Free Music Monday: 10 Free Downloads Just for You

Hey there, music fans! Thanks for joining us for Free Music Monday this week, where we offer you 10 free downloads for your eclectic listening pleasure. If you haven’t been with us before, we’re collating free and legal tracks in honor of the #musicmonday tradition on Twitter.

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Four Steps For Effective Cross-Cultural Website Design

Four Steps For Effective Cross-Cultural Website Design

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50 Beautiful E-Commerce Website Designs

50 Beautiful E-Commerce Website Designs

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Thousands Watch as Molly the Owl’s Babies Hatch on Ustream [VIDEO]

The Shiba Inu puppies may have met their match. Ustream’s latest breakout animal star is Molly the owl, whose activities — including the birth of baby owlet, Max — are being broadcast live to the web.

Molly is a wild owl inhabiting an owl house barn in San Marcos, California…. read more

Corporate Branding on Twitter: 50 Excellent Examples

Corporate Branding on Twitter: 50 Excellent Examples

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Google Redirects Chinese Site to Hong Kong

In the latest development in an ongoing standoff with China over censorship, Google has redirect its Google.cn property to Google.hk, its site in Hong Kong. The move follows reports this morning that Google would announce plans to pull out of China as early as today.

We’ve contacted Google for… read more

How Small Businesses Are Using Social Media for Real Results

The Real Results series is supported by Gist, an online service that helps you build stronger relationships. By connecting your inbox to the web, you get business-critical information about key people and companies. See how it works here.

Social media can be a scary prospect for small businesses; unlike traditional… read more

Write Better CSS With Best Practices

You don’t have to use em instead of px for font sizes anymore and other advice. read more

Make Online Purchases With Your Verizon Wireless Account

Looking to cash in on the increasingly lucrative social gaming and virtual goods market, Verizon Wireless is introducing a new mobile payment service.

Called Billtomobile, the service allows approved merchants to integrate a payment option into their checkout systems where purchases – both one-time and subscription – are added to… read more

5 Stellar Ways to Explore Space Using Social Media

Space — the final frontier, and all that jazz. As the folk over at the Hubble Telescope website say, “Your body may be trapped at your desk, but your imagination can roam the far reaches of the universe, thanks to the wonders of the web.”

Here’s a spaced-out selection… read more

CSS3 In Transition

With the addition of the CSS3 transition property comes a lot of uncharted territory. Never before has it been so easy to bring animation into a usable, standards-based browsing environment. Determining how often and to what degree one should use animation on a web build can be tricky. As we… read more

Smashing Magazine Needs Your Help

What happened here today, on the Smashing Magazine’s website? Well, here is the thing: we need your help. Only sound financial conditions can guarantee the steady stream of high quality content which you are used to on Smashing Magazine. Today we need your financial support. Please help us by buying… read more

Adding Ecommerce to Your Dreamweaver Site

In the last year, both Google Checkout and PayPal have added shopping-cart features to their most basic ecommerce offerings, making it easy for anyone to sell multiple products on a website. For no upfront costs and a competitive transaction fee, you can set up an entire shopping cart in an… read more

CSS In Depth Part 3: All About Text

CSS In Depth Part 3: All About Text

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25 Ultimate Useful PSD to HTML Tutorials

25 Ultimate Useful PSD to HTML Tutorials

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Techniques for Squeezing Images for All They’re Worth

An image’s dimensions on screen are measured in pixels: width and height.

An image’s quality is determined by less tangible factors: composition, mood, style, contents. But none of that matters if people get impatient waiting for the file to download.

Web images change in file size when compressed…. read more

Simultaneous Web and TV Use Is Surging [STATS]

New data from The Nielsen Company lends more credence to the idea that watching television while surfing the web is becoming more common in U.S. households.

In fact, nearly 60% — or 134 million people — do it at least once a month, with the average time spent consuming media… read more

Splitting, Merging and Optimizing PDFs Online

More times than I can remember I’ve encountered situations where I need to split, merge or just reduce a PDF’s file size (optimizing). Fortunately I have had Adobe Acrobat (not reader) available the large majority of the time. Unfortunately, however, the PDF’s I’m generally working with are in collaboration with… read more

“1st E-Commerce Week” at 1stWebDesigner

Sensing the ever-increasing grandeur of E-Commerce, we will celebrate 1st E-Commerce Week on 1stwebdesigner, this week. read more

Give Your Readers Personalized Content with My6sense

At DEMO this week, my6sense will be launching its free Attention API, which allows third parties to tap into the “digital intuition” technology that my6sense utilizes.

