How To Create Your Own Dual Monitor Setup

Recently I wrote a post for The Web Squeeze about my essential ‘Tools of The Trade’. One of my biggest recommendations in that article was for web designers to get an extra monitor and hook it up to their computers. The TWS editors have now very kindly asked me to come back and give you a more in depth look into the world of dual-screen setups, and how you can create your own!

Although still quite a rarity outside large corporate companies and graphic design studios, dual monitor set-ups have actually been around for quite some time. Support for up to three monitors has been standard in Apple machines since 1987 with the launch of the Macintosh II, but wasn’t made a default feature of Microsoft’s flagship operating system until Windows98. [Detail]

Desktop Wallpaper Calendars For September 2009

Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s why we have decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers over 12 months. [Detail]

10 Tools For Finding, Registering And Managing Domain Names

A domain name is the starting point for our online brands and identities, be it for a company, online application or a personal website. Some of us may own only one domain for a portfolio site or blog, whilst others have to manage domain names for clients or all kinds of projects. But even if you do not yet have a personal domain, as the Web becomes more pervasive in our lives, finding yourself a real home on the web becomes more of a neccessity. [Detail]

If Famous Graphic Artists Were Web Designers…

Styles in design are described and classified in many ways. Sometimes they are given a moniker, like “Web 2.0,” other times they are referred to by their appearance: grungy, minimalist, retro, big type. The people (and brands) to which modern design styles are attributed are as numerous as the styles themselves. Many designers look to a brand such as Apple as an example of great modern design because a designer’s sensibility is infused into everything it does. [Detail]

Top 10 Most Usable Content Management Systems

There are plenty of options when it comes to picking a content management system for a development project. Depending on how advanced you need the CMS to be, what language it's built in, and who is going to be using it, it can be a nightmare trying to find the "perfect" CMS for a project. [Detail]

10 Data Backup, Storage and Sharing Solutions

In an increasingly digital age, data backup, storage and sharing is more important than ever. However, today's data backup and storage solutions have evolved into much more feature filled services that let you share and access your data easier and from pretty much anywhere while still affordable. [Detail]

20 Vital Techniques & Best Practices For Effective Web Design

Creating beautiful, unique websites seems to get harder every day. There are so many amazing website designs out there that coming up with something fresh and different is getting close to impossible. And even if you’re not looking for something entirely unique, creating beautiful designs that don’t look dated is a constant challenge. [Detail]

35 Websites To Teach You How To Use CSS Effectively

CSS ( Cascading Style Sheets) are the modern standard for presenting website. Combined with structural markup language like HTML, XHTML – CSS fully take care about presentation part, creating that good concept – HTML = Content, CSS = Presentation. If you know CSS, you can really do everything controlling spacings, borders, positioning, margins, paddings, colors, fonts, background images, hover effects and more presentational effects. CSS is really easy to understand, and in my opinion every graphic designer should have at least simple coding skills with HTML and CSS, because CSS is really still design part, not really coding. [Detail]

50 Beautiful Wallpapers

These are 50 beautiful, creative and inspiring wallpapers from some of the most dedicated designers around the world. In this post we have collected 50 beautiful wallpapers for all those who are looking out for inspiration. Go ahead and check out these wallpapers and let us know your best pick! [Detail]

25+ Beautiful Flash Websites

Flash is the powerful tool in making highly interactive user interfaces, Flash is developers favorite as it allows them to develop extremely complex and dynamic web applications. Here we have rounded up 25+ beautiful flash based websites, each website is unique in its own way, the interactivity in each case is very creative and impressive. Go ahead and check out these websites and list out your favourites ENJOY! [Detail]

How To Create a Pure CSS Polaroid Photo Gallery

Magical things can be done by combining various CSS properties, especially when some of the new CSS3 tricks are thrown into the mix. Let’s take a look at building a cool looking stack of Polaroid photos with pure CSS styling. [Detail]

