Best of the Week #208

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

Hype: A Worthy Flash Alternative?

Hype, by developers Tumult, seems to have a rather appropriate title. There has been a great deal of talk about this web animation app since its release some months ago, and that can hardly be a surprise, given that it claims to allow the user to create “beautiful HTML5 web… read more

Daily Inspiration #1048

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

Should You Keep Your Website Open Source?

When you enter the world of web hosting, you will find yourself inundated with options. Choosing a hosting company is only the beginning. Even after you have a domain, hosting account, and all of the preliminary tasks out of the way, you still have to build a website…. read more

CSS3 & jQuery folder tabs

CSS3 & jQuery folder tabs

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Free CSS3 Pricing Table.

Free CSS3 Pricing Table.

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Daily Inspiration #1047

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

How to make your type more appealing on the web

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Easily Create a Website with Moonfruit

Many tools and packages exist online to help people create websites with minimal effort and involvement. Of course, each one has their own strengths and weaknesses. Some are more aimed at creating blogs, while others are better for single-page info sites.

Moonfruit is another competitor in this market. It looks stylish,… read more

Daily Inspiration #1046

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

Best of Tuts+ in January 2012

Each month, we bring together a selection of the best tutorials and articles from across the whole Tuts+ network. Whether you’d like to read the top posts from your favourite site, or would like to start learning something completely new, this is the best place to start!

Psdtuts+ — Photoshop Tutorials

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How to Create CSS3 Buttons [Tutorial]

How to Create CSS3 Buttons [Tutorial]

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40+ Tips to Get the Most Out of Web Apps

There’s so many things you can do from your browser, you could get by quite nicely without any other native apps. The internet is full of amazing web apps, ranging from powerful tools for enterprises to little tools that do one thing great.

While the web apps and sites we love… read more

Daily Inspiration #1045

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

Web designers, what to look for in a CMS

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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.118)

This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)
If you would like to receive our daily updates and keep up to date with the latest and greatest articles and resources from the… read more

Daily Inspiration #1044

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

The Swarm: Short Horror Film Made Entirely on Phones [VIDEO]

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

The Swarm is all about shallow breathing, heavy petting and Xperia smartphones. The short horror film, shot entirely on Sony’s Xperia Arc S phones, follows a group of (mostly) horny teenagers in London who come face… read more

30+ Fresh and Free HTML5 and CSS3 Templates

30+ Fresh and Free HTML5 and CSS3 Templates

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35 Highly Advanced Yet Simple To Use jQuery Plugins

jQuery is a speedy, succinct library that make traversing HTML documents, handling events, performing animations, and adding AJAX simpler. jQuery imparts web developers the opportunity to make websites better with incredible elements without the necessity to write down dozens of lines of code.

In this compilation, you will find top 35… read more

The Future Of Screen Typography Is In Your Hands

We do more reading on the screen today than we did even a year ago. If we are ever to have a golden age of reading on the screen, this might be the start of it.

Tablets, Nooks and Kindles make buying a book or magazine for the screen almost unavoidable…. read more

New developer tools in Firefox 10 and 11

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DashExpander vs. xType: Which Free Snippet Expander is Better?

As a writer, one utility that I simply can’t live without is some sort of text expansion app. These tools are simply invaluable to my workflow and save me hours of typing every month. I personally am a huge fan of TextExpander. It’s my go to text expansion app and… read more

21 Inspiring Examples of Dark Colors in Web Design

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We all know that color is a key aspect of web design, and here at WDL we like to show you how designers are using colors in their projects. We’ve already showcased lists showing colorful websites and sites using white, so today, to keep you inspired… read more

Top 10 Premium CSS3 and HTML5 Mega Menus

Top 10 Premium CSS3 and HTML5 Mega Menus

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Bulletproof CSS3 Dropdown Navigation Menu

Bulletproof CSS3 Dropdown Navigation Menu

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CSS Awards – 20 Beautifully Designed Websites

CSS Awards – 20 Beautifully Designed Websites

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Best of the Week #207

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

Useful CSS Snippets for Your Coding Arsenal

CSS is a beautiful language but it can also be frustrating at times. Certain CSS solutions don’t work on certain browsers (cough Internet Explorer cough) and much of your time can be spent debugging code.

Thankfully there are lots of great CSS snippets available online that fix common problems and design… read more

Master Tabbed Web Browsing With Sleipnir 3

In Norse mythology, Sleipnir is the gray, eight-legged steed that Odin rides to Hel. In the world of technology, it’s an amazing web browser that you just have to try.

