50+ Creative Examples of Websites Designed With HTML5

The web is constantly evolving. New and creative websites are being created every day, pushing the limitations of HTML in every direction. HTML4 has been around for nearly a decade and now its time to move forward. To give authors more flexibility and interoperability, HTML5 is proposed as the next… read more

Google Offers Expands to Five New Cities

Google’s daily deals service, Google Offers, is coming to five new locales: Charlotte, Kansas City, Milwaukee, San Antonio and Tampa.

These five cities bring the total number of locales where Google Offers is available to 38.

Furthermore, this number will soon be 40, as two more cities – Oklahoma City and… 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

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

PSD2HTML.com Giveaway Results

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Last weeks PSD2HTML.com giveaway ended a couple of days ago, and it is now time to announce the winners.

Thanks to everybody for all the comments and thanks to PSD2HTML.com for their services.

The Winners

Our winners should have by now received their winner emails, if not please… read more

Review of FLASHized, XHTMLized and Dave Rosen: My Terrible Experience

I hired a company called FLASHized to code a website for me and they completely screwed me over.

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Win $1,000 in PSD to HTML services!

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7 Highly Useful Online Tools For Website Validation And Testing

Website testing and validation are the must to conduct processes before making any website live. By Validation, we mean the process of checking out the website data against a standard or requirement. It has become extremely important to verify the quality and correctness of web page code. These are the… 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

20 Impressive Free CSS/xHTML Website Templates

20 Impressive Free CSS/xHTML Website Templates

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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

Using Social Web Albums to Promote Your Blog

Using Social Web Albums to Promote Your Blog

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50 Interesting Navigation Menus

Navigation menus are a very important part of every website design. First and foremost, they help direct visitors to the main areas of your website, regardless of what page they are viewing on your website. They also point search engine robots in the right direction (though some flashy navigation menus… read more

Christmas & New Year Special Giveaway: Prizes Worth Over $20,000

The end of this year is almost coming and Christmas is already on our doorsteps. It’s never too late to hang your stockings, keep milk and cookies and wait for Santa to drop in at your home with lots of gifts and Christmas cheer. It’s time for Santa’s gifts, for… read more

Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 3, December

Looking for a new client? The FreelanceSwitch job board is a great resource of freelance gigs and opportunities. These opportunities are in various fields, from development to writing to design, and come from a wide range of potential clients. The job board is hand-moderated by dedicated staff and volunteers… read more

HTML5 Essentials and Good Practices

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HTML5, together with CSS3 and responsive design are the new buzz around web technologies these days. This article will help you get started using HTML5 on your projects today and show you some good practices to put what you learned to good use.

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40 Beautiful Free HTML5 & CSS3 Templates

Over the last few years there has been great collections of quality free HTML & CSS templates published on Noupe such as 50 Free High-Quality and “New” (X)HTML/CSS Templates (2009) and 40+ Elegant Free CSS/(X)HTML Templates (2010).

There have been some great free templates released over the last year so… read more

Learning to Code for the Web Interactively at W3Schools

As I progress in my path as a designer, I realized that it was probably time that I learned to make my own website. My instinct was to jump right into using Adobe Dreamweaver, but I remember an old boss telling me that most people have problems with that software… read more

PSD to HTML/ XHTML Conversion: Make Your Non-functional PSD files functional

PSD to HTML/ XHTML Conversion: Make Your Non-functional PSD files functional

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Writing WordPress Guides For The Advanced Beginner

Creating WordPress tutorials is a fantastic way to help build the WordPress community and to increase your Web traffic. That’s no secret. Just Google “wordpress tutorial” and you’ll see hundreds of results.

The complete novice will find scores of well-written tutorials clearly demonstrating the basics of the WordPress dashboard and of… read more

FREE PSD to HTML GIVEAWAY from ShopHTML.com!

Today we are excited to bring you an awesome giveaway from ShopHTML.com who is giving away free PSD to HTML to 2 lucky winners.

About ShopHTML.com

ShopHTML.com helps web designers convert their marvelous artwork into a standard compliant and cross-browser compatible XHTML/CSS markup and professional CMS theme.

