10 Useful iPhone Apps for Web Designers and Developers

The iPhone has revolutionized the mobile device, and the App Store has taken it even further. There are literally apps for just about everything. While some of them are for having fun or passing the time, there are many apps that can help us perform serious tasks. There are even… read more

WDL Premium: Superheroes Vector Pack

Here’s a high-quality vector pack for our WDL Premium Members from the talented people at Go Media. Superheroes is the skilled handiwork of master illustrator William Beachy & includes 10 easily customizable superhero templates in dynamic, foreshortened poses, plus 24 speech bubbles. Add your own costumes or use them just… read more

30 Magical Examples of Natural Light Photography

There are many elements of great photography. One of the most important is lighting. Whether you’re using artificial lighting or natural lighting, you must have a good understanding of each. With natural lighting, a lot of it comes down to timing and angles. But when a photographer has a good… read more

10 Time Saving Google Chrome Extensions

Google Chrome is quickly becoming a popular browser due to its speed and now its growing collection of extensions. Extensions are a great way to add functionality that doesn’t come packaged with the browser.

There are extensions for just about everything, but in this post we’re focusing on helping you save… read more

50 Green Web Designs to Inspire You

A few weeks ago for our Monday inspiration I posted a collection of yellow web designs. So today, we’ll focus on it’s neighbor on the color wheel…green. Although some shades of green can be considered warm, it is a cool color that is primarily used for its calming attributes much… read more

13 Excellent Tools and Systems for CSS Grid Based Layouts

A good grid can be a strong foundation for any design. Using grids got its start in print design, but has made it’s way over to the web. There are several advantages to using a grids in web design, but primarily help achieve structure and consistency in your layout. If… read more

WDL Premium: High-Quality Vector Brush Strokes

Today we’re releasing a set of high-quality vector brush strokes for our WDL Premium Members from Designious. Brush strokes are a great way to add depth and texture to a design, and give it a natural feel. The fact that these strokes are vector makes them ideal for both web… read more

26 Free Progressive and Experimental Fonts

Design is constantly changing and moving forward. However, typography is one aspect of design that seems to resist progression. When it comes to typography, there are standards and traditions that have been around for many years. These rules are there for a reason – to make sure that letters and… read more

15 Useful HTML5 Tutorials and Cheat Sheets

HTML5 is giving web designers and developers new capabilities that were things of fantasy with previous versions of HTML. Web pages will now be more semantic with the use of structure specific tags. Visual elements like rounded corners are now built in, and so is the ability to create drag… read more

How to Get More Web Design Sales by Painting Your Nose Red

Walk into the next prospect meeting with your nose painted red and you are sure to attract a lot of attention. And why wouldn’t you? How many web designers do you think the prospect will consider that have red noses? Chances are – only one. You will certainly be memorable… read more

55 Minimal Black and White Web Designs to Inspire You

We’ve already shown you Yellow Web Designs and Blue Web Designs, but sometimes less color is the best color choice for a web site. In this post, we’re showcasing 55 minimal black and white web designs to inspire you. The B&W combination is great, from photography to interior design. It’s… read more

12 Excellent CSS3 Button and Menu Techniques

CSS3 is changing how we build websites. Even though many of us are still reluctant to start using CSS3 due to the lack of support in some browsers, there are those out there that are moving forward and doing some amazing stuff with its cool new features. No longer will… read more

40 Jaw-Dropping Photo Manipulations

Give a talented and creative Photoshop user some photographs and the possibilities are only limited to the imagination. Photo manipulations are illusions created by photo editing techniques. There are subtle photo manipulations and there are those that depict a far-fetched illusion executed in a realistic way. The latter are normally… read more

deVision: A Business WordPress Theme

Here’s another amazing premium WordPress theme from ThemeShift for our premium members. deVision is a complex WordPress theme that lets you create a business website in minutes. Showcase your company or product with clean and professional design without any programming skills.

