Top Articles On The Web Design Billboard In January’10

A perfect layout, A Good Design and Nice Resource can produce a creative output. Layout, textures, typography and patterns are used more often than one may think but the outcome of different combination can result verity of excellent designs. Professionalism is built upon knowledge and experience. However, When it comes… read more

Interview with Jeff Finley

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

Hi… read more

Design And Build Email Newsletters Without Losing Your Mind (and Soul)

“We really love this new website you’ve built! Now we’d like to send out an email to all of our customers, friends and anyone, and it should look exactly like the website except with a spinning mailbox at the bottom, and have my photo, and my cat’s photo…” Ever had… read more

14 Helpful Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Development

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

40 Valuable Tools and Resources For Web Designers

Web development can be tricky and time-consuming. To be more effective and productive, we, designers and developers, can integrate useful tools in our daily routine. Also, handy resources can be very valuable as they can help us enhance communication with clients and other developers as well as improve the quality… read more

Republica Premium WordPress Theme

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

Great Reads for 2010

The beginning of the new year came with lots of plans and resolutions. In my opinion, it’s very important to share our experiences and to learn from others as well, and because of that, in this post I will show you some books that I got and that I think… read more

70+ Promising Resources and Tutorials Especially For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In December

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list… read more

30 Fresh AJAX Tutorials And Techniques

By Paul Andrew

Using AJAX on websites and applications is pretty much taken for granted nowadays. Users expect it. They want to be able to edit a page in-place, they want search queries to be auto-suggested, and they want to be able to submit a form without refreshing the page. Why?… read more

Creating a Web Development Environment using Google Chrome Extensions

Since its launch, an extension system has been one of the most sought after and requested features for Google Chrome, and last month, Google delivered. They launched, in beta, there Google Chrome Extensions web site, and in just under a month they have already cataloged an impressive 1000+ extensions (no… read more

Thank You Our Valued Sponsors For Being With Us In The Month Of December

This is a post in which we want to say a big Thank You to the SmashingApps’ fastest growing community for regularly visiting our blog. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and be the one… read more

Merry Christmas and a Roundup of Web Design Articles from Speckyboy Design Magazine

Christmas is here, and the wife has ordered me to take the next three or four days off. I haven’t had more than two days off at any given time in the past year, so perhaps she is right. I have handed over my laptop, handed over the power lead… read more

Mashable’s Weekly Guide to Web Development & Social Media Jobs

If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to Leverage… read more

Christmas & New Year Special Mega Giveaway

Christmas on our doorstep and Santa Comes to instantShift a little early this year. Once again, we’ve got something special for our community. As you already know, We love our community and we also like to shift things above, Even further.

InstantShift again came up with cool freebies giveaway as promised…. read more

This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.16

As usual we have a mixed bag of resources for you to browse and rummage through. There is a lot of good reading, inspirational posts, freebie downloads and if you stumbled on this page looking for My Little Ponies, well… we have them as well.
Just in case you are… read more

Ginormous Christmas Giveaway Winners

I just want to thank everyone that participated in the Ginormous Christmas Giveaway.

There were a total of 126 comments and 29 prizes, so the odds of you winning was 23%. Thank you for all the positive and kind comments about the different articles on Design Informer. I appreciate all the… read more

Free Christmas and New Year’s Eve WordPress Theme

In this post we release our last freebie for the Christmas and the New Year season: a beautiful Christmas and New Year’s Eve WordPress Theme, designed by Site5 and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The theme is decorated using Smashing Christmas Icon Set and its main goal is… read more

Top 5 Content Management Systems for eCommerce

eCommerce continues to steadily evolve as it’s become one of the most reliable, and preferable ways to purchase goods. Its very existence has allowed countless number of businesses reach new heights, and take advantage of endless possibilities. As new standards, ideas, and applications for eCommerce role out, the strength of… read more

50+ Useful Mac Applications for Freelancers and Professional Designers

For one reason or another, a lot of freelancers use Macs. As a full-time freelancer and part-time geek, I really like to play around and tweak with applications on my Mac too. There’s little confusion that Mac is a popular platform for web designers and freelancers as it offers an… read more

The “Wow” Factor in Web Design

Everyday, we go through hundreds of different websites. With Twitter and RSS feeds, we are able to see an excessive amount of sites in just a short time. Most of the websites that we visit are forgettable, they don’t leave a lasting impression.

