2010/09/07

Somedays when I am having a bad day or dealing with a ‘client from hell’ which can really stress me out I browse some of the quotes submitted at Clients from Hell and it makes me think that maybe it’s not so bad. After all they do pay the bills (even if they don’t always pay on time!)...

2010/08/23

The table below shows the 104 elements currently in the HTML5 working draft and two proposed elements (marked with an asterisk).

2010/07/02

Search and download free icons

2010/03/10

Website mimicking Amiga Workbench, very cool.

2010/03/05

Internet Explorer Six, resident of the interwebs for over 8 years, died the morning of March 1, 2010 in Mountain View, California, as a result of a workplace injury sustained at the headquarters of Google, Inc. Internet Explorer Six, known to friends and family as "IE6," is survived by son Internet Explorer Seven, and grand-daughter Internet Explorer Eight. Thanks to all who came out last night, and thanks Microsoft for sending flowers!...

2009/12/05

Please design a logo for me. With pie charts. For free.

2009/09/27

A lot of websites use Javascript Carousel to showcase its products, portfolio and also as a image gallery. I have collected 14 Javascript Carousel made with jQuery, Mootool, Prototype and Yahoo Framework and I am sure you will be able to find one that suits you....

2009/09/25

I thought I’d list a few helpful papers I use from time to time when going about my usability work. Some of these you may have heard of, some not. I think you’ll find these very helpful from time to time. This list is not meant to be comprehensive, rather, it’s the list of the most thumb-worn papers I leaf through when needed. They are all free, and are publicly available....

2009/06/09

2009/06/09

Even the tiniest amount of empirical facts (say, observing 2 users) vastly improves the probability of making correct UI design decisions.

2009/06/08

There is no offi­cial stan­dard for what makes some­thing “Web 2.0”, but there cer­tainly are a few tell-​tale signs. These new sites usu­ally fea­ture modern web tech­nolo­gies like Ajax and often have some­thing to do with build­ing online com­mu­ni­ties. But even more char­ac­ter­is­tic among these brands is their appear­ance. Web 2.0 sites nearly always feel open and friendly and often use small chunks of large type. The colors are bright and cheery — lots of blue, orange, and what we jok­ingly call the Offi­cial Color of Web 2.0: lime green....

2009/06/08

This web 2.0 text logo tutorial was made for beginners as well as intermediate users, ill be doing it step by step and try not to skip anything so expect it too be long and easy!

2009/05/20

In this article, we’ll discuss 8 useful layout solutions and techniques that will help you create a clean and organized content layout. The 8 techniques include sliders, tabs, progressive layouts, structured grids, modal windows, rollover elements, accordions and mega drop-down-menus....

2009/05/11

2009/05/04

A great looking portfolio site is crucial for any designer to instantly present their work to potential clients or employers. A simple, single page site can do this effectively by displaying three key features of large header with short introduction, examples of your work and methods of contact all in one, extremely browsable page. Let’s take a look at producing a single page portfolio concept in Photoshop, constructing the page in XHTML/CSS and adding some fancy functionality with jQuery....

2009/05/02

The WSJ reports that the controversial practice of framing seems to be making a comeback on the Web. Big sites like Digg, Facebook, Ask.com and StumbleUpon have all begun framing links recently, joining the likes of Google, which employs the technique for Image Search. Long ago, Jakob Nielsen argued that 'frames break the fundamental user model of the web page,' but, today's practitioners contend, 'it's a feature, not a bug,' and say it provides publishers with massive distribution they wouldn't otherwise have....

2009/05/02

2009/04/30

In a tag cloud, tags which are used more frequently are displayed in a bigger font size. The font size used to depict a tag is a function of the number of times it is used. The simplest implementation is to use a linear function to map the frequency of use of a tag to its font-size in the tag cloud....

