Exploring Current Web Design Trends

Exploring Current Web Design Trends

The funny thing about current web design trends is that they are both helpful and detrimental. Trends set the standard for design elements and styles that are popular for a…

Showcase of Mix & Match Typography Websites

Showcase of Mix & Match Typography Websites

2014 popularized a typography style that we previously knew from fancy t-shirts rather than websites – mixing and matching several styles of fonts. The complex art of choosing the right…

A Quick Look at the Ghost Button

A Quick Look at the Ghost Button

Every year various design trends fade in and out of the community. In 2014, one of the dominant design trends to pass through the web design world has been the…

The Fantastic World Cup Posters from ESPN

The Fantastic World Cup Posters from ESPN

World Cup excitement is rising. Recently we came across (via Business Insider) the work of Brazilian artist Cristiano Siqueira who was hired by ESPN to design posters for all of…

10 Mind-Blowing Experimental CSS3 Techniques & Demos

10 Mind-Blowing Experimental CSS3 Techniques & Demos

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As CSS3 gathers momentum, more and more new techniques are being published every day. Each seems to explore exciting never seen before avenues, and ALL push the boundaries of CSS…

Retro-Style Poster Series of the World Cup Golden Ball Winners

Retro-Style Poster Series of the World Cup Golden Ball Winners

The next Fifa Football World Cup is just around the corner and fans are preparing themselves for the big event. The atmosphere has been building up for four years and…

The Redesigned World Cup Posters by James Taylor

The Redesigned World Cup Posters by James Taylor

With every FIFA World Cup we get to see the arrival of a brand new official poster. These World Cup posters have always been designed to represent the competition, by…

50 Inspirational Examples of Bright Colors in Web Design

50 Inspirational Examples of Bright Colors in Web Design

The web design examples below not only show no fear of using bright and powerful colors, but they are also all beautifully designed. They demonstrate that color, within the skilled…

Do Yourself and Everyone Else a Favor: Make Code Maintainable

Do Yourself and Everyone Else a Favor: Make Code Maintainable

Front end development is hard. You have to make something look great and also actually work well. Standards are constantly updated, browsers adopt those updates at different rates, and there…

Making Bad Feedback from Your Boss or Client Actionable

Making Bad Feedback from Your Boss or Client Actionable

Most designers work in non-design orientated cultures, where the majority of the people you work with do not have a core understanding of design principles. Believe me. I was one…

5 HTML5 Video Libraries, Toolkits and Players

5 HTML5 Video Libraries, Toolkits and Players

For the most part, Flash has always been the standard for showing video on the web (think of YouTube and Vimeo), supported in all browsers with the only exception being…

Investigation into a Freelancer’s Workday Schedule

Investigation into a Freelancer’s Workday Schedule

Working the realm of freelancing at times can provide a very rough work environment. Long hours in front of the computer, constant e-mail floods, and phone calls from clients all…

Working with Property Lists in Xcode 4.2

Working with Property Lists in Xcode 4.2

Property lists are designed specifically for Objective-C apps to store and retain data. These are straight XML files formatted for easy access to bundles and application resources. There isn’t anything…

12 Obscure WordPress Plugins You’ll Love

12 Obscure WordPress Plugins You’ll Love

Running your own WordPress website can be quite a chore. The internet’s premiere blogging platform has plenty of functionality built in, but to add something extra, you will have to…

Narrowing Your Focus and Taking on More Specialized Projects

Narrowing Your Focus and Taking on More Specialized Projects

Starting out as a freelance web designer often means taking whatever projects come our way. After all, we need to eat too (and a drink every now and then isn’t a…

What to Do When Your Graphic Design Client is Andy Pipkin

What to Do When Your Graphic Design Client is Andy Pipkin

Andy Pipkin tells his poor duped friend Lou that he wants tickets to the opera for his birthday. Its an unusual request, as Andy has been seen to have a…

20 Creative Personal Blog Web Designs for Inspiration

20 Creative Personal Blog Web Designs for Inspiration

As clearly and concisely defined by Wikipedia, a blog is ‘a personal journal published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete entries (“posts”)…’. But when you do read back…

Remarkable for Inspiration Examples of Steampunk in Web Design

Remarkable for Inspiration Examples of Steampunk in Web Design