Line25 Sites of the Week for August 28th 2009

Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs. In this week’s collection, we have designs from Things That are Brown, the Energy Cell, Elegant Themes, Travis Neilson and Ronnie Morales. [Detail]

20 Beautifully sculpted Sand Sculptures

Anyone who has visited beach would have tried to sculpt at least a simple sand sculpture of some sort. With the right sand consistency and a few simple tools, the possibilities of building spectacular sculptures are endless. This articles illustrates 20 beautifully sculpted sands sculptures [Detail]

25 Outstanding Flash Website Templates

The choice of a well-designed template for your website can turn out to be a difficult thing today, since the large amount that exists on the Internet. So I thought to make a list of 25 outstanding website templates made exclusively in Flash, that are very easy to use and to understand. The templates are selected from Flash Components website. [Detail]

15 Ways to Optimize CSS and Reduce CSS File Size

I have gathered a long list of CSS optimization and file size reduction techniques that have been using by most designers/developers. Depend on the complexity of your CSS code, these techniques might greatly reduce your CSS file size, or maybe just a few kilobytes.

Also, you might also want to read my previous post regarding CSS - 15 CSS Tips and Tricks to learn how to write more efficient CSS code. [Detail]

22 Non-Profits Looking Good, Doing Good

Even for a non-profit a website is a very important marketing tool. An essential way to share the non-profits goals and way to garner contributions. It also provides an easy way to share with contributors what they have accomplished with the money they have raised.

Below you’ll find a collection of great looking non-profit websites, although having a great looking website doesn’t ensure the non-profit is doing great things, but it does make it easier as you surf their site to find out what they are doing. [Detail]

30+ Websites for Teach yourself about Photography

If you thinking of taking up photography as hobby, you may learn from listed photography tutorial websites, you can create beautiful photography through your digital cameras, there is listed very much professional and beginners level photography, we getting all inspiration from photography-colleges. [Detail]

Website Background Images : Examples and Implementation

We all know how fast design industry is growing. Everyday we have new amazing stuff up on web such as online tools, free apps or unbelievable code development. Background images are one of the core features in web design that help make a website design visually interesting. Whether you are using a standard header background, a basic body background or a full body backgrounds there is great scope to come out with an amazing result.

Here are some great examples of background images used in Website Design. I hope it will be inspirational for all you designers out there. [Detail]

5+ Tutorials & Resources on jQuery

Hi! Last time we learned about basics and advanced techniques of HTML and CSS. Now moving forward here are the amazing tutorials on jQuery for beginners to get started as well as for intermediate and advanced developers. So get your feet in the jQuery. [Detail]

45 Inspirational Corporate Website Designs

As you already seen in our previous showcase of Corporate Website Designs that a perfect layout, A good design and nice resources can produce a creative output. Layout, textures and patterns are used more often than one may think but the outcome of different combination can result verity of excellent designs. However, When it comes to corporate website design you need to take care about many things which includes simplicity, readability, presentation and accessibility.

In this presentation, you’ll find variety of highly-creative, beautiful and most importantly inspirational corporate designs which is easy to accessible and convenient to approachable. The main purpose here is to stimulate your creativity and to inspire your imagination to design or redesign your work site to show your skills to potential clients. [Detail]

Action! LifeCam Cinema Introduces 720p HD Widescreen Video

Widescreen technology is everywhere these days, built into virtually every new notebook, desktop monitor and flat-panel TV,1 and today Microsoft Hardware sets a new standard for webcams with the launch of LifeCam Cinema, the first consumer webcam on the PC to offer widescreen video with a native 720p sensor.2 The timing couldn’t be better, with more and more people going online to share videos with friends and family; in fact, more than 10 million videos are uploaded each month to Facebook alone.3 LifeCam Cinema webcam’s 720p widescreen sensor will deliver clear, quality videos — without leaving anyone out of the shot. [Detail]

