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Which Elements of Your Site Must be Highlighted?

2012-01-13T10:56:00.000-08:00

This article covers the elements of the site that must be highlighted in design to attract visitor’s attention. This will allow to make your site the most effective and understandable for people who visit it. By Crazyleaf

Most Beautiful and Inspirational Websites of 2011

2012-01-13T10:54:00.000-08:00

This is our 4th yearly edition of the “Most Beautiful and Inspirational Websites” series by Crazyleaf. They started these yearly roundups with the 2008 edition and so far have had over 1 million visits on the 3 previous editions (2008, 2009, 2010). By Crazyleaf

3 Facts You Should Know About Website Design

2012-01-13T10:50:00.000-08:00

It is not that easy to build a good website and it’s much more complicated to make it usable. Modern Internet users are very fastidious, they know what they want and will abandon a website in 3 seconds if don’t find what they need. When your clients order a website for their needs, forget these needs, they are secondary, the needs of their clients are primary and you should constantly keep that in mind. By Crazyleaf

Web Content Strategy: Sites vs Apps

2012-01-11T17:03:00.000-08:00

Website content should be easy to read. Your eyes should easily scan through the text and end the article with little effort or eyestrain. By Contentini

How to Create HTML5 Apps on Windows Phone with PhoneGap

2012-01-11T16:59:00.000-08:00

In this article you'll find out about the added values of PhoneGap for HTML5 applications are. By SitePoint

Free Download: Cheat Sheet For Designing Web Forms

2012-01-11T16:54:00.000-08:00

Forms, forms, forms: so often overlooked in design. In this post, Joe Leech provides the Form Design Cheat Sheet. By Smashing UX Design

An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability

2012-01-11T16:52:00.000-08:00

Contrary to what you may read, peppering your form with nice buttons, color and typography and plenty of jQuery plugins will not make it usable. Indeed, in doing so, you would be addressing (in an unstructured way) only one third of what constitutes form usability. By Smashing UX Design

Responsive web design is boring!

2012-01-11T16:13:00.000-08:00

Jonathan Longnecker, co-founder of web and graphic design agency FortySeven Media, argues that most responsive sites are boring and comes up with a few starting points to help us create designs that break the mould. By .Net Magazine

Responsive Web Design: What It Is and How To Use It

2012-01-11T16:07:00.000-08:00

Almost every new client these days wants a mobile version of their website. It’s practically essential after all: one design for the BlackBerry, another for the iPhone, the iPad, netbook, Kindle — and all screen resolutions must be compatible, too. In the next five years, we’ll likely need to design for a number of additional inventions. When will the madness stop? It won’t, of course. By Smashing Coding

Responsive Web Design Techniques, Tools and Design Strategies

2012-01-11T16:05:00.000-08:00

Responsive design continues to get a lot of attention, but considering how different it is from the “traditional” way of designing websites, it can be a bit overwhelming for those designers who have yet to try it. By Smashing Magazine

Beginner’s Guide to Responsive Web Design

2012-01-11T16:01:00.000-08:00

Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned web professional, creating responsive designs can be confusing at first, mostly because of the radical change in thinking that’s required. As time goes on, responsive web design is drifting away from the pool of passing fads and rapidly entering the realm of standard practice. By Think Vitamin

Responsive Web Design Demystified

2012-01-11T15:57:00.000-08:00

What exactly is responsive design, and how do you create a responsive website? This tutorial explains the concepts, and walks you through the basic steps for creating a responsive website layout. By Elated

Web Design Trends in 2012

2012-01-11T15:53:00.000-08:00

As you read this article, keep in mind that the shift in trends from one year to the next may be subtle, and you will probably recognize some of these trends already. By Web Design Ledger

60 Examples of Responsive Website Design

2012-01-11T15:47:00.000-08:00

Responsive Website Design is nothing new, back in the day tablet based designers either chose the fluid or static route. Today’s responsive websites take a comparable approach by using fluid widths in percentages and ems. They do not stop, but take a step further by using scalable images and adjustable layouts. All of which is based on what kind or screen-size you are using while browsing the desired website. By InspirationFeed

Stop Designing Pages And Start Designing Flows

2012-01-10T13:29:00.000-08:00

For designers, it’s easy to jump right into the design phase of a website before giving the user experience the consideration it deserves. Too often, we prematurely turn our focus to page design and information architecture, when we should focus on the user flows that need to be supported by our designs. By Smashing UX Design