If you’re not yet a WDL Premium member, you’re missing… read more

14 Fresh and Useful jQuery Plugins

jQuery has changed the way developers write JavaScript and the way users interact with websites and web applications. If you’re a developer, you know what a joy working with jQuery can be, especially the convenience of plugins. In this post, we’ve rounded up 14 fresh and useful jquery plugins that… read more

55 Beautifully Blue Web Designs to Inspire You

Today our goal is to help you overcome your Monday blues with an inspiring collection of blue web designs. Blue is a color that represents the oceans and sky. It’s also a great choice in web design, even if you use it only in a couple elements or for the… read more

250 Business Cards from PrintRunner: Winners Announced

A couple of weeks ago PrintRunner teamed up with us to give you a chance to win 250 business cards. To be eligible, all you had to do was leave a comment on that post. We had a great response, and today we are announcing the 10 winners. Congratulations to:

Cathy… read more

20 Excellent Icon Sets for Application Design

In our continued effort to find and deliver to you the best free design resources, we’ve compiled a list of 20 excellent icon sets for application design. Just like fonts and textures, you can’t have too many icons in your design library. In this collection you’ll find a variety of… read more

WDL Premium: Architecture Vectors from Go Media

Today we’re releasing another amazing vector pack for our WDL Premium Members from the talented people at Go Media.

These vectors are a very detailed set of buildings of all different styles. From urban buildings to Oriental or European. They work best when on a background that is lighter than… read more

A Showcase of Creative Punctuation in Logo Design

When you see punctuation as your reading, there is no need to stop and think “What does that symbol mean?”. You instantly know. You were taught the meaning of punctuation at a young age and have probably encountered it everyday since. It’s this familiarity that makes these symbols effective as… read more

20 Beautiful Script Fonts for Your Designs

Since script fonts are based on the fluid stokes of natural hand writing, they’re a great way to add a personal touch to a design. The only issue I have with script fonts is that I’ve always had trouble finding good ones when I need them. Assuming you may have… read more

100+ Photography Enhancing Photoshop Actions

Photoshop actions can be a big time saver, especially when you’re trying to add a specific effect to a photo and you’re not sure how to do it. Thanks to talented and generous Photoshop users, we can simply click a button and our photography can take on a whole new… read more

50 Inspiring Examples of Hand Drawn Elements in Web Design

Hand drawn elements are great way to give a website a unique look. You can do that by adding a nice hand drawn illustration as a background, a stylish hand draw font, icon, line work, characters or any other element you might think of. Hand drawn elements can give your… read more

10 Best Free Minimal WordPress Themes

Sometimes a lot of color, textures, and design elements can make a web design jump off the screen, but there are times when a minimal style it more appropriate for the content and it’s audience. A clean and minimal design gets out of the way and lets the content do… read more

WDL Premium: High Quality Grunge Paper Textures

Today we’re giving our WDL Premium members a premium texture pack from PremiumTextures.com. These paper textures are great for adding a lot of detail and interest to your grunge or vintage designs. There are 12 high resolution textures in all.

Here’s a preview:

Download Grunge Paper Textures

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You must be a WDL… read more

How to Find Local Clients for Your Freelance Business

Finding clients is one of the toughest things for most small businesses. Many people are looking for projects online these days with the widespread use of Twitter, Facebook, and other social media sites that allow you to connect and chat about business opportunities. These are great ways to find new… read more

Win 250 Business Cards from PrintRunner

PrintRunner has offered to give away a set of 250 business cards to 10 readers of Web Design Ledger. PrintRunner’s business cards come on premium 14 pt card stock with water resistant UV coating. The cards are available in full color, black and white, one-sided, two-sided, matte or… read more

55 Inspiring Examples of Gradients in Web Design

Gradients are a great way to add interest, color, and even depth to a web design. You can use the same color in many shades, many shades of many colors or several other combinations you may think of. You can go linear or radial. The point is that gradients are… read more

20 Clean White Letterpress Business Cards

Not too long ago I owned a site called Card Observer, which is a gallery of business card designs. Everyday I would have to look through submissions and pick out the best business cards. This was something I really enjoyed and miss doing. So I thought it would be fun… read more

Pantheon: A Premium WordPress Theme

Today we’re releasing a premium WordPress theme by Viva Themes for our premium members. If you’re not yet a member, you should sign up to download this and dozens of other files.