25+ Great HTML 5 Resources to Get You Started

HTML 4 has been around for nearly a decade now, and much have happened since HTML 4 landed. The way we use the Internet have taken dramatic turns and the I think the most significant turn is the trend of desktop applications and games going online running in browsers. Many people don’t use email clients any more and simply use online services as gmail or hotmail. The average Internet user today expect seamless embedded media, flexibility, responsiveness, ease of use (usability), off line capabilities etc. in ways we couldn’t imagine 5-10 years ago. Keeping up with users demans isn’t always as easy as it should be and this is where HTML 5 is expected to kick in with a helping hand.

HTML 5 introduces many new interesting elements for example canvas that makes it possible to do new exciting things from javascript, that make it much easier to structure pages and new elements that significantly improve the use of video and autio. We are all excited about the possibilities going to offered in HTML 5 and to get hand on with some of them but there’s a lot to learn and HTML 5 is still in draft status. This means only a few of the new elements have been implemented in latest browsers and you need to be careful how to approach this. Knowing that HTML 5 will eventually hit us keeping track with the new goodies coming up and how HTML 5 develops can’t be waste of time – and even fun. According to W3C News Archive, XHTML 2 working group is expected to stop work end of 2009 and W3C is planning to increase resources on HTML 5 instead.

In this article tripwire magazine provides you with the resources you need to get overview of what HTML 5 is, to get started and to understand how you can benefit from it at this early point in time. [Detail]

45+ Really Essential Free HTML [Form] Enhancements

Easy user interaction and data collection is really a key functionality on most websites and web applications. Providing users high quality and intuitive input forms may be just what is needed to make your users take the time to fill in and submit the information you’re trying to collect. In this article I have collected a number of really essential enhancements to basic html forms. The article content has been split up into 7 sections to help you find what you need faster. The tools included in this article are all free, good quality, documented and not to hard to set up. Lets get started there’s no time to miss … [Detail]

Webdesign Trend Hunting – 27 Bright Websites Using Popping Colors

Design Fetish, our Trend Hunting series continues with a big roundup of cool websites designed with bright colors in mind. And in the eye :] Please leave your comments below, suggest other websites, and tell us what do you think about this trend. [Detail]

Line25 Sites of the Week for August 21st 2009

Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs. In this week’s collection, we have designs from Remix, SixCentral, Envato, Jared Digital and Paul Carbo. [Detail]

Corporate Blog Design: Trends And Examples

With tens of millions of blogs online today, major corporations have started to recognize the value of a corporate blog for communicating with customers. However, corporate blogging is far different than the more traditional blogging that most of us encounter on a daily basis. Corporate blogging brings its own unique set of challenges and opportunities that must be considered and addressed by the company in order for its users to have a positive experience.

In this article we’ll examine the issues that face corporate blogs, we’ll observe some current trends, and we’ll look at a large sample of blogs from companies of various sizes in a wide variety of industries. [Detail]

20 MySQL Admin and Development Tools and cheat sheets

MySQL is a very feature rich relational database management system (RDBMS) which has more than 11 million active installations and 60,000+ downloads/day. MySQL is commonly known to be an open source project available for free under GNU General Public License – this version of MySQL is called Community Server. MySQL Community Server is very often used in a development stacks consisting of Apache with the popular mod_php module interpreting PHP code running on Linux (LAMP – Apache HTTP Server MySQL PHP). All very successful free open source projects that together serve millions of websites today and the number is growing rapidly. Popular open source systems like Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, PHPbb and many more all run on this software stack.

MySQL is also offered in a version called Enterprise Server allowing companies to get Enterprise scale database software at a reasonable price (subscription based). See a comparison table here. The free community server is an excellent RDBMS but the tools you need as an DBA/Web site administrator or developer are only available if you subscribe to the Enterprise Server. Even though MySQL Enterspise Server is cheat compared to other high end database servers it is typically not an option for a blog or a small comapany website. Luckily there are other options and you can easily find free or cheap software providing the features you need.

