The Five Worst UX Mistakes Websites Make

The user experience of websites has improved by leaps and bounds over the years, but we still run into sites that make us ask, “What were they thinking?!” By UX Magazine

100 Best Web Design Blogs

Over the past 10 years there have been hundreds and possibly thousands of new web design blogs launching online. A small handful of these blogs are still online today, and an even smaller number are still publishing great content. Moving into 2013 it seems like a good idea to dig into the design industry and collect some of the best resources for helpful information. By DesignMag

Yahoo! redesigns

When Marissa Mayer jumped ship at Google to take over the reigns at the web’s second biggest name in search, no one doubted she had a job on her hands. By Web Designer Depot

There’s More to Drupal Than a Steep Learning Curve

Drupal has always been given the position of a CMS that’s best for big, complex websites – one that can only be used by highly technical people. But all that’s changing rapidly. By Pixel Crayons

Responsive Web Design for Magento Store and Its Significance

Magento, with its swashbuckling features and unique nature, is proved to be the backbone of most ecommerce websites nowadays. While most believe it is the outstanding performance of the Magento which speculates it from other platforms, many fail to take into account the designing factor. By Desizn Tech

Usability Vs. Aesthetics: The Right Mix

Website usability is as important as its aesthetics. These two concepts should complement each other, but sometimes web designers just focus on the looks and the appeal of the website without considering its usability. By Desizn Tech

16 Tips for a Better Website

Want a better website and don’t know where to start? Or, do you think your website changes are out of your control? By WDL

How Behavioral Targeting Works with eCommerce

Behavioral targeting should sound familiar if you have been an avid eCommerce trend follower for some time. But, What exactly it is? By Andy Sowards

Designing an Accessible Site Without Losing Your Mind

Most designers think of creating accessible content as something that will take weeks of exaggerated tagging, designing tab-browsing and hot keys for every minute function of a site, and writing over-descriptive metadata, so most people just give up and don’t even bother. By Just Creative

Web Design + Psychology = Satisfied Users?

What’s one word people associate with web design? Some may say creativity. Creativity is often described as “making something that has value”. That’s one definition. Another one is “recognizing ideas and concepts and using them in solving a particular problem.” By Just Creative

9 Of The Best Ways To Present A Website To A Client

The design phase of creating a website is fairly standard for most web designers however when it comes to presenting the mock up to a client before slicing / coding the design, some problems do arise so I went out and asked the community about how they present a web site design to a client. By Just Creative

How To Make Your Next Website Design Pop

Web design is one of those areas that when done right, you know it. It looks polished, refined and generally, just well done – it pops! By Just Creative

7 Facts and Myths of HTML5

As Opera evangelist Bruce Lawson puts it, “Everyone’s talking about HTML5”. It’s perhaps the most hyped technology since people started putting rounded corners & gradients on everything. In fact, a lot of what people call HTML5 is actually just old-fashioned DHTML or AJAX. Mixed in with all the information is a lot of misinformation. By Just Creative

Web Design Tips & Advice from A to Z

A nice list of tips when designing your web site. By Just Creative

10 SEO Rules for Designers

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is a vital component of any website. As a web designer or blogger, it’s important you understand how SEO works. Here are ten easy rules that will immediately improve the SEO on all of your web sites. By Just Creative

9 SEO Tips You’ve Probably Forgot About

SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) has, as most of you probably know by now, become one of the most important elements when setting up a website. By Just Creative

Eight ways to avoid common website mistakes

Everyone has a website these days, but not every website is equal. As the online environment becomes ever more crowded, you don’t just need to have a website, you need to have an outstanding website. In pursuit of the perfect page, here are some of the top web design mistakes to avoid. By Just Creative

How to Effectively Pitch Your Website Idea to Designers & Developers

The following post will take you, step-by-step, through the creative process. And once you go through it, you’ll hand your prospective designers everything they need to get started. By Just Creative

Agile Development + Content Strategy: An Opportunity or Headache?

Agile is not the latest marketing craze or trendy buzzword. Its origins date back to the 1970s, in the field of software development. Thousands of successful titles have been built with agile methodologies. By Experience Matters

Create Favicons Online With These 5 Useful Tools

Favicons are to websites what bread and water is to human beings: essential. They’ve been around long-since and will still be when we all have perished. By Noupe

Responsive Design vs. Mobile Sites vs. Native Mobile Apps: Which One’s the Best?