Pantheon is a left aligned theme, but with a lot of space in the left. A narrow main… read more

30 Examples of Perfectly Timed Action Photography

We live in a world that is constantly in motion. Some things move very quickly and can seem like a blur, but with photography, we can freeze time and get a better look at the action. Action photography is all about timing – being in the right place at the… read more

10 Excellent Tools for Creating Web Design Wireframes

When starting a new web design project, it’s always a good idea to begin with a wireframe. The purpose of a wireframe is to communicate the layout of a page without getting caught up in color and design elements. Wireframes can be a big time saver as they help all… read more

50 Retro and Vintage Web Designs to Inspire You

Last week, Henry posted an article with 30 Fonts Perfect for Vintage and Retro Style Design and I simply loved the first font of the list, the matchbook typefaces. By the time I saw it I could think of several good ways to use it in web design, print design… read more

30 Fonts Perfect for Vintage and Retro Style Design

A Vintage or retro style design is meant to transport it’s audience decades into the past. Designers try to do this by using various design elements such as textures and patterns from a certain time period. But it’s also important to use accurate typography from the time period you are… read more

Personal Branding for Web Designers

“It doesn’t matter how good you are. What matters is how good you are at showing it!” This statement represents the ABCs of personal branding, self marketing or whatever you prefer to name it. As a designer, you are so fortunate that your work is pure creativity. As a result,… read more

WDL Premium: Floral Photoshop Brushes

Today we’re releasing a set of high-quality floral Photoshop brushes for our WDL Premium Members from Designious. Floral elements are a great way to give a design an organic and inviting appearance. This brush set contains 26 brushes in all.

Be sure to check out Designious for more design resources.

Here is… read more

10 Essential WordPress Plugins You Should Be Using

There’s good reason why WordPress is the most popular blogging platform. It’s easy to use and has tons of great features. But what’s really made this open source software excel is its passionate community. Yes, WordPress has lots of features built in, but it doesn’t have everything. The WordPress community… read more

50 Beautifully Brown Web Designs

Last week for our usual Monday inspirational post we presented you with a showcase of web designs featuring the color yellow. Many of you enjoyed the focus on one color and even asked that we showcase another color. Since yellow is bright and bold, we thought we would go neutral… read more

The Best E-Commerce Icons All In One Place

Whether it’s textures, Photoshop brushes, or fonts, we love finding top notch free files and sharing them with our readers. We do the searching so you don’t have to. This saves you time and helps you focus on what’s important. For this article, we’ve rounded up high-quality icons that you… read more

30 Funny Print Ads that’ll Make You Laugh

In the world of print advertising, there’s a small window to grab the audience’s attention. Being restricted to a still image means the message must be very strong and catchy. Ad agencies often rely on humor to achieve this. A humorous print ad campaign starts with a funny idea,… read more

deLirium: A Personal Blog WordPress Theme

We’ve got another premium WordPress theme from ThemeShift for our premium members. deLirium is a dark-style personal blog theme. The cool, innovative design, the extensive layout options and the clean, well-organized code make it blindingly easy to set up your professional personal blog.

If you’re not yet a WDL Premium member,… read more

20 High Quality Photoshop Web Design Tutorials

Photoshop is the tool of choice for web designers. With that in mind, we’ve rounded up 20 of the latest Photoshop tutorials for designing websites. The end results produced by these tutorials are great looking designs, but keep in mind that it’s not meant for you to reproduce an exact… read more

50 Yellow Web Designs to Inspire You

Color is an important aspect of web design. Good web designers choose color carefully to serve a purpose. Sometimes that purpose is to be bold and get people’s attention, and yellow happens to be an excellent “attention getting” color. Yellow is a high energy color that can evoke mental activity… read more

30 Examples of Clean and Minimal Website Navigation

Navigation is one of the most important aspects of a web design, but this doesn’t mean it needs to be overly complicated or over designed. In fact, when it comes to navigating a website, simplicity is a good thing.

