net.tutsplus — Have you ever meet a brash punk kid that annoys you to no end but he's so damn talented that you can't help but want to work with him? That's how I felt when I first met David Walsh several years ago. Since then, I've seen him mature into a...
webdesignerdepot — This set of 25 Colorful Grunge Textures was designed by Florin Gorgan and is perfect for use as overlay textures on your photos. You can see more of Florin’s work in his site or his Etsy shop. For best results, set the texture layer to Soft Light, Overlay, Multiply or Screen,...
inspiredology — Great designers often have to work with constraints when they’re doing client work. Even if they’re given a lot of creative freedom, the work needs to be on-brand, and while they’re able to add their own personal touch to it, it needs to be unmistakably more about the company than...
webdesignerdepot — Somewhere around 18% of the web is powered by WordPress. The humble blogging platform has grown into a web-titan of monster proportions. Substantially fewer sites are hosting on WordPress.com — Automattic’s free, hosted solution for WordPress blogs — but it’s still a very dominant player. Whilst the codebase behind WordPress.com...
css-tricks — I've been using Google Hangouts a bunch. It's really pretty great. One on one or group text chat, audio, or video. Text is archived, maintains history, and is searchable. Video / audio is recordable. It works great on desktop and mobile devices and keeps them in sync. It's free. Hard...
smashingmagazine — Three weeks ago we launched a photo contest and asked everyone to submit a creative picture of the object that fuels their creativity and inspiration. For all of you who have participated, thank you so much for taking the time and thought to interpret your object in a creative way....
ladiesintech — Rebecca Murphey with tips on speaking. While posted on “Ladies in Tech,” the advice is good for anyone. I’ve learned that my ability to give the “elevator pitch” for a talk is a great measure of my preparedness. Direct Link to Article — Permalink Speaker Notes is a post from CSS-Tricks
mobile.smashingmagazine — This is the story of what we learned during a redesign for our most demanding client — ourselves! In this article, I will explain, from our own experience of refreshing our agency website, why we abandoned a separate mobile website and will review our process of creating a new responsive...
css-tricks — New poll! Just for funzies. Do you prefer... Light Code on Dark Background Like this: or... Dark Code on Light Background Like this: Those are just examples. Doesn't have to be those exact syntax highlighting themes. But I believe all themes fall into those two categories. New Poll: Light on Dark or Dark on Light? is...
webdesignerdepot — The June edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, JavaScript resources, Photoshop scripts, web development tools, color palette tools, image apps, video resources, coding resources, and some really great new fonts. Many of the resources below are free or very low cost, and are...
webdesignerdepot — The Secret Handshake is a fabulous project, aimed at helping young designers (18–25) find their way into the industry. You should always quantify the advice you take based on who’s giving it to you, and The Secret Handshake — set up by Bright Bright Great — offers advice from some hugely successful industry...
igloosoftware — Igloo is now free with up to ten people, helping you work better with your team and your clients. Get your (responsive!) Igloo, and start sharing blogs, calendars, files, forums, microblogs and wikis today. And as your Igloo grows, it’s only $12/person each month.
inspiredology — The World Wide Web could be considered a digital copy of your local mall in some ways: every season, the shops change their displays, changing to a more fashionable design in keeping the current trends. In the continuous war on bad graphics and pointless content, today’s websites update at an...
daverupert — » Ughck. Images.In a follow-up piece to his ALA article Mo’ Pixels, Mo’ Problems, Dave Rupert talks about all the progress we've made toward responsive image solutions — by which he means no progress has been made.
css-tricks — The following is a guest post by Ben Terrill. Ben is co-author of the e-book Tablet Web Design Best Practices and is the VP of Customer Success at Mobify, where he works on big client sites like British Telecom, Starbucks and Expedia. The tablet revolution is upon us. New data from...
webdesignerdepot — When I was first introduced to graphic design, I was extremely young and a member of a pretty popular message board. Posters showed respect for other members by presenting them with these things called “sigs” — they were little rectangular graphics that fit in the reserved area for a person’s...
psd.tutsplus — The new version of Photoshop is finally here! Adobe Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud) is now available for download for Creative Cloud Subscribers. The new version includes several new features including Camera Shake Reduction, Camera RAW improvements, Image Upsampling, Properties Panel Improvements, Behance Integration, Sync Settings, and many more useful features....
css-tricks — In early 2008, I asked the question: What is your opinion as to the web designers role in mobile design? The two choices were: It is my job to make sure the website looks and functions well on mobile devices. It is the mobile device's job to make sure my website looks and functions...
webdesignerdepot — It was only a matter of time before Apple’s recent updates by hardware design chief Jony Ive became fodder for talented jokesters and spoofers alike. A new Tumblr blog, aptly named Jony Ive Redesigns Things, is a sampling of mockups by web users around the globe of familiar items redone in...