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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.

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

HTML5 aims to standardize elements on a page and reduce the use of plugins to get the leverage more from the browser. With HTML4 you would always need a plugin,…

2016 Predictions For Open Source eCommerce Platforms

2016 Predictions For Open Source eCommerce Platforms

People love to shop online – evident by the 110,000+ ecommerce websites generating revenue of meaningful scale. Although most customers prefer in-store shopping, statistics show that the percentage of people…

Guide to Building Quality Digital Products for the Web

Guide to Building Quality Digital Products for the Web

There are many premium shops and marketplaces to be found all around the Internet. Usually, these are popular vendors who sell various types of digital products – e-books, website templates,…

Is Web Design a Dying Trade or Can it Still be a Viable Career Option?

Is Web Design a Dying Trade or Can it Still be a Viable Career Option?

Yes, web design is dying. It died a few years ago, it is dying now, and it will die again in the future. What does this mean? To put it…

20 Examples of Fullscreen Responsive Menus for Inspiration

20 Examples of Fullscreen Responsive Menus for Inspiration