My6sense is a mobile app that basically gets to know what you like and what’s important to you, after which it organizes… read more

New Masters of Photoshop — Book Review

New Masters of Photoshop is an amazing book that I’ll be reviewing on this post and sharing the best parts of it. If you like photoshop and learning from tutorials this is a must have, check it out.

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The Book

New Master of Photoshop is a book that was released back… read more

Are You Just a Freelancer? Or a Successful One?

Freelancer by profession is one who has decided not to be stereotyped in any fashion and will work on his own accord, that is universally known but the question is how many of them actually make it in the market. There comes your decision making in every aspect of your… read more

Custom WordPress Homepage with Customizable Widgets

In this Tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a Custom homepage for your WordPress Theme using Page Templates: Complete with a featured content slider, and customizable Widgets.

Quick Nav:

Making a Template FileFeatured Content SliderJavaScriptCustom Widget Areas in WordPress TemplatesMaterials Needed:WordpressText EditorNote: any text editor will work.

A lot of people I have… read more

25 Web Designs with Amazing Attention to Detail

In many cases the small details of web design are what separate good design from great design. Last year we published 30 Web Designs with Amazing Attention to Detail, and today we’re following up with another showcase of inspirational designs.

In this post we’ll showcase websites that are examples of designers… read more

How to Create a Vector Optical Illusion

In this tutorial we’ll learn to create three types of optical illusions. Learn how easy it is to fool our brains. You’ll not believe there is no curved lines on the chessboard.

Step 1

We will start by creating the Impossible 3D object. Let’s open a new document in Illustrator (File >… read more

Incredible Book Cut Sculptures by Su Blackwell

I have one word for Su Blackwell’s work: incredible. She manages to capture the essence of childhood books with a beautiful delicacy that I do absolutely no justice of explaining. Su also ventures outside the book medium to full size paper installations which you can check out at her portfolio…. read more

Melting Girl in Photoshop

One of the best things in Photoshop, in my opinion, is that we can create all sorts of effects and photo manipulations mixing regular stock photos. A few weeks ago I used a few images to come up with a sort of surrealist design of a melting girl face over… read more

Get Premium Designer Stuffs for Low Money with Membership Programs

Since a while there is more and more membership program for web designers that offer premium contents for a cheap fee. In this post I will feature the best programs that we can find and try to guide you in the program that will best fit. read more

20 New & Extremely Useful Mac Apps For Web Designers

Whichever type of Mac user you are, today’s post will certainly help you in completing your day-to-day tasks, develop & code projects. For this post we tried to get you the best selection of New Mac Apps that will help you be a more efficient designer. read more

CoverScout: Tidy Up Your Album Artwork

Are you one of those people dreamily scrolls through their iTunes library, just to admire the beauty of the artwork flying by? And isn’t it annoying that sometimes there are blank spots? Or that iTunes seems to accept the artwork you manually add, but it isn’t showing up on your… read more

Choose Your Own Adventure Comes to Twitter

As if Twitter weren’t enough of a time-sink, Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed and Huffington Post fame created a choose your own adventure game using only Twitter (and lots of Bit.ly links.)

In case you aren’t familiar with choose your own adventure games, it’s basically a written work which allows the… read more

11 CSS3 Code Generators to make CSS3 development a breeze

CSS3 is awesome, but the new syntax is sometimes hard to get your head around. Thankfully though, a few kind souls have created some very useful tools to generate the code for you.

Read more at rathersplendid.net →

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Create HTML Forms Online With Formsite

If you wish to create dynamic HTML forms that you can use to collect data or conduct surveys, Formsite may suit your needs.  Formsite allows you to build forms for a number of different cases including registration, reservation, product evaluation, order placement etc.  With Formsite, you can build and publish… read more

[CSS3] jQuery Dropdown Navigation in WordPress

Today, we will learn how to enhance you WordPress in a whole new way. Multi-Level or Multi-Dimensional navigation menus can offer your theme and users 2 new things read more

10 Blank/Naked WordPress Themes Perfect for Development

If you have to develop WordPress themes on a regular basis then I have no doubt that you too have experienced the tedium that goes with re-writing the same code over and over again. It doesn’t matter how excited you are about a new project or even how much you… read more

13 Must Have Firefox Addons to Boost the Productivity of Bloggers

In this article we have compiled 13 best Firefox addons necessary for Bloggers. These addons provide a lot of flexibility by reducing the necessity of separate tools for different tasks of blogging. read more

CSS3, please!