With many years of experience, unmatched… read more

The art of charging more as a freelancer

All freelance designers and developers eventually have to face these ultimate questions; “How much should I charge for my services? Should I charge by the hour, or by the project?“

And then, once that question is answered, of course, the question becomes, “How can I charge more?“

As opposed to a traditional… read more

40 New Web, Mobile and Application GUI Kits

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It has been a long time since we last took a look at what GUI kits were freely available. So, in this round-up we thought we would bring you right up to date by taking a look at some of the best and freshest that… read more

Top 10 content management systems

There are dozens of great CMSs out there. Regardless of what type of site you’re building, there’s probably one perfectly-suited to it.

The problem is that most designers and developers don’t want to spend time learning a bunch of different CMSs. They want to learn one, or maybe… read more

8 Popular online apps to test the mobile version of your site

The mobile revolution has inspired major and minor websites alike to have a mobile version. Mobile versions can be created using themes, extensions, and other modifications.

While developing mobile version, you may want to test it on two, three, or even five different mobile handsets. After development, you are not aware… read more

Getting Started With PHP Templating

In this article, we’ll cover how to separate the view of your PHP application from its other components. We’ll look at why using such an architecture is useful and what tools we can use to accomplish this. Here’s what we’ll cover:

Learn some basic MVC concepts,
Review some popular templating libraries,
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Design With Dissonance

You might consider yourself knowledgeable, but you’ve probably never heard of this powerful communication and design technique that I’m about to share. I’m sure you’ve seen it in practice but never knew it was working on you — that’s how good it is. I’m here to shed light on this technique so… read more

Do You Suffer From the Dunning-Kruger Effect?

Charles Darwin once noted, “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.” We all know the modern man to whom Darwin refers: the unemployed “musician” who must inform all new acquaintences that he is, in fact, a musician (multiple times). The XHTML and jQuery “expert,” who uses XHTML as a… read more

Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 2, October

Looking for a new client? The FreelanceSwitch job board is a great resource of freelance gigs and opportunities. These opportunities are in various fields, from development to writing to design, and come from a wide range of potential clients. The job board is hand-moderated by dedicated staff and volunteers… read more

Comparing the Popular Online Mobile Testing Applications

Comparing the Popular Online Mobile Testing Applications

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Designers Know Your Code: Web Design Tutorials

As almost any web designer worth their salt, and a large percentage of web developers will tell you, to be fully considered a web designer you have to have some background in code. Not to the depth that full on developers must, but it really is unfair to the rest… read more

Guidelines to Writing a Web Design Proposal

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Writing website proposals is boring. There are no two ways about it, but they’re a necessary evil. The proposal is the final push before our client signs on the dotted line. We need to make sure we have all our bases covered and that we project,… read more

How To Make An eBook

Making an eBook is easy, regardless of your coding experience. This is good, because 99.9% of your time should be spent on writing and getting your book out there, rather than on technology.

EPUB And Kindle

Any electronic book can be called an eBook, but because over 90% of all eBooks are… read more

15 Free HTML5 and CSS Templates

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Ready-made HTML5 templates are currently one of the most sought after resources within the web design community. They not only offer a quick and easy-to-edit solution for building modern websites, they also offer a fantastic route to explore and understand HTML5s syntax.

All of the themes below… read more

Become an Effective Blogger: Write Content that Drives Traffic

Become an Effective Blogger: Write Content that Drives Traffic

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How to Integrate HTML to Joomla Template?

How to Integrate HTML to Joomla Template?

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How to Create a jQuery Animated Sliding Sub-Menu Navigation

We have seen a lot of different jQuery techniques over the years. This comes at a time when website navigation is at an utmost importance. User experience is key in all forms of design. Without perfecting your layout it will be difficult to keep visitors coming back for more. And… read more

100 Best Free (X)HTML/CSS Templates

100 Best Free (X)HTML/CSS Templates

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10 WordPress plugins to enhance your blog’s typography

Have you ever visited a blog and noticed immediately how the typography added sophistication and really made the content stand out? Perhaps it was an elegant typeface that fit the theme of the blog, or white space that was used proficiently throughout the layout. Whatever it was, it caught your… read more

45 jQuery Plugins And Tutorials To Enhance Your Forms

Creating awesome and appealing forms for your website has now become easy, thanks to jQuery plugins. Here we are sharing with you a collection of some extremely useful plugins and tutorials to help you create beautiful and awesome web forms.

