Why Mood Boards Matter
It has happened to everyone. You spend countless hours producing a beautiful, pixel-perfect comp only to have it rejected by…
10 Usability Tips for Web Designers
Simply put, usability is making your website easy for your visitors to find the information they need when they need…
Designing Outside Your Comfort Zone
When you’ve been designing for a few years, it’s easy to fall into patterns. You carve out your personal style…
How to Make Money Off Social Media
Social media sites and technologies like Twitter and Digg are something that the tech savvy take completely for granted. We…
7 Free Tools to Identify A Font
So you’re browsing through your favorite website and found a site that uses a font you love. You want that…
13 Characteristics of Outstanding Blog Design
Most web designers and getting more and more requests from clients to design custom blog themes. While designing a blog…
Twitter is No Longer an Option. Why You Should be Tweeting.
Twitter is kind of like Apple fandom – either you love it or you find it a dreadful inconvenience to…
Peeling a Hand in Photoshop
Today we’re going to demonstrate how to peel a hand in Photoshop. You can use this technique to peel other…
6 Essential Firefox Add-ons for Designers
As a webdesigner (and technologically savvy user of the Internet), there is no excuse for you not to be using…
10 Essential WordPress Plugins to Start Your Blog (and Why)
Ready to start your own blog or online portfolio? Interested in downloading and incorporating WordPress into it? Or maybe you…