The Before & After Redesigns of Popular Design Blogs

The Before & After Redesigns of Popular Design Blogs

There’s a lot to be learned by looking at before and after shots of a website’s redesign. You get to see what the designer or design team has learned about…

A Showcase of 30 Creative Texture-Based Web Designs

A Showcase of 30 Creative Texture-Based Web Designs

In the past, web design has impressed us with its shiny gradients, smooth expressions, and simple and bold colors. But the use of textures within the design has never really…

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…

Six Questions to Ask Before You Start a New Project

Six Questions to Ask Before You Start a New Project

I have been a designer for about thirteen years, and most of my business during the past two years has come from new clients. Many have been new up-start businesses,…

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…

Essential Help & FAQ Usability Tips

Essential Help & FAQ Usability Tips

A FAQ – frequently asked questions – should be an important part of your website or service. They speed up the help for your users by not waiting for a…

Complex Captchas Might Hurt Your Subscriber List

Complex Captchas Might Hurt Your Subscriber List

There is a chance that complex captchas are ruining your efforts to build a subscriber list, especially if you are using the free Feedburner RSS to Email service. After all,…

Existing vs. New Clients – Who Should Get the Bigger Share of Your Attention?

Existing vs. New Clients – Who Should Get the Bigger Share of Your Attention?

Many business owners, nowadays, are of the view that when you understand your client, you have them hooked up with your product of service forever. However, in my views, knowing…

Signup Form Usability & Design Best Practices

Signup Form Usability & Design Best Practices

Honest usability techniques when applied properly will expand your site layouts beyond the elite in web design. When you can open your mind to new ideas it’s possible to manifest…

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,…

User Interface Case Study of Flash Video Players

User Interface Case Study of Flash Video Players

Flash technology has overtaken the web by storm. Many designers and app developers have been utilizing Flash since it was created by Macromedia in 1996. Today modern standards have been…

How to Promote Your Freelance Business with Social Media

How to Promote Your Freelance Business with Social Media

With the many privatized design agencies, it’s common to see freelancers growing in numbers. Illustrators and digital artists are among the most prominent freelancers in graphics and design work. It…

5 Tips to Optimize your Content while Keeping it User-Friendly

5 Tips to Optimize your Content while Keeping it User-Friendly

If you were to ask any blogger what the most important thing is when it comes to running a successful blog, chances are that the answer would be “good content”….

Free Multimedia Icon Set (14 Icons in PNG & SVG Formats)

Free Multimedia Icon Set (14 Icons in PNG & SVG Formats)

The free set is called the ‘Multimedia Icon Set’ and, as the name suggests, contains 14 multimedia icons in both PNG and AI formats.

Stop Thinking in Pages: A Web Developer’s Perspective

Stop Thinking in Pages: A Web Developer’s Perspective