Some navigations make use of design elements like 3D bars, buttons,… read more

WDL Premium: Scrolls Vector Pack

Today we’re releasing another high quality vector pack for our WDL Premium Members from the talented people at Go Media.

These scrolls are very organic, and have that “old-world” style that you have been looking for. A lot of these were created by hand and leave room for you to type… read more

10 Useful Website Analytics Tools

When you start a website, no matter if you have chosen a top business hosting package or a cheap website hosting package, you will find various website analysis tools in your web hosting admin panel. Website analysis tools, such as Awstats, are typically included in both business hosting and cheap… read more

Top 8 Dreaded Favors Asked of Web Designers

Long before you officially take the profession of graphic or web designer, your friends and family will support your ambitions by developing your talent. At first, your loved ones inspect your work and if they like what they see, you’ll get flooded with their requests for one page flyers, t-shirt… read more

50 Inspiring Textured Web Designs

After showing you A Showcase of Clean White Web Designs a couple weeks ago, it’s time for us to add some textured designs to our lists. Textures are a great way to give a special touch to a website. They can be used in a specific part of the layout… read more

WDL Premium: Colorful Grunge Textures

Today we’re giving our WDL Premium members a premium texture pack from PremiumTextures.com. These twelve textures were created by combining public domain images of nebulae with existing grunge textures to give them a wonderfully unique, colorful feel. There some of the most unique textures you will ever see, and are… read more

22 Fresh High-Quality Fonts for Your Designs

Whether it’s textures, Photoshop brushes, or icons, we love finding top notch free files and sharing them with our readers. We try to post at least one collection of freebies every week. We do the searching so you don’t have to. This saves you time and helps you focus on… read more

A Showcase of Beautiful Architectural Photography

Architecture is probably one of the most complex forms of art. Not only should it be beautiful, but it must also be functional. The same thing can be said about other forms of art like web design, but architecture takes place in the real world with real materials, and on… read more

12 Alternative Web Browsers You Should Try

Chances are you’re viewing this page in one of the following web browsers: Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Chrome. I can make this assumption because these three browsers combine for about 90% of the market share. Then again, you might be one of the few people that have adopted an alternative… read more

55 Colorful Web Designs to Inspire You

We’ve already presented here a showcase of clean white web designs and we also showed you a collection of inspiring dark web designs. Now it’s time for a selection of colorful websites. By “colorful”, I mean a website “full of color” – a site with many colorful elements or even… read more

30 Minimal Logo Designs that Say More with Less

A logo is the visual cornerstone of one’s branding. While some logos are complex, often the most memorable ones are those that are simplistic. Instead of relying on detailed graphics and icons, these minimal logos rely on creative typography, simple shapes, and clever negative space to tell the story.

Here are… read more

WDL Premium: Ornate Vectors from Go Media

Today we’re releasing another amazing vector pack for our WDL Premium Members from the talented people at Go Media. Ornate is one of the best vector packs released by Go Media. It features some of the most detailed and original ornamental design work that you can find online. With the… read more

20 Fresh Sets of Free Icons for Web Designers

We love finding and sharing freebies with our readers, especially icons. We do this so you can focus on doing what’s important, instead of searching the internet for icons. In this article, we’ve rounded up 20 sets of freshly created free icons. If you don’t have immediate need for them,… read more

13 Useful Google Chrome Extensions for Web Developers

Google Chrome, like Firefox, has the ability to increase its functionality and capabilities through the use of extensions. If you’re a web developer, Google Chrome comes with a nice set of developer tools built in that will make your life easier. But there are also a number of extensions… read more

55 Examples of Huge Typography in Web Design

Choosing the correct typography for your website is a very important part of the design process. And as a website is also a communication tool – a very powerful one – you can use the typography to help you on exposing your ideas! Using HUGE typography, for example, you will… read more

UPrinting Poster Prints Giveaway Winners Announced

Last week we posted a giveaway of 24×36 poster prints byUPrinting. In order to be eligible, all you had to do was leave a comment on that post. Today we’re announcing the 5 winners that were randomly selected from all the comments.