CSS 3D Transforms

2012-01-10T13:24:00.001-08:00

Firefox and Internet Explorer teams have decided to join the 3D party by implementing 3D Transforms in pre-release versions of their browsers. By Smashing Coding

New High-Quality Free Fonts

2012-01-10T13:21:00.000-08:00

Every now and then, we look around, select fresh free high-quality fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually time you should be investing in your projects. By Smashing Magazine

A User-Centric Guideline To Product Pages

2012-01-10T13:20:00.000-08:00

Product pages for e-commerce websites are often rife with ambitions: recreate the brick-and-mortar shopping experience, provide users with every last drop of product information, build a brand persona, establish a seamless check-out process. By Smashing UX Design

How to Generate Sales Leads With Killer Meta Description Tags

2012-01-10T13:11:00.001-08:00

Meta descriptions are like silly old Uncle Bob who gets ignored at Thanksgiving get-togethers. But did you know that Uncle Bob is actually a multi-millionaire looking for a decent niece or nephew to include in his will? Like Bob, meta descriptions are often ignored or duplicated on multiple pages by website page creators and editors because they just don’t care. By Slingshot SEO

Free Plugin For Dealing With Grids In Photoshop

2012-01-03T14:07:00.000-08:00

Take a moment and think about creating a multi-column grid in a Photoshop comp. Have your palms started to sweat? Yes, creating grids in Photoshop is a pain indeed. Some designers just estimate and drag guides arbitrarily onto the stage. By Smashing Magazine

Writing Better JavaScript with CoffeeScript: The Basics

2012-01-03T13:43:00.000-08:00

Javascript's popularity has really surged in recent years with the advent of rich internet applications (RIAs), Ajax and web development libraries like jQuery that makes JavaScript more appealing and accessible to a broader audience. By Six Revisions

20 Free Online Tools for Website Speed Testing

2012-01-03T13:41:00.000-08:00

We all should be aware by now that Internet users are impatient when it comes to waiting for a web page to load. Thus, your website’s performance and ability to render speedily is critical to its usability and, ultimately, its success. By Six Revisions

Creating Websites Optimized for Google’s Panda Algorithm

2012-01-03T13:38:00.000-08:00

Whether you’re in the process of building a new website or redesigning an existing site, it’s vital to build it with search engine optimization (SEO) in mind. By Six Revisions

30 Beautiful Dark-themed Web Designs for Inspiration

2012-01-03T13:36:00.000-08:00

Using a dark color theme in a website can convey many types of feelings and emotions towards its visitors. Edginess, elegance, modernity — these are just a handful of things that can be associated with dark colors. By Six Revisions

Will the Browser Wars Invade the Mobile Web?

2012-01-02T09:33:00.000-08:00

Until recently, there were arguably only three major players in the mobile device world: BlackBerry, iPhone and Android. These devices still hold a big chunk of smartphone users – 73% of the market share of mobile operating systems in the second quarter of 2011 — Microsoft is trying to keep things relevant with their latest mobile OS. By Six Revisions

Minimalist Web Design: How Minimal is Too Minimal?

2012-01-02T09:31:00.001-08:00

Minimalism, interestingly enough, is usually born out of excess. In all arts, in all ways of life, we start out by taking and adding whatever we can. By Six Revisions

Should We Always Deploy Content Management Systems?

2012-01-02T09:29:00.000-08:00

Content management systems are a wonderful tool for empowering website owners. Most of us have witnessed the power and ease of use of CMSs like Drupal and WordPress. They have changed the web development industry in a significant way. By Six Revisions

Smashing Magazine Six CSS Layout Features To Look Forward To

2012-01-01T13:57:00.000-08:00

A few concerns keep bobbing up now and then for Web developers, one of which relates to how to lay out a given design. Developers have made numerous attempts to do so with existing solutions. By Divya Manian

A Guide To Heuristic Website Reviews

2012-01-01T13:51:00.000-08:00

In this article, we’ll explore a scoring system for rating and comparing websites, we’ll visualize those ratings using infographics, and we’ll see what data and structure this method provides for reviewing websites. By Leigh Howells

How Do You Deal With Overstressed, Irrational Clients? An Entrepreneur’s View

2012-01-01T13:47:00.000-08:00

Good article on best practices when dealing with irrational clients. By Brian Scordato

What I Learned About the Web in 2011

2012-01-01T13:44:00.001-08:00

Some readers share their thoughts on what they learned about the web in 2011. By A List Apart

