Best female web designers – the list continues

Best female web designers – the list continues

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How to Find the Best Keywords and Ideas for Your Articles

How to Find the Best Keywords and Ideas for Your Articles

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Interview with Jonathan Patterson

Fans of Vectortuts+ are certainly familiar with the vector tutorials of Jonathan Patterson. He’s obviously a talented vector illustrator, there is however a wide variety of work he produces in addition to his vector artwork. Jonathan is a Michigan native working as a Senior Art Director at an advertising agency…. read more

Unleashed – SlashTHREE 13th Exhibition

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Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.30

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

Best of the Week #108

It’s time for our best news of this week, the first one of 2010. 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… read more

88 Ultimate Round-Up of Photoshop Photo Manipulation Tutorials

When it comes to Image editing or photo enhancement, Adobe Photoshop is usually the primary option to consider. However, the software package itself is a quite hard to learn — and extremely hard to master.

Display beautiful images is a potent element in web and graphic design, where there is less… read more

Comics of the Week #14

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

Q&A: A Career in Web Design

Q&A: A Career in Web Design

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Stylish Penguin and Pelican Book Covers

When we get to think about classic design, one of the things that come to mind are those awesome, vintage Penguin and Pelican book cover designs. There are tons of them out there, but I’ve made a brief selection of some pretty cool ones.

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The World Best Designers: Spain

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Usability Review of Charity Websites Taking the Lead

Over the years designers have pushed themselves to create unique and inspiring designs. Companies have yearned to have websites which are innovative and make them stand out against their competitors. Yet charity websites have not progressed along with trends and expectations — they seem to have been designed for launch… read more

A Review of Consistent Designs on the Web

The visual language of a website impresses a visitor far beyond their first glimpse.

In fact, in observing the best websites, you notice that the small details speak to you subconsciously and that consistency improves your experience of the website and as a result makes you more likely… read more

Do You Have What it Takes to be a Freelance Web Designer or Developer?

Do You Have What it Takes to be a Freelance Web Designer or Developer?

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Finding Inspiration in Uncommon Sources: 12 Places to Look

Inspiration can be a fickle thing. Most designers, when lacking ideas, turn to design galleries to find ideas. But there are a few problems with that approach. The most obvious is that when taking inspiration from similar mediums, there’s a fine line between “inspired by” and “copied”. To some extent,… 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

Q&A: A Career in Web Design

If you are a still not sure about whether or not you would like to work as a web designer, then you definitely need to read this article so you can get some insight about the web design field. This post is about a college student who contacted several of… read more

Typography Quick Tips

I’m a huge fan of typography. Although I am still not an expert at it, I’m always trying to learn as much as I can about the subject. This excellent article goes over 14 important tips about typography. It’s a selection of short typography tips from Harry Roberts. This is… read more

Daily Inspiration #442

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

25 of the Best Blogging and Social Media Icon Sets

Icons are a favorite free resource of designers and bloggers. There are tons of quality, free icon sets out there and in this post we’ll feature 25 that are great for blog design. These icons sets include the those that are great for use with blogs and social media.

Cute Blogging… read more

The Wackiest and Most Creative iPhone Cases

The iPhone is arguably the most revolutionary product Apple has released in its existence.

With nearly 50 million iPhones sold to date, there are hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of iPhone cases that have been created.

In this article, we have compiled some of the most creative ones, but also… 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

1000 Business Cards to Giveaway!

NextDayFlyers are an online printing company that specialize in business cards, postcards, menu’s, tickets and even more items such as posters and greeting cards.

You can check out their website at the following address: nextdayflyers.com

The Lucky Winner…

The lucky winner will receive 1000 Full Color U/V Coated Standard Business Cards. Also included… read more

Designing User Interfaces For Business Web Applications

Business Web application design is too often neglected. I see a lot of applications that don’t meet the needs of either businesses or users and thus contribute to a loss of profit and poor user experience. It even happens that designers are not involved in the process of creating applications… read more

40 New and Trendy Free Social Media Bookmark Icon Sets

Social Media Bookmark Icons serve as significant design touches in websites and blogs. They help visitors bookmark their favorite posts and articles in any social media platform such as Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon and others, ensuring that they can get back to your site directly for future reference. Using… read more

50 Amazing Personal Blog Web Designs

The importance of a unique, memorable and well designed blog, especially within the design community, should not be underestimated – First impressions will always count and your blog gives you an opportunity to showcase your skills and highlight how professional and serious you are as a designer.