Here are the winners:

Jason Byatt
Gabriel Rosales
Wes
Amber… read more

deLuxe: A Premium WordPress Theme

Today we’re releasing another beautiful premium WordPress theme from ThemeShift to our premium members. deLuxe is a warm and elegant WordPress theme. Use it on any site for hotels, restaurants or resorts or for websites about lifestyle and luxury. It makes your site look professional and unique, or simply deluxe…. read more

10 Simple and Light Weight CMS Solutions

Choosing the right content management system can be an overwhelming task for a web designer or developer. There are so many available, all with different features, it can be difficult to decide which is the best solution for a particular web project. For complex websites, a fully featured CMS is… read more

A Showcase of Workstations that’ll Make You Jealous

Whether you’re a designer, developer, animator, or blogger, your workstation plays a major role in how you get things done. Some of us like a neat, clean, and inspiring workspace, while others require a crazy over-the-top hardware configuration.

In this article, we’ve compiled a showcase of photos that will give you… read more

The Most Common HTML and CSS Mistakes to Avoid

Beginners through advanced coders make mistakes in their HTML and CSS files, either through carelessness or lack of experience. Clean code is very important though and will help further your skills as a developer, as well as save you time in editing later on! It never hurts to review if… read more

50 Inspiring Dark Web Designs

We’ve already shown here many great examples of web design to inspire you, from Clean White Web Design and Portfolio Designs to iPhone apps websites. We deliver great doses of inspiration to help you get new ideas.

Today, continuing our mission of delivering inspiration, we will present a selection of dark… read more

A Closer Look at FlashComponents.net

Here at WDL, we greatly appreciate our sponsors. They help make it possible for us to do what we do, and we feel that all of our sponsors offer services and products that can be very useful to web designers, developers, and online creatives. In order to let you know… read more

WDL Premium: Grunge Photoshop Brushes from Designious

Today we’re releasing a set of awesome grunge Photoshop brushes for our WDL Premium Members from Designious. These brushes are great for adding a worn and distressed look to your designs. There are 29 brushes in all.

Be sure to check out Designious for more design resources.

Here is a preview of… read more

20 High Quality Free Fonts for Designers

You may have noticed that we love finding awesome free fonts and sharing them with you. So don’t spend any of your valuable time searching the internet for more fonts. We’ve got you covered.

Here are 20 high quality free fonts for you to use in your designs. In this… read more

UPrinting Poster Prints Giveaway

UPrinting has teamed up with us to bring you a special contest. We are giving away big 24×36 poster prints to 5 WDL readers. Winners will be able to choose from either semi gloss or high gloss.

Make sure you visit UPrinting to learn more about their poster prints and other… read more

30 Incredible Examples of Urban Decay Photography

During the lifespan of a city, certain events take place that cause buildings and areas to become abandoned. With nobody around to provide upkeep or maintenance on the structures of these areas, things begin to fall into disrepair. This is known as urban decay. At first glance, these decrepit… read more

13 Useful JavaScript Solutions for Charts and Graphs

Graphs and charts are used to simplify complex data and make it easy to read and understand. So it really wouldn’t make sense if it was difficult to integrate a graph into a website. Thanks to Javascript and a bunch of talented developers, we have at our disposal solutions for… read more

50 Inspiring iPhone Application Websites

One thing that many of the iPhone application websites have ‘in common’ is their beautiful and inspiring design. They simply look amazing. The colors are great, the typography is classy, the photos, spaces and reflections are astonishing. The websites are so visual appealing that it is very good to browse… read more

A Showcase of Website Navigations with Serious Click Appeal

A couple of months ago we posted an article showcasing great website navigations. Consider this the sequel.

