Living a Dual Life – A View on the Coding Designers Debate
By Patrick Cox on
Lately I've noticed some great discussions in web design forums, on Linkedin and Twitter about the role of a web designer and what skills a web designer should have.
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25 Examples of Inspiring Product Display in Web Design
By Gisele Muller on
Choosing the best way to display products is a really important step of web design, since the way you display your products can drive attention to it and make users
25 Examples of Creative Thumbnail Usage in Web Design
By Gisele Muller on
Wikipedia tells us that "thumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures, used to help in recognizing and organizing them, serving the same role for images as a nor
Great Daily Tools for Freelancers
By Patrick Cox on
Designing and developing a web project is difficult enough, but adding project management, invoicing, hosting, file sharing, and staying on task to the mix? That's e
7 Steps for the Perfect Landing Page
By Patrick Cox on
When I design landing pages I don't try to cram everything above the fold and clutter up the top 500 pixels of my design, but I do like to design so that images, hea
Restaurant Website and Gallery Template
By Mary Lou on
Today we want to share a little website experiment with you. The theme for today’s template is a restaurant website which will include an image gallery for the
Mega Web Buttons Pack #1
By Marcin Dziewulski on
Today we want to share our first set of easy-to-implement buttons called ‘Mega Web Buttons Pack’. In this set you will find 42 buttons which you can use
Circular Discography Template with jQuery
By Mary Lou on
Today we want to share a simple website template with you. The template will show some discography or music albums in a rounded fashion, rotating the albums when cli
Moving Boxes Content with jQuery
By Mary Lou on
Today we will create a website template with some really sweet animations using jQuery. The idea is to have little boxes scattered around at the top of the site and
25 Examples of Portrait Usage in Web Design
By Gisele Muller on
Following the recent trend of using big background images in web design, we decided to gather a list of websites using portraits in their layouts. So at this showcas
Showcase of Parallax Usage in Web Design
By Mary Lou on
The use of the parallax effect or parallax scrolling effect in websites can add a nice three dimensional depth illusion to the design and make the visit very interes
Re-thinking Browser Compatibility
By Patrick Cox on
Kryptonite is to Superman as the browser is to the web designer. The lives of web designers everywhere would be much better if browsers would render their beautiful
Designing for Feature-Rich Websites: Best Practices
By Kayla Knight on
For all websites, organizing content can be an issue. With poorly planned content placement, the visitor may not know where to look, or when. Disorganization can als
Fingers are Bigger than Mice – Design Concepts for Mobile Websites
By Patrick Cox on
With smartphone subscriptions projected to climb above 50% of the market by the end of 2011, designing for mobile browsers and touch devices is now reaching critical
Shadow Usage in Web Design
By Gisele Muller on
When designing a website you can use several effects to drive attention to an element, emphasize something or simply to give your page an unique and personal touch.
Smooth Vertical or Horizontal Page Scrolling with jQuery
By Mary Lou on
In this tutorial we will create a simple smooth scrolling effect with jQuery. We will create a horizontal and a vertical website layout to show the effect. We will b