Meaning-Making in Landing Page Optimization

Trying to generalize universal truths from a single landing page test result is often a horrible idea.

'Desktop View' websites

Some creative 'desktop view' websites to check out.

12 Excellent Social News Sites for Web Designers

Social news/bookmarking websites are a great for finding useful resources, tutorials, and information on the web. These sites typically puts users in the driver’s seat by giving them the ability to submit links, vote on other people’s submissions, as well as vote down stories that they don’t like.

50+ Ultimate Collection of Glow and Light Effect Tutorials in Photoshop

Glow and Light effect is very popular now a day. You can see these effects sometimes on a posters or advertisements. Here are some tutorials on the subject.

Using Wikis to document UI specifications

How your design team can benefit from wiki collaboration while avoiding its pitfalls.

UI Pattern Documentation Review

To date, the most common approach to propagating a single user experience standard is the development of UI guidelines and principles documentation within an organization.

Wellknown.as Case

Here's a tutorial on using Fireworks when building a website.

Planning the perfect site

We all want to hit the ground running when we start a new project, but a little forethought can reap huge dividends in the long run.

Best Practices For Effective Design Of “About me”-Pages

The “about me”-page is one of the most overlooked pages in development and one of the highest ranked pages on many websites.

25 Free Mac Apps That Will Boost Your Productivity

There are many applications that can help you work faster and efficiently. Though, not many applications come cheap.

10 Useful CSS/JS-Coding Solutions For Web-Developers

Often creative and truly remarkable design solutions remain unknown because we, designers, simply overlook them.

Handcrafted CSS

A new book by Dan Cederholm

15 Effective Tips and Tricks from the Masters of CSS

There are thousands of sites out there offering tips and tricks for using CSS. But how do you know where that information is coming from?

Web Marketers to Change User Tracking

Companies that track consumer behavior online for advertising purposes are vowing to make their practices more transparent and to give people a way to decline being shadowed.

How to make an eye-catching logo

Anybody can mock-up a logo but only good designers can make it stand out and make it a good branding tool. Here are a few tips on how you can be a better logo designer.

Introduction to RDFa

RDFa (“Resource Description Framework in attributes”) is having its five minutes of fame: Google is beginning to process RDFa and Microformats as it indexes websites, using the parsed data to enhance the display of search results with “rich snippets.”

Art Direction and the Web

Great article on principles and techniques of the art director — which relate closely to web design — and show how these can influence the overall effect of a website.

Visual Decision Making

User interface experts are often suspicious of the role of visual aesthetics in user interfaces—and of designers who insist that graphic emotive impact and careful attention to a site’s visual framework really contribute to measurable success.

30 Creative Javascript navigation menu examples

Successful, eye-catching and mainly user-friendly site navigation sometimes is key to whole web design, because users usually search for navigation at first, when they visit website.

Free Seamless Vector Pattern Resources

Patterns actually can be found almost everywhere – in print design, web design, graphic design etc.