7 Key Secrets of a Successful Website

2011-11-18T11:59:00.001-08:00

Many successful companies, it seems, can create anything – except an effective website. By Just Creative Design

How Content Can Drive Web Design

2011-11-18T10:18:00.001-08:00

In the Internet’s first few years of evolution, people were awed by the seemingly limitless design techniques that could be incorporated into a single website. Web designers implemented outrageous Flash introductions for sites and the sites themselves were crowded with the latest design tricks. Content took a back seat to the flashiness of the design. However, in the past few years, the design tide has turned. By Webylife

20 Free Online Tools for Website Speed Testing

2011-11-13T15:42:00.001-08:00

In order to help you build faster websites and identify troublesome website performance bottlenecks, consider incorporating some of the following tools into your web development process. By Six Revisions

10 reminders for usability web design to make site visitors adore you

2011-11-09T14:15:00.001-08:00

No matter how hard you try, there is always something wrong with your website. There is always a critic. You don’t want to be caught with your pants down when trying to present a professional site. By Cre8pc

Responsive Web Design

2011-10-24T07:44:00.000-07:00

"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

Responsive Layout Wireframe

2011-10-24T07:42:00.001-07:00

As we design for more devices, considerations for more responsive layouts which scale gracefully across varying screen sizes could be gaining in importance. By Wireframes Magazine

Proto.io – Mobile App Prototyping

2011-10-24T07:40:00.001-07:00

Proto.io is a new UI prototyping tool specifically tailored for mobile and tablet applications. The web based environment allows you to start off by creating a project for either the iPad or the iPhone. By Wireframes Magazine

Creating a Flash Website for a Business Project: My Experience

2011-10-24T07:38:00.001-07:00

Good tutorial on using Flash for your website. By Crazyleaf

The 8 Best Freelancing Books for Designers

2011-10-24T07:36:00.001-07:00

Freelancing has become a more popular way to earn a living every year for the past decade, and it is finally starting to get the respect it deserves as a viable business structure and shedding the bad reputation it somehow gained as the hobbyist’s label. By Crazyleaf

How to Move Users Around Your Web Pages With Visual Aids

2011-10-24T07:35:00.000-07:00

It’s common knowledge that attractive people work well in advertising images. Most marketers also know that the placement of images is influential to where a customer clicks. An aspect that’s not as well documented however, is the huge impact of where the subject in an image is looking or gesturing towards. By Crazyleaf

A Few Short Tips on Designing a Professional Website

2011-10-24T07:33:00.001-07:00

If you are planning to create a website or brochure for your business, one of the most important things on your list is design. As far as websites are concerned the time to grab attention is short and gorgeous design and graphics can be a great tool in achieving this. By Crazyleaf

Personality in Design

2011-10-24T07:31:00.000-07:00

An excerpt from Chapter 3 of Designing for Emotion by Aarron Walter (A Book Apart, 2011). By Aarron Walter

Organizing Mobile

2011-10-24T07:29:00.001-07:00

An excerpt from Chapter 4 of Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski (A Book Apart, 2011). By Luke Wroblewski

How to Bulletproof @font-face Web Fonts

2011-10-24T07:22:00.000-07:00

You’re interviewing for your dream job, and you’re ready to kick some butt. A small group is gathered around a conference phone and some coding exercises, and they’re pulling up your portfolio on a projector so that everyone can review it.
It looks great, except for one thing: All of your beautiful web fonts are gone and have been replaced with… Arial. By Six Revisions

7 Blog Design Tips from a Content Strategist

2011-10-24T07:18:00.000-07:00

For blog design, content issues are particularly important to pay attention to, because, fundamentally, the purpose of a blog is to deliver quality content to a strategically defined audience or community. By Six Revisions

Showcase: 30 Beautiful Blog Designs for Inspiration

2011-10-24T07:16:00.000-07:00

A beautiful and well-designed blog can leave a lasting impression onto its readers. With so many sites competing for the attention of Internet users, the appearance of a blog can be a large factor in helping it stand out from the crowd. By Six Revisions

Comprehensive Review Of Usability And User Experience Testing Tools

2011-10-24T07:12:00.001-07:00

Usability and user experience testing is vital to creating a successful website, and only more so if it’s an e-commerce website, a complex app or another website for which there’s a definite ROI. And running your own user tests to find out how users are interacting with your website and where problems might arise is completely possible. By Smashing Magazine

Web Designer, Be Your Best Promoter

2011-10-24T07:02:00.000-07:00

Have you ever had someone flirt with you and they did nothing but demean themselves the whole time? Did that make you attracted to them? Doubtful. Yet, this is how so many individuals seem to handle their business today. By Smashing Magazine

