So, I have a confession to make. I’m not actually a pastry chef. But I did work in a professional kitchen once upon a time, and baking is one of my favorite hobbies. I just love the awesome sights, sounds, and smells of a kitchen full of baking goods. The brilliant red of cherry pie filling, the magical crackle of pastry crust, the heavenly aroma of cinnamon and pumpkin pie spices… Sigh. I’m sorry, what were we talking about? Oh, [...]

Another week and yet another fantastic competition for you! This week we have 10 (yep, that really is TEN) premium WordPress themes from Theme Fit to give away. All you have to do is leave a comment telling us which of the two WP themes below is your favorite and why. That is it, easy as that :) This competition will be live for the next seven days (ending on the 6th of November 2011). Here are the 2 Themes [...]

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.

Why would I use premium Joomla Templates while tons of free Joomla templates are available out there? You may be one of the people to ask this question. If you notice, most Joomla providers offer both free and commercial templates; however, the number of purchases is greater than the number of free downloads. The reason is that premium templates have many advantages over free ones, i.e. better design and support, more modules, more functions, superiorand so forth. When you are [...]

Using slideshows or sliders within a web design is an effective method of highlighting your portfolio, projects, ecommerce products or even key site related messages and information. As the current slider trend dictates, they are typically found above the fold on the homepage. For this article, we have found some high quality, beautifully designed and inspirational examples of sliders. Enjoy :) You might also like… Showcase Of Effective and Creative Pricing Page Designs → 30 Login Forms with Creative Design [...]

I’ve been working with Content Management Systems, both bespoke and open source for over 7 years. In that time a lot has changed as to how flexible and adaptive CMSs can be, but there are still times when a CMS can be restrictive. Each CMS brings with it its own advantages and also its own disadvantages. Having primarily worked in large organisations such as universities, I’ve found that, at times a CMS can do exactly the opposite of its intentions [...]

This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :) If you would like to receive our daily updates you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebookor by subscribing to our RSS feed.

The most popular topic of discussion at the moment is undoubtedly responsive layouts in web design. Without going discussing too much what you will already know, a responsive layout allows you to offer a specific and optimised screen size based on whatever device (mobile, tablet…) the visitor uses. You would typically use Media Queries to resize the overall layout, but what about all of those individual elements and features that make your page unique? Navigation, forms, images, sliders, carousels… they [...]

What would you test with inexpensive usability testing? UserTesting.com wants to hear the creative ways you’d use their service. You can leave a comment below with your idea, or for extra credit, you can tweet your ideas with @usertesting. We will review all entries (comments and tweets), and award prizes to our 3 favorites. Here are the Three Usability Testing Packages UserTesting.com are offering to the winners: 2nd runner up – 1 Free UserTests (a $39 value) 1st runner up [...]

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.

By now you must have heard of the buzz labeled as cloud computing. The basics of the cloud are still unknown by many designers, but it’s not difficult. A general cloud setup may contain a large server farm which connects as one central “storage” or “cloud computer” hub. Web hosts have begun offering cloud packages where you only pay for the bandwidth and storage space you use. These businesses have been on the curve of an emerging trend over just [...]

Today, I’d like to cover some really crucial tips to constructing a great template for your company. Design labs and agencies either work with set clients or tend to release a few products and maintain support from customers. Thus your website is intended to sell the skills your team can offer designing pixels for the world to use. Let Your Purpose be Known Prospective clients or even visitors browsing your website would like to know what you do right away. [...]

As a web designer, from time to time, you may need to make a grayscale image fade into color on mouse over. So the typical solution would be to have each image desaturated to achieve the grayscale effect in Photoshop. Then, you would have to add a few extra divs and image tags to the markup an then add some jQuery magic to fade the images in and out. Or, you could have merged two images into one larger image [...]