Though you may have never heard of it, Sleipnir has been around in various forms for years (it’s also on… read more

CSS3 breadcrumbs

CSS3 breadcrumbs

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9 Steps to Starting Your Freelance Web Design Business

So, you want to be a freelance web designer? Ah, the glamor of it all.

Your own boss, answering only to the call of your creative muse… get up, feel inspired, do some work, go for a walk, laugh knowingly with other freelancers who have also discovered The Secret… read more

7 mistakes developers make

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How To Deliver Exceptional Client Service

We often hear companies, including Web agencies, boast about how they provide exceptional client service. But how do they define exceptional?

Consider this scenario. You are hired to design and develop a new website for a retail client. The client loves the design, and the pages you develop use the latest… read more

Solar Storm Puts Beautiful Northern Lights on Display [VIDEO]

The solar storm that showered the Earth on Tuesday, Jan. 24, was one of the strongest such occurrences in recent years.

It was only a minor nuisance for people on Earth, but for some, it was a great chance to catch northern lights or aurora borealis, a natural light effect… read more

Freebie: Colorful 3D UI Kit

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We have a fantastic freebie for all of you web designers out there, you’ll love this:)
Designed by Land-of-Web, the Colorful 3D UI Kit comes in .psd format and is full of beautifully designed modern web elements covering almost all aspects of web design,… read more

What Should You Do Before Launching a (Successful) Blog

In the past few years, the Internet has developed more and more, encompassing new online presences everyday; this can make one think about this amazing trend and when it will present a lower growth ratio. It is practically impossible to state exactly how many websites are being created each year… read more

How to make your own icon webfont

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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.117)

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This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)
If you would like to receive our daily updates and kepp up to date with the latest and greatest articles and… read more

10 Professional Free CSS Editors

10 Professional Free CSS Editors

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Daily Inspiration #1038

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

50 Beautiful Yet Free HTML5 And CSS3 Templates

HTML5 templates are getting very popular these days because all professional HTML5 templates are compatible to all browsers with its functionality and features, and with the release of HTML5 / CSS3 it has become even more popular among designers because of the additional and great features.

At the moment, HTML5 and… read more

60+ Fresh Examples of Modern Single-Page-Website Designs

As you’ve already seen in our previous posts about Single Page Website Designs that showcasing 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… read more

An Introduction to Concrete5 CMS — Part II

In the previous article,  we took an introductory look at Concrete5 as a CMS. In this follow-up part, we shall learn about the salient features of the CMS and learn to accomplish common tasks using its admin panel.

IMPLEMENTING Concrete5

The Dashboard

Just like WP, Concrete5 also has its own Dashboard. Once… read more

SpriteRight: Create CSS Image Sprites the Easy Way

If you’re a web developer, then you know that manually creating image sprites is a pain. Even worse is the process of trying to position those sprites just right within your CSS. It’s a necessary evil, but don’t you wish you could skip it?

Today we’re going to take a… read more

21 Examples of Inspiring Typography in Web Design

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From print to packages to web design and pretty much all other media that you can think of, typography always plays a big role. Not only can good use of typography add to your design from a visual standpoint, it can also play an important role… read more

CSS3 Tricks: Falling Leaves with CSS only

CSS3 Tricks: Falling Leaves with CSS only

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Daily Inspiration #1037

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

Best CSS Templates: Free Download CSS Templates

Best CSS Templates: Free Download CSS Templates

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5 Firefox Add-Ons for Increasing Productivity

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

The Internet is a black hole of procrastination. It’s a rare occasion when we open up our web browsers and just do work without checking Facebook or… read more

Best of the Week #206

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

15 Ultimate Useful CSS3 Code Generators toward Designers Need

15 Ultimate Useful CSS3 Code Generators toward Designers Need

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Daily Inspiration #1036

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

What else does HTML5 need to defeat flash? (Part 2)

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In part 1 of this article, we analyzed the technical problems facing HTML5. In part 2, we’re going to discuss the problems facing HTML5 commercially.

