Guide to Building Quality Digital Products for the Web

Guide to Building Quality Digital Products for the Web

There are many premium shops and marketplaces to be found all around the Internet. Usually, these are popular vendors who sell various types of digital products – e-books, website templates,…

Is Web Design a Dying Trade or Can it Still be a Viable Career Option?

Is Web Design a Dying Trade or Can it Still be a Viable Career Option?

Yes, web design is dying. It died a few years ago, it is dying now, and it will die again in the future. What does this mean? To put it…

The Minimalist Trend in Graphic Design

The Minimalist Trend in Graphic Design

Our rendering technology is unthinkable, yet we still study Mondrian. Great minimalist work is striking, elegant, and classic. Within the colorful world of advertising, a minimalist ad stands out from…

Adapting Mobile Web Usability for Ad Content Blockers

Adapting Mobile Web Usability for Ad Content Blockers

Advertisements can be a critical source of revenue for content publishers, but increasingly ads are being shown in obnoxious and intrusive ways. And as many users are learning, their privacy…

CSS3 Compatibility Tools for Internet Explorer

CSS3 Compatibility Tools for Internet Explorer

CSS3 is the coolest thing to happen to web design in a long, long time. With all of its incredible new properties, border-radius, box-shadow, border-image, transform to name just a…

20 Examples of Fullscreen Responsive Menus for Inspiration

20 Examples of Fullscreen Responsive Menus for Inspiration

We’ve covered responsive navigation a number of times over the last couple of years, from off-canvas reveals and nested accordions, to the simpler <select> drop-down menu system. There really are…

Subtle UI – User Interface Improvements That Aren’t as Obvious

Subtle UI – User Interface Improvements That Aren’t as Obvious

Sometimes the best user interface elements are the ones we barely notice. They’re so subtle, so masterfully crafted, that we don’t even recognize how much thought, care and attention has…

A History Lesson on the Rise and Fall of Adobe Flash

A History Lesson on the Rise and Fall of Adobe Flash

The long history of Flash has proven to be an interesting journey. Mostly all Internet users are familiar with the Flash Player plugin which, along with Adobe Reader, is constantly…

The Business Impact of the Mobile Web’s Phenomenal Growth

The Business Impact of the Mobile Web’s Phenomenal Growth

At the end of 2014, it became official: comScore reported that 60% of all online activities are now done using mobile devices by people across the planet. The stats are…

The Proper Definition of Infographic Design

The Proper Definition of Infographic Design

We are well and truly in the age of the online infographic. Or are we? These colourful ‘data visualizations’ of information have flooded the internet in numbers; however, there’s many…

Repeat Work and the Search For The Holy Grail

Repeat Work and the Search For The Holy Grail

We as freelancers, spend a certain amount of our time worrying about where our next job will come from. We probably worry more about future clients than perhaps about our…

Building Modular JavaScript Projects with RequireJS

Building Modular JavaScript Projects with RequireJS