2009/04/24

GeoCities, a free Web hosting service that achieved fame in the mid-90s, died Thursday at the Yahoo headquarters in Silicon Valley. GeoCities was 15 years old.

2009/04/06

As we see more and more businesses move their services online, and even more that begin their life on the Web, a greater need arises for websites that are designed and built to sell. A great-looking website may achieve the goal of shaping and delivering a strong brand, but its good looks alone aren’t enough to sell the products or services on offer. For that, you need to introduce the element of marketing....

2009/04/04

Mega drop-down menus are a relatively new phenomenon but I predict they will be everywhere within six months.

2009/03/29

List of 50 free icon sets.

2009/03/24

Many rejected templates here on Themeforest suffer from the same few common mistakes: typography (font, line-height, letter-spacing, color), alignment (grid), and spacing (padding). In this tutorial, we are going to take a closer look at how to avoid these common errors....

2009/03/24

Here are ten of some of the most underused and misunderstood tags in HTML. While they might be less familiar, they're still quite useful in certain situations.

2009/03/24

In this post, global name and address data quality expert, Graham Rhind, presents some of the expensive failings of web form design. He also offers some sage advice for reducing the dependency on downstream scrap and rework activities in order to create fit-for-purpose data....

2009/03/17

In this post I want to suggest you a list of some interesting scripts you can use to plot easily charts (line, area, pie, bar...) in your web pages using jQuery, MooTools, Prototype and other JS frameworks.

2009/03/11

Over the years I have picked up a number of sales techniques that have lead to us doing pretty well in the pitches we go for. Of course, up until now, these top secret practices have remained firmly locked in the company vault but now I am going to share them with you. They are cunningly hidden within the following paragraphs so I’m afraid you’re going to have to read the whole thing....

2009/03/02

Crowd Science Demographics is a new analytics service that builds detailed reports on the demographics and attitudes of website audiences. By surveying a small number visitors with carefully constructed questionnaires, Crowd Science Demographics is able to build comprehensive profiles that give publishers a deep understanding of their audience....

2009/02/27

Content Management Comparison Tool

2009/02/23

Since Web Designer Wall launched, I’ve been featuring a lot of graphic intense websites such as the artistic, large background, vintage, and illustrative styles. Now it is time to feature the minimalist design. Here is a massive list of 50 minimal sites. See how designers use minimal elements to create high visual impact — less is more....

2009/02/11

Piwik is a downloadable, open source (GPL licensed) web analytics software program. It provides you with detailed reports on your website visitors: the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages… and so much more....

2009/02/08

Over the past twenty-five years, people have weathered dramatic changes in their experience of time, space, matter, and identity. Individuals cope daily with a multitude of changes in scale and pace—working across several time zones, traveling with relative ease between satellite maps and nanoscale images, and being inundated with information. Adaptability is an ancestral distinction of intelligence, but today’s instant variations in rhythm call for something stronger: elasticity, the product of adaptability plus acceleration. Design and the Elastic Mind explores the reciprocal relationship between science and design in the contemporary world by bringing together design objects and concepts that marry the most advanced scientific research with attentive consideration of human limitations, habits, and aspirations. The exhibition highlights designers’ ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and history—changes that demand or reflect major adjustments in human behavior—...

2009/02/06

In this articles I want to illustrate a simplified top-down process to estimate times and costs of a web process using a simple spreadsheet (in this example I used Google Spreadsheets but if you prefer you can use Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice Spreadsheet or a free online service such as Zoho or EditGrid)....

2009/02/05

Content Management Systems have become one the internet’s most powerful web developer tools since PHP. In a market where websites need to be built faster and easier, many developers are turning to Open Source CMS to get the job done. Unfortunately there are now thousands of CMS’s floating around the web and finding the right one has become somewhat of an ordeal. This article will discuss how developers can find the right CMS for any occasion and will give a review of some of the best CMS’s I have discovered, as well as recommendations on which CMS to avoid like the plague....