Web forms are the crucial element for any website as website… read more

Showcase of Italian Web Design Pt.1

It all started in the middle 90s. The Internet in Italy was slowly coming out from its early age when it was somehow still synonymous with cyber-culture. World Wide Web was becoming larger known and young dudes with 14k remote modem connections were spending their nights updating rudimentary personal pages… read more

8 Simple Ways to Improve the Speed of Your Drupal Site

8 Simple Ways to Improve the Speed of Your Drupal Site

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Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 2, August

Looking for a new client? The FreelanceSwitch job board is a great resource of freelance gigs and opportunities. These opportunities are in various fields, from development to writing to design, and come from a wide range of potential clients. The job board is hand-moderated by dedicated staff and volunteers… read more

How Many Pages Does A Website Need?

Designers and clients frequently ask this question before designing or ordering a new website. Is there a “right” answer to it? No.

The number of Web pages that a particular website needs directly depends on the type of website, its application and also its potential user base. For example, personal websites… read more

Showcase of Web Design In Argentina Pt.2

Last week we brought you the first installment of an inspiring look at the state of the web design industry in the country of Argentina. This week we cap off the look with more insightful interviews, site showcases, recommendations and more. Let’s dive right in.

Excerpt from Part One

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Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.100

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This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think.

We have recently launched StylesInspiration, a web design showcase that aims to not only… read more

The Neglected Necessities Of Design

Right now is an exciting time to be in the Web design community. Every month we seem to stumble on a new thought-provoking way to put our expanding tool set to use for our clients and the patrons of the Web. Many designers are chomping at the bit to litter… read more

Radiant Cart & APIs to Integrate in An eCommerce Website

Radiant Cart & APIs to Integrate in An eCommerce Website

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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.97)

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This is our weekly column were we share our favorites design related articles, resources and resources all from the previous week.

If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook,… read more

60+ Finest Fresh CSS Website Designs for Design Inspiration

The web is constantly evolving. New and creative websites are being created every day, pushing the limitations of HTML & CSS in every direction. CSS has come a long way from formatting the structured content. It was used to control layout of documents precisely and to apply different layouts to… read more

Fantastic Freebie: 3D Web UI Kit

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We have partnered with MediaLoot to offer you a fantastic free resource today: A Glossy 3D Web UI Kit. The kit is available in both .psd and .png versions and is choc-full of beautifully designed modern web elements covering almost all aspects of web design.

We have… read more

40 Useful CSS Tutorials, Techniques And Resources

We have previously posted many articles on CSS tutorials and resources you can learn CSS from. Today, again we come up with yet another great list of 40 CSS tutorials, techniques and resources that you will enjoy exploring. Every developer knows very well how important it is to learn and… read more

Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 4, July

Looking for a new client? The FreelanceSwitch job board is a great resource of freelance gigs and opportunities. These opportunities are in various fields, from development to writing to design, and come from a wide range of potential clients. The job board is hand-moderated by dedicated staff and volunteers… read more

How to Make the Optimum Use of PSD to HTML Slicing Services

How to Make the Optimum Use of PSD to HTML Slicing Services

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HOW TO: Integrate Google+ Into Your WordPress Site

Already using Google+? Follow Mashable’s Pete Cashmore for the latest about the platform’s new features, tips and tricks as well as our top social media and technology updates.

This month’s hot topic has been, without a doubt, Google+. Whether the new social service from the world’s largest search company will be… read more

Top 10 Sign Up Forms

Top 10 Sign Up Forms

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Global Web Design Trends: South America

We live in a global world that has an overflow of information. The Internet has given us access to very different cultures and allowed us to share much more information than ever before. But do different regions have their own specific Web design trends?

Design usually has to do with creating… read more

Easily make sexy error messages in WordPress (and everything else)

Some hosts have custom error page options in their admin panel software, but if you want to bypass that and easily make your custom error messages work (as long as you’re running Apache) it’s pretty simple. Especially if your a blogger, and you’re familiar with .htaccess files, this is a… read more

50 Must Have Cheat Sheets For Web Designers & Developers

Today we are featuring a collection of more than 50 extremely useful cheat sheets that every designer and developer must have. A cheat sheet is a guide of a peculiar programming language, software or framework that can be printed for easy access.

