15 jQuery Plugins for Better Web Page Element Layouts
February 8, 2010 - 9 Comments.
Ajax, Javascript, Web Apps, Web Design

CSS does a pretty darn good job of helping to lay out a web page… but not always. Even with all the versatility that CSS offers (including CSS3), it sometimes is not enough and, dare I say it, I really hate to say it – HTML tables are on [very few] occasions missed, as they can fill in the holes that CSSes layout techniques may leave behind.

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.27
February 6, 2010 - 6 Comments.
Inspiration, Web Design, Weekly Web Design Inspiration

This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to comment and let us know what you think.

Hire the Best of Web Designers, By Design – Guest Post
February 5, 2010 - 12 Comments.
Web Design

Usually I am sitting on the designers side of the fence, where the web design processes are clear and defined. And maybe sometimes I do sneer at the client who has never even heard of what HTML or CSS is, never mind what good design is. So, when the opportunity came along to publish an article on how to hire a web designer from the clients point of view, I thought this might be interesting, and would be nice to see things and perhaps understand how things work from the other side of the fence.

Free Grass Textured Social Bookmarking Icon Set
February 4, 2010 - 13 Comments.
Free Icons

The Grass Textured Social Icon Set has been created by Richie Thimmaiah, from RichWorks exclusively for Speckyboy Design Magazine readers and are free to use for both your personal and commercial projects but may not be modified, sold or redistributed.

Joomla, Wordpress and Drupal – Should you look outside the big 3?
February 4, 2010 - 49 Comments.
CMS (Content Management), Drupal, Joomla, Reader Opinion, Wordpress

Todays post is a guest opinion article from Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos, he shares his thoughts on how to choose the best CMS and to not be limited to only, as he calls them, The Big Three (Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal). What are your thoughts on CMS selection? Which is the best, and why?

10 jQuery Plugins for Easier Google Map Installation
February 3, 2010 - 21 Comments.
Ajax, Frameworks, Javascript, Web Design

At first glance the Google Map API may seem scary, I mean, were do you possibly start? You probably only want to display a simple map that displays directions to your clients address, you don’t really want an all singing and dancing interactive map with more options than necessary. There has to be a simpler [...]

This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.22
February 2, 2010 - One Comment
Twitter News

This is our weekly Twitter Design News Round-Up, a collection of fresh design related resources that we have shared via Twitter in the past week.
Just in case you are not one of our Twitter followers, click here: @speckyboy.

25 UI Inspiration and Design Pattern Resources
February 1, 2010 - 17 Comments.
Inspiration, Web Apps, Web Design

Are your fresh design ideas no longer fresh or are you a designer who continually re-uses the same old and trusted design patterns that have followed you for many a year? Or, you might just be a UI designer that is stuck in a rut?
If you are looking to change all that, then this is the post for you.

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.26
January 30, 2010 - 3 Comments.
Web Design, Weekly Web Design Inspiration

This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do.
Send us your recommendation for next weeks Weekly Web Design [...]

Easier Web Browsing with this Selection of Powerful Bookmarklets
January 28, 2010 - 6 Comments.
Bookmarklets, Firefox Extensions, Mobile, Web Apps

A bookmarklet is a tiny JavaScript application contained within a URL, designed to add a one-click functionalty to a web page that will allow you to alter not just your own web page but any page that you choose.
The functions that they can perform vary – you could do perform a quick search for you, [...]

Political Characters Volume 2 – Free Icon Set
January 27, 2010 - 7 Comments.
Free Icons

Last month we published , via Iconshock, an amazing icon set called Political Characters, a selection humorous caricatures of famous world political figures – that was volume 1, and today we have the opportunity to share volume 2.

How to Create a Photo Frame Social Icon Set – Illustrator Tutorial
January 27, 2010 - 13 Comments.
Graphic Design, Illustrator, Tutorial

In todays tutorial you will learn how to create a social bookmarking icon set that are wrapped in a photo frame and much just be good enough to hand on your wall…

This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.21
January 26, 2010 - 6 Comments.
Twitter News

This is our weekly Twitter Design News Round-Up, a collection of fresh design related resources that we have shared via Twitter in the past week.
Just in case you are not one of our Twitter followers, click here…

25 Fresh, Clean and Unique Wordpress Themes
January 25, 2010 - 54 Comments.
Popular, Web Design, Wordpress

Lets be honest, when you look at the volume of WP themes that are available, there is not really that much originality. They are basically they same theme re-hashed in a different style. That maybe fine for some, but not for me.
I look for all of those individual elements that add up to something original [...]

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.25
January 23, 2010 - 11 Comments.
Inspiration, Web Design, Weekly Web Design Inspiration

This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do.

45 Creative Examples of Typography in the Wild
January 22, 2010 - 19 Comments.
Graphic Design, Typography

For many ‘designers’ today, the ‘art of typography’ consists of picking a typeface – and, maybe if the audience is lucky, experimenting with leading, tracking, and kerning.
That’s not to say that there aren’t many extremely talented designers working with type today. Typography is, of course, an intricate art-form.