7 Key Secrets of a Successful Website

 

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

How Content Can Drive Web Design

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

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

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

"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

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

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

Good tutorial on using Flash for your website. By Crazyleaf

The 8 Best Freelancing Books for Designers

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

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

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

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

Organizing Mobile

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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