Amazing digitized digits
Finger painting is sooo 20th Century. This millennium, it’s all about the finger portrait — at least according to the…
What’s new for designers, December 2012
The December edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, jQuery plugins, productivity tools, design…
How to make an animated thumbnail
Thumbnails are one of the purest pieces of usability the digital age has created. In essence a thumbnail is a…
Our favorite tweets of the week: December 3 – December 9, 2012
Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can…
40+ Friday freebies
Every once in a while we all run out of ideas. It’s a stressful and frustrating experience. And it’s no…
How to harness Yahoo!’s weather API
In 2006, while working at a design agency in Cardiff, Wales, I conceived of an idea to feature on our…
What designers want
“Whew!” exclaimed a recent client when he finally agreed to pay his entire fee, “I didn’t know artistic-types were such…
85+ new WordPress themes to inspire you
Whether you’re a WordPress theme creator or just a consumer, it’s important to stay abreast of what’s going on in…
Check out Adobe Creative Cloud’s latest updates live on Facebook
One of the biggest advantages to Adobe’s Creative Cloud membership is the regular updates Adobe offers to Cloud members. Those…
Our favorite tweets of the week: November 26 – December 2, 2012
Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can…
How to get started with Sass
There is one persistent problem with CSS; it doesn’t support variables. Each time you specify a color, for a block…
6 free mobile device emulators for testing your site
The percentage of all web usage that comes from smartphones and other mobile devices is growing, and it won’t be…
How to go viral
Going viral is the holy grail of advertising these days. Mom and Pop run businesses can become global names overnight…
What makes a good logo designer?
As strange as this may sound for some, not every designer is a good logo designer. I’ve met many highly…
How to create a simple CSS3 tooltip
Tooltips are a great way to show your user more information by simply hovering over an image or text. They…
20 Kid’s WordPress themes
W.C. Fields famously said ‘Never work with children or animals’ and there are numerous blooper reels around to show just…
To HTML5 or not to HTML5, that is the mobile question
Mark Zuckerberg opened up recently about HTML5 and the difficulties that Facebook has faced in developing mobile apps. In a…
Introduce brainstorming to your creative arsenal
Creative thinking is an integral part of design and all art-related professions. Hyper-creative people appear to conceive of brilliant ideas…