There are different ways that we remember a… read more

Abduzeedo Anniversary – 3 Inspiring Years – Giveaway

Back in 2006, end of November to be exact, my design studio was robbed and as you guys might already know the story, I lost my computer and my backup drives with all my files and endeavors in the design field… A long time has passed since then– 3 years… read more

Enter the Ginormous Christmas Giveaway

In less than 2 months, the Design Informer has grown by leaps and bounds. I can take all the credit for the growth but that wouldn’t be right. The reason why the blog has done so well is because of the readers. I just want to thank you for all… read more

20+ Tools for Quick and Clean Code Development

Developing websites is much more than just a pretty face, and depending on what typed of features you’d like to implement on the site, there’s a lot of coding that goes into it. Many times designers turn to a WYSIWYG tool, however tools of that sort are more limited to… read more

Is it time to start switching to HTML5?

As you know, the specification of the new version of HTML and XHTML language is actually a working draft
(take a look here for the HTML5 specification tracker) but there are a lot of web designers and developers that already decided to leave the previous version and switch to the… read more

A Collection of HTML5 Resources and Tutorials

By now everyone has heard of HTML 5 and its new functionalities. Pretty exciting isn't it… also a little daunting.
Of course, there are two sides to the excitement, most developers love it, others feel it has come to soon and we are not ready for it. What ever your… read more

Styling HTML Lists with CSS: Techniques and Resources

In an online world now dominated by CSS layouts, CSS-styled HTML lists have become invaluable tools in a CSS developer’s toolbox, due to the HTML lists versatile and graphically flexible nature. All this despite some of the obvious browser inconsistencies that can affect the styling of the different types of… read more

Design Showcase Listing 20 Websites Selling PSD To XHTML Service

I have gone for something a little different today. The design showcase I have compiled, consists of 20 websites that have a nice design, and that sell PSD to XHTML coding service. There are so many different companies out there that do it, but these 20 have the sweetest web… read more

5 Tips for Using Video to Grow Your Business in 2010

Patrick Moran is chief strategy officer at Fuze Box, the company behind Fuze Meeting. He was also chief marketing officer at Mzinga, a leading social media and white label community provider, and led online marketing at Cisco WebEx. Fuze Box is one of the leading providers of real-time video… read more

Mashable’s Guide to Jobs in Interactive Marketing & Web Development

If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to Leverage… read more

Usability Testing Toolkit: Resources, Articles, and Techniques

By Cameron Chapman

Usability is paramount in creating a good website or web app. If your site isn’t user-friendly, the majority of visitors won’t come back, regardless of how good your content is. You need to do everything in your power to make sure every website you design or web application… read more

60+ Simply Professional Looking Website Designs

Modern age designers love to experiment with things and observe how people interact with their work. You might need to possess a wide range of skills and abilities to achieve whatever goal you may have set for yourself. However, When it comes to professional website design you need to take… read more

Thank You Our Valued Sponsors For Being With Us In The Month Of November

This is a post in which we want to say a big Thank You to the SmashingApps’ fastest growing community for regularly visiting our blog. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and be the one… read more

60+ Ultimate Resources Especially For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In November

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list… read more

20 Professional jQuery Image Gallery Plugins

jQuery is not only a fairly easy javascript language to work with, it is also, when in packaged in a plugin, very easy to install on any web page, making them perfect for non-developers as well. Image galleries, without the spice of js, tend to be bland and featureless. Throw… read more

CSS Trick For A Scrolling Transparent Background Effect

CSS Trick For A Scrolling Transparent Background Effect

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Mashable’s Guide to Jobs in Social Media Marketing

If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to Leverage… read more

50+ Fresh CSS Techniques, Tutorials and Resources

By Paul Andrew

Learning CSS and how to use it effectively can be a reasonably easy thing to do for a beginning web developer. In the hands of a seasoned professional, CSS can be stretched and pushed it to its limits where it can seem complicated and yet perfect at the… read more