2010 : A New Age For Search Marketers

The future of search, whether it be Search “2.0″ or Caffeine oriented, is based on much more than the relevancy factors of content, links, queries and relevant infrastructure. By Search Engine Journal.

5 Google Wave Search Tips for Research, Trends & Tracking

Google Wave was officially launched in beta a couple of weeks ago and already plenty of people realize its potential usefulness. By Ann Smarty

4 Comparison Search Tools You May Not Know About … But Should

Something inspired programmers to develop new tools and sites to let us compare search results. By Matt McGee

The Science of Managing Search Ads

Despite the economic downturn, customers streamed into the Tiny Prints online store on the Monday after Thanksgiving, called Cyber Monday because it is one of the busiest days of the year for Web retailers.

The 15 Best Articles For Designers in 2009

Here are fifteen of the most popular design related articles from 2009. There are great resources for fonts, Photoshop, web design templates, as well as amazing web design and graphic design tutorials. By Design Reviver

Design an Ecommerce Website in Photoshop

Here's a tutorial on designing a homepage layout for an ecommerce site in Photoshop. The sample site is an electronics shop, and since we are in the holiday season, the site will include some special promotions, which is typical of ecommerce sites at this time of year. By Steven Snell

Web accessibility no longer an afterthought

Yahoo's Victor Tsaran knows how much time Web designers spend agonizing over color and font-width choices when laying out an application. By Tom Krazit

Top 10 Internet Marketing Strategies for 2010

The ten strategies that are listed are nothing new to many of us but can be a good reminder for those who want to be successful in this field for the coming year or so. By Dollarshower

FireFox Plugin: Jetpack Image Editor

Jetpack Image Editor is a Firefox extension which allows you to edit any image on the web. After you installed the extension, right click on the image in Firefox and select Edit Image to activate Jetpack Image Editor. The interface and features are very similar to Photoshop. There are: Tool bar, Layers, History, Adjustment, Filter, and more. Technically speaking, it is like a mini version of Photoshop that runs in Firefox. By n.design studio.

Adobe Browserlab

Adobe BrowserLab is an online tool that allows you to view how different browsers (in different operating systems) renders your web pages. Just enter your web page URL, press Enter, and it will create a screen capture of the web page in the browsers you selected.

Microformats: What, Why, and How

There's a lot of data on the web. Like, a lot. It's data most useful to the masses—such as information about people they need to contact or events they need to attend—is stored in HTML, where you can't easily get at it. So, who you gonna call? Microformats is attempting to take on the job! By Andrew Burgess

60+ Simply Professional Looking Website Designs

Modern age designers love to experiment with things and observe how people interact with their work. You might need to possess a wide range of skills and abilities to achieve whatever goal you may have set for yourself. By Dkumar M

10 Questions with Michael Dick of nclud

Michael Dick is a web designer/developer for nclud, many readers may be familiar with his work. By Steven Snell

Tips on designing a banner ad’ to promote your website, blog or product

A banner ad is an effective and speedy way to promote your website, blog or product. Of course though, this comes at a cost in terms of your pennies and some stiff competition. By Nouveller

Create an Animated “Call to Action” Button

In this web design and development tutorial, you’ll get a walkthrough for creating a "Call to Action" button sprite in Photoshop as well as how to use jQuery to animate it. This tutorial is broken up into three sections: Photoshop, HTML/CSS, and JavaScript. By Jacob Gube

Why We Look at Some Web Ads and Not Others

Do you think you're more likely to look at an online ad if it contains 1) a picture, 2) an animation or 3) just text? The answer...by Barbara Kiviat

6 Tips for a Great Flex UX

Some very good information to designing web interfaces.

Short-Term Memory and Web Usability

The human brain is not optimized for the abstract thinking and data memorization that websites often demand. Many usability guidelines are dictated by cognitive limitations. By Jakob Nielsen

Sketchy Wireframes

When you can't (or shouldn't) draw a straight line by Aaron Travis.

Tree Testing

A quick way to evaluate your IA. By Dave OBrien.