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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.

Coding Etiquette to Make Other Developers Hate You Less

Coding Etiquette to Make Other Developers Hate You Less

Ever spend hours searching for an error in the code of a website or app? We’ve all been there. Few things frustrate more than debugging a hot mess of foobar…

5 Steps to Making Sure Your Users Trust Your Website

5 Steps to Making Sure Your Users Trust Your Website

Research by the Nielsen Norman Group suggests that the average Internet user will leave a web page within 10 to 20 seconds of arriving. Typically, the user will quickly scan…

Every Website Will Break (Eventually)

Every Website Will Break (Eventually)

Every website I’ve ever worked on is probably going to break at some point.

Tips for Designers Who Don’t Code

Tips for Designers Who Don’t Code

I hail from a design background and moved into front-end development some years ago. With responsive web design, the requirement of the designer is shifting. Here are a few tips…

Dispelling the Testimonial Pages are No Longer Important Myth

Dispelling the Testimonial Pages are No Longer Important Myth

In an article on Search Engine Land published early this year, Greg Gifford tears down testimonial pages, noting that: “Your testimonials page does nothing for you”. Gifford has a point….

Lazy Loading for Optimal Performance

Lazy Loading for Optimal Performance

Who doesn’t love some striking imagery to drive your point home? Whether you’re selling a product or service, trying to communicate complex ideas, or simply captivate the emotions of your…

You’re Worth More Than a Page Builder

You’re Worth More Than a Page Builder

Tools like page builders and DIY services are great – but they’re not going to replace professional designers and developers anytime soon.

Designing a Successful Mobile Commerce App

Designing a Successful Mobile Commerce App

A bad mobile app can make or break a company’s image and revenues. In fact, Google reports that 79% of surveyed respondents indicated they would turn to a competitor’s app…

10 Recent Inventive Examples of Animation in Web Design

10 Recent Inventive Examples of Animation in Web Design

In a creative profession like web design, inspiration plays a huge part in your daily work schedule. It’s not always easy to come across inspiration which is why I started…

Why You Should Choose iOS When Building Your First Mobile App

Why You Should Choose iOS When Building Your First Mobile App

When designing a new mobile application, the biggest question you will need to ask yourself is where to launch it. The best decision you can make is to start building…

Common SEO Myths & Misconceptions

Common SEO Myths & Misconceptions

There isn’t a day that goes by that I hear from a client something they have heard about SEO that isn’t even close to the truth. It seems there are…

Selecting the Best Format for Image Content

Selecting the Best Format for Image Content

When it comes to adding images to a website, most developers have several formats to choose from – JPEG, JPEG-XR, PNG, WebP and GIF to name a few. But determining…

Common Mistakes When Presenting Design Ideas to Clients, and How to Avoid Them

Common Mistakes When Presenting Design Ideas to Clients, and How to Avoid Them

You’ve spent weeks working on a client design, churned through the requisite nine terrible designs to get to that lone good one, tested iterations with the team and with your…

Combine the Best of Both Worlds with Material Design for Bootstrap Sponsored

Combine the Best of Both Worlds with Material Design for Bootstrap

Material Design has become a popular topic of discussion in the design community of late. And we’re starting to see it implemented in sites across the web. The trouble is,…

Avoiding Generation Loss with Web Images

Avoiding Generation Loss with Web Images

Everyone knows what happens if you make a photocopy of a photocopy: The quality deteriorates with each subsequent copy. This phenomenon is called “generation loss.” In theory, digital images shouldn’t…

Corporate learning: How to make it work on mobile

Corporate Learning: How to Make It Work on Mobile

Landing a great job is no longer the end point of education. Today, education has already transcended its boundaries of traditional institutions and extended to mid-sized businesses and large corporations…

25 Creative Redesigns of Popular Web Sites

25 Creative Redesigns of Popular Web Sites

Nothing gets the creative juices flowing quite like redesigning a popular, well-known site. Reimagining how a site, app, or brand identity would look can help to show the product in…

Optimizing Your Media for Maximum Revenue Sponsored

Optimizing Your Media for Maximum Revenue