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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.

Navigation Accessibility Tips

Navigation Accessibility Tips

Website navigation is our common communication system between all other web pages. Interlinking through unique identifiers (URLs) has worked for decades. If anything, navigation links have been with the basics…

25 Tutorials & Tools for Getting Started With HTML5

25 Tutorials & Tools for Getting Started With HTML5

By now, everyone knows about HTML5. Exciting stuff. Of course, there are two sides to the excitement. Most developers love it, others feel it has come too soon, and that…

The Beauty of Minimalist Design

The Beauty of Minimalist Design

Minimalism. The term is pretty divisive. Some think it’s a bunch of self-serving nonsense – a fancy label for a convoluted lifestyle design. Others swear by the principle, drastically improving…

A Review of Web Design Trends from 2010

A Review of Web Design Trends from 2010

The past year has shown us some magnificent growth in the web sector. Design innovation can be seen everywhere as the community of both web designers and application developers is…

Creating User-Sensitive Website Layouts

Creating User-Sensitive Website Layouts

Web designers are largely responsible for curating new trends in layouts and graphic design for the web. This part of the job description is often masked behind a thin veil…

How to Choose the Right CMS for Your Small Business

How to Choose the Right CMS for Your Small Business

The web is littered with articles comparing CMSs and highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of each. Though helpful at the time, these articles can quickly become outdated and may, through…

How to Design a Mobile Stylesheet for Your Website

How to Design a Mobile Stylesheet for Your Website

It seems mobile is becoming more powerful with the younger tech audience. More kids and young adults are carrying around smartphones than in any other time period ever before. Each…

Elements of Ugly Web Design – Navigation Animated Gifs

Elements of Ugly Web Design – Navigation Animated Gifs

Of course, you will remember them; they were that horrible, poorly-designed navigation icons you would have seen everywhere on the internet. They were the days when graphic and web design…

Professional Structure & Documentation in Web Design

Professional Structure & Documentation in Web Design

As designers, we don’t commonly think in terms of structure. Unfortunately, this can cause problems in design projects, both personal and freelance, as organizational issues rise up and bubble through…

What the Future of Cloud Computing Means for Web Designers

What the Future of Cloud Computing Means for Web Designers

Cloud computing is an emerging technology that is revolutionizing the way we interact with the web. The ability to hold information anywhere across the world through multiple servers provides tools…

How To Control Flow Within Your Web Designs

How To Control Flow Within Your Web Designs

Think of your favorite song. In all likelihood the sound rises and falls throughout, the pace quickens and slows, and the rhythm and melody lead you to hear chords and…

The Beginners Guide to Using Color in Web Design

The Beginners Guide to Using Color in Web Design