If you’re using the MySQL Community Server or if you’re expecting to start using ityou need to find yourself some tools to support your management and development of your databases. As MySQL as open source roots there are many high quality 3rd party tools available and if you find the right match for yourself it may give significant advantages. It is always useful to know what tools you have available and what features they offer.

In the overview below tripwire magazine present some of the most useful and most popular MySQL Admin and Development Tools that both beginners and professionals can benefit of. Please drop a comment if an useful MySQL-tool is missing in the list and it will be added ASAP. [Detail]

Beautiful Single Page Website Designs: 65 New Examples

As you already seen in our previous post about Single Page Website Designs that showcase your work in single page design is a hot trend now days. It’s kind of ironic to see what designers can do with single pages as modern age designers love to experiment with things and observe how people interact with their work. Even though this is not a common trend to follow but still as the new design styles come up, and as more and more designers notice them and make use of them in their work, this kind of trends emerge.

In this presentation, you’ll find a variety of highly-creative, beautiful and most importantly inspirational designs which is following the same trend of single page designs. The main purpose here is to stimulate your creativity and to inspire your imagination to create your own design trend because your website represents you and your brand. [Detail]

21 Good Examples of Pink in Web Design

The use of pink in web design isn’t always seen with good eyes, but used in the right places and in right quantities, it can help create the right visual impact! Follow me in this great list of 21 good examples of pink in web design! [Detail]

60+ Unusual Business Card Ideas & Designs

Most business cards tend to be forgotten, which is why they are not effective. Business cards can become great interactive elements with the added ability to have custom shapes, different materials and matte finishing along with a great design idea. [Detail]

Top 6 Search Engines For Designers To Find Icons

Here i have listed the top 6 search engines which can be really helpful for you in your icon hunt. [Detail]

75 Free Useful Icon Sets for Web Designers and Developers

Icons are the basic requirement of any web related projects and good icons are like a treasure for web designers.

The demand for good icons are too much in these days and finding the best icon sets from the pool with tens of thousands of packs is not a easy job to perform. Being a successful creative web artist has a lot to do with the way you work. Sure, you can’t teach good design in some lessons or you can’t create icons for your daily needs, but it never hurts to pick a few free icons which are always available free to grub.

Below, you’ll find some of the Best Free Useful Icon Sets around for your design enhancement related needs. [Detail]

5 Ways to Make Ajax Calls with jQuery

There are at least five ways to make AJAX calls with the jQuery library. For beginners, however, the differences between each can be a bit confusing. In this tutorial, we'll line them up and make a comparison. Additionally. we'll review how to inspect these AJAX calls with Firebug as well. [Detail]

Massive Regular Expressions Toolbox

Regular expressions (”regex’s” for short) are sets of symbols and syntactic elements used to match patterns of text and they are pretty powerful. Regular expressions have been around for a very long time (in computer industry scale) and was first introduced as part of the powerful UNIX search tool grep.

The regex syntax used commonly today is compliant with Extended Regular Expressions (EREs) defined in IEEE POSIX 1003.2 (Section 2.8). EREs are supported by Apache, PHP4+, Javascript 1.3+, MS Visual Studio, MS Frontpage, most visual editors, vi, emac, the GNU family of tools (including grep, awk and sed) as well as many others. Extended Regular Expressions (EREs) will support Basic Regular Expressions (BREs are essentially a subset of EREs). The BRE syntax is considered obsolete and is only still around to preserve backward compatibility.

I believe mastering at least the most basic elements of regex is essential for any programmer. Further I know that having direct access to references, examples, ready to use patterns etc. is essential to speed up your work.