The navigation of a website is meant to be clicked. It doesn’t need to blend in or be hard to find. It’s important that it stands out from the rest of the elements on… read more

WDL Premium: Stains Vector Pack from Go Media

Today we’re releasing another amazing vector pack for our WDL Premium Members from the talented people at Go Media.

Stains is a grimy set of vector coffee stains, brush strokes, and ink splatters. These vector shapes are incredibly detailed, scanned at a very high resolution and vectorized. Warning, slow machines might… read more

The Principle of Contrast in Web Design

A web design is made of many different elements, each having varying levels of importance and some demanding prominence over others. Some elements share a relationship, while others are not related at all. The tricky part is being able to communicate this visually and effectively. This is where the principle… read more

20 Different and Beautiful Icon Sets

We are accustomed to seeing icons as bright and glossy bundles of pixel perfection, but this typical style of icon doesn’t always work for all styles of web design. For instance, grungey designs need icons to be a little dirty. While icons on a hand drawn style site should have… read more

20 Fonts Ideal for Big and Powerful Headings

Headings play a major role in the way users digest content. Through size and style, they help establish a hierarchy and make text easy to scan. Headings also help establish the mood created by a design. So it’s important to choose the right font to compliment the website’s style.

For this… read more

30 Creative and Inspiring Blog Designs

These days, blogs are all over the place and they cover almost all areas you may think of. A really great thing about the ‘proliferation’ of blogs is that we can always find great design inspiration while browsing around them. They don’t need to be famous to have an amazing… read more

Beautiful Black and White Nature Photography

The beauty of nature can be very inspiring. In this article, we are showcasing examples of black and white nature photography. Without color, photographers must put more emphasis on lighting, composition, and context. Combined with this and the fact that there are no man-made objects, these photographs are an excellent… read more

20 Sets of Photoshop Brushes for Vintage Syle Design

Vintage style design is all about making things look old. This can be achieved by using using elements in your designs that appear to be from decades ago, and when done well can create a mood for your web design that will leave a lasting impressions on visitors. In this… read more

Interview with Jeff Finley

This is our first interview here on WDL, and we couldn’t have asked for a better interviewee. Jeff Finley is a well known figure in the design community, and as most great designers are…very busy. So we’re thankful that he took the time to answer a few questions for us.

Hi… read more

Useful Tools for Testing Cross Browser Compatibility

A few weeks back I gave you some tips for cross-compatibility, but in this article we are going to focus more specifically on cross-browser compatibility. Building websites to work properly and look good in multiple browsers is a fact of life that web designers must deal with. It is probably… read more

WDL Premium: Wix Unlimited Package Discount

Wix has been kind enough to give our premium members a 40% off coupon code for an Unlimited package. If you’re unfamiliar with Wix, it’s a site that makes it super easy to create your own Flash websites that are highly customizable and search engine friendly. Their easy to use… read more

The Best Icon Sets for Minimal Style Web Design

With so many free icon sets available now, sometimes it makes more sense to not spend countless hours designing and creating your own. However, it’s important that you do find the right style of icons to match your design. In the case of minimal web design, it’s all about clean… read more

40 Amazing Examples of Macro Photography

Macro photography, simply put, is close-up photography. This usually requires a special lens that is optimized to focus sharply on a small area. What I love about macro photography is that it allows us see an entirely different world that is filled with an abundance of detail that usually goes… read more

14 Helpful Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Development

For web developers and designers, it can be difficult to memorize the syntax for multiple programming languages and frameworks, especially since they are always evolving and growing. This is where cheat sheets come in handy. Most cheat sheets are designed to be printer friendly, so you can have them laying… read more

40 Inspiring Single Page Websites

Following one of the Web Design Trends for 2010 – One Page Layouts, I made this selection of some really cool examples to inspire you. I really think that designing a single page website is great to challenge your creativity, your ‘go straight to the point’ skills and your capacity… read more

