20 Best New Websites, April 2021
Playing around with type and using typefaces with a few characteristic quirks is another way minimalism is being tempered without…
Quiz: Which CSS Snippet Is The Fastest?
Writing fast CSS is about knowing your CSS selectors, knowing your shorthand, and understanding how properties are best applied. What…
3 Effective Ways To Improve Your Site’s Carbon Footprint
At the dawn of the web-era, there was much focus on how environmentally friendly websites were: we’d chop down fewer…
What Is The Independent Web And Does It Matter In 2021?
Today, I want to look at where the term came from, what it refers to today, and why it’s something…
25 Exciting New Tools For Designers, April 2021
Here’s what new for designers this month: April’s Top Picks Charts.css Charts.css makes creating beautiful online charts that much easier….
Wix vs WordPress: 3rd Round Knockout
First, Wix sent out expensive headphones as gifts to key WordPress “influencers” in an attempt to lure them to the…
Poll: Is Environmentally Conscious Web Design Really Worth It?
At this point, the reasonable best-case (yes, best-case) scenario is that global temperatures will rise by 2˚C — if we…
9 Tips for Better Live Logo Design
For a while now, companies have been experimenting with all kinds of motion and animation in their design choices. We’ve…
Get Ready For Next Month’s Google Shakeup
With the update scheduled to roll out in May 2021, now is the time to make sure your websites are…
Poll: Should You Fire Good Clients?
But few, if any, plan for the end of a project. Offboarding clients simply isn’t a thing. We build their…
7 Skills You Need To Thrive As A Web Designer In 2021
While the tools we use, the terminology we employ, and the goalposts we shoot for are constantly changing, core skills…
3 Essential Design Trends, April 2021
It’s refreshing and inspiring. This month, some of those trends include a style that nods to brutalism, slide scrolling that’s…
Key and Surface Tracking Comes to Chrome
Google’s first step was the announcement in January of FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts). Google itself is still testing and…
15 Useful Tools & Resources Worth Checking Out
A missed deadline could be due to something beyond your control and no fault of your own. There are measures…
The Most Comprehensive Grammarly Review Ever
I have been using Grammarly regularly for proofreading my documents and emails since 2015 and have witnessed its evolution as…
Quiz: How Much Do You Know About SEO?
Myths abound, but the answers are readily available if you know where to look. How much do you know about…
ITF Launches Free Font Service Fontshare
ITF (the Indian Type Foundry) has launched a brand new font service to bring beautiful typography to every business for…
20 Best New Websites, March 2021
This month’s collection of the best new websites launched or updated in the last four weeks features color, and more…