B2B Buyers Speak Out About Web Sites

Web sites and colleagues’ word-of-mouth recommendations are the top two influencers for B2B buyers making purchasing decisions, according to a study.

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25 Sources For Logo Design Inspiration

Looking for ideas to create a great looking logo?

Here's 25 logo showcase, portfolio sites and even few blogs which dedicate their life to help you become an expert as logo designer.

Getting Started on Designing Great Sites

Your design skills are up to par with the big boys and girls of the industry? Hopefully this article with help you get on the road to improving those skills and help you create a masterpiece… or at least something that will get you noticed in the right way.

Google’s guide to Analytics

Brett Crosby provides the inside track on how you can use Google Analytics to drive targeted traffic to your website, understand your visitors’ wants and needs, and make informed design improvements.

Five Minute Upgrade - Increase Scannability

When scrolling down a page, the last thing a visitor wants are miles of paragraphs, all in the same font and font size, with nothing to break them up or call attention to any parts of them. If a page looks overwhelming and monotonous, chances are you’ve just lost a visitor.

Table Layouts vs. Div Layouts: From Hell to… Hell?

Developers have moved from table-based website structures to div-based structures. Hey, that’s great. Do developers know the reasons for moving to div-based structures, and do they know how to? Often it seems that people are moving away from table hell only to wind up in div hell.

Introducing Avatar Wall: Show Your Avatar to the World

Avatar Wall, a brand new website dedicated to showcase avatars from around the world.

50 Stylish Navigation Menus for Design Inspiration

A site’s navigation menu is one of the most prominent things that users see when they first visit. There are many ways to design a navigation menu - and since almost all websites have some form of navigation - designers have to push their creative limits to build one that’s remarkable and outstanding.

In this article, you’ll find a showcase of beautiful, creative, and stylish navigation menus for your inspiration.

A fancy Apple.com-style search suggestion

The layout of Apple.com is simple and beautiful. Yet, one of the most awesome things about the website is the search functionality. It gives you suggestions (with images) about the several products they offer, making it really user-friendly.

When to outsource web work

When is it the best time to hire a full time web designer or outsource to a web design agency?

Post Web 2.0 Expo Show

If you didn't get to attend the recent Web 2.0 Expo Show in San Francisco, you can still gain access to the presentation files. Go here, and select from the 'Presentation Files' pull down.

How Google's Rankings Algorithm Has Changed Over Time

The importance levels of various factors in Google's algorithm is changing over time.

Meet Jos Buivenga: The Designer of the Museo Font

If you frequent design and CSS galleries, you may have stumbled time and time again upon an excellent typeface released last year that took the design world by storm. Those typeface releases from from Jos Buivenga’s font ‘Museo’.

Sites of the week

Here are some great sites such as Ballpark and the web app Chartbeat. Also there is the amazing flash site for Salinas.

Web Trend Map 4 - Final Beta

A map of leading currents of web thought and commerce.

UXWeek, 15-18 September 2009, San Francisco

UX Week is the premier user experience conference. With a mix of inspiring talks from recognized thought leaders and hands-on workshops delivering takeaway skills, this event delivers for user experience professionals at all levels — directors, managers, and practitioners.

The Perfect 3 Column Liquid Layout (Percentage widths)...SEO Friendly

The CSS used for this layout is 100% valid and hack free. To overcome Internet Explorer's broken box model, no horizontal padding or margins are used. Instead, this design uses percentage widths and clever relative positioning.

15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website

Your website is designed, the CMS works, content has been added and the client is happy. It’s time to take the website live. Or is it?

20 Useful PHP + jQuery Components & Tuts for Everyday Project

Web applications have made huge leaps and bounds in improving user experience thanks to a lot of recently developed Ajax technology. When you combine some neat functionality courtesy of PHP with the cleverness of jQuery you can produce some pretty neat effects.