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Paul Andrew (629 Articles)

Paul is the founder and editor of Speckyboy Design Magazine. He has a passion for UI design, print design, motion design, and graphic design, and loves discovering and sharing new resources and templates.
Discussing the Pros & Cons of Using a CSS Framework

Discussing the Pros & Cons of Using a CSS Framework

CSS

A CSS framework is a piece of software that has a lot of options for you to use in your HTML development, potentially making it faster and easier for you…

Navigation Accessibility Tips

Navigation Accessibility Tips

UX Design

Website navigation is our common communication system between all other web pages. Interlinking through unique identifiers (URLs) has worked for decades. If anything, navigation links have been with the basics…

25 Tutorials & Tools for Getting Started With HTML5

25 Tutorials & Tools for Getting Started With HTML5

Web Design

By now, everyone knows about HTML5. Exciting stuff. Of course, there are two sides to the excitement. Most developers love it, others feel it has come too soon, and that…

The Beauty of Minimalist Design

The Beauty of Minimalist Design

Inspiration

Minimalism. The term is pretty divisive. Some think it’s a bunch of self-serving nonsense – a fancy label for a convoluted lifestyle design. Others swear by the principle, drastically improving…

50 Creative Examples of Vintage and Retro in Web Design

50 Creative Examples of Vintage and Retro in Web Design

Inspiration

Web design trends change with the wind – what is popular this year will undoubtedly differ from next year. There is only one web design style that you can rely…

How to Choose the Right CMS for Your Small Business

How to Choose the Right CMS for Your Small Business

Web Design

The web is littered with articles comparing CMSs and highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of each. Though helpful at the time, these articles can quickly become outdated and may, through…

Mobile Web & App Development Testing & Emulation Tools

Mobile Web & App Development Testing & Emulation Tools

Web Design

There are almost twice as many mobile phones in the world as there are computers. With that phenomenal thought in mind, you can understand why developing mobile apps is so…

Elements of Ugly Web Design – Navigation Animated Gifs

Elements of Ugly Web Design – Navigation Animated Gifs

Web Design

Of course, you will remember them; they were that horrible, poorly-designed navigation icons you would have seen everywhere on the internet. They were the days when graphic and web design…

Free Creative and Professional CSS3 CV Resume Template

Free Creative and Professional CSS3 CV Resume Template

CSS

Earlier this month we published an article on the best HTML & CSS CV and Resume templates, and today we feel we can top all of those templates with one…

World Cup 2010 Posters Inspired by African Pattern Heritage

World Cup 2010 Posters Inspired by African Pattern Heritage

Inspiration

There are now only eight weeks left until the kick-off of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. This is the first time the greatest sporting event in the world…

Free Political Characters Volume 2 Icon Set (AI & PNG Formats)

Free Political Characters Volume 2 Icon Set (AI & PNG Formats)

Icon Sets / UI Design

The download package includes both 256px and 512px sizes for each of the eight icons, as well as the Illustrator source files (ai.) for easy customization.

Free Political Characters Icon Set (AI & PNG Formats)

Free Political Characters Icon Set (AI & PNG Formats)

Icon Sets / UI Design

The free Political Characters icon set includes eight icons, available in both 256px and 512px sizes, and in PNG and AI formats.

Free WordPress Folder Icon Set (AI & PNG Formats)

Free WordPress Folder Icon Set (AI & PNG Formats)

Icon Sets / UI Design

The free PNG WordPress folder icon set is available in both 256px and 512px sizes, and the download package also includes Illustrator source files (ai.)

The Beautiful Digital Light Painting from Tony Ariawan

The Beautiful Digital Light Painting from Tony Ariawan

Inspiration / Photography

Digital light painting is a technique capable of transforming a simple image into a striking and colourful masterpiece, imbued with a sense of dynamism and vitality. This method is particularly…

Seven Practical Tips to Getting Started With Ruby on Rails

Seven Practical Tips to Getting Started With Ruby on Rails

JavaScript

Knowing how to get started with Ruby on Rails can be confusing when migrating from the world of conventional web development techniques. This article recommends that you take a stepped…

2200 CMS Load Time Comparisons, Which is the Fastest?

2200 CMS Load Time Comparisons, Which is the Fastest?

WordPress

I received an email from the Admin of Page Load Time at the start of this week, informing me that they had tested the Page Load Times of 2200 (honestly,…

Top 10 Web Safe Blogging Fonts

Top 10 Web Safe Blogging Fonts

Fonts
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