2009/02/04

Tools to test website performance.

2009/02/04

For the most part, we never notice the “visual weight” of a site. That’s a good thing. Experienced front-end developers optimize their site to load quickly and display accurately across all modern browsers. In this post, I will detail how to analyze the bottlenecks preventing websites and blogs from loading quickly and how to resolve them....

2009/02/03

Over the past year and a half, I have published four collections of inspirational websites with a minimalist approach to the design. Since more great websites of this style keep appearing, and since readers continue to show an interest in this style, here is the fifth edition....

2009/01/18

2009/01/05

A way to explore the popular typefaces you have on your computer

2009/01/02

When designing a web application, it’s important to make sure the user interface is easy to use. Using icons along side navigation links is one key ingredient to achieving this. But Instead of creating icon sets from scratch, which can be very time consuming, why not use icons that have already been created for you. Here are some of the best icon sets out there for use in web application designs....

2008/11/18

Listed below are 10 excellent techniques that PHP developers should learn and use every time they program. These tips will speed up proficiency and make the code much more responsive, cleaner and more optimized for performance.

2008/11/14

A full featured and beautiful CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) framework which combined the best of Blueprint, Tripoli (hence the name), Hartija's print stylesheet, 960.gs's simplicity, and Elements' icons, and has now found a life of its own.

2008/11/14

2008/11/14

Hippo CMS is an open source information centered content management system. It's targeted at medium to large organisations managing content for multi-channel distribution like web sites and intranets. It facilitates an open and flexible way of using your information by following international accepted open standards....

2008/11/06

Harmony. A word that sounds so beautiful, like its own meaning. But how is it possible to achieve it in every place of our layout design? “Golden Ratio” is the answer.

2008/10/16

As web technologies progress, websites and web applications are becoming more responsive, providing us with more ways and techniques to interact with the users. Form, more than ever, has been superseded by function. The following websites deal with interface design, user experience, user-centered design, usability, and everything in between – all with the goal of enhancing the user’s interface....

2008/10/15

Huge collection of web design, development, marketing and website maintenance resources.

2008/10/14

Ever wanted to add some AJAX effects to your site to create a great and interactive looking site. Here’s a list of 48 of the best Mootools scripts around there (e.g. image galleries, lightbox clones, tabbed contents, forms, menus, tables, date pickers…)....

2008/10/13

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a worldwide free and open community focused on improving the security of application software.

2008/10/13

Also sometimes called A/B testing, split testing means that you run two different versions of an AdSense ad unit on your blog so that you can see which one performs best. You serve one version of the ad to one visitor, and then another version to the next visitor....

2008/10/10

Web magazine dedicated to web design.

2008/10/10

Let’s face it. Some days, you want to just fire your clients. You go through one too many comps, iterations or edits and you’ve had enough. It has happened to everyone at least once and I’d be lying if I said it won’t happen again; you get to the end of a project and realize that you would have made more per hour flipping burgers at McDonald’s. Thankfully, as with most common problems, there are a few simple guidelines that you can follow to help make sure that you’re never working for below minimum wage....

2008/10/10

If you're tackling some graphic design project or maybe even your wall decor, getting color hints from ready made color templates from professional designers can be useful. Below are 10 of the better sites to help you out on your design challenge.

2008/10/06

2008/09/26

2008/09/24

Chatting with webmasters often reveals widespread beliefs that might have been accurate in the past, but are not necessarily up-to-date any more. For us, that was the moment we decided to read up on the topic of dynamic and static URLs.

2008/09/23

2008/09/23

2008/09/10

Not that long ago I was looking for some nice sketchy font to use in my project. There are not so many good quality sketchy fonts so I am sharing with you ten of them I liked the most.

2008/09/09

Because time is valuable, we deliver quick and easy learning. At W3Schools, you can study everything you need to learn, in an accessible and handy format.