With constantly changing trends and a five fold increase in mobile Internet users, more and more companies are aiming to create sites which will make their services available to mobile users. By Vandelay Design

5 Keys of Successful Logo Design

The best logos make an impact. They are memorable and they instantly evoke images of the brand with which they are associated. By Vandelay Design

25 Awesome Websites for Unique Businesses

Now that nearly every business in every niche and industry is online these days, it can be difficult for even the highly unique businesses to stand out. Small businesses have a need to be highly innovative and original to really draw in loyal clients, and one way to be innovative is with your brand elements, including your website. By Vandelay Design

Building a jQuery Sticky Sidebar Navigation Menu

There have been countless efforts in creating a dynamic set of codes for sticky sidebars. Most commonly this effect is used on blogs or magazines with fixed social media sharing badges. By Team Tree House

Build a Simple Website

Smells Like Bakin' is a cupcake company in need of a website. This project will walk us through the basics of HTML and CSS from the very beginning. HTML and CSS are the structural and presentational building blocks of every website and will serve as the foundation for any web project. By Team Tree House

What is HTML5?

In this Quick Tip, Nick Pettit provides an overview of HTML5, including a look at some of the new tags now available to designers and developers. If you want to learn how to take advantage of all the new features of HTML5, this video is for you! By Team Tree House

Adding Motion into Web Design with Animate.css

Lots of frontend web developers have been getting interested in dynamic interfaces using motion effects. This is all too common with many advancements within popular JavaScript libraries. But there has also been a lot of interest in CSS3 animated effects. By Team Tree House

Magazine design principles applied to web design

A lot of principles of magazine design and layout are easily transferred to the world of web design. Some of these are pretty obvious, while you may have overlooked others. But really, it’s all about good design transcending medium. By Web Designer Depot

20 typographic websites

Typography matters, whether it’s used to make reading easy, or whether it’s used to add some decoration. It’s becoming easier and easier, with better technologies, for designers to utilize great typography in their website designs. By Web Designer Depot

How to speed up your website load times

Do you want your website to load blazing fast? This article will teach you how to make your website load faster than you ever thought possible. By Web Designer Depot

The S.M.A.R.T. User Experience Strategy

Tips on how to be S.M.A.R.T. when redesigning a website. By Smashing Magazine

What Is Responsive Web Design and What You Should Know About It [Infographic]

The key benefit of a responsive web design over a non-responsive web design is that it can be viewed anywhere, on any device with an internet connection (a laptop, tablet, mobile phone, etc). Thus, if you build a website you’d better make it responsive so it can easily adapt to different screen sizes and therefore be accessible to a wider audience. By Crazy Leaf Design

Understanding Minimalist Website Design

When setting out to create a new website, you have to consider the design style that makes the most sense. Is it for a small business, a band, a non-profit, a special event or something else? Who do you expect to visit your website, and what appeals to them? By Crazy Leaf Design

8 Things to Focus Upon to Create User Friendly Website Navigation

Most of the internet users are losing their patience when they surf in certain websites which offer difficulty of producing relevant information. This is the main problem for most website designer who failed to acquire sufficient traffic. By Crazy Leaf Design

8 Valuable Practices for Your Mobile E- Commerce Website

New technologies have been introduced for the comfort of online users. This advancement in mobile websites has raised many new challenges also. By Crazy Leaf Design

Create 3D clouds in CSS

This tutorial will show you how to use 3D transforms in CSS to create sprite-based realistic 3D clouds. By Crazy Leaf Design

Stop designing for screen width, design for content

When choosing your breakpoints, you should always be making your decisions based on where the content breaks and not to device screen widths. Instead of creating a design and then modifying it to fit the iPad screen comfortably, you should find out at what width your content starts to struggle. By Webdesigner Depot

Lessons We Learned from our biggest UX and design mistakes

Tips on utilizing smart design when building your website.  By Six Revisions

Designing an Open-Source iPhone game

This article is the first in a series that will walk through iOS programming using this game as an example. By Smashing Magazine

Why Responsive web design has to win out

When considering a mobile Web strategy and weighing responsive Web design against a separate mobile website, the most important metric is how functional the website is for the user. By Smashing Magazine

iOS Prototyping With Adobe Fireworks And TAP (Part 3)

Final series of iOS prototyping with Adobe Fireworks and TAP. By Smashing Magazine

iOS Prototyping With TAP And Adobe Fireworks (Part 2)

Part 2 of iOS prototyping with TAP and Adobe Fireworks. By Smashing Magazine

iOS Prototyping With TAP And Adobe Fireworks (Part 1)

