Your Guide to Becoming a Freelance Web Designer

Your Guide to Becoming a Freelance Web Designer

Your Guide to Becoming a Freelance Web Designer has been written to help both those who are thinking of a freelance career and those who already have one. It’s a…

Bootstrap Version 3 Has Been Released!

Bootstrap Version 3 Has Been Released!

Twitter Bootstrap, the powerful framework that is loved by developers all around the world, has just a couple of days ago taken the first step towards a major upgrade. The…

Finding The Best WordPress Plugins for Your Website

Finding The Best WordPress Plugins for Your Website

As of this writing, there are currently well over 25,000 plugins listed at WordPress.org’s Plugin Directory. While that ensures that you have a lot of choices, it doesn’t necessarily make…

Cut Your Page’s Loading Time In Half With Some Simple jQuery

Cut Your Page’s Loading Time In Half With Some Simple jQuery

It is a popular trend at the moment to use almost full-page high-resolution super-large images on your portfolio, which does work effectively as it focuses the user on your best…

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…

Why Is This Here? Why You See Weird Prices Online

Why Is This Here? Why You See Weird Prices Online

Pricing isn’t an art anymore. It’s a science with some well-documented and researched principles on how people think and compare when offered multiple options. Here’s the good news: although pricing…

How to Create Amazing Page Effects with jQuery UI

How to Create Amazing Page Effects with jQuery UI

If you’re familiar with developing JavaScript, then you must know about jQuery. It’s an extremely powerful library that allows you to write much simpler code and express the same result….

The Inevitable But Annoying Rise of Bing

The Inevitable But Annoying Rise of Bing

We all hoped it’d fail, but it looks like Bing is here to stay. Like everything Microsoft seems to do, it became popular without anyone really knowing why, and being…

Why Best Practices in Conversion Rate Optimization Aren’t Always Best

Why Best Practices in Conversion Rate Optimization Aren’t Always Best

Intuition: it’s really a wonderful thing. Sometimes it can ‘show us the way’ and will lead us to make the right decisions. But sometimes, it’s so flawed that we wonder…

“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…

Happy Birthday WordPress – Ten Years Old Today!

Happy Birthday WordPress – Ten Years Old Today!

It was in 2003 that the first version of WordPress came out. It did not have many things to brag about back then — there is not much a blogging…

Are Your Forms Converting? How to A/B Test Your Forms

Are Your Forms Converting? How to A/B Test Your Forms

Are your forms converting? Have you tested them? How would you even go about testing the effectiveness of your forms? Well, it’s quite easy with A/B Testing, which is a…

Getting Smarter: How Changing Your Mindset Can Help Your Web Design Goals

Getting Smarter: How Changing Your Mindset Can Help Your Web Design Goals

Imagine you had a child who just finished learning addition and subtraction. You gave him a math task at home to test his skills and he solved the task successfully!…

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…

Landing Page Design Trends for Selling Digital Products

Landing Page Design Trends for Selling Digital Products

Web designers and developers have been practicing the art of landing page layouts for over a decade. The refined techniques we use in modern websites have been crafted from years…

The Science of Buttons: How to Get People to Click

The Science of Buttons: How to Get People to Click

“The button”- the online heart of every campaign and landing page and the final gateway to lead generation. A call to action button plays a central role in convincing visitors…

Designers & Developers, Why Can We Not Just Get Along?

Designers & Developers, Why Can We Not Just Get Along?