Unity:

Microsoft, Google and Apple are clearky the 3 giants of the industry at the moment, and it’s really hard to unify… read more

Keep Your Digital Inspiration Organized with Sparkbox

A big part of design is inspiration. Graphic and web designers don’t work in a vacuum, they browse around to see what’s come before, and use other designs as references and starting points. Collecting these little pieces of inspiration and reference can quickly crowd your browser’s bookmark folder or your… read more

Learn How To Display URL After Link With CSS

Learn How To Display URL After Link With CSS

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Daily Inspiration #1035

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

Teach What You Know: How to Make a Living on Skillshare

Nate Cooper is an independent academic and co-organizer of Reboot Workshop, an un-conference for nontraditional workers.

Skillshare is a platform for instructor-led, in-person classes. You can search for classes to take or propose to teach a class topic.

As the name implies, Skillshare is a community of experts and entrepreneurs; therefore,… read more

15 jQuery Calendar Date Picker Plugins

In this collection, you will see some of the best jQuery Calendar Date Picker Plugins that will allow you output planners and calendars even more easily. Majority of these plugins are built on jQuery and jQuery UI (User Interface). With this collection, we tend to help those who need frameworks… read more

How To Integrate Facebook, Twitter And Google+ In WordPress

Integrating social media services in your website design is vital if you want to make it easy for readers to share your content. While some users are happy with the social media buttons that come built into their design template, the majority of WordPress users install a plugin to automatically… read more

WordPress Plugin: Fading CSS3 Menu with notification Bar

Fading Menu with notification Bar is a WordPress Plugin that will allow you to add your navigational menu (main menu or custom menu defined by you) along with notification bar at the top of your browser.

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Win $1,000 in PSD to HTML services!

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What else does HTML5 need to defeat flash? (Part 1)

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Nowadays, HTML5 is like a shining star in the webs sky. However, is HTML5 ready to take the overall crown? From 2 aspects, we are going to discuss what else HTML5 needs to defeat Flash.

Technically:

First of all, I’d like to emphasize that HTML5 and Flash… read more

25 Most Popular Mac OS X Apps for Web Designers

The new Mac App Store on 10.7 Lion has greatly improved the usability of OS X. Now designers and developers have easy access to a whole collection of software from around the world. It’s also a fantastic system for Cocoa programmers to earn some extra cash on the side by… read more

Apple Wireless keyboard made in CSS3

Apple Wireless keyboard made in CSS3

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Daily Inspiration #1034 – STOP SOPA

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

Quick Look: Bunker App

Quick Look posts are paid submissions offering only a brief overview of an app. Vote in the polls below if you think this app is worth an in-depth AppStorm review!

In this Quick Look, we’re highlighting Bunker App. The developer describes Bunker App as the smoothest way for freelancers to manage… read more

Architect Day: Filter Arkitekter

Today we have a nice AD, is from Oslo, Norway. I’m talking about Filter, an architectural firm with five employees. Filters employees have experience in a wide range of architecture and their missions ranging from cottages and houses to schools, police station and city projects.

Filter has a wide contact and… read more

Benefits and Pitfalls of Using Code Frameworks

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A code framework is nothing more than a collection of pre-formatted classes and functions. There are frameworks created for practically every language out there – even including frontend web development like JavaScript and CSS. Developers would be wise to follow these trends of working on… read more

Coconut Calendar: Refreshing Appointment Scheduling

Running a service business? Then you might understand the need for a robust appointment scheduling solution. Appointments, if mishandled, will end up making the customer furious and lead to under utilization of your resources. In both cases, there s a very good chance that your bottomline gets hurt.

Deploying an online… read more

Designing The Well-Tempered Web

As technology evolves, so does the art and craft of Web design. New technology creates new challenges, which require new solutions. Often we’re working in uncharted territory, where the solutions demanded really are new. Other times, we’re faced with problems of a more universal nature, problems that have a history.

Given… read more

Using PayPal for Your Online Business – Advantages and Disadvantages

A merger between X.Com and Confinity in March 2000 gave birth to PayPal as we know it today. Based in the United States of America, it is a global e-commerce business which allows for money transfers and payments to be made through the internet. Basically, it serves as an acquirer… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.116)

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This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)
If you would like to receive our daily updates and kepp up to date with the latest and greatest articles and… read more

Immortal Technique: A Quick Look at Minimalism

There’s a little bit of murmuring going on that the design technique, most affectionately referred to as minimalism, is dying and/or dead. I couldn’t disagree more. I believe that minimalism is not dead, mainly because people don’t quite realize what it is.

