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.

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Mobile designers have become more prominent in today’s extensible web. iOS and Android apps have flooded the markets and earned a lot of money for some small development studios. The smartphone era has taken off with a huge buzz, and now app designers and developers are in high demand. The local design community Dribbble often features shots from mobile designers. These include sketches and mockups for iOS, interfaces, tab buttons, splash screens, tables, and a whole lot more. If 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.

Photoshop is near-ubiquitous with graphics-based web design. Even if you don’t consider yourself a graphic designer, having some Photoshop skills can really come in handy with your web design work. And tutorials take a lot out of the learning curve, so you can just follow the steps and get up to speed fairly quickly. This article shares with you the 30 Recent Photoshop Tutorials for Web Designers. Specifically, it covers web layout, UI elements, and Icon Photoshop tutorials. Think of [...]

Even the most SEO obsessed web site owners still want a site that looks good. Design aesthetics play a huge role in the success or failure of any site. Elements of design can impact conversions, credibility, and engagement. But some designs can also limit a web site’s search engine accessibility. Great designers don’t necessarily need to be experts on SEO, but knowing a few key things can help you make a website that will be stylistically brilliant and SEO friendly. [...]

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.

On many sites, the one page that people see over and over again is the login page. That makes it important to not only make it something worth looking at repeatedly, but also easy to use, as the designers below have done. Effective and pleasant registration form design is also important – as this will help convert website browsers into registered users (and potentially customers or purchasers). You might also like… Showcase of Beautifully Designed Charts & Graphs → 20 [...]

Providing your services as a freelancer is hard work. It will require a lot of your time, patience, and gratitude towards your customers. Set aside the fact you’ll be slaving away on many projects just to pay bills, all the while often ignoring your own creative project ideas. The most important skill any freelance web designer can master is time management. You only have a certain amount of hours each day to complete work. This is an obvious fact, but [...]

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.

Shortcodes were introduced in WordPress 2.5, and help you to create macro codes to use within your content. If you think about it, this is a great way to create something like a dynamic ad spot or a call-to-action button in your posts. If we use the call-to-action example, you could add something like this to your blogpost to show the button, and then edit the output in your templates functions.php file, which we’ll get to in a minute. To [...]

We have been kindly given 50 invites to BT:Engage, developed by www.brandthunder.com, to give away to our readers. It is a new premium app that gives you the power to transform your drab and boring browser into a beautiful engagement tool for your personal, business or community needs. Within moments, you can build your own custom browser theme with images that you upload and buttons you choose or you can select from the vast library of media that BT:Engage currently [...]