This is a toolbox for getting started and/or becoming more serious about regex. It provides details on commonly needed regexs that you can just pick up and use right away. Lets get started! [Detail]

What’s in your Cart? 30+ High-Quality Shopping Cart Templates

Finding the right theme can be a long and arduous process – a process that becomes more important when we’re talking about Shopping Cart or eCommerce themes. There are two big differences between picking a theme for your Dallas-Cowboys-bashing blog and the theme for your custom furniture shop. [Detail]

CSS Fundamentals

This article is excerpted from Speaking in Styles: Fundamentals of CSS for Web Designers by Jason Cranford Teague. Copyright © 2009. Used with permission of Pearson Education, Inc. and New Riders.

Syntax is how you put words together to create meaning: Punctuation and parts of speech are placed in a specific order to describe something. How you combine these elements has a direct effect on the meaning of what you are trying to communicate.

To describe your Web designs, you need to understand the syntax of CSS. [Detail]

Interesting list of tutorials and codes to build a rounded corners with Javascript and CSS

If your are web designer, maybe you have ever gotten headache by how to build a rounded corner box or button. In this post, I want to share you a list of tutorials and code projects help build a rounded corner easily. This list focus on javascript method, but in some of them, it contains CSS implement. Please create an addition if you guys know any scripts elsewhere. [Detail]

IBM scientists to use DNA to make chips

Scientists at IBM are experimenting with using DNA molecules as the basis of smaller, more powerful computer chips.

The company is researching ways in which DNA can arrange itself into patterns on the surface of a chip, and then act as a kind of scaffolding on to which millions of tiny carbon nanotubes and nanoparticles are deposited. That network of nanotubes and nanoparticles could act as the wires and transistors on future computer chips, the IBM scientists said.

For decades chip makers have been etching smaller and smaller patterns onto the surface of chips to speed performance and reduce power consumption. The fastest PC chips today are manufactured using a 45 nanometre process, but as the process dips below 22 nanometres in a few years, the assembly and fabrication of chips becomes far more difficult and expensive, said Bob Allen senior manager of chemistry and materials at IBM Research. [Detail]

25 Clouds Background for Your 3D Renditions

Clouds background are one of the most sought after types of textures. From colorful sky to smoky and dark sky, these textures are very useful for 3D artists and to those who need to incorporate some cloud textures in their designs. High resolution clouds background can be applied to a sky dome and can alternatively be used as a background pass in 3d render composites or as subtle elements in all kinds of interesting images. This roundup includes different weather conditions ranging from stormy and overcast to clear and sunny. These pictures were also taken at different times of the day from morning to afternoons and sunset and features different types of clouds from cirrus to stratus to cumulus and nimbus, etc. Now Sky is your Limit to create the wondering realistic clouds for your 3d scenes. (Most images from this set are licensed under a Creative Commons License. Please check out the individual terms of use of these clouds background before downloading them). [Detail]

Line25 Sites of the Week for August 14th 2009

Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs. In this week’s collection, we have designs from Midtone Design, Sketchen, Fudge, Virb and Etnies. [Detail]

Mastering CSS, Part 2: Advanced Techniques and Tools

CSS is one of the most basic building blocks of modern web design. It creates the structure and style that surrounds your content and is capable of making your site a joy to use or a pain in the neck. Mastering CSS is one of the most important things a web designer can do, and has really become an essential criteria for being a successful designer. [Detail]

8 Regular Expressions You Should Know

Regular expressions are a language of their own. When you learn a new programming language, they're this little sub-language that makes no sense at first glance. Many times you have to read another tutorial, article, or book just to understand the "simple" pattern described. Today, we'll review eight regular expressions that you should know for your next coding project. [Detail]

Excellent Free Editors and IDEs for Developers

Most developers have picked their favourite editor and/or IDE and use it many hours every day (and night). Still it can be quite useful to know what the free alternatives are. Some of the free editors and IDEs available are really high quality and may be worth investigating. If your manly using a large IDE it is likely that having a simple editor as well may improve your efficiency when just editing sigle files. The free alternative IDEs are also very powerful oprions and may beat some commercials competitors easily when it comes to feaures and easy of use. In this article tripwire magazine provides a list of more than 20 free Editors and IDEs useful for most developers. Let us all know if I missed a great product by posting a comment. [Detail]