The Role Of Design In The Kingdom Of Content

2011-10-24T07:00:00.000-07:00

If content sits at the top of the food chain, why do we spend so much time talking about the finer points of design? Every day we debate, experiment with and discuss topics that easily fall into the category of aesthetics, enhanced functionality and layout; in fact, relatively rarely do we talk about content. Nevertheless, even though we should concede that content is king in this realm, this doesn’t mean that design should be devalued. By Smashing Magazine

Understanding Designer-Developer Workflow

2011-10-09T09:51:00.000-07:00

The most appealing software applications developed today are produced by a close collaboration of designers and developers. By UX Magazine

Designing the Right Team for UX : An Art and a Science

2011-10-09T09:50:00.000-07:00

As brands and partner agencies become more invested in the discipline of user experience, building the right UX team will also require significant commitment and investment. By UX Magazine

The Case for Content Strategy—Motown Style

2011-10-09T09:47:00.001-07:00

How do you start humming the content strategy tune to your own team and to your prospective clients? Listen up and heed Aretha Franklin. No, really. By Margot Bloomstein

Free Download: Cheat Sheet For Designing Web Forms

2011-10-09T09:43:00.000-07:00

The designers of the crib sheet have spent years designing and testing forms, and they’ve decided to summarize the most common problems and issues that come up in their projects. By Joe Leech

16 Pixels: For Body Copy. Anything Less Is A Costly Mistake

2011-10-09T09:25:00.000-07:00

Why 16 pixels should generally be the minimum size for body copy in modern Web design. By Smashing Magazine

50 Color-Creative Website Designs

2011-10-09T09:20:00.000-07:00

Eye catching web design starts with good use of color. Creative color combinations can instantly tell users what a website is about and why they should care. Ideal placement of color on a web page can lead the eye to a desired action spot, or simply set the mood. By Crazyleaf

Top 10 : Must-Have Apps for a Graphic Designer

2011-10-09T09:15:00.000-07:00

Starting out in the freelance graphic industry isn´t easy, but with a little help from Smartphone apps, it could become that much easier. From color creation tools to task management apps, simplify your life and maximize your potential with our guide. By Crazyleaf

Creating a Flash Website for a Business Project

2011-10-09T09:11:00.001-07:00

Here's how to create a Flash website without complex software and outside assistance. By Crazyleaf

Design Inspiration

2011-10-09T08:57:00.000-07:00

Here are some very nice looking websites to help inspire your own work. By Crazyleaf

3 Ideas For Capturing Feedback

2011-10-08T17:38:00.000-07:00

Various ways in capturing feedback on web projects. By Wireframes

Steve Jobs, Thanks

2011-10-08T17:32:00.001-07:00

Quote from Steve Jobs.

Not Your Parent’s Mobile Phone: UX Design Guidelines For Smartphones

2011-10-08T17:30:00.000-07:00

Smartphones are what younger generations know as just phones. The iPad (aka the tablet) is giving your grandma’s PC a run for its money. You certainly are holding some amazing futuristic technology in your hands. It will be even better tomorrow, though, so why does it matter to us or to users? By Tim R. Todish

30 Strikingly Vibrant Web Designs for Inspiration

2011-10-08T17:14:00.000-07:00

Working with bright, high-impact colors in your designs can prove to be a powerful tool in your creative arsenal. Bright colors are able to grab attention and they make a design appear fun, youthful, cheery and modern. By Jacob Gube

Designing a Website’s Introductory Text: Tips and Examples

2011-10-08T17:12:00.000-07:00

Many websites choose to display a short explanatory text in a prominent position of their web page layouts to inform visitors what the purpose of the site is. This introductory text, when crafted well, can help users quickly decide whether they’re in the right place or not. By Jacob Gube

7 Best Practices for Improving Your Website’s Usability

2011-10-08T17:05:00.000-07:00

Writing content for web users has its challenges. Chief among them is the ease with which your content is read and understood by your visitors (i.e. its readability). By Jacob Gube

Improving the Usability of Web Content (Elsewhere on the Web)

2011-10-08T17:01:00.000-07:00

Writing content for web users has its challenges. Chief among them is the ease with which your content is read and understood by your visitors (i.e. its readability). Jacob Gube

