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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.

Things You Have to Consider When Designing for Mobile

Things You Have to Consider When Designing for Mobile

As designers, we will have to start thinking about mobile users by designing not only for desktops but also for smaller devices.

Rubber Layouts – Combining Static and Fluid Layouts

Rubber Layouts – Combining Static and Fluid Layouts

Many web pages nowadays are using fluid layouts. While these are very useful, they do have some minuses. Imagine trying to read a fluid layout on your phone – it’s…

Guidelines for Creating an Elegant Email Newsletter Layout

Guidelines for Creating an Elegant Email Newsletter Layout

Marketing is the lifeblood of the Internet industry. Running your own brand and corporation can be tiresome, not to mention extremely difficult. But with a powerful e-mail marketing campaign you…

Technostress – The Freelancers Disease?

Technostress – The Freelancers Disease?

The phrase Technostress is being bandied about all over the shop at the moment. The English Wikipedia defines it as: Technostress is, in many ways, the resistance to change that…

Useful Tools To Check Cross-Browser Compatibility Issues

Useful Tools To Check Cross-Browser Compatibility Issues

With today’s modern web it’s not uncommon for many visitors to be using a different browser. The options seem almost unlimited with Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, and of…

How to Build Credibility with Responsive Website Design

How to Build Credibility with Responsive Website Design

Website traffic is the key component to building any strong community. As web designers, we often forget about the user experience and focus on pretty graphics and pixel icons. However,…

Stop Thinking in Pages: A Web Developer’s Perspective

Stop Thinking in Pages: A Web Developer’s Perspective

In the early days of the web, when it consisted mostly of academic papers and newsletters, it made sense to call the things we built “pages”. It was a much…

Essential SEO Considerations For A New Website

Essential SEO Considerations For A New Website

So you are in the process of designing and developing a website and you want to adhere to the best SEO practices (good idea). There is a plethora of good…

Website Speed Part 2:  Working With and Optimizing Images for the Web

Website Speed Part 2: Working With and Optimizing Images for the Web

This is the second part the website speed series where we closely look at the techniques employed to make a website run as fast as possible while still maintaining it’s…

Building Up Your Web Design Education

Building Up Your Web Design Education

Walking the path of a web designer is one challenging road. There are many techniques to be studied, and the vast wealth of knowledge available can just slightly ease the…

Beginner’s Study Guide to HTML5 Microformats

Beginner’s Study Guide to HTML5 Microformats

For years the web has been a static development block for housing information. It hasn’t been up until recently that micro-format designs have been released into the semantic web. These…

Tips for Compromising Between Designers & Developers

Tips for Compromising Between Designers & Developers