25 Detailed Tutorials for Coding Up Your Web Designs

One of the best ways to get into web design is to learn the process of transforming your Photoshop concept into a fully working coded website. Luckily there are various handy tutorials from across the web that document the process of writing a site with HTML and CSS in a step by step guide. This post pulls together the best PSD to HTML conversion tutorials to help you along your way to becoming a CSS master. [Detail]

45 Most Creative Blog Designs from blogosphere - Let’s get inspired!!

Belonging to this amazing world of blogging, we all keep on discovering new blogs every day. However, there are millions of blogs on net but only few of them are exclusively creative and deserve a second look. [Detail]

Bandwidth Test

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Creating Flash Charts From Google Spreadsheets

With Google docs gaining popularity, it is anticipated that in the near future there will be a great demand for connecting it to external systems for various purposes such as data interchange, data visualization, etc. In this article, I will show you how to connect Flash based charts (FusionCharts) to Google Spreadsheets and plot live data using JavaScript. [Detail]

8 Business Card Designs

A good business card is an essential tool in any freelancer’s arsenal. When you’re at a function networking, meeting new clients, or your work comes up in a conversation, your card is the anchor to make sure the discussion doesn’t come to nothing. [Detail]

25+ Create Amazing Image Effects with Some of the Best jQuery Plugins Available

JavaScript frameworks like jQuery, prototype (and script.aculo.us), Dojo and mootools have become very popular because they are making the creation of dynamic effects much easier without using fx. flash. jQuery has become one of the most used JavaScript libraries today and can be found in the core of popular products like Wordpress and Drupal.The community is providing a huge amount of free plugins making it possible to find good solutions to nearny any need you may have. This article will introduce you to more than 25 jQuery plugins providing enhancements to how you can display images on your web pages. This is essential for creating dynamic state of the art web solutions. Lets get started! [Detail]

20 list of Contact us page with gorgeous styles

In modern websites contact forms are also modernize and created with effects of course with the used of jQuery modern form validation. In this post I will share a 20 list of contact us page with gorgeous styles from 20 different websites online. [Detail]

Mega CSS Resource Roundup

In this article you will get access to one of the largest collections ever of CSS Tools, Tutorials, Cheat Sheets etc. You may have seen some of these before but here they are all put together

CSS is a key part of web design and it is really essential for web designers and developers to be comfortable with it. CSS is not too difficult to code and at the same time it is extremely powerful if you know how to master it. On the other hand getting started can be quite hard as you need to understand how CSS integrates with other web technologies and how the most fundamental parts work fx. CSS selectors.This article will give you techniques and tools enough to get started and to also to start using more advanced stuff. New to CSS? First thing you need to do is to pick a favourite cheat sheet and print it for quick reference. There are many details that can be hard to remember in the beginning and this is where cheat sheets comes in handy. Then dig into some of the Getting Started Resources to get yourself ready for the many really useful CSS Techniques found here. [Detail]

7 New Essential CSS 3 Techniques Revealed

There are several new and exciting functions and features being thought up for CSS3: text-shadow, box-sizing, opacity, multiple backgrounds, border-radius, border-image, etc… [Detail]

Google launches Chrome gallery

Google now offers a gallery of themes for its Chrome browser. [Detail]

The 10 Most Common Mistakes Web Designers Make

There are plenty of mistakes web designers (especially new ones) make when designing websites. Everything from poor design to simple oversight happen every day. But with a little diligence, they can easily be avoided. [Detail]

ILMerge is a utility for merging multiple .NET assemblies into a single .NET assembly

