Design
10 Things Clients Look For In a Design Portfolio
By Thursday Bram There’s no formula for a perfect portfolio. There’s no format that’s guaranteed to land you clients, as long as you follow it. However, there are ...
Essentials
Free Saint Valentine’s Day Icon Set
Today we are glad to release Valentine’s Icon Set, a set with 10 free icons in resolutions 32×32px, 48×48px, 128×128px and 150×150px in formats .ico, .png and .icns. This set was ...
Photography
35 Photos of Truly Adorable Animals in Snow
While some animals hibernate in the winter and prefer to sun themselves during the warmer months, other animals are perfectly comfortable with the snow and offer photographers plenty of ...
Design
Everything You Need to Know About Image Compression
Proper use of image compression can make a huge difference in the appearance and size of your website image files. But compression is an often-misunderstood topic, partly because ...
Inspiration
Stunning Infographics and Data Visualization
Information graphics, or infographics, are visual representations of information, data or knowledge. The graphics are used where complex information needs to be explained quickly and ...
Design
An Explosion of Adobe Fireworks Resources
An often overlooked member of the Adobe Creative Suite is Adobe Fireworks. This application software can be used to create vectors, design application interfaces, digital artwork, and ...
Business Online
5 Simple Tips for Improving Designer-Client Relationships
By Aaron Griffith Good business relationships rarely just happen. While a smitten designer and their starry-eyed client may start out well with a “honeymoon” of a successful ...
Essentials
Free and Commercial Script Fonts
Searching for new fonts, whether they be serif, sans-serif or script fonts can take a ridiculously long time – time that should probably be spent working. This round-up showcases ...
Inspiration
40 Insane Ice Sculptures
Ice sculpture is a beautiful yet temporary art form. Countless hours went into many of these amazing creations only to have them melt away. Luckily, they’re preserved through ...
Development
45 jQuery Navigation Plugins and Tutorials
By Paul Andrew As many of us know, the initial 15-20 seconds of a new user’s visit to a web site will have a large impact on whether on not they are going to like or dislike the ...
Design
Tips for Coding and Designing Usable Web Forms
By Louis Lazaris The web form has been one of the most discussed elements in web design for more than ten years now. We can’t help it. Call-to-action functionality often leads ...
Photography
35 Truly Dramatic Examples of Animal Photography
Sometimes we take wildlife pictures that we see in books and magazines for granted; seldom does it give you the impressions that they were taken easily. The truth is, photographing ...
Essentials
40 Valuable Tools and Resources For Web Designers
Web development can be tricky and time-consuming. To be more effective and productive, we, designers and developers, can integrate useful tools in our daily routine. Also, handy ...
Design
Fantastic Information Architecture and Data Visualization Resources
Information architecture can be a daunting subject for designers who’ve never tried it before. Also, creating successful infographics and visualizations takes skill and practice, ...
Business Online
The Complete Guide to Getting the Most Out of Twitter
We’ve all heard of Twitter at this point, and I would be the majority of our readers are already using it. But that doesn’t mean we’re all using it in the most ...
Business Online
How to Make Yourself Stand Out as a Freelancer
The cybersea is full of freelancers all out to make their mark and their money to keep their freelance fires burning. With an abundance of opportunity pouring in to the market, ...