Online testing ground for some of the CSS3 rules. read more

CSS for the iPad

Short and helpful tip about how to tell iPad to use specific CSS file. read more

Drop shadow with CSS for all web browsers

Examples of CSS based drop shadows for all major browsers. read more

Zerista Offers Mobile-Optimized Social Media Tools for Groups

DEMO Spring 2010 officially kicks off on Monday morning, but at the welcome reception earlier tonight, we got a chance to meet with some of the companies that will be presenting their products over the next two days.

One of those companies is Zerista, which is a tool that lets… 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

DesignChat Guest: Sean Adams

DesignChat is a weekly live-video chat with the design community hosted by Ryan McGovern and a special guest. This post will also be a weekly event, appearing on Mondays to introduce the special guest and show some of their work. Lets get on with it!

Sean is a co-founder of… read more

The Perfect Office #29

We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?

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Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more

“Baby Killer” Becomes Healthcare Vote’s “You Lie” [VIDEO]

On Sunday night, the House of Representatives passed a $875 billion healthcare bill with a vote of 219-212. While discussion of the news is currently dominating the social web, a specific moment from the proceedings is also getting attention – a member of the House yelling out “baby… read more

140 Reasons We Love Twitter

Today is Twitter’s fourth birthday, and to celebrate the occasion we asked our Twitter followers: “Let us know how Twitter changed your life – add hashtag #thankstwitter4 so we can find your tweet.”

We got thousands of responses — in fact, #thankstwitter4 has become a trending topic. As promised,… read more

Do you know there are other ways of using css selectors? (Part 1)

Do you know there are other ways of using css selectors? (Part 1)

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11 Free [Pink] Web Design Icons

11 Free [Pink] Web Design Icons

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California on Social Media [VIDEO]

Comedian Kassem G conducts “man on the street” interviews each week with Californians — issues tackled include drugs, stereotypes and Tiger Woods.

This week, Kassem asks beach goers for their views on social media, from Twitter to MySpace, Facebook and Farmville … he doesn’t get very far.

Tags: california, social media,… read more

15 Brilliant CSS3 Based Articles

15 Brilliant CSS3 Based Articles

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New Twitter Phishing Attack: “You’re On Here?” [WARNING]

Twitter users are reporting a new attempt to extract their usernames and passwords — a Direct Message attack that asks “You’re on here?” with a link. Others report DMs linking to a site called “mhansenhome” with the message “’someone posted on their blog about you”.

The advice is straightforward:… read more

Daily Inspiration #462

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

PhotoNest: your Twitter stream, in pictures

<piven that Twitter doesn't have a genuine photo-posting mechanism, this seems like a grand idea to me. I've done something similar to collect and expand just the links posted to my stream, but this app does a great job of pulling photos posted with multiple services and presenting them in… read more

50 Breathtaking Examples Of Spectacular Aerial Photography

Aerial photography is the technique of capturing photographs of the land from an elevated location. This type of photography usually refers to photographs which are taken when the camera is not supported by a ground-based structure. The camera in Aerial photography may be hand held or mounted, and photographs may… read more

Happy Birthday Twitter!

Sunday, March 21st (a few hours from now on the West Coast) marks Twitter’s 4th birthday — exactly four years since Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey sent his first Tweet and, along with Evan Williams and Biz Stone, started a phenomenon.

Last month, Twitter hit 50 million Tweets per day, and… read more

Basics of Slicing with Pixelmator

In this tutorial, I will show you how to use the Slice Tool in Pixelmator to, of course, slice a design to be coded into a functional Web site. I will also show you the HTML/CSS walk-through process. In the end, you will be able to download the files and… read more

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Mar 14-Mar 20, 2010

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick… read more

Wallpaper of the Week #92 – Carmelo Di Lorenzo

The wallpaper of this week is a beautiful illustration by Carmelo Di Lorenzo, an art director, designer and illustrator, from São Paulo, Brazil. Carmelo worked with Adhemas Batistas, one of his greatest influences, a few years ago and now he is working as Senior Art Director at Wunderman.

For more information… read more

4 Ways Non-Profits Can Use Google Buzz

Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related work, and released an award-winning book on new media Now is Gone in 2007.

Despite some initial flaws, Google Buzz continues to show promise as a social marketing platform. It has a significant (though somewhat latent) user base, with an increasing… read more

Yelp for Business: 4 Steps for Success

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

For local small businesses, Yelp isn’t just an option — it’s a necessity. People in urban centers use it to choose where to go to dinner,… read more

Introducing Paul Hollingworth

Since I’ve first seen his work I really admire him. Paul Hollingworth is a graphic designer , photographer & illustrator from England. Take a look at his artworks, which are very clean, simple but very powerfull & well-thought. Thanks Rik for showing me one of my new favourite artists.