For most web… read more

Logo Design: Heads and Faces

As we’ve promissed, the Logo Design series is not dead! This series is too good to be buried, so we just had continue it. Now, we’re gonna find new ways to sort these listings. Today, it’s all about heads and faces. I’ve looked for some logos featuring these, and I’ve… read more

2009 Web Design Trends: What’s Washed-Up & What Will Remain Hot in 2010

2009 Web Design Trends: What’s Washed-Up & What Will Remain Hot in 2010

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Daily Inspiration #441

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 Is the Future of Online News?

Newspapers around the world are struggling to survive while competing with websites that offer comparable news more quickly and without a subscription fee.

Many newspapers have embraced the Internet and use their own websites to post news. But their online revenue is a fraction of what they got… read more

Awesome Concept Ships

Some time ago I found a great blog on concept ships. There were some great designs over there, really worth checking out. So the time came for us to share it with you guys. The blog is simply called Concept Ships, and I choose some of the best designs I… read more

The AIDA Marketing Model in Web Design

By Louis Lazaris

If you’ve been formally educated in marketing, more than likely you’ve learned about a marketing model called AIDA. AIDA is an acronym that represents the different steps involved in selling a product or service. Very often, the principles of AIDA are applied naturally when a useful product or… 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

Inspiring 3D and Motion Works by Marcelo Souza

Marcelo Souza is a 3D Animator/Generalist from Brazil with more than 12 years of experience working at all stages of the production pipeline. From the pre-production to the final compositing. Passing through the modeling, rigging, shading, lighting texturing, animation, editing and post production of the piece. As he says”In Brazil… read more

Daily Inspiration #440

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

Showcase of Great Web App Interfaces

Web Apps are popping up everywhere. Five years or so ago, we could live without them, but as the internet has evolved we use them more and more in our daily lives.

We have put together a great compilation of beautiful web application interfaces.

The web applications that were… read more

Stylish Artworks by Kervin Brisseaux

Kervin Brisseaux is a graphic designer from Spring Valley, NY, United States with a very impressive portfolio. Kervin is also member of the always cool DEPTHCORE Collective and The Keystone Design Union. Besides creating cool designs he likes to play Street Fighter and FIFA :)

For more information check out Kervin’s… read more

CSS3 Dropdown Menu

CSS3 Dropdown Menu

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40 Absolutely Free Vector Pack Collections

As designers, we are all familiar with various resources that we use in our usual designs, images and creations. Resources such as brushes and textures are just a few examples of these resources that help improve the quality and artistry of every image. More and more websites are into providing… read more

Threadless Bestee of the Year – Giveaway Winner

Every month a design is voted as the Bestee of the Month at Threadless. At the end of the year the Threadless community votes on the Bestee of the Year. The winning designer gets the prize of $20,000, Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium, a $500 Threadless Gift Certificate, and… read more

Shalom! Showcase Of Web Design In Israel

Israel is a young country with an old heart. It has been quickly built up over the last 60 years as an independent democratic Jewish state and is shockingly cutting edge for a country so new.

It is a tiny surreal sliver of land smack dab in the middle of the… read more

How To: Font Replacement

Typography in web design is an important aspect, having aesthetic fonts can be appealing and increase user experience….

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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

20 Beautiful Nature Wallpapers

It’s been some time since we had a good wallpaper post. I was looking for a new wallpaper for my desktop and I found some amazingly beautiful images that just made me want to post a whole bunch of nature wallpapers.

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So I started to look just for nature images, and… read more

5 Reasons Why I Love Being A Web Designer

This article showcases 5 reasons why being a web designer rocks.

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HOW TO: Build a Facebook Landing Page for Your Business

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

Facebook is known for its uniformity. You can post all sorts of content, but the actual design and layout of your profile is the same… read more

Jeans textures in modern web design: Examples and Resources

Since my post on the Wood texture in modern web design became quite popular, I do not want to disappoint you. Here comes the sequel. Take a look at these stunning examples of websites with Jeans textures. But even more importantly, check out these beautiful jeans textures which you can… read more

Happy Cog’s Redesign of VisitPhilly.com: An Exemplary Modern Website

In January, Jason Santa Maria sent out a tweet announcing that visitphilly.com had been redesigned by world-renowned design studio Happy Cog. My interest was piqued, and I couldn’t help but take a peek.

I can honestly say that I’ve never been more impressed with a website redesign than… read more

Mashable’s Weekly Social Media Conference Guide

It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.

Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s… read more

Photoshop Quick Tips: Neon with Layer Styles

I have posted about how to create the neon effect in Photoshop a couple of times, however I still get emails from readers asking me how I did the light effect I use on the Abduzeedo logo. So I decided to simplify the process and show you how to create… read more

20 Essential Tips for Graphic Design Blog Management

Whether you work in some corporate office, small studio, or as a freelance designer, chances are you have a lot to do. As blog owners, we many times have multiple tasks to work on, content to manage, writers to handle, research to do, and more, to increase the productivity and… read more

The Seven Deadly Sins Of JavaScript Implementation

Using JavaScript has become increasingly easy over the last few years. Whereas back in the day we needed to know the quirks of every browser, now many libraries such as jQuery, YUI, Dojo and MooTools allow someone who doesn’t even know JavaScript to spruce up boring HTML documents with impressive… read more

A Round-Up of 50 Fresh Photoshop Tutorials and Techniques

As a graphic designer you will never reach the point were you can say “Yep, I know everything, nothing left for me to learn!“. It doesn’t work that way, graphic design is a constant evolution of learning new techniques, knowing latest design trends and all the while staying focused… 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

The Perfect Office #25

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

25 jQuery Tutorials for Creating and Working with Forms

A few weeks ago we published a collection of jQuery plugins for working with forms. While those plugins can be very useful, there may be times where you would rather learn how to code the solution yourself rather than simply using a plugin. There are a number of quality tutorials… read more

Daily Inspiration #438

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

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

Anatomy of Colors in Web Design: Yellow and the Sunshine Feel

Anatomy of Colors in Web Design: Yellow and the Sunshine Feel

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Beautiful Music Streaming Website Design in Photoshop

Beautiful Music Streaming Website Design in Photoshop

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Creative Illustrations by Leandro Lima

Leandro Lima is a young brazilian Illustrator, Digital Artist and Interactive Art Director. Currently living in Milan, Italy, Leandro has done work for big clients such as Microsoft, Sony Ericsson, Braskem, Banco do Brasil, Arcor, Everlast, Capricho Magazine, BRAVO! Magazine, Época Negócios Magazine, Rmax Studio, GLOSS Magazine, Editora Positivo, Vespa… read more

Art Manifestos and Their Applications in Contemporary Design

The way you express yourself with words is a crucial extension of your creative identity. Professional designers are usually busy focusing on the visual aspects of their craft, but visual arts and literary arts collide and coincide regularly. The two fields meet not just in typography, but also in press… read more

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Feb 14-Feb 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 #88 – Alex Varanese

The wallpaper of this week is an image created by Alex Varanese, a graphic designer and creative director from San Francisco, USA. Alex has some really cool Typeface designs and an impressive portfolio with a beautiful retro feel.

For more information visit Alex’s website at http://www.alexvaranese.com/

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Six Project Management Skills Every Web Design Freelancer Must Have

Six Project Management Skills Every Web Design Freelancer Must Have

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Fresh Icon Sets You Probably Haven’t Seen Before

As you know, new icon sets are published every day on various web design blogs. I have monitored many of these blogs a long time and I thought, therefore, show some of the best-looking icon sets I’ve seen recently. I hope you will like them.

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Collection Of 40 Best Carefully Hand Picked Retro Designs

Collection Of 40 Best Carefully Hand Picked Retro Designs

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35 Beautiful & High Quality UI Icon Sets

Icons can be a major element of your web design, and can make your user interface design stand out from all the others. I have compiled a list of 35 high quality and beautiful icon sets that would be a great addition to anyone’s arsenal.

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Best of the Week #107

It’s time for our best news of this week, the first one of 2010. 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… read more

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.29

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 #13

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

Daily Inspiration #437

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

All You Need to Know About Shutter Speed Priority for DSLR Cameras

All You Need to Know About Shutter Speed Priority for DSLR Cameras

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Interview with Glenn Jones

With his fifteen years of experience, intelligent and humorous style, graphic designer and illustrator Glenn Jones from New Zealand, answered our questions on building a career, discovering his talent, finding inspiration, and the process of creating his pop t-shirt illustrations. Let’s have a chat with Glenn.

1. Welcome to Vectortuts+ Glenn…. 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

Is John The Client Dense or Are You Failing Him?