A Showcase of Vintage Apple Advertisements

In the mid 80’s we bought our first computer. It was an Apple IIc. I have very fond memories of playing games, writing basic programs, and creating graphics while staring at it’s small green monochrome monitor. Even though I was very young at the time, I believe our Apple helped… read more

WDL Premium: Linework Vector Pack from Go Media

Here’s another high quality vector pack for our WDL Premium Members from the talented people at Go Media. Linework is a vector set full of abstract lines, both freeform and technical. Both clean and dirty. A lot of vintage inspired designs use random linework and shapes like these in their… read more

20 Super Clean Fonts Perfect for Minimal Style Design

Finding the right typeface or font for a design can be a tricky process. So it’s good to have a nice selection of fonts at your disposal. With this article, we’re tying to help you out with that and give you some typographic enjoyment. Here are 20 free fonts that… read more

Whitespace: The Underutilized Design Element

There are a number of elements that make up a great web design, but probably one of the most overlooked and underutilized is whitespace. Every design has whitespace, but the problem is that not every design has enough. This could be due to the fact that inexperienced designers and their… read more

80+ Photoshop Actions for Giving Your Pictures a Vintage Look

Photoshop actions are great. If you’re not familiar with actions, they are simply prerecorded adjustments made to a Photoshop file that can be saved and applied to other projects. The concept is simple, but the process to create some actions can be very complicated. That’s why using actions can be… read more

Republica Premium WordPress Theme

Today we’re releasing a premium WordPress theme by Viva Themes for our premium members. If you’re not yet a member, you should sign up to download this and dozens of other files. Republica is a theme that can be used easily for your blog or company site and even a… read more

A Showcase of Clean White Web Designs

When it comes to web design, white is always a symbol of elegance, minimalism and style. You can use white to create space, to keep it simple, to drive the attention to other elements at your page and also to maintain your site with a clean and minimal look. Several… read more

100+ Seamless Patterns Great for Creating Website Backgrounds

Seamless patterns are a great way to add interest and detail to a web design background. In this post we’ve rounded up over one hundred seamless patterns. You’ll find a wide variety of styles such as vintage, florals, and stripes. All of these are of very high quality so you… read more

30 Examples of Latte Art Too Beautiful to Drink

It’s probably fair to say that coffee is the drink of choice of many web designers. So I thought it would be fun to showcase some awesome examples of coffee/latte art. If you’ve never seen this done before, it’s created by pouring steamed milk into espresso and then swirling or… read more

Seven Useful Web Development Tips & Tools for Cross-Compatibility

As a web designer, you would think that the major Internet browsers would’ve come to some sort of agreement on standards and best practices after all this time. In reality, browser compatibility is a minefield of confusing conflicts and picky platforms that refuse to play nice with each other. Here… read more

200+ Big and Beautiful Highly Detailed Icons

If you’re one of many web designers suffering from an icon collecting addiction, you should probably skip over this article. It might be too much for you to handle. However, if you’re addiction is under control, read on. In this article, we’ve rounded up over 200 icons that are big,… read more

40 Brilliant Type-Only Logo Designs

Logos do not always have to include some type of symbol or icon to be effective. When done well, using type only to create a logo can be very effective in representing a company. These types of logos often cause particular typefaces and letter styling to become synonyms with a… read more

The Most Popular Articles of 2009

The end of 2009 marked our first full year in existence, and what a great year it was. We feel that we’ve put out a lot of valuable content that has been helpful to our readers who we greatly appreciate. So before we start publishing new content for 2010, we… read more

35 Expressive Examples of Stunning HDR Photography

HDR photography has become one of the most popular and beautiful forms of displaying images. HDR or “high-dynamic-range photography”, lets you capture different aspects of a photograph and use software to merge them all-together. While scaling through the web, we were able to find a handful of stunning HDR photographs… read more