Cheat sheets are basically intended for those designers and… read more

50+ Useful CSS Tools And Generators for Developers

CSS tools are essential for web developers because they act like a sort of magic lamp that can simplify the job at hand. Most development tools are time savers that are there to help developers create stylish, functional and optimized websites with a few shortcuts.

CSS tools and generators are available… read more

40 High Quality Free XHTML/CSS Web Template for Developers

40 High Quality Free XHTML/CSS Web Template for Developers

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Do’s and Don’ts of CSS

Do’s and Don’ts of CSS

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75 Best XHTML/CSS Websites In The Month of July-2011

75 Best XHTML/CSS Websites In The Month of July-2011

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Why you need Professional Service Provider for PSD to WordPress Conversion

Why you need Professional Service Provider for PSD to WordPress Conversion

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Building an Elegant Tooltip Dropdown Menu Powered by jQuery

Within the jQuery library it’s possible to create some fantastic effects. These can enhance the overall user experience dramatically and often work hand-in-hand with new CSS3 and HTML5 techniques. As the field of web design has evolved, prominent new techniques have evolved as well.

Below I’ve gone into depth over the… read more

70+ Inspirational Examples of Websites Designed With HTML5

The web is constantly evolving. New and creative websites are being created every day, pushing the limitations of HTML in every direction. HTML4 has been around for nearly a decade and now its time to move forward. To give authors more flexibility and interoperability, HTML5 is proposed as the next… read more

Independence Day Special Offer by PixelCrayons: Save 15% on All Markup Services

Independence Day Special Offer by PixelCrayons: Save 15% on All Markup Services

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50 Creatively Designed (Unusual and Entertaining) 404 Error Pages Worth Checking Out

The Error “404 Not Found” is inescapable no matter how hard a web master tries to not let this happen. This is because even if you make sure that you have removed all the errors from your site, there is no such guarantee that 404 Error would not happen. Clicking… read more

60 Fresh and High Quality Free PSD Files

Adobe Photoshop ranks high among the ultimate tools used in graphic design and most designers wouldn’t even think of designing without Photoshop installed on their computer. Having high-quality PSD files can not only shave time from your workflow, but can also come handy for any rush jobs a client needs…. read more

Following A Web Design Process

Almost every Web designer can attest that much of their work is repetitive. We find ourselves completing the same tasks, even if slightly modified, over and over for every Web project. Following a detailed website design and development process can speed up your work and help your client understand your… read more

How Big Is the Web & How Fast Is It Growing?

There’s no easy way to find out or explain the size of the web.

After all, though there are a few governing bodies and consortia, there’s no real central control system for the Internet. No one really knows with 100% certainty exactly how many websites exist, for example,… read more

What are the New Form Features in HTML5?

What are the New Form Features in HTML5?

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10 Free Desktop Applications for Managing Your Code Snippets

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Why reinvent the wheel? And by extension, why keep re-typing or copy/pasting commonly-used pieces of code over and over again? Copying and pasting pieces of code into text files and the like is disorganized and wastes your precious time. Instead, you can use code snippets to… read more

Selecting a Typeface for Web Design: Factors and Tips to Consider

Selecting a Typeface for Web Design: Factors and Tips to Consider

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Showcase Of Websites Using HTML5 Markup

In this collection we have compiled some amazing websites using HTML5. Enjoy!!

sleepstreet

humaan

horgaszversenyek

sweethatclub

tobiaspersson

tejpotter

sweetlifefestival

mindepic

marlonmedau

master-sante-publique

weareinstrument

mathieuwhite

desiign

hashrocket

ideaware

raventools

html5lab

divecreative

andresmax

wesbos

beautifulexplorer

unfold

pixel2html

xhtmlelite

mckinney

quaintology

hd-live

dbushell

html5boilerplate

mintran

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Another Blow To IE 6, This Time From WordPress.Com

Another Blow To IE 6, This Time From WordPress.Com

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Competition→ 25 digital copies of the book Awwwards:The Best 365 CSS Websites Around the World to giveaway

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We have generously been given 25 digital copies of Awwwards: The Best 365 CSS Websites Around the World to giveaway to our readers, from the kind guys at Awwwards. Read on to find more…

What is Awwwards?

Awwwards are the awards that recognize and promote the talent and… read more

45+ Useful Yet Free eBooks For Designers And Developers

Internet has made the world of knowledge and information so much open than it ever had before. With thousands of tutorials available online and proper standards in place, it just takes few days of study to master even the most complicated skills.