Meet John the client. John runs a reasonably large website. He is a marketer who considers himself smart, articulate and professional. That said, he doesn’t know much about Web design, and so he needs your help. John comes to you with a clear set of business objectives and asks for… read more

5 Tips to Add Hours to Your Day

For freelancers, there’s a direct correlation between how many hours you work and how much money you make. Increasing your income can be tough because there are only 24 hours in any given day and most of us have to do things like sleep and spend time with our family… read more

Sites of the Week #90

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as Robocat and Neutron Creations. Also we’re featuring the community We Live Now 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

A Collection of “Coming Soon” Web Pages

“Coming soon” pages are a great way for websites to engage and connect with visitors, even before the actual site is published.

A well designed “coming soon” page is a great teaser to grab the attention of potential visitors and make them look forward to the website’s launch.

These pages usually… read more

Video of the Week #52

I love to find new projects all over the web. I find really cool experimental videos that try to come up with something that has already been done, but not in a certain way. We’ve seen tons of stop motions… but I think I’ve never seen something like this: Still… read more

How to Make the iSandwich 4G [VIDEO]

By now you’ve probably seen photos of that delicious lunch treat, the iSandwich — a sandwich that is basically shaped like an iPhone. But have you ever stopped to think how it came to be? Well, thanks to a video courtesy of the blog iSandwich 4G, you can learn… read more

Daily Inspiration #436

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

150 Free Rust Brushes for Photoshop

Most designers love Photoshop brushes because they can make it quick and easy to create impressive results. In the past we have posted numerous collections of various types of Photoshop brushes, and today we’ll continue with rust brushes.

The use of rust and texture in design is very popular right now,… read more

8 Tools for Common Client Web Design Requests

8 Tools for Common Client Web Design Requests

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The Many Faces of Nazaury Delgado

Nazaury Delgado is a digital artist from the Bronx who uses Photoshop to create evocative and surreal images.

He begins the process with a photograph of himself or others, which he then overlays with another photo collage. The entire composition is then faded together to make the final product.

Delgado is nineteen… read more

Why designers ought to flag 123RF.com

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Surrealist Drawings by Reality-must-die

I have been working on a few designs heavily inspired by the Surrealism, because of that I was looking for some references and visual artists that are influenced by this style as well. Then I stumbled upon Reality-must-die at DeviantArt. I couldn’t get much information about him, I know he… read more

35 Useful jQuery Plugins for Slideshows, Graphs and Text Effects

By Angel Wardriver

jQuery can empower a developer with the tools required to create a rich user experience. The way in which we display images, text, charts and graphs can enhance functionality for the wide range of users. Let’s take a look at 35 powerful and effective jQuery plugins and techniques… read more

50 Useful Coding Techniques (CSS Layouts, Visual Effects and Forms)

Although CSS is generally considered a simple and straightforward language, sometimes it requires creativity, skill and a bit of experimentation. The good news is that designers and developers worldwide often face similar problems and choose to share their insights and workarounds with the wider community.

This is where we come in…. 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

Logo Design A to Z – XYZ Combo

Some time ago we began a series of posts on logo design. Our goal? To cover as many logos as we can until the end of the year… we started with logos starting with A, today we end it with a XYZ combo. We’ve been seeing some great logos, and… read more

4 Terrific Tools for Creating Business Web Forms

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

Web forms can be a great asset on your business site. They let you collect pertinent data and contact information from your visitors without exposing your… read more

Daily Inspiration #435

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 Code up a Web Design from PSD to HTML

How to Code up a Web Design from PSD to HTML

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15 Highly-Useful Resources for Cross Browser Testing

Browser testing is one of the parts of the design and development process that is necessary but never really enjoyable. With the number of browsers and operating systems that are available, it can be a very time-consuming process to test your website in the environments of visitors. There are a… read more

Blast from the Past: Vintage Technologies That We No Longer Use

Most of the technologies that we have used in the past have been eclipsed by the remarkable technology that we use today.

Advances in their design have occurred in tandem with the advances in technology in this digital era, with many large products being redesigned and miniaturized into amazingly small sizes.

While… read more

7 Superb Social Plugins for WordPress

This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.

If you use WordPress for your website or blog, there are lots of ways you can connect it to social media, and connect social media to your site via those nifty… read more

Showcase of Tourism Website Designs

By Cameron Chapman

Tourism websites can be a tricky beast. For some areas, where there are very specific attractions, designing their site can be simple. But for areas that have a host of attractions that appeal to many different kinds of people, it can be difficult to design a site that’s… read more

Group Interview: Expert Advice For Students and Young Web Designers

Our readers have requested that Smashing Magazine conduct an interview with industry leaders on issues that are relevant to students and those just starting off in their design career. With the help of our panel of 16 designers, we’ll dispense advice that should help new designers get their career off to… 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