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Over the past year I’ve worked on improving the overall quality of leads from my portfolio site and I have a few thoughts that I’d like to share (and I’d love to get some feedback from other designers). I’m personally still a work in progress, so th
In the showcase below we present 40 creative out-of-the-box layouts which break the boring structure of typical 2- and 3-columned, boxed layouts. We have collected pure CSS-designs, CSS+JavaScript-layouts as well as Flash-designs. Most designs prese
A growing number of blogs are moving away from traditional blog layouts in favor of magazine-style themes; however, the layout and presentation of content has a major impact on visitors and there is no one-size-fits-all solution
In this article we present over 30 fresh free high-quality WordPress themes. All themes can be downloaded, customized and used for free — in personal or/and commercial projects. Please read license disclaimers carefully before using the theme in com
With just a few simple CSS tricks you can make a usual, boring web forms more effective and exciting
I love any kind of creativity and a good error page is not an exception.
Here you have the list of my 100 favorites error pages.
A list of 27 most refreshing summer illustrations and poster designs. You can see this collection to inspire you, to motivate you, to refresh you in the summer or maybe just for for and as a lover of creative artwork. But I am sure you will like the
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After scouring the internet I’ve compiled an inspirational roundup of my favourite cute character designs from a range of talented artists and illustrators
As clients increasingly ask for Wordpress implementation, learning PHP has become a requirement. I'm not alone in this endeavor. For those in the same boat, why not take the time and learn with me?
Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites. It is time once again to pool our information so as to begin sketching a true picture of the way our prof
This post showcases different styles, different ideas, different approaches to the illustration of a girl and a woman. Some examples are very funny, the other ones are very sad
We have decided to take a closer look at blog designs, analyze them and find out which design solutions are common and which solutions are not used at all.
When it comes to our CSS, we all agree that being bloated, slow, and messy are less than attractive traits—but the CSS used in enterprise-wide and mass-adopted web applications, or those with significant daily unique visitors or websites that demand
In simpler terms, jQuery allows you to turn ten lines of traditional Javascript code into two! Combine an enormous range of features with cross-platform compatibility and you have one robust framework. Before you know it, you'll be creating everythi
We continue the exploration of the offline world in search for that spark of inspiration. This time we are going to look at magazines. There are all sorts of them out there and some are better than others. I’ve tried to come up with an interesting m
Design blogs are becoming more and more popular. Here I highlight 30 logo designs that appear at the top of 30 familiar design blogs
Applying multiple CSS classes allows you to create reusable classes that can easily be mixed together on any HTML element without adding additional markup, thus saving you time and making your CSS more efficient and easier for your work colleagues t
Float is a CSS positioning property. If you are familiar with print design, you can think of it like an image in a layout where the text wraps around it as necessary.
In this article, you’ll find 23 excellent, print-ready cheat sheets for HTML/HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (including MooTools and jQuery).
Print stylesheets are an excellent way of providing refined content to your readers without having to maintain multiple versions of the site. They can be used to eliminate unnessecary content such as sidebar links, navigation and graphical content u
CSS allows you to create attractive navigation that, in reality, is no more than text -- text that can be marked up in such a way as to ensure that it's both accessible and understandable by all those who can't physically see your design, but still
YSlow by Yahoo! is a great little plugin for Firefox and Firebug. It looks at a page and uses Yahoo!’s Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site to tell you how to make the page load faster. At least that is the idea behind it. In practice, howev
In this unusually quirky and informative guest article Kelly Erickson* goes through some tips and examples on how to design for men and women - showing how to win them over and get referrals at the same time. A really unique article that I would hig
