Designing a Website Around Your Products

Designing a Website Around Your Products

Branded website design is ultimately centered around two things: product and audience. Meaning, the site’s design needs to effectively showcase products in a way that will resonate with the target…

Cut Your Page’s Loading Time In Half With Some Simple jQuery

Cut Your Page’s Loading Time In Half With Some Simple jQuery

It is a popular trend at the moment to use almost full-page high-resolution super-large images on your portfolio, which does work effectively as it focuses the user on your best…

Pure CSS from Yahoo! A Minimal & Lightweight Set of CSS Modules

Pure CSS from Yahoo! A Minimal & Lightweight Set of CSS Modules

Yahoo! has recently and quietly released Pure CSS, an ultra light-weight and responsive set of CSS modules that you can employ in your web projects very quickly. Maybe not as…

Why Is This Here? Why You See Weird Prices Online

Why Is This Here? Why You See Weird Prices Online

Pricing isn’t an art anymore. It’s a science with some well-documented and researched principles on how people think and compare when offered multiple options. Here’s the good news: although pricing…

How to Create Amazing Page Effects with jQuery UI

How to Create Amazing Page Effects with jQuery UI

If you’re familiar with developing JavaScript, then you must know about jQuery. It’s an extremely powerful library that allows you to write much simpler code and express the same result….

Getting Smarter: How Changing Your Mindset Can Help Your Web Design Goals

Getting Smarter: How Changing Your Mindset Can Help Your Web Design Goals

Imagine you had a child who just finished learning addition and subtraction. You gave him a math task at home to test his skills and he solved the task successfully!…

End of an Era: Adobe Pulls the Plug on Fireworks

End of an Era: Adobe Pulls the Plug on Fireworks

If you are a user of the popular UI design and prototyping tool Adobe Fireworks, this will greatly concern you: At the recent MAX conference, Adobe announced their next generation…

Landing Page Design Trends for Selling Digital Products

Landing Page Design Trends for Selling Digital Products

Web designers and developers have been practicing the art of landing page layouts for over a decade. The refined techniques we use in modern websites have been crafted from years…

Designers & Developers, Why Can We Not Just Get Along?

Designers & Developers, Why Can We Not Just Get Along?

Here’s a question that has been talked about many times, usually resulting in both sides coming away feeling angry and misunderstood. Why can’t developers and designers get along? Now, obviously…

Drupal 8: With Symfony on-board, will it create wonders?

Drupal 8: With Symfony on-board, will it create wonders?

Drupal 8 is in the works, and is scheduled for release towards the end of this year. So, what can you expect from the latest and possibly greatest version of?…

Sleek and Greasy – The UX of Fast Food Homepages

Sleek and Greasy – The UX of Fast Food Homepages

No matter how you slice it, the crux of the fast food industry is cheap, unhealthy food served fast. Marketing campaigns have been launched to convince patrons to wait a…

Team Collaboration for Building with Open Source Code

Team Collaboration for Building with Open Source Code