One of the strengths of Adobe Fireworks lies in its ability to produce basic-level prototypes in HTML format for the purpose of sharing concepts, evaluating them and conducting usability tests. By Smashing Magazine

Your website has two faces

When a user interface—intended for human consumption—reflects too much of a system’s internals in its design and language, it’s likely to confuse the people who use it. By A List Apart

What to expect from a content strategy process

Content strategy is the most important part of your project. It is where you plan what to put into the website, trade publication, brochure, catalog, fifty foot outdoor advertisement, or whatever. By Bio Agency

Responsive Web Design vs Adaptive Web Design

So, ‘adaptive web design’ and ‘responsive web design’ are the latest buzzwords of social media industry. But many of us are still wondering what the real deal is about and what does it all mean? By Graphic Design Blog

The Six Inch Gap

Until recently, modern smartphones stopped short of six inch screens and small tablets began with seven inch screens. This left an odd gap at six inches in today's screen size continuum. Not anymore...By LukeW

Dark Footers in Web Design

There are loads of great footer examples in web design. These are some of the most common interface features which you will find on practically every website. Modern designers know which types of content surface well in the footer. You can now design influential areas for page links, credits, website info, and other crucial details. By WDL

16 Inspiring Examples of Interactive Maps in Web Design

Interactive maps can be a a great way of displaying useful information in an engaging and attractive way by inviting the user to take action. By WDL

21 Fresh Examples of Responsive Web Design

Responsive design is something a lot of designers talk about. And considering the importance of responsiveness and all the buzz around it, it’s impressive the amount of websites that are still not responsive. By now, with the amazing growth of mobile usage, every single website should be responsive to be able to attend to every user’s “screen size needs.” By WDL

Creative Techniques for Single-Page Websites

Over the past few years there has been an emergence of new custom trends in website design. A very popular idea is placing all your major content onto a single page and using dynamic scrolling animations to locate bits of content. By WDL

21 Examples of Dark Colors in Web Design

Choosing the right color scheme for a website is certainly a very important step of a project, specially because colors communicate a lot and will also set the tone, the personality of a page. By WDL

Inspiring Wireframe Sketches

Sketches are a really important step of the creative process and every designer should take the time to sketch their ideas before taking the first step on a project. The sketch is the best way to see how your idea looks on paper, is a good way for you to try out options, see some proportions and improve your thoughts before getting deep into building something. By WDL

Web Design Trends in 2013

The past few years have seen a tremendous shift in the way developers are building websites. More users have switched onto mobile platforms, along with newer browsers which support HTML5/CSS3 web standards. By WDL

Project Management for Stakeholder Interviews

With good planning, most of your stakeholder interviews should fit within three or four days. Don’t plan on more than six interviews in a day...By Boxes and Arrows

On Alt Text

Any web designer or developer with her heart in the right place knows that, to be accessible, every image requires an alt text. Except when it doesn’t. By A List Apart

44 Exhilarating Dark-Themed Website Designs

There is a lot to consider within this collection, but these examples may provide a spark of creative energy to web designers everywhere. By DesignM.ag

SEO in 2013: The Year of the Consumer

2012 was one of the most significant years for SEO in recent history (hint hint penguin). A multitude of search engine algorithm updates dramatically altered the manner in which search engine optimization is conducted. By InspiredMag

What’s in Store for App Development?

In 2011, there was a lot of innovation in the world of application development on both desktop and mobile platforms. Tablets enjoyed rising popularity, a slew of new app stores populated the Web, and businesses set their sights on using software applications to improve their day-to-day operations. For Web designers and app developers, 2012 offered plenty of opportunity as well. By Helloewy

20 Examples Of Creative Typography In Web Design

Typography is one of the most important aspects of web design. The typography, or style of lettering or numbering used creates a hugely important part of the feel of a webpage. By SLODive

38 Minimalist Layouts Utilizing Excellent Whitespace

The common use of whitespace in web design is an excellent indicator of minimalism. This isn’t to say that all websites using extra whitespace should follow a minimalistic design sense. By DesignM.ag

Strategies for Launching New Websites Quickly & Efficiently

Every web developer is looking to build their skillset up to holding a larger knowledgebase. The understanding of various backend languages can prove useful as you move into other areas involved with building websites. By DesignM.ag

A Comparison of Methods for Building Mobile-Optimized Websites

There’s a debate over which technique of creating mobile-ready websites is the best. By Six Revisions

