30 Clean Website Designs for Inspiration

Clean web designs — characterized by being aesthetically simple and clutter-free — has become a website design style staple. In this showcase, you’ll find 30 beautiful examples of clean web designs that we hope will surely inspire you. By Design Instruct

30 Excellent Textured Website Designs for Inspiration

Applying textures in your design can be an effective way to give it an added bit of intricacy and detail. If you’re thinking of using textures in your website layouts, we hope that these beautiful examples of textured web designs will inspire you. By Design Instruct

Using Photo Backgrounds in Web Design: 30 Examples

Using large photos as a web page background is a popular technique that can result in a design that’s vivid and memorable. By Design Instruct

30 Beautiful Gray Web Designs for Inspiration

Gray is such a versatile color. Lighter shades of gray can be used to make a web design look elegant, clean and professional. Darker shades of gray can make a web design look bold and edgy. In this showcase, you’ll see 30 beautiful websites that use gray as a principle color. By Design Instruct

The Content Strategist as Digital Curator

The term “curate” is the interactive world’s new buzzword. By A List Apart

Say no to Faux Bold

Browsers can do terrible things to type. If text is styled as bold or italic and the typeface family does not include a bold or italic font, browsers will compensate by trying to create bold and italic styles themselves. By A List Apart

Applying Macrotypography For A More Readable Web Page

Any application of typography can be divided into two arenas: micro  and macro. Understanding the difference between the two is especially useful when crafting a reading experience, because it allows the designer to know when to focus on legibility and when to focus on readability. By Smashing Magazine

Removing Stumbling Blocks In Mobile Forms

There are several factors that can be considered to be stumbling blocks throughout the journey of filling out a form. By Smashing UX Design

How To Build A Real-Time Commenting System

The Web has become increasingly interactive over the years. This trend is set to continue with the next generation of applications driven by the real-time Web. Adding real-time functionality to an application can result in a more interactive and engaging user experience. By Smashing Code

Get rid of the line between design and development

Designer and developer Bastian Allgeier says designers should learn how to code to become creatively independent and calls for an end to the strict separation between both skillsets. By .Net Magazine

Nielsen responds to mobile criticism

The usability pro answers critics who have described his recent mobile recommendations as "backward". By .Net Magazine

Nielsen is wrong on mobile

Designer, developer and mobile maven Josh Clark tells us that rather than stripping down, we should be asking how we can do more with the mobile experience. By .Net Magazine

The 10 principles of mobile interface design

 

Based on his workshops, mobile consultant Jonathan Stark compiles the top principles of mobile interface design and explains how to take your mobile app from concept to completed design. By .Net Magazine

Hillman Curtis, a Pioneer in Web Design, Dies at 51

 

Hillman Curtis, a former rock musician who became a prominent first-generation Web designer and a visionary figure in the Internet’s evolution from a predominantly text-based medium to the multimedia platform it is today, died on Wednesday at his home in Brooklyn. He was 51. By New York Times

50 fantastic tools for responsive web design

To get started with building a responsive site, having a strong toolkit can make a world of difference. Here Denise Jacobs and Peter Gasston round up 50 great tools to aid the process of making your sites responsive. By .Net Magazine

Ethan Marcotte answers your responsive web design questions

 

Ethan Marcotte, author of A Book Apart's Responsive Web Design and the man who coined and kickstarted the whole concept, takes on your questions and covers responsive advertising, images and more. By .Net Magazine

15 fabulous responsive sites for your inspiration

Antony and Jerome Ribot present 15 of the best responsive sites featured in our mag's Gallery over the last six months. By .Net Magazine

The next chapter of responsive web design

Responsive web design has been a hot topic for the last couple of years. And why not? The ingredients of a flexible grid, flexible images and media queries are a powerful recipe to help us serve websites to screens of varying sizes. By .Net Magazine

Five responsive web design pitfalls to avoid

There are number of nasty traps to avoid when making your site responsive. Brad Frost of R/GA reveals five of the biggest ones and how to sidestep them. By .Net Magazine

Build a responsive site in a week: going further (part 5)

 

Although responsive web design can help us craft compelling adaptive experiences, it’s no silver bullet; this approach won’t automatically deliver websites that can cater for every conceivable device and use case – but it’s a start. By .Net Magazine