“Designing for Emotion” Book Review and Giveaway (Winners Announced)
When you approach any given web design brief, there are a number of personalities to take into account. There’s your own, there’s the client’s, and there’s the all-important personality of the end...
View ArticleElements of a Great Web Design Portfolio
It’s sad to say, but a lot of designers neglect their own portfolio sites. They spend all of their time working on client projects rather than their own business (which is admirable, for sure). The...
View ArticleA Basic Responsive Grid (Plus Handy CSS3 Media Query Reporter)
Responsive web design is here to stay. Jeffrey Zeldman’s press, A Book Apart, has published a book by the name. The HTML5 Boilerplate has responsive elements built into its code base. Everybody and...
View ArticleSay Hello to the HTML Email Boilerplate
Figuring out html email will test the patience of any human being. A seemingly small formatting issue will inevitably arise and you think to yourself, “self, I’m a world class web developer type person...
View ArticleBest of Tuts+ in November
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...
View ArticleBuilding a Website in Progressive Steps: Page Elements
This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series Building a Website in Progressive StepsIn this part of our Building a Website in Progressive Steps series we’re going to cover a wide array of elements on a web...
View Article2011 Web Design Survey Sneak Peek & Winner!
A while back, we asked Webdesigntuts+ readers to weight in on the state of the industry in the 2011 Web Design survey. And boy did you ever! Over 5,200 of you responded and shared your experience with...
View ArticleMagento Project Guidelines for Designers
Welcome to this, a collection of guidelines on designing for Magento. We’re going to get to know the platform, by walking through each of the aspects you’ll need to consider in your designs. The...
View ArticleCreate a Sleek, Corporate Web Design (HD Video Series: Day 1)
This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Sleek, Corporate Web DesignOnce or twice a month, we revisit some of our readers’ favorite posts from throughout the history of Webdesigntuts+. This screencast...
View ArticleBuilding a Website in Progressive Steps: Blog Page
This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Building a Website in Progressive StepsIn this part of our Building a Website in Progressive Steps series we’re going to discuss putting a single blog page...
View ArticleQuick Tip: Build CSS3 Effects Using Fireworks CS5
One of the really neat things about CSS3 is the ability to create objects containing special effects such as gradients, rounded corners and even drop shadows. In this tutorial I’m going to show you how...
View Article40+ Well Designed Apps for Running Your Freelance Business
There are hundreds of business apps out there for running virtually any kind of small business online. And a lot of those apps are well-suited, functionally, for designers. But there’s something a lot...
View ArticleGet Into LESS: the Programmable Stylesheet Language
I don’t like CSS. Plain and simple. It makes the World go round on the web, yet the language is restrictive and hard to manage. It’s time to spruce up the language and make it more helpful by using...
View ArticleLatest Web Design Jobs at FreelanceSwitch
Looking for a new web design job? The FreelanceSwitch Job Board is a great resource of freelance gigs and opportunities. New opportunities are posted every day for web designers, and come from a wide...
View ArticleWin New Customers With a Free Trial Badge
What better way to win new customers than by offering something for nothing? Join me in this quick screencast, and we’ll design a versatile free trial badge in Photoshop. Watch Screencast Don’t like...
View ArticleWeekend Presentation: Unmatched Style Talks to Cameron Moll
Just because you didn’t get to go to that awesome conference doesn’t mean that you can’t still watch the footage! The Unmatched Style podcasts regularly feature top players in the web design industry –...
View ArticleAdd a Touch of Realism to Your Google Maps
Using the Google Maps API is one of the most popular (if not the most popular) way to show geo-locations on today’s websites. In this tutorial I’ll demonstrate how I give my google maps a more...
View ArticleA Year in Web Design: How the Experts Saw 2011
“What did you find most memorable about the world of web design in 2011?” That’s the question I posed to some of our industry’s shining stars last week. One word cropped up more than any other (can you...
View ArticleExclusive Freebie: 50 Crisp Web UI Icons
This set of hand crafted, infinitely scalable glyph icons is intended for use in web and desktop applications. You’ll find both crisp 16x16px and 32x32px versions of the icons in PNG. You can also...
View ArticleBuilding a jQuery Mobile Theme With Adobe Fireworks
In this tutorial I’ll demonstrate how easy it is to create a jQuery Mobile theme in Fireworks, preview the theme, and move it into an HTML5 jQuery sample in Dreamweaver CS 5.5. The ability to create...
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