2008/07/28

Lucky for me, there are a lot of helpful tools that can turn color coordination nightmares into a dream come true If you’re in the same boat as I am, have a look at some of these sites I unearthed from my bookmarks.

2008/07/28

Generates a color scheme randomly or based on a basecolor.

2008/07/21

Free Design Templates don’t have to be ugly, cluttered,and boring, Some web-sites offer high quality templates for free you can use them for your personal and commercial projects without any restrictions. Here Dzine Bog Presents 45 Best Stylish Free web...

2008/07/20

Automatically generate a coherent color scheme from any color you supply.

2008/07/20

Ajax diagonal stripes background designer, can be used to generate web 2.0 like background patterns.

2008/07/14

Create and lay out tag clouds, can use del.icio.us as an input

2008/06/10

Colour and emotion are very closely related, so it makes sense that designers need to pay particular attention to colour choice. Whether you’re a website designer, logo designer, print designer or other, this comprehensive list of colour tools and resou...

2008/05/26

What Nielson found by analyzing the data in the study was that although people spend more time on pages with more words and more information, they only spend 4.4 seconds more for each additional 100 words. By calculating reading rates, he concluded that w...

2008/05/19

We’ve been talking about Web 2.0 for so long now it’s already passé to argue about what it means and what it doesn’t. But one thing’s for sure, there’s a lot of data out there on the web these days. And as web designers, we’re designing a lot...

2008/05/19

Welcome to Open Source Templates. All our Free Website Templates are free to use under the Creative Commons 3.0 licence

2008/05/19

To start off my short series of articles on minimalist designs, I collected over 40 minimalist web designs to showcase what minimalist design looks like for those of you who are not familiar with it, and to provide inspiration for those of you who do.

2008/05/19

Footers are becoming an essential strategy to engage visitors. Leaders in the industry are moving toward implementing effective footer features and creating a place for presenting, displaying and branding to their audiences in a very personal way by provi...

2008/05/17

Whether you have an e-commerce site or just a simple blog, icons can be used to effectively draw the attention of a user to certain area on your pages. When use properly, they offer a nice balance of words and images to keep a user attracted to your site....

2008/05/16

There are many available tools to help make web development projects quicker and more productive. Aside from a handy text editor or WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver, you can find plenty of tools and utilities that can greatly increase development speed, re...

2008/05/16

Web 2.0 has brought many wonderful innovations and ideas to the Internet. We can no longer imagine the web without a social dimension, and we can no longer imagine an online world that is read-only - it is now a read/write web full of user-generated conte...

2008/05/15

In this tutorial, I describe various common graphic design elements in modern web ("2.0") design style. I then attempt to explain why they work (i.e. why they have become common), as well as how, when and where you might use each element in your designs....

2008/05/15

Web 2.0 is beautiful. In fact, many designers manage to create really amazing, particularly dark and fresh web-designs, which are visually appealing and make a great first impression. However, if you are planning on designing a web 2.0-project, you probab...

2008/05/13

Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.

2008/05/13

Er zijn heel wat kant-en-klare Joomla templates beschikbaar. Maar misschien wil je iets unieks. Dat kan - je kunt namelijk zelf een Joomla template maken. Dit heeft zo zijn voor- en nadelen.

2010/09/07

Somedays when I am having a bad day or dealing with a ‘client from hell’ which can really stress me out I browse some of the quotes submitted at Clients from Hell and it makes me think that maybe it’s not so bad. After all they do pay the bills (even if they don’t always pay on time!)...

2010/09/07

I’ve hired a bunch of people to do art for some of my largest games, I thought I would give a little insight on what do when hiring yourself.

2010/09/07

OpenLayers makes it easy to put a dynamic map in any web page. It can display map tiles and markers loaded from any source. MetaCarta developed the initial version of OpenLayers and gave it to the public to further the use of geographic information of all kinds. OpenLayers is completely free, Open Source JavaScript, released under a BSD-style License....