Your desktop wallpaper probably says a lot about who you are. It could be your ideal holiday destination, a beautiful picture that you’ve taken or your beloved family members. Your desktop wallpaper can represent that whimsical side of yourself that just wants to break free at work, it could be the inner grafitti artist in you or it could be the most perfect place you can think of rendered in 3D graphics. Whatever your preference for wallpapers you are sure [...]

Gantry Framework is a WordPress theme framework that, unlike most of its modern counterparts, allows the user to construct a layout and color palette from within the WordPress admin backend itself. It’s powerful and flexible enough that power users can harness Gantry to achieve much greater things with much less effort than they might usually be in for, but the uninitiated can install Gantry and have a customizable layout configured in no time. In this tutorial, we’ll be taking you [...]

This is our weekly column were we share our favorites design related articles, resources and resources all from the previous week. If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook, on Stumbleupon or by subscribing to our RSS feed.

Web Design Fan is the giving away 10 completely free memberships to their new Fan Club! Each membership lasts for an entire year ($72 value). Joining the Web Design Fan Club grants you access to all the incredible resources and knowledge you need to become an expert web designer. From WordPress themes to premium icon sets and vectors, advanced tutorials to educational resources and files, the Web Design Fan Club delivers. Not only that, but you gain access to interviews [...]

This article explores some of the new HTML5 form features and how it has greatly improved text inputs, search boxes and other form fields by providing better and cleaner controls for validating data allowing you to build complicated forms with far less code and even less bemusement. Accompany all of this with some fantastic CSS3 properties and you are able to create stylish and highly-usable forms that go way beyond anything plain ol’ HTML and CSS2 could ever muster. This [...]

This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think.

There is a chance that complex captchas are ruining your efforts to build a subscriber list, especially if you are using the free Feedburner RSS to Email service. After all, there are limits to how much a visitor is willing to go through to subscribe to your site and if they have to deal with captchas that are difficult to read, then they aren’t going to try too hard. In other words, by being to diligent in protecting your site [...]

Many business owners, nowadays, are of the view that when you understand your client, you have them hooked up with your product of service forever. However, in my views, knowing you client is only half the work done. The other half is in serving the client according to their needs and giving them their due attention. Giving attention to your clients is perhaps the most integral part of customer relations and the most decisive factor for the fate of your [...]

This is our weekly column were we share our favorites design related articles, resources and resources all from the previous week. If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook, on Stumbleupon or by subscribing to our RSS feed.

CodeIgniter is a powerful framework that lets you create web apps very simply and elegantly. It’s an open source PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. Cool, that sounds great, so how do you get started using it? Well, this article features some essential CodeIgniter resources to help with your web app development: think of it as the CodeIgniter toolbox. Whether you need a [...]

This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think.

If you’re new to working from home, you’re probably discovering that the distractions are constant. Sure, you had people randomly approaching your desk to inquire about things in the office and other such nuisances, but you knew that with your boss watching, you had to snap back to it quickly and at least appear to be working. At home, there’s no such motivator. It’s just you, the television and a bag of Doritos — who’s gonna know? And when you [...]

For thousands of years, humans have utilized symbology and iconography to communicate with one another. From childhood, we learn to associate symbols and icons with specific feelings or ideas. This is the same with branding, as logos come to embody the brand’s personality in the mind of the consumer. Brands take tremendous effort in creating emotional connections with the consumer, and logos are just one of the many ways they can communicate who they are. Some logos are so prevalent [...]