How WordPress Changed My Career

How WordPress Changed My Career

WordPress

Back when I started my career as a web designer (circa 1996), the main idea of having a website was to, well, have one. In those days, most businesses weren’t…

10 Essential Plugins for WordPress Beginners

10 Essential Plugins for WordPress Beginners

WordPress

WordPress’s extensibility, courtesy of its large plugin library, is one of the primary causes for its rapid spread as the platform of choice for web development across the internet –…

Website Navigation Trends for Various Layouts

Website Navigation Trends for Various Layouts

UX Design

There are always some key aspects in designing a website which you have to give full attention. Site navigation is one of these important features which is found in every…

Using Web Design to Solve Creative Problems

Using Web Design to Solve Creative Problems

Web Design

Our modern technology has come about from centuries of human evolution. Even before computers we were using cars to get around and radio/television to broadcast media across large areas of…

A Quick Guide to Mobile App Usability Testing

A Quick Guide to Mobile App Usability Testing

UX Design

The launch of the iPhone in 2007 ushered in a revolution in computing that placed apps at the center of the mobile experience. The ubiquity of Apple’s iTunes store, and…

Collaboration Done Right – Eight Tools to Help

Collaboration Done Right – Eight Tools to Help

Web Design

It’s a good time to run a small business: the choices in terms of collaborative software are immense, with costs often just a fraction of enterprise grade offerings. A slew…

Are Website Builders and Ready-made Templates a Competitor to Designers

Are Website Builders and Ready-made Templates a Competitor to Designers

Web Design

We all admire technological advancements that make our life easier. After all, this is what drives progress. However, when these technology advancements hurt our business, we tend to hate and…

From Zero to Thriving Career: Getting Clients as a New Designer

From Zero to Thriving Career: Getting Clients as a New Designer

Freelance

Success as a freelance designer depends on the designer’s ability to build up a reputation for quality work and a long stream of loyal clients. A central tenet to landing…

Five Alternative Careers for Designers

Five Alternative Careers for Designers

Freelance

All these alternative careers for designers are Web-related and presumably it will be easier for you to make the switch but of course, if you are totally fed up with…

Bing & Google Recommend Responsive Web Design

Bing & Google Recommend Responsive Web Design

News

With so many conflicting views in the SEO community as to whether it is best to design a separate mobile site or make your site responsive, I thought I should…

The Zen Den – Amplifying Productivity (Developer Edition)

The Zen Den – Amplifying Productivity (Developer Edition)

Freelance

Productivity is a matter of habits. A developer-centric approach should seek to maximize it without impinging on the unique demands of a ‘programmer’s lifestyle’. Productivity tips that might apply for…

Important Tips for Managing a New Tech Startup

Important Tips for Managing a New Tech Startup

Web Design

The tech scene has recently seen booming innovation more than we’ve ever seen before. Startups inside the industry are full of young talent searching for an audience. And it’s no…

The ICO Amends the EU Cookie Law to Allow ‘Implied Consent’

The ICO Amends the EU Cookie Law to Allow ‘Implied Consent’

News

At the last minute, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has decided to dilute an already watery law. Last Thursday, among the last minute amendments to the law, legislators added…

How to Rearrange Content When it’s Too Wide with jQuery

How to Rearrange Content When it’s Too Wide with jQuery

CSS / JavaScript

From its humble beginnings more than 25 years ago to the omnipresent behemoth it is today, the web has always been changing. Recently, the explosion in the popularity of mobiles…

How Developers can Take Advantage of Social Media

How Developers can Take Advantage of Social Media

Marketing

Working in web development has a much different feel than graphics design. The work is more task-oriented and requires a higher level of concentration and detail, not to mention bug…

10 Evergreen Web Layouts That Will Never Go Out of Style

10 Evergreen Web Layouts That Will Never Go Out of Style

Inspiration

Few professions demand greater talent, experience, and flexibility than web design. Not only do you have to deal with constantly evolving customer demands, you have to deal with constantly evolving…

Creating a Mobile Web Application with Meta Tags

Creating a Mobile Web Application with Meta Tags

UI Design

Advancing trends for the mobile web are slowly blurring the line between Internet websites and native applications. Lately there have been many updates to mobile operating systems and web browsers…

Coding the Digg v4 Layout with HTML5 and CSS3

Coding the Digg v4 Layout with HTML5 and CSS3

CSS
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