Design
CSS3 and HTML5 Toolbox Starter
As designers and developers we tend to always be on the look out for awesome resources to add to our virtual toolboxes. With the web design landscape moving in the direction of CSS3 ...
IMHO
Developing the Strategy for Your Content: A Roundtable Wrap-up!
Earlier in the month we posed a question to our readers. We got some great responses to the query, and as the month wraps up, so does this discussion about the importance of content ...
Design
Inspiration Shift: Tilt-Shift Photos and Effects
With all of the various techniques and lenses that photographers use to create over the years in the development of their craft, we see many spring to the forefront of the industry ...
Design
Designing the Airwaves: Podcast’s Part in Design
One powerful outlet that many designers have been turning to over the recent years, which in turn has allowed for a further evolution of the design community and conversation, is ...
Tips, Tricks & Tutorials
Speeding Up WordPress
Whether you’re using WordPress as a CMS, a blog or somewhere between the two, as a portfolio site, making sure your site runs quickly is absolutely paramount in this day and age. ...
Business Online
Distraction Management: How To NOT Procrastinate or Get Distracted
Whenever we are working on a design, facing a deadline, it is of the utmost importance that we stay on track and power through til the end. Doing whatever is necessary to keep us ...
Essentials
Freebie: Blog-O-Folio WordPress Theme Version 1.0
Blog-O-Folio is a free 2 column Wordpress Theme suitable for any and all of your corporate, portfolio or personal blog needs. With a wide variety of tunable theme options and ...
Inspiration
What Color Is Your Money? Showcase of Bank Websites Worldwide
Having lived and worked in various countries during the past 15 years, I have accumulated quite a few different bank accounts. On any given day, some of us may actually need to log ...
Design
How to Create a Glamorous Portrait Using Adobe Illustrator
Today we're going to show you a detailed step-by-step guide on how to create a glamorous portrait using a stock reference. The final result will be 100% vector; therefore will ...
Apps
Choosing the Right Tools for Your Mobile Project
Mobile web browsing is the next big thing. At least that's what the pundits say. Recent data shows there are about 4 billion mobile users (almost half the planet) (source). In 2011, ...
IMHO
Community Roundtable: How Important is Content Strategy on Your Sites?
Ask nearly any blogger or website runner and they will tell you that content is king. We hear it all the time. However, still many of the design and development community ignore any ...
Business Online
Useful Tools for Making Your Life Online Easier
We are on a constant hunt to find some cool and useful tools for our readers all the time. In this endeavor today we have collected some interesting apps as well as websites and ...
Essentials
Free HTML/CSS/PSD Template: TemplatesBox
Getting the right look for your client's projects, as well as your own, is one of the key make or break elements to your website creations. When users land on a site, an immediate ...
Inspiration
Showcase of Excellent Graphic Email Newsletter Designs
Sending email newsletters is an effective way of marketing and communicating with your clients and customers, and can serve you best when designed properly to attract potential ...
Essentials
A Crash Course in Typography: Pulling It All Together
In the first three parts of this series, we covered a lot of information about the anatomy of a typeface, and what kinds of things to look for when actually combining two fonts. ...
Essentials
A Crash Course in Typography: Principles for Combining Typefaces
When combining typefaces, there are a couple of important principles you'll need to keep in mind, namely contrast and mood. Effectively combining typefaces is a skill best learned ...