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Web Design

You will find articles, tutorials, and resources covering all areas of web design. Topics include CSS, HTML, Javascript & jQuery, responsive techniques, mobile-first resources, UI templates, HTML templates, web frameworks, and so much more.

The Grumpy Designer’s Guide to 2024

The Grumpy Designer’s Guide to 2024

It’s time for the Grumpy Designer’s annual look at the year ahead. This satirical report is chock-full of useless facts and mindless predictions.

Avoiding Dark Patterns in Web Design

Avoiding Dark Patterns in Web Design

Insights, examples, and practical tips on the importance of ethics in UI design and learn how to avoid dark patterns.

The Web Has an Outdated Software Problem

The Web Has an Outdated Software Problem

On the web, things don’t go away so much as they fade into the background. As quickly as new tech arrives, the old continues to lumber along in the shadows.

Squeezing the Most Performance from Cheap Web Hosting

Squeezing the Most Performance from Cheap Web Hosting

There are hosting providers out there that do offer stable, low-cost hosting. However, you do need to learn how to improve their performance.

The Grumpy Designer Ponders What It Means To ‘Learn’ AI

The Grumpy Designer Ponders What It Means To ‘Learn’ AI

What should web designers be learning about AI? Do we need to learn anything at all? The Grumpy Design has a few unscientific ideas to share with you.

Where Does Dreamweaver Fit in Modern Web Design?

Where Does Dreamweaver Fit in Modern Web Design?

It’s worth asking whether the popular code editor Dreamweaver still has a place in modern web design. Has it become irrelevant?

12 Fantastic Examples of Incorporating Lines in Web Design

12 Fantastic Examples of Incorporating Lines in Web Design

There are many tiny trends in web design these days. We have already discussed lonely but eye-catching mouse tails, manipulations of the mouse cursor and triangles as decor. Each month…

Here’s What It Was like to Build a Website in the 90s

Here’s What It Was like to Build a Website in the 90s

Building a website in the 90s was undeniably different. We made mistakes, but that’s OK, as the lessons learned have brought us to the present.

The Easy Way to Host Google Fonts Locally

The Easy Way to Host Google Fonts Locally

If you are looking to host Google Fonts locally, we’ll introduce you to a quick and easy way to implement them.

19 Web Design Resources and Tools for Designers and Agencies (2023 Updated) Sponsored

19 Web Design Resources and Tools for Designers and Agencies (2023 Updated)

A collection of web design tools and resources that will help you build better and faster websites and add useful functionalities to them.

Looking Outside of the Web for Inspiration & Ideas

Looking Outside of the Web for Inspiration & Ideas

If you’re looking for original inspiration, you may need to explore places outside of web design that can be mined for creative ideas.

Twitter/X Is Doing Its Best to Chase Away Web Designers

Twitter/X Is Doing Its Best to Chase Away Web Designers