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Paul Andrew (718 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.
Six Questions to Ask Before You Start a New Project

Six Questions to Ask Before You Start a New Project

I have been a designer for about thirteen years, and most of my business during the past two years has come from new clients. Many have been new up-start businesses,…

Essential Help & FAQ Usability Tips

Essential Help & FAQ Usability Tips

A FAQ – frequently asked questions – should be an important part of your website or service. They speed up the help for your users by not waiting for a…

5 Tips to Optimize your Content while Keeping it User-Friendly

5 Tips to Optimize your Content while Keeping it User-Friendly

If you were to ask any blogger what the most important thing is when it comes to running a successful blog, chances are that the answer would be “good content”….

Free Multimedia Icon Set (14 Icons in PNG & SVG Formats)

Free Multimedia Icon Set (14 Icons in PNG & SVG Formats)

The free set is called the ‘Multimedia Icon Set’ and, as the name suggests, contains 14 multimedia icons in both PNG and AI formats.

40 Amazing Papercraft Templates for the Geek Inside You

40 Amazing Papercraft Templates for the Geek Inside You

When considering papercraft, your first thought will most likely be of all that boring stuff you made in school, like paper flowers, printable seasonal cards or even scrap-booking. It doesn’t…

Essential SEO Considerations For A New Website

Essential SEO Considerations For A New Website

So you are in the process of designing and developing a website and you want to adhere to the best SEO practices (good idea). There is a plethora of good…

The Difference Between Runtime & Compile Time Errors

The Difference Between Runtime & Compile Time Errors

The First step before delving into the difference between runtime and compile time errors is the need to establish a few base concepts. Not every language compiles and actually most…

Discussing the Pros & Cons of Using a CSS Framework

Discussing the Pros & Cons of Using a CSS Framework

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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

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

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

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