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Plastikman releases SYNK, an app for his tour

<pier we were hearing that Apple might get involved in location-based ad-hoc social networking, and now it looks like Plastikman might beat them to the punch. That's the DJ, not the superhero — he's released an iPhone app that's designed to be used at his concerts this summer, giving you… read more

9 jquery plugins you probably haven’t seen

9 jquery plugins you probably haven’t seen

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11 Essential Social Media Resources You May Have Missed

We know you’re busy. Even with every social media, web, and RSS tool at your disposal, you can occasionally miss out on some of the week’s most insightful content.

Never fear. We’ve taken a moment to round up the best Mashable resources from this past week and present… read more

Win Free 5000 Business Cards from NextDayFlyers- Winners Announced!

A weeks ago, we created a contest at instantShift called Win Free 5000 Business Cards from NextDayFlyers! had announced the giveaway of 5 free sets of 1,000 Standard Business Cards each from NextDayFlyers.

We’ve got more than 160 response comments. After voiding spam and non-legit comments we have left with 120+… read more

Best of the Week #111

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.33

This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to… read more

Comics of the Week #17

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.

The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers.

These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile… read more

40+ Exceptional Web 2.0 Icon Design Tutorials

40+ Exceptional Web 2.0 Icon Design Tutorials

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25 Web Development Blogs You Should Be Reading

25 Web Development Blogs You Should Be Reading

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5 Things You Need to Know About Location-Based Social Media

Kevin Nakao is VP of Mobile & Business Search for WhitePages, a Top 40 Web and Mobile Publisher. You can find him on Twitter, and on the Whitepages Blog where he writes about mobile, local, and social media.

While last year’s SXSW seemed to serve as the “coming out” party… read more

18 Beautiful and High Quality Fonts for Your Designs

18 Beautiful and High Quality Fonts for Your Designs

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50+ High-Quality Photoshop Tutorials For Lighting and Abstract Effects

50+ High-Quality Photoshop Tutorials For Lighting and Abstract Effects

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Daily Inspiration #461

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Non-Profit Challenges You to Ditch the iPhone for a Day

A non-profit organization called Reboot has a mighty challenge for you this Friday night: Power down your cellphone, let your FarmVille crops languish and sign out of Skype for a full 24 hours. What do you think: Can you hack a single day sans technology?

We’re seen efforts of this… read more

Conan Launches a Twitter Contest for Tour Tickets

If you weren’t able to pick up tickets for Conan O’Brien’s “Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour” the first time around, you’ve just been given a second chance by way of a contest the former late night host announced on Twitter.

The contest is a promotion for American… read more

CSS for the iPad

If you want to use a CSS modification for the iPad (as I do), this is how you tell the iPad to use an additional CSS file. (via Noah Stokes)

Read more at thomasmaier.me →

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Social Networking Usage Surges Globally [STATS]

According to the Nielsen Company, the global average time spent per person on social networking sites is now nearly five and half hours per month (February 2010 data), with Facebook accounting for the majority of that time. That’s up more than two hours from last year.

In arriving at that conclusion,… read more

HOW TO: Follow Mashable Channels via RSS, Email, Twitter or Facebook

If you follow Mashable, chances are you either visit the website directly, or subscribe to our RSS feed, daily emails or Twitter and Facebook pages. Given that there are dozens of ways to follow Mashable, we thought we’d round these up in a useful blog post.

We’re also aware… read more

Twitter Search Results to Show Popular Tweets On Top

Twitter appears set to tweak search results to return the most popular tweets first — instead of the most recent — for any given search query.

This according to Twitter Developer Advocate Taylor Singletary, who has just updated the developer Google Group announcing the yet-to-be-released product. Singletary says, “This is… read more

The Small Business Guide to Google Apps

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

Google Apps for business has a number of benefits over traditional business IT and desktop software. Using the full suite essentially places all of your… read more

Showcase of Photography Portfolio Websites

Photographers, just like designers, often use the Internet to help promote their work.

