Do Yourself and Everyone Else a Favor: Make Code Maintainable

Do Yourself and Everyone Else a Favor: Make Code Maintainable

Front end development is hard. You have to make something look great and also actually work well. Standards are constantly updated, browsers adopt those updates at different rates, and there…

Making Bad Feedback from Your Boss or Client Actionable

Making Bad Feedback from Your Boss or Client Actionable

Most designers work in non-design orientated cultures, where the majority of the people you work with do not have a core understanding of design principles. Believe me. I was one…

5 HTML5 Video Libraries, Toolkits and Players

5 HTML5 Video Libraries, Toolkits and Players

For the most part, Flash has always been the standard for showing video on the web (think of YouTube and Vimeo), supported in all browsers with the only exception being…

Investigation into a Freelancer’s Workday Schedule

Investigation into a Freelancer’s Workday Schedule

Working the realm of freelancing at times can provide a very rough work environment. Long hours in front of the computer, constant e-mail floods, and phone calls from clients all…

Working with Property Lists in Xcode 4.2

Working with Property Lists in Xcode 4.2

Property lists are designed specifically for Objective-C apps to store and retain data. These are straight XML files formatted for easy access to bundles and application resources. There isn’t anything…

12 Obscure WordPress Plugins You’ll Love

12 Obscure WordPress Plugins You’ll Love

Running your own WordPress website can be quite a chore. The internet’s premiere blogging platform has plenty of functionality built in, but to add something extra, you will have to…

Narrowing Your Focus and Taking on More Specialized Projects

Narrowing Your Focus and Taking on More Specialized Projects

Starting out as a freelance web designer often means taking whatever projects come our way. After all, we need to eat too (and a drink every now and then isn’t a…

What to Do When Your Graphic Design Client is Andy Pipkin

What to Do When Your Graphic Design Client is Andy Pipkin

Andy Pipkin tells his poor duped friend Lou that he wants tickets to the opera for his birthday. Its an unusual request, as Andy has been seen to have a…

20 Inspiring and Creative Personal Blog Web Designs

20 Inspiring and Creative Personal Blog Web Designs

As clearly and concisely defined by Wikipedia, a blog is ‘a personal journal published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete entries (“posts”)…’. But when you do read back…

Exciting New Web Design Ideas Worth Taking a Look at

Exciting New Web Design Ideas Worth Taking a Look at

One thing we do at the start of every year is look back at some of the popular trends from last year and try to predict what will be the…

6 Great iOS Photography Apps for Pros & Beginners

6 Great iOS Photography Apps for Pros & Beginners

We all know that smartphones don’t exactly have the most best cameras in the market, but there are a number of great apps to make your photos look awesome. For…

20 Amazing Implementations of HTML5 Canvas

20 Amazing Implementations of HTML5 Canvas