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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.

Tools, Tips and Tricks for a Blazing Fast Website

Tools, Tips and Tricks for a Blazing Fast Website

Who does not want a fast website? After all, most Internet users are an impatient lot. If your website does not load at a satisfactory rate, you will end up…

How to Create an Interactive US Map Using jQuery & FusionCharts

How to Create an Interactive US Map Using jQuery & FusionCharts

jQuery is no doubt one of the most popular JavaScript libraries. According to Libscore, around 70% of the top one million websites use jQuery. So there is a good chance…

How to Create Your First JavaScript Chart

How to Create Your First JavaScript Chart

In one form or the other, data visualization seems to come up quite often in the work life of a designer or a front-end developer. Be it an analytics dashboard…

Is Drupal Good for Design?

Is Drupal Good for Design?

Drupal has a reputation for being strong in functionality and having a strong community, but weak when it comes to design. In deciding which cms to use, it is important…

The 5 Most Overused Design Elements You Should Retire

The 5 Most Overused Design Elements You Should Retire

Everybody has their design pet peeves. Some of them are pretty universal. We have all cringed when opening the website of an otherwise respectable company only to find that the…

Custom Web Design Is the Way of the Future, Not a Relic of the Past

Custom Web Design Is the Way of the Future, Not a Relic of the Past

Websites are critical for businesses to succeed, so web design is more important than ever. However, the advent of hundreds of design platforms and web builders has sparked a debate…

The Next Step in the Evolution of Responsive Web Design: Responsivity Analysis

The Next Step in the Evolution of Responsive Web Design: Responsivity Analysis

Beyond any question, responsive web design (RWD) has become the standard for anybody who wants to make a strong presence on the internet. With the passage of time, rules, best…

Concepts & Design Trends for Modern eCommerce Web Design

Concepts & Design Trends for Modern eCommerce Web Design

eCommerce websites are especially unique in that designers must focus on product showcases within the layout. User interfaces are not much more complex, but they do require lots of additional…

Does Your Portfolio Give Clients What They (Really) Want?

Does Your Portfolio Give Clients What They (Really) Want?

Hands up… Who loves their portfolio? If you’re like most designers, your arm is high in the air. After all, your portfolio represents your best work — and it probably…

10 Reasons Why Web Projects Fail

10 Reasons Why Web Projects Fail

Nowadays every project uses some sort of CMS. Instead of painting a canvas in the old days of HTML, the requirement is to build software applications that need to follow…

A Web Design History Lesson: 20 Years in Web Design

A Web Design History Lesson: 20 Years in Web Design

It seems almost crazy. I began my journey as a web designer in 1996, working for my local newspaper. If my math is right, then I’m just about to enter…

30+ Amazing Free Tumblr Themes

30+ Amazing Free Tumblr Themes

Twitter is the number 1 in the war of the microblogging apps, does it deserve its place there? Maybe. What about the others? Do you remember Tumblr?

Tips on Writing a Services Page that Sells

Tips on Writing a Services Page that Sells

Your Services page can be just… well, a list of services. Or it can help you reassure buyers who are close to hiring you to do their website – becoming…

20 Highly Creative Contact Form Designs for Inspiration

20 Highly Creative Contact Form Designs for Inspiration

In this post, we’ve collected a bunch of creative contact forms for your inspiration that forms design above and beyond the norm. Out-of-the-box, a typical contact form is just a…

Techniques for Responsive Website Advertisements

Techniques for Responsive Website Advertisements

More users are getting onto smartphones and accessing websites on a daily basis. There are methods for rendering these websites the same as on a desktop, but you lose the…

Adobe Fireworks Wireframing Resources & Tutorials

Adobe Fireworks Wireframing Resources & Tutorials

Adobe Fireworks is one of the most popular application choices amongst web designers for wireframing and prototyping. There are many reasons as for prototyping with Fireworks over any other graphic…

Designing for Drupal

Designing for Drupal

In a perfect world, it wouldn’t matter to a designer what content management system a site uses. But for most of us, projects are actually a combination of design and…

Guide to HTML5’s Media Tags – Audio and Video

Guide to HTML5’s Media Tags – Audio and Video