Best Practices To Increase Your Mobile Commerce Sales

Mobile commerce is changing the way businesses function today. This is not just a random statement but statistics reiterate this point again and again. 64% smartphone users are shopping using their mobile devices. By PixelCrayons

SCRUM: The Story of an Agile Team

You might find the agile process ideal for programming but if you are not developer yourself and just trying to manage projects, whatever they might be, I would recommend the agile process anyway. It is a way of working and it does not really matter what kind of project your work is related to. By Net Tuts+

Understand the Favicon

Since they were first introduced by Internet Explorer in 1999, almost nothing about favicons has changed. By Johnathan Neal

The Importance Of HTML5 Sectioning Elements

Whatever you call them — blocks, boxes, areas, regions — we’ve been dividing our Web pages into visible sections for well over a decade. The problem is, we’ve never had the right tools to do so. By Smashing Magazine

Assumptions About Mobile To Reconsider

The popularity of mobile has skyrocketed over the past few years. By Smashing Magazine

20+ HTML5 Tutorials, Resources & Tips

HTML5 offers plenty of potential for web designers and developers, especially when combined with CSS3. The possibilities of HTML5 are exciting, and many designers/developers have been creating amazing things that weren’t possible with HTML and CSS in the past. By Vandelay Design

Preparing Websites For The Unexpected

Designing websites for smartphones is easy compared to retrofitting those already in place. More than that, it’s embarrassing how, almost eight years after CSS gained practical acceptance, a lack of foresight haunts those of us who write HTML. By Smashing Magazine

Useful Wireframe Tools for Web Designers

A website wireframe is a simple visual guide that displays the blueprint of a website. Wireframes are used by designers to plan the layout of pages by incorporating clients’ requirements. By You the Designer

How To Succeed With Your Mobile App

Most apps fail. This cruel reality has led many disillusioned developers to conclude, often subconsciously, that succeeding on the App Store is like striking it rich in the gold rush: you just need to get lucky. By Smashing Magazine

8 Valuable Practices for Your Mobile E- Commerce Website

New technologies have been introduced for the comfort of online users. This advancement in mobile websites has raised many new challenges also. By Crazyleaf Design

Top 10 Great Photography Websites You Need to Follow as a Photographer

A lot of people are fond of photography, so finding great photography websites for your hobby is a must. Today the high-quality photo cameras are available for everyone who want to take some pictures, no matter are you a photographer or an amateur. By Crazyleaf Design

Organizing Mobile Web Expereinces

The things that make mobile devices unique have a big impact on how we can organize and guide people through the content of our Web experiences. Just making a desktop-based design tiny won’t cut it. Moving your web site to the mobile web makes you step back and rethink. Watch a video of this presentation at: Extension Learn

Mobile Experience Design Strategy with Luke Wroblewski

Is mobile the next form of mass media? Best-selling author, speaker and mobile project lead, Luke Wroblewski thinks so, and in this video from Cascade SF, he'll talk about what that means and how that impacts mobile UX design.

User Experience Design in the Google Era

NavigationArts' Director of Information Architecture, Kelley McDonald, discusses how to engage site visitors through effective site structure and relevant content.

Collecting Payment Information Within a Single Input

Testing One Thumb, One Eyeball Mobile Use

People use their smartphones anywhere and everywhere they can, which often means distracted situations that require one-handed use and short bits of partial concentration. By LukeW

Responsive Navigation: Optimizing for Touch Across Devices

As more diverse devices embrace touch as a primary input method, it may be time to revisit navigation standards on the Web. How can a navigation menu be designed to work across a wide range of touch screen sizes? By LukeW

What Impacts Web Form Conversion?

There are many things you can do to improve the design of Web forms. But what can you do to really boost conversion? By LukeW

Evolving e-commerce checkout

Checkout is the lynchpin of e-commerce. It’s how customers buy and retailers get paid. Yet despite years of evolution, only a few changes have significantly impacted checkout conversion online. By LukeW

10 Web Predictions for 2013

Here are some web predictions to think about during 2013. By Sitepoint

Design Mistakes We Made in Our iPhone App

Getting things wrong is inevitable when designing a complex user experience like a mobile app. That’s especially true when you’ve never done it before. By Six Revisions

Vexing Viewpoints

“The Web is Agreement.” Jeremy Keith’s eloquent statement neatly summarizes the balance that makes it possible for us to build amazing things. By A List Apart

Boost Your Mobile E-Commerce Sales With Mobile Design Patterns

People are increasingly using their smartphones as a replacement for desktop computers, even for activities such as shopping and purchasing. By Smashing Magazine