Graphics in Photoshop: 6 Beginner Tips for Web Designers

2011-10-08T16:58:00.001-07:00

Photoshop is an industry-standard tool used by both graphic designers and web designers. What follows are some simple tips to follow as you create graphics meant for use on websites. By Jen Stroman

11 jQuery Plugins That Can Enhance Your Typography

2011-10-08T16:53:00.001-07:00

Here is a list of top jQuery plugins that serve a wide range of purposes related to web typography, from helping you implement @font-face to providing your users with better usability and functionality when it comes to your website’s fonts. By Ken Hattori

10 Ways to Be a More Productive Web Developer

2011-10-08T16:51:00.001-07:00

Here are some solid tips on streamlining your web development workflow and making every part of the development cycle move quickly and smoothly. By Delwin Campbell

7 Crazy Tips That Will Help You Become a Better Coder

2011-10-08T16:42:00.000-07:00

There are a whole slew of developers writing amazing and practical code and there are thousands of public code repositories on sites like GitHub. Meanwhile, the rest of us are content with just cutting and pasting the code of these industry geniuses. By Louis Lazaris

How to Make a Light Textured Web Design in Photoshop

2011-10-08T16:39:00.000-07:00

This web page design tutorial on Design Instruct (our other website) will show you how to create a beautiful, modern and subtly textured web page layout in Photoshop. By Jacob Gube

Five Simple but Essential Web Usability Tips

2011-10-08T16:37:00.000-07:00

This article discusses five important usability tips that your site can’t live without. By Brujo Owoh

10 Usability Tips Based on Research Studies

2011-10-08T16:33:00.000-07:00

This article discusses usability findings of research results such as eye-tracking studies, reports, analytics, and usability surveys pertaining to website usability and improvements. By Cameron Chapman

Usability Testing Tips and Tools (Elsewhere on the Web)

2011-10-08T16:30:00.000-07:00

Testing usability is an art and a science. There are many times when usability testers rely on qualitative measurements, intuition, opinions and feedback from users and experience. However, there are also factors you can test quantitatively to ensure that a site is usable. By Jacob Gube

Are You Using CSS3 Appropriately?

2011-10-08T16:25:00.001-07:00

CSS3 is exciting. When it was introduced, it seemed like the untapped potential of Web Design was finally unlocked. By Delwin Campbell

10 Web-based Sandbox Tools for Testing Your Code Snippets

2011-10-08T16:23:00.000-07:00

One of the greatest benefits the Internet provides web developers is the ability to share and collaborate with other professionals. When you’ve hit a coding roadblock, you can reach out on your social networks to see if your friends can give you a hand. By Jacob Gube

Upcoming Web Design and Development Conferences in 2011-12

2011-10-04T13:13:00.000-07:00

Here's a list of upcoming web events in 2011 and 2012. By Louis Lazaris

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

2011-10-04T13:11:00.000-07:00

There’s a fundamental problem with stating that your goal is to “create a good user experience.”It’s not specific, directly measurable, actionable, relevant or trackable. Thus, it will create disagreement and disorganization, sending many projects into chaos. However, we can avoid this by using S.M.A.R.T. goal-setting criteria when defining user and business goals. By Dickson Fong

CSS3 Flexible Box Layout Explained

2011-10-04T12:59:00.000-07:00

The flexible box layout module — or “flexbox,” to use its popular nickname — is an interesting part of the W3C Working Draft. By Richard Shepherd

How Metrics Can Make You A Better Designer

2011-10-04T12:49:00.000-07:00

User analytics are what you might get from Google Analytics, KISSmetrics or Mixpanel. They tell you things like which pages users have viewed the most, which call-to-action buttons they’ve clicked, and how many tasks they’ve performed while using your product. They can also show you where people drop out of critical flows, such as registration and purchasing. By Laura Klein

Improving The Online Shopping Experience, Part 2

2011-10-04T12:46:00.000-07:00

Great tips looking at ways to enable customers to make the decision to buy and to guide them through the check-out process. By Lyndon Cerjo

Content Prototyping In Responsive Web Design

2011-10-04T12:41:00.001-07:00

A content prototype is an HTML-and-CSS-based fluid-grid prototype, consisting of layout and typography, that consists of the project’s actual content. Its greatest usefulness may be in determining where to apply media queries to make the Web design responsive. By Ben Callahan

Conversation Techniques For Designers

2011-10-04T12:32:00.000-07:00

This creation of visual artifact is widely regarded as our most effective means of communicating thought through a product. However, creating a product takes more than just documentation, and much of it is communicated not visually, but verbally. By Darren Geraghty

The Whys And The Hows Of Textures In Web Design

2011-10-04T12:24:00.000-07:00

Due to its frequent misuse, its benefits have long been overlooked. Texture can bring a website together, but should not be the main focus. By Jon Savage & Simon H.