Designing community always require useful resources and new techniques… read more

HOW TO: Add the +1 Button to Your WordPress Site

Google turned up the heat on its +1 feature Wednesday, rolling out the new +1 button across select partners sites (including Mashable) and introducing a new tool for publishers to embed it on their own sites.

Google has made adding the +1 button fairly simple, but we wanted… read more

Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 5, May

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Looking for a new client? The FreelanceSwitch job board is a great resource of freelance gigs and opportunities. These opportunities are in various fields, from development to writing to design, and come from a wide range of potential clients. The job board is hand-moderated by dedicated… read more

Ultimate Guide of Web Typography Tutorials, Tips and Best Practices

Web typography is nothing but implementing typography on web page. This is very important in order to identify oneself in the designing world. It is equally important that understanding and implementing typography successfully on your web page. This is an evolution in web designing to stand apart from all other… read more

Relationship Engineering: Designing The Happily Ever After

I remember when we first met. We hit it off instantly, and it didn’t take long before I was in love. I introduced her to my family, and they all loved her, too. Hell, I even convinced my wife that she was perfect. We’ve been happily together now for years…. read more

The Best Tool To Design Your Website

The Best Tool To Design Your Website

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20 Essential Firefox 4 Addons/Extensions for Web Developers

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Firefox is a widely-used browser – not just by users but web developers. Simply put, Firefox and its addons can make developing for the web easier and simpler. And with the release of Firefox 4, it got even easier. This article features 20 essential Firefox 4… read more

50 High Quality Web Layout PSD Templates Available For Free

PSD web templates are always come in handy for a web designer but it is extremely difficult to find out high quality freebie PSD web templates. Although there are some resources that you can use for the premium membership in order to get some high quality and creative PSD web… read more

Detailed Comparison of Premium WordPress Theme Clubs

WordPress professionals are faced with many options when deciding which membership-based theme providers are worth their investment. It is important to know how frequent future releases are, what your actual cost will be over time and what kind of support you can expect. It is also important to know what… read more

CSS Data Table Techniques and Resources

Tables continue to be one of the best ways to present a lot of information in a easy-to-read manner. From side-by-side comparisons to big data presentation, tables feed into our human desire of wanting to see things as organized grids. And while tables have been part of HTML practically since… read more

Techniques for More Efficient Coding

There is an old saying that “time is money”. It may seem somewhat cliched to read, but there remains definite truth to the statement, even in the world of the web. Whether you’re designing or developing (or, as is often the case, doing both), there is an element of time… read more

A Guide To Seamless Website Redesign

An inherent problem with owning a web site is that styles come and go on the internet fast as (or faster than) the real world. A web site can look out-of-date very fast if it is not being constantly maintained. Do you need to refine your online presence? A… read more

9 Excellent Drupal Modules To Use For Your Website

9 Excellent Drupal Modules To Use For Your Website

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One Stop Solution of Semantic Landing Page PSD with xhtml/css

One Stop Solution of Semantic Landing Page PSD with xhtml/css

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A Collection of PSD to HTML Websites

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40 Excellent (Yet Free) CSS Tools And Generators For Developers

For a developer, finding useful CSS tools is like finding a magic lamp that can make his toughest task a fun activity. CSS tools help developers in numbers of ways and let them create stylish, functional and optimized websites.

In this post, we are showcasing a precious collection of 40 useful… read more

Merits and Demerits of Using a CSS Framework

Merits and Demerits of Using a CSS Framework

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The Design Community Offers Its Favorite Bits of Advice

That’s what brings us to this post. We recently turned to our followers on Twitter—as we like to do from time to time—to help us demonstrate one of the greatest things about the online design community: its willingness and eagerness to pay knowledge forward. We asked our friends in the… read more

XHTML CSS Templates

XHTML CSS Templates

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Absolutely Incredible Collection Of High-Quality Design Freebies For Designers

Today, we have made a list of  incredible collection of high-quality design freebies. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible that are fresh and must have for designers.

You are welcome if you want to share more… read more

Web Culture: Grid-based Layout Designs

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Semantic Code Importance & Relevancy To SEO

Semantic Code Importance & Relevancy To SEO

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