Facebook and Shutterstock giving advertisers more options
Advertisers on Facebook will shortly be getting some new options for sprucing up their ads with high-quality stock photographs from…
25+ must-have Photoshop actions for your toolkit
No matter your area of expertise, chances are you’ve worked with photographs. Web and print designers alike are no strangers…
Hooops — a Dribbble app for the iPhone
Dribbble doesn’t have an official app and that can sometimes be a bummer. Sometimes you’re away from the computer and…
How to style <select>s using DropKick
When it comes to styling webpages, nothing’s as tricky as forms. And when it comes to styling forms — almost…
Free download: 10 photorealistic backdrops
Mocking up a product online can be difficult. Leave it floating in space and it looks wrong. But then, Photoshop…
Free download: 30 flat shopping icons
Tired of the same old flat design? Everywhere you look there are people offering up flat icons; some are fabulous,…
How to use HTML5’s drag and drop
For a long time JavaScript functions have existed that allow us to create drag and drop interfaces, but none of…
Adobe announce a new subscription option
For years premium design and development software has been the exclusive preserve of Adobe. Since they outmaneuvered Quark and purchased…
How to develop a custom Tumblr theme
As a freelance web designer and developer I have become accustomed to working in a specific order from start to…
New webfont options from Cloud.typography
Webfonts have been revolutionary on the web; they’ve changed the appearance of websites in a way that arguably no other…
20+ resources for learning web design & development
There are tons of blogs, tutorial sites, and other resources out there that can teach you about web design and…
14 key WordPress functions to jump-start theme development
After a few years (or even months) of designing and developing WordPress themes, especially for clients, you start to realize…
iOS7 to adopt flat design
The last great bastion of skeuomorphic design, Apple Inc., is rumored to be completely revamping its mobile OS, ahead of…
Art, Copy & Code: advertising in the modern era
It’s been said that the only thing constant is change; and in the world of advertising, this saying is especially…
How to optimize for legibility using text-rendering
The most frustrating aspect of web design for designers trained for print, is the persistent lack of typographic control. Careful…
How to move from Illustrator to Photoshop without rasterizing (the easy way)
I’ve always had trouble getting large groups of shapes from Illustrator over to Photoshop without rasterizing them all in the…
How to develop a responsive workflow
Remember the good old days? You know which days I’m talking about; the days not so long ago when we…
Is Photoshop dead?
I guess a more suitable title might be ‘is Photoshop still an appropriate tool for designing typography on the web?’…