How to Promote Your Freelance Business with Social Media

How to Promote Your Freelance Business with Social Media

Freelance

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

UX Design

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)

Icon Sets / UI Design

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

Web Design

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…

40 Amazing Papercraft Templates for the Geek Inside You

40 Amazing Papercraft Templates for the Geek Inside You

Design / Freelance

When considering papercraft, your first thought will most likely be of all that boring stuff you made in school, like paper flowers, printable seasonal cards or even scrap-booking. It doesn’t…

Essential SEO Considerations For A New Website

Essential SEO Considerations For A New Website

Web Design

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…

The Difference Between Runtime & Compile Time Errors

The Difference Between Runtime & Compile Time Errors

JavaScript

The First step before delving into the difference between runtime and compile time errors is the need to establish a few base concepts. Not every language compiles and actually most…

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

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

Web Design

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

Web Design

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…

What is the Preferred Operating Systems of Designers?

What is the Preferred Operating Systems of Designers?

Design / Freelance

The ever-changing culture of web design has grown into a wild array of sub-standards. Over 20 years now, designers from all over the world have contributed their brilliant ideas to…

Discussing the Pros & Cons of Using a CSS Framework

Discussing the Pros & Cons of Using a CSS Framework

CSS

A CSS framework is a piece of software that has a lot of options for you to use in your HTML development, potentially making it faster and easier for you…

How to Write More Efficient CSS to Speed up Your Site

How to Write More Efficient CSS to Speed up Your Site

CSS

As part of my new position as CTO of Speckyboy, I’ve decided to write a series of articles that will help you understand what it takes to make a truly…

IE6 is Finally Being Laid to Rest

IE6 is Finally Being Laid to Rest

News

WOOHOO! IE6 is officially being put out of its misery by its makers Microsoft and you can help in their efforts by adding the countdown banner for IE6 clients. This…

Tips for Converting Your Freelance Operation into a Business

Tips for Converting Your Freelance Operation into a Business

Freelance

Having spoken with many freelance web and graphic designers over the years, I can say I have heard some extraordinary tales. The path from freelancer to single business is an…

Thoughts on why Spec Work is Bad and Why You Shouldn’t Do It

Thoughts on why Spec Work is Bad and Why You Shouldn’t Do It

Freelance

Speculative, or ‘Spec”’, work is in hot debate at the moment in the design industry. Design contest websites in particular have created a furore of debate over freelancers working initially…

Beginner’s Study Guide to HTML5 Microformats

Beginner’s Study Guide to HTML5 Microformats

Web Design

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

Freelance / Web Design

In the real world, designers and developers are constantly battling it out over projects. Between two lighthearted developers are the crew who simply make the website work while designers add…

Do We Do Enough to Support WordPress Plugin Developers?

Do We Do Enough to Support WordPress Plugin Developers?

WordPress
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