A Quick Look Into The Math Of Animations With JavaScript

2011-10-04T12:22:00.000-07:00

There is a lot of math in the visual things we do, even if we don’t realize it. If you want to make something look natural and move naturally, you need to add a bit of physics and rounding to it. By Christian Hellmann

Improve The User Experience By Tracking Errors

2011-10-04T12:20:00.000-07:00

It’s easy to see your top-visited pages, navigation patterns and conversion metrics using visitor-tracking tools like Google Analytics. However, this data doesn’t show the roadblocks that users typically run into on your website. By Lara Swanson

Resizing: Fixed, Fluid, or Responsive Layouts

2011-09-04T17:46:00.000-07:00

A fluid or liquid layout is designed with percentage-based widths, so that the container stretches when you resize the browser window. By Jason Beaird

Beauty vs. Function: On Redesigning

2011-09-04T17:32:00.000-07:00

The thought of producing the best possible design, either from scratch or redesigning something, gives jitters to the heart of many designers. Even professionals in the field can’t quite balance beauty and function. By Rean John Uehara

When is the Perfect Time to Redesign Your Website?

2011-09-04T17:30:00.001-07:00

Very rarely will the people who visit your site return because of your website’s design. Their only priority is finding the content, information, or product they want and it’s important that your site has what your customer is looking for. By Salman Saeed

6 terrible web design trends

2011-09-04T17:26:00.001-07:00

Here‘s an eleven-year-old article discussing the web’s worst design mistakes. By Mathew Carpenter

How a content management system can ruin your search engine positions

2011-09-04T17:26:00.000-07:00

A content management system (known as a CMS) is a facility that allows a user to manage text, images, etc on their web site without having any web design skills. By Texelate

How to add a good contact form to your website

2011-09-04T17:24:00.000-07:00

Contact/enquiry forms are the lifeblood of a lead generation website. If you can’t get enquiries the website is pretty much useless. This blog post simply outlines how to add a good contact form to your website. By Texelate

Should you disclose your web design budget?

2011-09-04T17:22:00.000-07:00

The web design budget is of great interest to both parties involved. The client wants to know how much it will cost his or her business and the web designer wants to know whether it’s viable to take the job on. By Texelate

Make your text easy to read

2011-09-04T17:20:00.000-07:00

It’s much easier to read a book than it is to read text on a website. Website visitors tend to be impatient and scan quickly through content. As a website owner you want to make your site’s content as easy to read as possible. So here are some points detailing how to make your website’s text easy to read. By Texelate

Dark and Powerful Web Designs – 22 Superb Examples

2011-09-04T17:11:00.000-07:00

When choosing the color palette for your website, it’s important to make sure it gives that exact feeling you want to pass on to your readers. It also needs to fit in with the rest of your concept. By Reencoded

4 Creative Ways to Attract More Visitors to Your Website

2011-09-04T16:22:00.000-07:00

Taking a website from zero to a few hundred or even a few thousand visitors a month is not easy, but it's eminently doable -- as long as you recognize a harsh truth about the Internet:

The online world is an attention economy. Attention is finite, and therefore scarce. So if you want people to pay attention to you, you need to earn it. By Mark McGuinness

Sideways headers

2011-09-04T16:20:00.000-07:00

How to make header tags rotated 90-degrees and align along the left of a blog of content rather than at the top. By Chris Coyier

Fold out popups

2011-09-04T16:18:00.001-07:00

The trick with using hidden checkboxes/radio buttons, the :checked pseudo class selector, and adjacent sibling (~) combinators really enables some neat functional possibility with pure CSS. By CSS-Tricks

Project Management Apps for Freelancers and Designers

2011-09-04T16:12:00.000-07:00

Managing client projects is a major requirement for efficiency and for creating a positive experience for clients. Regardless of whether you freelance, work for a small agency, or work for a large agency, there are a lot of details and communication involved in client projects. Having an efficient system for managing those projects is essential. By Vandelay Design

Design Trend: Ribbons, Badges and Banners

2011-09-04T16:10:00.000-07:00

If you browse around many websites, especially design galleries, you’ve probably noticed the trends of using elements like ribbons, badges, and banners in web design. Ribbons with a 3D look are especially popular right now. By Vandelay Design

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