Other than using mainstream photography and design sites such as Flickr, Behance and DeviantArt, photographers usually like to have their own portfolio. Not only is it professional, but it gives them an unlimited amount… read more

Becoming a U.S. Citizen Twitter-Style

Yesterday, David Chen live-tweeted the process of becoming an American citizen when he, along with 900 other individuals, participated in the Naturalization Oath Ceremony at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Chen, the managing editor of /Film, is used to using his Twitter account to live-tweet film festivals or… read more

GoingUp Provides Everything A Blogger Needs

Site owners and professional bloggers use a variety of tools to assess the performance of their website. The number priority is to get as much traffic on the site as possible. To achieve this, the current traffic being received is analyzed statistically and graphically, search engine optimization tools are employed… read more

4 Easy Ways to Engage Your Facebook Fans

Leyl Master Black is a Managing Director at Sparkpr, one of the world’s top independent PR agencies. Leyl has more than 15 years experience driving high-impact communications programs for emerging technology companies.

While more than three million businesses, brands and celebrities have created Facebook Pages, many are struggling to… read more

How to Create a 3D Iconic Sphere in CorelDraw

Learn here how to create a 3D iconic sphere using a few techniques in CorelDRAW X4. This tutorial will explain every single step to do, so don’t be afraid to try this even if it is your first time using corelDRAW X4. We think it’s easy as there is no… read more

Feed My Inbox Giveaway

We recently published a how-to covering Feed My Inbox (FMI)—RSS to Email with Feed My Inbox—which talked about several RSS solutions the web app is capable of. If you need (or want) to receive RSS feeds via email, FMI is a great app to check out.

The FMI team has been… read more

Friday Fresh Free Fonts #40

I will be posting some fresh free fonts every Friday, yes I know it’s awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#40 and make sure to comeback… read more

80+ iPhone Inspired Website Designs For Your Inspiration

It’s not a secret that for years, Apple has had a huge impact on designers across the globe. Apple has always able to found an extremely effective way to deliver its message via their products to a wide audience and their design is often a key source of inspiration for… read more

Freelance Radio, Episode 44: Negotiating a Freelance Contract

The latest episode of Freelance Radio, the official FreelanceSwitch podcast, is now available! This episode, the panel (John Brougher, Dickie Adams, Kristen Fischer and Von Glitschka) talks about negotiating a freelance contract. Subscriptions to the podcast are available via iTunes and an archive of all podcasts will appear in the… read more

Sites of the Week #94

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as Design is Blank and ColorCubic. Also we’re featuring the 204 Beech blog and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be more… read more

Showcase of Academic and Higher Education Websites

College and university websites have a lot of roles to fill. They need to provide information for prospective students (both new and transfer), parents of students and prospective students, current students, and alumni. In many cases, they’re also the gateway to the school’s intranet and the public face for both… read more

12 Useful and Free Downloadable Web Design Books

There are a multitude of books (whether in digital format or print) that cover every possible aspect of web design, each one is unique and offers a personalized opportunity for the author to both educate, inspire, and guide the reader through there knowledge.
In this post rather than offer all… read more

The Right Frame of Mind: Applying the Lessons of CSS Frameworks

Find out how to apply some of the coding processes that we find in CSS frameworks. read more

Congratulations To The Winners Of SyncMate Expert Edition

Thank you for all of the participants of contest in which SyncMate Is Giving Away 15 Single User Expert Edition Licenses. We ran the MySql random query and selected these 15 commenter to give them Single User licenses of SyncMate Expert Edition.

ChrisRajesh Kanuri @ TechCatsVryukKimEvanAndrew OrtweinAdonePassufHeather St. MarieAskariVpapJoannaNicoleMatthiasPaulo

SyncMate is… 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

7 Extremely Useful Chrome Extensions for Web Developers (with quick tutorials for each)

The community has made some amazing Chrome extensions. Here is the list of 7 Extremely Useful Chrome Extensions for Web Developers which are very easy to use for every day work. read more

Amazing Pictures of Lighthouses

For me, one of the greatest kinds of buildings is a lighthouse. I find amazing how much big storms it takes during a year and keeps showing the way to sailors everywhere. There are some photographers that really know how to catch the different feelings of it.

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I’m not going to… read more

Mobile Web Design

Adjusting a site for the mobile environment is a great challenge. A lot of techniques you are used to applying on web design would not make any sense on mobile, and vice-versa.

Mobile is a great place to try new things with different limits. People using the mobile web are much… read more

Trada Crowdsources Search Engine Marketing Campaigns

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: Trada

Quick Pitch: Trada’s online marketplace boosts Google… read more

Understanding the CSS Float Property

CSS floats are used everywhere in modern web design, but many people don’t understand how they work and behave. This tutorial will help. read more