Unfortunately, it seems like people think of it… read more

21 Excellent Portfolios and Design Agency Websites

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It has been a while since we last showcased Design Related Websites here, so today we decided to check out how is it that design firms, designers, and other creative agencies are presenting their work. From design studios to brand firms and freelance designer’s portfolios, you… read more

7 Essential CSS3 Tutorials For Web Developers

7 Essential CSS3 Tutorials For Web Developers

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Daily Inspiration #1033

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

Resolution Independence With SVG

In this article, we’ll look at Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), one of the most underused technologies in website development today.

Before diving into an example, let’s consider the state of the Web at present and where it is going. Website design has found new vigor in recent years, with the evolving technique… read more

What’s new for designers – January 2012

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20 Useful CSS Graph and Chart Tutorials and Techniques

20 Useful CSS Graph and Chart Tutorials and Techniques

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4 Tips to Keep Your Website Ahead of the Curve in 2012

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

Sure, having a website for your business serves a practical need: to draw net-surfing users to your product or service. However, it’s also much more than slapping… read more

Our favorite tweets of the week Jan 9-Jan 15, 2012

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Best of the Week #205

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

40 CSS Reference Websites and Resources

If you want to design websites or modify your existing website design, then you need to have at least a basic knowledge of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Thankfully, CSS is a very easy language to get to a grip on, however you may find it takes a little more time… read more

40 Eventual Throng of CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials

40 Eventual Throng of CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials

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20 Impressive Free CSS/xHTML Website Templates

20 Impressive Free CSS/xHTML Website Templates

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Treehouse: Learning to Code

With so much of our information being pushed to the Web, not knowing the basics of web coding is going to become more and more of a hindrance. If you don’t know what a h1, h2, or blockquote is you’re going to find yourself at a severe disadvantage in the… read more

Tamron 18-270mm f/3.5-6.3 Di II VC Piezo Lens [REVIEW]

When I review lenses I take a look at who they are built for. I realize not every DPS reader wants to lug around a 5lb lens worth a couple month’s rent. While I love my main lens, it’s not for everyone and I’d be a fool to tell you… read more

Announcement: Winners of Christmas & New Year Special Giveaway

Few week ago, we created a contest at instantShift called Christmas & New Year Special Giveaway had announced the giveaway of some of the most famous hardware and design related prizes worth Over $20,000.

We’ve got more than 600 response comments. After voiding spam and non-legit comments we have left with… read more

We have $700 worth of services from PSD2HTML.com to giveaway

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If you’re a busy web designer or web developer, this week’s competition is the perfect solution for your PSD to HTML slicing needs. PSD2HTML.com are giving away $400 worth of services for the winner and $300 for the runner-up.
All you have to do… read more

Usability Design for Online Web Forms

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Designers aren’t just creating pleasing graphics for the Internet anymore. As a web designer you need to consider other properties of user interaction and coding. UX design is possibly the most important topic to cover, and this is especially true designing web forms. All webmasters should… read more

Ericsson’s Future Vision: Better Broadband, Tweeting Trees

LAS VEGAS — Ericsson, the Swedish company that invented Bluetooth and whose technology provides 40% of the world’s network infrastructure, gave its first-ever CES keynote on Wednesday to share its vision of a connected world.

CEO Hans Vestberg was big on mobile broadband, and not just for its own sake… read more

50 Excellent CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials for Beautiful Design

50 Excellent CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials for Beautiful Design

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HTML & CSS Blog Layout – Theme Implementation for WordPress

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In this tutorial, I’ll teach you how to adapt a simple HTML blog layout into a WordPress theme. We’ll be using this static page as starting point.

Grab the code from Github

The Brilliante Layout project source code for this theme is available on Github, including the… read more

25 Excellent Examples of CSS In Background

25 Excellent Examples of CSS In Background

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Just another CSS3 menu

Just another CSS3 menu

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Crunch: a LESS/CSS Editor and Compiler

Sometimes over here at Web.AppStorm we look at apps that are built using Adobe AIR, a cross-platform solution that allows you to easily create and install apps that will work on Windows, OS X, and Linux. Crunch is a CSS editor/compiler built using AIR, and is definitely worth a look.

Built… read more

6 Pure CSS Content Slider Alternatives to JavaScript

6 Pure CSS Content Slider Alternatives to JavaScript

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I Am Not a Web Designer

I am not a web designer, and nor are you. Or a developer. Or a writer. Or whatever it is you think you are. You’re not – not in any meaningful way.

Full disclosure: I am actually a web designer, probably, but stick with me here.

I thought I was –… read more