Design
The Smashing Book: Buy Yours Now!
If you are interested in web design and web-development, you’ve got to buy the brand new Smashing Book. Created by the editorial team of Noupe and developed together with the ...
Design
Usability Testing Toolkit: Resources, Articles, and Techniques
Usability is paramount in creating a good website or web app. If your site isn’t user-friendly, the majority of visitors won’t come back, regardless of how good your content ...
Essentials
KnucklePuck Font – Exclusive Vector Font Download
By Graham Smith In this font exclusive, we present KnucklePuck, a modular display font created by Austin Roesberg. In my ongoing search for new fonts, I find myself writing to many font ...
Essentials
50+ Fresh CSS Techniques, Tutorials and Resources
Learning CSS and how to use it effectively can be a reasonably easy thing to do for a beginning web developer. In the hands of a seasoned professional, CSS can be stretched and pushed ...
Business Online
15 Helpful Blogs No Freelancer Should Forget
Compared to other professionals, freelancers seem to be a separate beast. They're even a different breed than the rest of the online community. They pay whatever costs are required to ...
Business Online
Ten Commandments of Social Media
By Robb Clarke There are a lot of misconceptions when it comes to social media. People seem to think that every day standards and decency get tossed out the window because of the ...
Business Online
How To Create The Perfect Client Questionnaire
Discovering what your clients really want is one of the most fundamental steps in creating a good working relationship. If you can figure out exactly what your clients want for their ...
Apps
50 Interactive Silverlight Applications
Microsoft Silverlight enables development of the next generation of Microsoft .NET-based media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIAs) for the Web. Silverlight is delivered ...
Inspiration
50 Fresh Interactive Studio and Social Media Agency Websites
By Catalin Zorzini As you might observe, social marketing is the new black. Tons of studies predict huge budgets for social media strategies from the top shots, so the agencies need to ...
Design
Web Design Trends: Testimonials Design
Testimonials from happy clients are an important part of any service business’s website, lending trustworthiness and experience to a business. Showing those testimonials in their ...
Inspiration
The Ultimate Ugly Showcase of Current Government Websites
Something a little different today: a showcase of government websites. The biggest difference between this showcase and others you see here at Noupe is obvious; the majority of the web ...
Apps
20 Free Mac Apps For Web Designer’s Toolkit
Professional web designers on the Mac platform rely on commercial heavy-hitters like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, and InDesign for their graphic design needs. And when ...
Design
Ultimate Guide To Grid-Based Web Design: Techniques and Tools
Grid-based layouts are generally more aesthetically pleasing and balanced than those not based on grids. While there are definitely great designs out there that don’t use a ...
Essentials
The Big Collection Of Free Design Textures
Knowing your resources is important in all aspects of design. You could be working on a new draft and realize you are missing one thing, texture. Textures are not always beautiful by ...
Design
Essential CSS/HTML Lists Styling Techniques
Certain elements in HTML lend themselves to many situations when marking up a website, one of the more useful of these elements is the HTML list. Using lists, a developer can markup ...
Design
The Future Of The Web: Where Will We Be In Five Years?
We’re approaching the end of 2009, and many people are wondering what the future will bring. While no one can predict for sure what the Internet holds in its future, there are ...