Tools, Tips and Tricks for a Blazing Fast Website

Tools, Tips and Tricks for a Blazing Fast Website

Who does not want a fast website? After all, most Internet users are an impatient lot. If your website does not load at a satisfactory rate, you will end up…

Exploring the Latest Trends in Web Typography

Exploring the Latest Trends in Web Typography

In the early days of the web, typography tended to be an afterthought. Come to think it, how could it have been anything more? There were just a few standard…

How to Create an Interactive US Map Using jQuery & FusionCharts

How to Create an Interactive US Map Using jQuery & FusionCharts

jQuery is no doubt one of the most popular JavaScript libraries. According to Libscore, around 70% of the top one million websites use jQuery. So there is a good chance…

How to Create Your First JavaScript Chart

How to Create Your First JavaScript Chart

In one form or the other, data visualization seems to come up quite often in the work life of a designer or a front-end developer. Be it an analytics dashboard…

Tips for Wireframing a Usable Mobile App UI

Tips for Wireframing a Usable Mobile App UI

A lot of time and energy is required to build mobile iOS/Android apps. Aside from the coding and UI design you need to plan functionality ahead of time. This way…

Is Drupal Good for Design?

Is Drupal Good for Design?

Drupal has a reputation for being strong in functionality and having a strong community, but weak when it comes to design. In deciding which cms to use, it is important…

10 Key Ways to Secure a Typical WordPress Installation

10 Key Ways to Secure a Typical WordPress Installation

In over a decade, WordPress has evolved from a fledgling content management system to the most-used solution online. This notoriety, generally speaking, is good for the entire community and has…

The 5 Most Overused Design Elements You Should Retire

The 5 Most Overused Design Elements You Should Retire

Everybody has their design pet peeves. Some of them are pretty universal. We have all cringed when opening the website of an otherwise respectable company only to find that the…

What Direct Response Marketers Can Teach You About Designing Pages That Sell

What Direct Response Marketers Can Teach You About Designing Pages That Sell

Direct mail marketers – and increasingly, designers – live and die by results. If the design is beautiful, but doesn’t sell – it’s scrapped. If the copy’s clever, but doesn’t…

Sketch.app & Craft: A Match Made in Real Data Heaven

Sketch.app & Craft: A Match Made in Real Data Heaven

Sketch has just made a new best friend, and it’s called Craft. In the past I’ve been a great advocate of a couple of Sketch plugins that have saved me…

Improve Productivity by Properly Organizing Your Folders in Photoshop

Improve Productivity by Properly Organizing Your Folders in Photoshop

In the digital world, organising files is an essential part of efficiency. This practice even goes down to the smallest details, like organising every Photoshop layer and each line of…

Custom Web Design Is the Way of the Future, Not a Relic of the Past

Custom Web Design Is the Way of the Future, Not a Relic of the Past