Conversation is the New Attention

Most online content today is stuck. It has roots firmly planted in one of the many sites and applications around the web. By Cameron Koczon

Looking Beyond Google PageRank: Alternative SEO Metrics

When it comes to SEO, Google’s PageRank (PR), which is the most used SEO ranking metric, is vague and unhelpful. Although most SEOs would agree that it’s an indication of a page’s popularity (or power), it’s unclear why that’s so or exactly how popular a ranked website is. By Modi Mann

5 SEO Tips for The Everyday Web Designer/Developer

With proper planning, optimizations can be implemented to help a site rank high in the search results without compromising the aesthetics and functionality of the site. By Youthedesigner

How To Create a Slick Navigation Bar In Adobe Fireworks

Great tips using Fireworks to create a navigation bar for your website. By Spyrestudios

Top 6 Mistakes to Avoid in Mobile Usability

Mobile applications are important for providing users with an alternate means of accessing your web page, as well as keeping connected anywhere and at any time. By Spyrestudios

How to Juggle Multiple Projects and Clients Without Going Crazy

Let’s face it: it’s hard working on multiple things at once. Focusing on just one thing is much easier than trying to juggle multiple projects and clients. By Spyrestudios

25 Essential Android Apps For Web-Workers And Designers

Here are 25 Android apps that I think can be very useful to designers, developers and web-workers. You’ll find editors, reference guides, blogging tools, image editing tools and more. By Spyrestudios

Top 5 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Create Trendy Designs

Following trends is a part of many creators in all creative mediums: design, fashion, music, film, whatever. It’s only natural: you see what people want, then you give it to them. What’s the problem, you might ask? By Spyrestudios

The Ultimate 20 Usability Tips for Your Website

Usability is ridiculously important to your website. It doesn’t matter how cool your website looks or how amazing your content is if visitors can’t quickly, easily, and enjoyably access and use it. Many of them will eventually just give up and look elsewhere. By Spyrestudios

The User Experience And Psychology Of Color

There are some cultural influences on color as well, and people need to take these sorts of things into account when designing sites, but there also seem to be some ideas that cross over cultural lines. By Spyrestudios

Usability Best Practices For eCommerce Websites

Usability – a term that we hear almost everywhere we go on the web and for good reason. Good usability can mean the difference between one site’s success and the downfall of another. By Spyrestudios

Curing the Navigation-itis Syndrome

More and more content is being published everyday and site owners need to find ways to categorize all this content. And with more content and categories comes greater navigation problems. Sometimes navigation becomes a problem when there are simply too many options. By Spyrestudios

Showcase of 20 Minimalist Grid-Based Web Designs

Minimalism doesn’t rhyme with grid systems, but many grid-based websites will feature a stripped down and clean design and make great use of typography. After all, it’s all about letting the content shine. By Spyrestudios

Top 15+ Best Practices for Writing Super Readable Code

Code readability is a universal subject in the world of computer programming. It’s one of the first things we learn as developers. This article will detail the fifteen most important best practices when writing readable code. By Net Tuts+

How to Spot and Avoid Web Copy that Kills Websites

Web designers and developers sacrifice countless hours and sleep sorting out clients’ objectives, audiences’ needs, brand continuity, page layouts, information architecture, navigation, functionality, cross-browser compatibility, accessibility — the list goes on. And then the web copy finally arrives. By Webdesigner Depot

Design a Blue Corporate Website Layout in Photoshop

Here's a step-by-step process for designing a homepage for a corporate website in Photoshop. By Vandelay Design

Apply Graphics to Textured Surfaces With Displacement Maps

Do you ever wonder how Photoshop masters create such realistic compositions? By Joshua Johnson

35 Nice Single Page Web Designs

Some beautiful single page web designs for your inspiration. Enjoy! By Brant Wilson

Speed Up with CSS3 Gradients

Safari 4+, Chrome 1+, Firefox 3.6+, and Opera 11.10+ are all now supporting CSS3 gradients. This wide browser support makes using them for progressive enhancement all the more appealing. By CSS Tricks

20 Great Sign Up Form Examples to Learn From

Sign up forms come in many different shapes and sizes. Some are a single field, others are a multi-step process that stretch over several screens. By Joshua Johnson

Expand Your Online Presence With a Nice vCard

There was a time when every business person carried a pack of business cards for handing out to new acquaintances, some of whom would never use them anyway. By CrazyLeaf

3 Tips to Manage Content Updates

Throughout the busy workday, your email box may flicker with requests from clients to change or update content on their sites. These seemingly simple assignments can be distracting and quickly accumulate into a time-devouring pile if not managed effectively. By Design Blog

Web Design and Development Inspiration

Here's a web design showcase that aims to not only showcase the best and most innovative web design styles currently available, it also aims to give you a visual overview of current web design trends and highlight the latest in innovative web technologies. By Speckyboy

Working With and Optimizing Images for the Web

Images can make or break a website, whether that be adding a humanist feel to a site, adding animation and mouse over effects or finalizing that amazing design that just can’t be achieved with CSS alone. By Speckyboy

10 Essential Web Application Usability Guidelines

Users should be able to simply, quickly, and intuitively use any web app, like with any tool in life, be it a car, phone, or anything else. By Speckyboy

Why Making Web Apps with Rails Is Awesome

Learn how to utilize Ruby on Rails for making web apps. By Marc Gayle

From Nothing to Something: Story of a Self-Taught Designer

Many of us in the web design and web development field are self-taught. To one extent or another, we taught ourselves at least the fundamentals and rudiments of the field before going to a college or joining a design firm. By Michael Tuck

4 Steps to Building a Portfolio Website Using Drupal

If you’re building a website for a client or yourself that requires a number of images to be presented in a gallery format — for example, if you’re a web designer, photographer, sculptor, painter or graphic designer — Drupal has some out-of-the-box solutions to help you organize and present your information. By Monica S. Flores

Using Design Tools to Become a One-Man Design Team

As designers, we can often find ourselves on a bit of an island. Whether we are working independently or at an in-house position, there are times when we are left to fill many job roles that merit an entire design team. By Aaron Irizarry

Speeding Up Your Website’s Database

Website speed has always been a big issue, and it has become even more important since April 2010, when Google decided to use it in search rankings. However, the focus of the discussion is generally on minimizing file sizes, improving server settings and optimizing CSS and Javascript. By Paul Tero

How to Choose a Typeface

Choosing a typeface can be tricky. The beauty and complexity of type, combined with an inexhaustible supply of options to evaluate, can make your head spin. But don’t be baffled — and don’t despair. By Douglas Bonneville

Photo Retouching Tips And Tricks In Photoshop

Here are some great Photoshop retouching tips and tricks. By Dirk Metzmacher

Get Started Developing For Android With Eclipse, Reloaded

In the first part of this tutorial series, you'll learn how to built a simple brew timer application using Android and Eclipse. In second part, it will cover developing the application by adding extra functionality. By Chris Blunt

Designing For The Future Web

Designing for the future Web. That’s a big subject. Where do we start when we’re talking about something that isn’t here yet? By James Gardner

How To Use CSS3 Pseudo-Classes

CSS3 is a wonderful thing, but it’s easy to be bamboozled by the transforms and animations (many of which are vendor-specific) and forget about the nuts-and-bolts selectors that have also been added to the specification. By Richard Shepherd

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