ILMerge is a utility that can be used to merge multiple .NET assemblies into a single assembly. ILMerge takes a set of input assemblies and merges them into one target assembly. The first assembly in the list of input assemblies is the primary assembly. When the primary assembly is an executable, then the target assembly is created as an executable with the same entry point as the primary assembly. Also, if the primary assembly has a strong name, and a .snk file is provided, then the target assembly is re-signed with the specified key so that it also has a strong name. [Detail]

What You Need To Know About JavaScript Scope

Understanding scope in programming is key to appreciating how your variables interact with the rest of your code. In some languages, this can be quite straightforward, but JavaScript’s anonymous functions and event handling features, along with a couple of little quirks, mean that handling scope in your applications can become frustrating. [Detail]

Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: August 2009

Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s why we have decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers over 12 months. [Detail]

33+ Online Resources to Learn CSS

Before going into detail let’s learn about CSS or Cascading Style Sheets. In layman’s language CSS is a language that adds style to your document like colors, borders, margins and borders. Basically CSS is the style sheet language used to describe the overall presentation of a document like the appearance and presentation of a document written in markup languages, especially in HTML and XHTML. Cascading Style Sheets are designed to separate the contents from the presentation of a document. [Detail]

Exceptional macro water photography!

Nature can be extremely beautiful at times, the closer you look the more detailed and intricate it becomes. Two thirds of our planet is covered with water yet only a few photographers really appreciate the beauty of it. This post contains some truly breathtaking photographs of water close up. The authors should feel very proud of their impressive work. Hope you enjoy! [Detail]

Search Engine Optimization – Guides to Improve your Site Rankings

The higher your site is displayed in search results, the more clicks and more visitors to your website you will get! To have your site come up higher in FREE search results, you may optimize it and improve its rankings. [Detail]

Post Pic Roundup of CSS Grid Generators & CSS Grid Layout Generators

There are a lot of useful web code generators and graphics generators out there on the web, but did you know that there are also css layout generators too? Today we are focusing on CSS grid layout generators. These tools will help you create and visualize different web design layouts and draw grids in various ways to assist you in your design process. [Detail]

8 CSS-Only Images Tutorials

This round up of tutorials focuses on using images with css in different ways to achieve awesome decoration of your website. [Detail]

Things To Remember, While Coding A Website, To Make It Search Engine Friendly

Over 80% of consumers use search engines to find products and services.
These days, no website owner can afford not to have a search engine friendly website. There are a lot of things which one should do to achieve high ranking like search engine friendly code, Link building, submit website to various directories, Sitemap, Meta tags etc.
Writing quality code is the first step in making website search engine friendly. [Detail]

Creative Paper Inspired Website Designs

Utilizing paper in web design is a very popular design trend. Paper can not only be used in backgrounds but you will see many examples of paper used in navigation bar, content areas and all sorts of web page parts. [Detail]

18+ Handy Tools To Check Cross-Browser Compatibility Issues

Browser Compatibility issues have always been one of the major problems when designing a website. The fact that there are so many browsers on the market and nearly of them have different layout engine, which render webpages slightly different from each other. You just need to take a look at this list to get an idea of the many browsers which are available on the Internet. [Detail]

Pro-Environment Green Web Designs that shows Natural Beauty

Earth is a beautiful planet, and we often ignore that in our dreams of success. With so many issues going around related to Global-Warming and the environment, I have decided to create a list of website designs that reminds us of the beautiful nature. We have seen more and more corporates shifting toward having green aspects in their business, how about having a green aspect in the web design? Sit back and enjoy these refreshing green website designs. [Detail]

62 sites to submit your design links

Some website links which are you can submit your art-work post/article/webs, news, for share to the world, related on web development and design (i.e. useful freebies wordpress-theme, photography, textures, css tips, design tutorial, vectors, icons, etc.). [Detail]

Line25 Sites of the Week for July 31st 2009

Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs. In this week’s collection, we have designs from Housing Works, Big Cartel, Blue Acorn, Digital Convulsions and Nick Finck. [Detail]