21 Beautiful Examples of Typography in Web Design

Here are some examples of beautiful typography usage in web design. The examples here are where typography is the main focus, and examples where typography complements the design. By WDL

20 Inspiring Examples of Big Backgrounds in Web Design

One way to easily define the tone and mood of a website is to use a big background image. However, when doing this, you need to consider that big images often have a lot going on, so it’s important to take a minimal approach with other aspects of the design. By WDL

20 Fresh CSS3 Tutorials

The design industry is probably one of the fastest changing and growing. Designers have to keep their eyes on everything, including new trends in visual design, as well as interaction technologies like jQuery, HTML5, and CSS3. Designers are using these technologies to express more creativity in design production and make user experience richer. By WDL

21 Fantastic Examples of Sliders in Web Design

Sliders are an excellent way to organize and highlight important content on a site. They can also be used to display a good amount of content within a limited amount of screen real estate. By WDL

Setting the Bottom Line for your Web Projects

Working as a freelance web designer you’ll find yourself naturally jumping from project-to-project. This quick pace comes with the lifestyle and requires some serious dedication. You cannot get lost in the royalties of extra touch-ups and recoloring textures. By WDL

Data Monday: Mobile Web Shopping

Though few people dispute the growth of mobile computing, many remain unconvinced about mobile e-commerce. By LukeW

Roundup of single page websites

One of the recent developments on the web has been the rise in the use of one page websites by everyone from web designers to large companies to promote their product, app or portfolio. By Webdesigner Depot

A (not so) jilted English professor’s guide to creative web design

Responsive design has some definite buzz of late, and with good reason. It promises to simplify the increasingly complex task of adapting websites for the countless new devices multiplying by the minute. By Webdesigner Depot

How to speed up your website

Site speed is one of the most important things about creating web content, and web applications.
In fact, it has been noted by various analysts at Google that people don’t often sit through the first 30 seconds of a video, much less the first 15, so it would be wise of you to get the content of your site loaded as fast as you can so that people can make a judgement and agree to either use it or not. By Webdesigner Depot

Posting a price list on your web site: does it work or fail?

Most people misunderstand the concept of a price list for creative services. By Webdesigner Depot

What’s new for designers

Check out jQuery plugins, grid tools, CSS tools, WordPress resources, productivity and business tools, responsive design resources, and some really great new fonts. Many of the resources below are free or very low cost, and are sure to be useful to a lot of designers and developers out there. By Webdesigner Depot

Creativity-based Research: The Process of Co-Designing with Users

The practice of co-design allows users to become an active part of the creative development of a product by interacting directly with design and research teams. By UX Magazine

Interaction Design In The Cloud

Interaction designers create wireframes in tools such as Adobe Illustrator, OmniGraffle and Microsoft Visio. Originally, these wireframes were primitive shapes drawn to represent various UI elements. Many of us cannot imagine life without them. By Smashing UX Design

Mobile Device Lab, Browsers and Animated GIFs

Short article covering browsers and animated gifs. By Smashing Mgazine

The Importance of Strategic Micro Copy: An iTunes Case Study

Poorly devised, unhelpful content is wasteful. It potentially wastes the time of users and can also have financial implications for the company responsible for it, in this case Apple. By Contentini

Web Content Strategy: Sites vs Apps

Website content should be easy to read. Your eyes should easily scan through the text and end the article with little effort or eyestrain. By Contentini

5 Reasons Why Metaphors Can Improve the User Experience

There are many ways to experience the world around us. Especially offline, we can make use of our different senses to collect information, interpret our environment and make judgments. By Six Revisions

Ultra Sleek Accordion Slider: Free PSD Template

This exclusive freebie on Six Revisions, brought to you by www.bestpsdfreebies.com, is a design mockup of an accordion slider that can be used to display content. By Six Revisions

Hillman Curtis

Hillman passed away at home on April 18th at 6:03 pm in the presence of his loving wife, two children, his sister, sister in law and brother in law. He was 51 years old and died after a long and fiercely fought battle with colon cancer. Hillman deeply loved his work, all of it -- film directing, graphic design, all aspects of new media -- and he especially loved his talented mentors, friends and students in these fields. His favorite topic was inspiration and he made sure to surround himself with it and find it in everything -- his colleagues, his family, New York City, art, film and all of you. He loved you all and took energy from those with whom he corresponded, exchanged ideas and with his fans. Sweet Prince Hill, true gentleman, good dad and passionate artist, Rest in Peace.

Scalable Vector Graphics: an Overview

SVGs are ideal if you require a scalable diagram such as a chart or logo which can be altered or animated using JavaScript DOM methods. By Sitepoint