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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.

Flat Design – The Next Step Forward in the Evolution of Web Design

Flat Design – The Next Step Forward in the Evolution of Web Design

Flat design is nothing but simplicity put into practice. The fact that simple shapes such as rectangles and circles are being preferred over gradients and drop shadows shows that the…

Android Studio: The IDE built to help make the life of Android developers easier

Android Studio: The IDE built to help make the life of Android developers easier

If you are an Android developer, life has so far offered a rather straightforward approach: you would probably use Android Developer Tools atop Eclipse, and that is pretty much it!…

40 Creative Examples of Dark Color Schemes in Web Design

40 Creative Examples of Dark Color Schemes in Web Design

Although clean and minimal designs are popular in web design, dark website designs still have a unique appeal. A dark design can create a striking visual impact when used properly,…

Don’t Copy Shakespeare – The Art of Writing for Online Readers

Don’t Copy Shakespeare – The Art of Writing for Online Readers

Sometimes as web designers, it’s easy to get caught up in our own little worlds. We get stuck in the mindset that a good design will attract and keep a…

Brackets by Adobe: An Open Source Code Editor in the Making

Brackets by Adobe: An Open Source Code Editor in the Making

In this article, I shall be taking a look at Brackets, the free and open source code editor from Adobe. According to Adobe, the focus of Brackets is on ‘inline…

Designing a Website Around Your Products

Designing a Website Around Your Products

Branded website design is ultimately centered around two things: product and audience. Meaning, the site’s design needs to effectively showcase products in a way that will resonate with the target…

Pure CSS from Yahoo! A Minimal & Lightweight Set of CSS Modules

Pure CSS from Yahoo! A Minimal & Lightweight Set of CSS Modules

Yahoo! has recently and quietly released Pure CSS, an ultra light-weight and responsive set of CSS modules that you can employ in your web projects very quickly. Maybe not as…

Firefox 22: Less Plugins, More Features!

Firefox 22: Less Plugins, More Features!

A couple of days ago Mozilla released the latest version (22) of their popular web browser Firefox. This release comes in rather quick, as version 21 was released just six…

“To Mobile App” or “Not To Mobile App”

“To Mobile App” or “Not To Mobile App”

In this age of mobiles, everyone is using a smartphone or tablet device. As a result, more and more developers are actively pursuing mobile app development. No matter which platform…

End of an Era: Adobe Pulls the Plug on Fireworks

End of an Era: Adobe Pulls the Plug on Fireworks

If you are a user of the popular UI design and prototyping tool Adobe Fireworks, this will greatly concern you: At the recent MAX conference, Adobe announced their next generation…

Drupal 8: With Symfony on-board, will it create wonders?

Drupal 8: With Symfony on-board, will it create wonders?

Drupal 8 is in the works, and is scheduled for release towards the end of this year. So, what can you expect from the latest and possibly greatest version of?…

Team Collaboration for Building with Open Source Code

Team Collaboration for Building with Open Source Code

Working together with other developers is the quickest and most efficient way to master backend programming. The art of developing websites in PHP, Ruby on Rails, Python, or any other…

Taking A Look At The Future: Web IDEs and Online Coding Tools

Taking A Look At The Future: Web IDEs and Online Coding Tools

In this short article, we shall be discussing web IDEs as a possible and viable alternative to offline IDEs. There was a time when web browsers were simple tools used…

Protecting Your Content from Theft

Protecting Your Content from Theft

If there is a war that is as hard to win as the wars on drugs and terrorism, it must be the war against content theft. Content theft is so…

Designing Custom Github Demo Pages

Designing Custom Github Demo Pages

The open source coding haven Github has grown tremendously in just a few short years. The founders have commented on setting up pages for new projects and this feature launched…

25 Remarkable Examples of Symmetry in Web Design

25 Remarkable Examples of Symmetry in Web Design

Perfect symmetry means having two sides of an item that when folded together will form half of a single object or shape, meeting perfectly together in the center. In web…

50 Inspiring Web Application & Service Web Designs

50 Inspiring Web Application & Service Web Designs

Developing a powerful and useful web application or service is just one aspect of the job. Developers must also consider whether users will like it, understand how to use it,…

Our 50 Favorite Web Designs from 2012

Our 50 Favorite Web Designs from 2012