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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.

5 Self-Education Practices for Web Designers

5 Self-Education Practices for Web Designers

The present-day web provides instantaneous, infinite, and more importantly, completely free access to information and educational materials. One of the professions that are able to use its vast potential to…

The Productivity Benefits of Scrum in Modern Web Development

The Productivity Benefits of Scrum in Modern Web Development

Before the Industrial Revolution, most goods were produced by hand by a single person. Master craftsmen labored over their work, producing a finished product they could be accountable for and…

Auto Tagging: The Key to Streamlined Digital Asset Management

Auto Tagging: The Key to Streamlined Digital Asset Management

If your company has an enormous library of digital assets, finding a specific image for a new web project or targeted email campaign can be like trying to locate that…

What is the .htaccess file?

What is the .htaccess file?

Generally speaking, an .htaccess file is a server document used to define directory or file permissions, URL rewrite rules, or error messages. It is most commonly associated with the display…

Getting to Grips with the Open Graph Protocol

Getting to Grips with the Open Graph Protocol

The Open Graph protocol was originally introduced by Facebook in 2010 as a set of rules to enable your web content to become the rich object in social sharing. Today,…

The History of Web Layouts: from Renaissance to Virtual Reality

The History of Web Layouts: from Renaissance to Virtual Reality

Back in 1993, the first website launched: a text-only site by developers at the European Council for Nuclear Research (of all places). It was a huge step in technology, the…

5 Lessons We Can Learn From Japanese Web Design

5 Lessons We Can Learn From Japanese Web Design

Japan has its own particularities in terms of culture. As a result of several periods of isolation from the outside world, this millenarian civilisation has developed their own ways of…

Turn the Page on Flat Design & Bring Creativity Back to Web Design

Turn the Page on Flat Design & Bring Creativity Back to Web Design

Remember when cars used to be different? Nowadays, it’s hard to tell a BMW from a Honda. Cars come in a limited array of colors but end up looking similar…

How Web Developers Can Adapt to a Mobile App World

How Web Developers Can Adapt to a Mobile App World

I work for a development consulting company that was founded in 2005. Up until 2011 or so, we worked exclusively on websites and web-based applications. Since then, we have aggressively…

20 Firefox Extensions for Web Developers

20 Firefox Extensions for Web Developers

Firefox is a widely-used browser – not just by users but by web developers. Simply put, Firefox and its addons can make developing for the web much easier and endlessly…

10 Recent Innovative Web Designs For Your Inspiration

10 Recent Innovative Web Designs For Your Inspiration

Web design trends come and go with the passing of time. Shifts in responsive design move along with changes in user behavior. Other changes are more linked to what’s hot…

Why Choose Ruby?

Why Choose Ruby?

“The goal of Ruby is to make programmers happy.” ~ Yukihiro Matsumoto Anyone who wants to create their own application faces the challenge to select a programming language. The choice…

Pagekit 1.0 – A Modern & Lightweight CMS with Material Design UI

Pagekit 1.0 – A Modern & Lightweight CMS with Material Design UI

If you’ve been following web development over the past few years, you will have noticed how fast it has evolved. The understanding of PHP and JavaScript has shifted, new frameworks…

The Websites That Inspired a Generation of Web Designers

The Websites That Inspired a Generation of Web Designers

The period at the end of the last millennium was a heady mix of political change, economic optimism and for those working in the digital industries the phenomenon that was…

How to Optimize Image Delivery Efficiently and Cost Effectively

How to Optimize Image Delivery Efficiently and Cost Effectively

Part one of this series examined mistakes you may be making when handling images, and the steps you can take to remedy them. In this article, you’ll learn about common…

9 Useful Services to Get Your Web Designs Coded

9 Useful Services to Get Your Web Designs Coded

While there is no shortage of web design conversion services that are capable of doing good work at competitive prices, an attempt to zero in on the very best of…

Popular High Definition Web Design Tactics for 2016

Popular High Definition Web Design Tactics for 2016

Sure, there’s some time left before high definition becomes universal, but looking at the statistics, it’s not that far off. As HD displays grow more affordable, so too does the…

15 Free Themes & Templates for Creating eCommerce Stores

15 Free Themes & Templates for Creating eCommerce Stores