7 Things Web Designers Hate Hearing from Clients

November 10, 2009

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One of the most difficult aspects of being a web designer is dealing with clients that “just don’t get it”. In this article, we’ll discuss seven things that often make the job of web designers difficult when dealing with unreasonable demands from clients. The goal in this article is not only to identify these common [...]

Create a Clean Business Web Template Design in Photoshop

November 10, 2009

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In this web design tutorial, you’ll see a method for creating a professional web design mockup that’s perfect for a modern business or e-commerce website. This tutorial assumes that you know the basics of Photoshop. via Create a Clean Business Web Template Design in Photoshop.

80 Examples of Add to Cart Buttons for Design Inspiration

November 10, 2009

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The primary task of an online shop is to get the user to purchase something. It is this reason why elements on their web pages such as descriptions, price information, and related products should be well thought out and must be purposeful. Among these page elements is the “add to Cart” or “add to basket” [...]

10 Awesome Techniques and Examples of Animation with jQuery

November 10, 2009

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jQuery can pretty much do anything you can think of. All you need is a creative imagination and some time to learn the simple and intuitive API. In this article, we share with you some innovative uses of jQuery in animating web design elements. You’ll read about some interesting techniques, tutorials, and examples that will show [...]

How to Get Your Ideas Across to Clients

November 10, 2009

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We know all too well the common and frustrating design scenarios clients present us with, such as wanting us to stretch images disproportionally, cramming as much information as possible in a small space so that you need a magnifying glass to read the text, or brushing off design best practices. Yet we seem to always [...]

16 WordPress Sites to Help You Build a Better Blog

November 10, 2009

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So you finally decided to step up your blogging game and build yourself a site with WordPress. You’ve install a pretty good free theme and have a few posts under your belt. After a few days, you get seriously bored with the “My blog kinda looks like everyone else” syndrome and start your search for [...]

Top 20 Essential Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers

November 10, 2009

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Mozilla Firefox is a very popular browser, especially among web designers and developers. These days, with such a crowded field, staying at the top of the browser heap takes a lot of work. One of the factors that make Firefox so well-liked is the huge library of great extensions that enhance your browsing experience. Among [...]

Create a Slick Tabbed Content Area using CSS & jQuery – Nettuts+

November 10, 2009

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One of the biggest challenge to web designers is finding ways to place a lot of information on a page without losing usability. Tabbed content is a great way to handle this issue and has been widely used on blogs recently. Today we’re going to build a simple little tabbed information box in HTML, then [...]

How to Make a Smooth Animated Menu with jQuery | Build Internet!

November 10, 2009

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Ever seen some excellent jQuery navigation that left you wanting to make one of your own? Today we’ll aim to do just that by building a menu and animate it with some smooth effects. via How to Make a Smooth Animated Menu with jQuery | Build Internet!.

Horizontal Scroll Menu with jQuery Tutorial

November 10, 2009

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So, in this tutorial, we will learn how to create a scroll menu. We will achieve the following objectives: * Keep html as simple as possible, and let jQuery and CSS do the rest. * Scoll up and down according to mouse-Y axis * Use jQuery.color plugin to animate the background-color changes – download jQuery.color (Yes, you will need [...]