for your own design work. By How Blog

Website of the week

Jessica Fortner is, among many things, a freelance illustrator. By How Blog

Making Your Mobile Website SEO Friendly

Need to learn more about smartphone and mobile SEO best practices? Let’s start with a few statistics:

According to an infographic from Microsoft Tag, 51% of smartphone users are more likely to buy from a retailer with a mobile specific web site, however: only 4.8% of retailers have a mobile web site. By DevWebPro

25 Beautiful Navigation Menus

Navigation menus are a critical part of web design because of their importance for usability and creating a position user experience. Websites with poor navigational structure or a lack of clarity in navigation will frustrate visitors and result in people leaving the site without finding the right pages and content. By Vandelay Design

Interview with Max Luzuriaga

Max is 15 years old, and as such still in school. Because of this, he don't have nearly as much time as he would like to focus on web stuff. By Web Designer Wall

Make HTML email more mobile friendly

Let's face it, ask most designers what their dream project would be and I bet none would mention designing and coding HTML Email. By Web Designer Wall

20+ Useful CSS3 and HTML5 Frameworks, Tools and Templates

I hope you have heard a little about CSS3 and HTML5. And I’m sure you’ve used at least one of the cool features they offer. But now it is time to use them at their full (or almost full) power. By Rochester Oliveira

A Brief Introduction to Web 3.0

With Web 2.0 on it’s way out, the obvious question is, what in the world is Web 3.0 going to be? By Kendra Gaines

Convert 1st Ideas from PSD to HTML [Very Detailed]

In this article you will learn how to convert 1st Ideas: Stylish Design Agency Website from PSD to HTML in a detailed step-by-step tutorial. You will learn how to create this layout using CSS styles, some CSS3 styles and JavaScript. By Ahman Hania

6 Tips For Designing an SEO Friendly Website

It’s not enough these days to design a beautiful, functional website that addresses your clients needs. If you truly want your client to reap the benefits of having an online presence, then SEO is a necessity. By Stephanie

10 Tips to Boost Your HTML Forms Performance

Sometimes we get so used to doing things one way that we forget a little and important thing: to improve. We get so involved with all this CTA stuff that we forget other important things, like the contact form that comes after the pretty button. By Rochester Oliveira

9 Tips on How To Improve Yourself as a Web Designer

There are times in life where everything goes well, people like your work and you get more and more clients. But sometimes the “business” stops, work flow decreases, you get bored and uninspired, and you stagnate. By Ruben D'Oliveira

A Simple Guide to Improving Web Typography

With the advent of much improved browsers, text rendering and high-resolution screens, technology is no longer an excuse for poor typography. In many ways typography can be elegant and an expression of the designer’s ideas when chosen wisely. By Stephanie

7-Step Process All Designers Should Follow To Complete Every Project

As a graphic designer, you know your job entails helping your client sell their service or product. Your ultimate goal is to help viewers understand a message and, in turn, reap benefits for your client. By Stephanie

20 Reasons Why Your Website Design Sucks Part 2

Here are 10 mistakes that can transform your website design into an unpleasant place to be. By Ruben D'Oliveira

20 Reasons Why Your Website Design Sucks Part 1

We all have or have heard about those clients from hell, those that really love pink pages with red text. Even worse, what about those people who call themselves “web designers” with expensive prices and services listed on their really messy, horrible and amateur portfolios, just because they made their uncle’s business page and they liked it. By Ruben D'Oliveira

Bridging the Designer-Developer Gap

If you are working on a team dealing with websites / apps, and if there is a design team working with a team of developers, you probably would be witnessing the answer to this question every single day you work! By Ranjith Kumar

Traits Every Small Business Website Should Have

There is always vast room for improvement with any website, and small business websites are no exception. With the phone book a communication tool of the past, establishing a solid online presence is at the forefront of a lot of small businesses. By Stephanie

An Introduction to Object Oriented CSS

With richer interactions and media heavy pages mushrooming on the web, creating web pages, which load faster and respond well has become a challenge. Separating the content, presentation and behavior of a page using HTML, CSS and JS, is not the only thing that front-end engineers have to concentrate on nowadays. By Ranjith Kumar

CSS Counters – The Right Way to Organize Your Ordered Content

It is pretty common to see step-based content. Tutorials, shopping carts, FAQ’s, grandma’s recipes. You know, numbers and steps are really good to grab attention, so many writers use this. By Rochester Oliveira

20 Most Inspiring Interview Statements

Interviews give you great insights about how a person thinks, works and feels about his job and life. If you don’t usually read interviews, this is an opportunity to get an idea about how reading them can be an extremely useful learning method. By Ruben D'Oilveira

5 Simple Tips for Creating an Effective FAQ Page

A Frequently Asked Questions page is necessary if you’re selling something, providing a service, or giving information about a complex subject. By 1WD.CO

CSS Tricks for Smart Quotes and Tooltips

The CSS content property is a powerful way to add content to some elements via CSS. It is good because it allows you to add “formatting content”, that is things that you need in your presentation but isn’t the content itself, like quotes, icons (when you have text along with them), titles (not the text title, the HTML attribute). By Rochester Oliveira

Things Worth Paying For as a Freelancer

A freelancer, like a baker, needs a few essential tools with which they create their products and use in order to offer their services. By James Parsons

9 Tips for Emailing Important People

Here are 9 top-notch tips for writing emails that make it as easy as possible for the recipient to send you a response. By James Clear

End-to-end experience design

UX means more than just the product interface; it encompasses the whole experience a person will have with a brand and their overall satisfaction with a product. By Theresa Neil

Designing For Android

For designers, Android is the elephant in the room when it comes to app design. As much as designers would like to think it’s an iOS world in which all anyones cares about are iPhones, iPads and the App Store, nobody can ignore that Android currently has the majority of smartphone market share and that it is being used on everything from tablets to e-readers. In short, the Google Android platform is quickly becoming ubiquitous, and brands are starting to notice. By Dan McKenzie