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Why Your Web Design Portfolio Isn't Getting You Work

Why Your Web Design Portfolio Isn’t Getting You Work

Your design portfolio is one of the most important assets you have in marketing yourself. It is a part of your online identity as a designer. Believe it or…

The Art of Writing for the Reader Who Skips

The Art of Writing for the Reader Who Skips

For centuries, we all relied on printed materials for our reading pleasure. Books, magazines and newspapers used to be the only source of written information. We all know the…

A to Z of Effective Banner Design

A to Z of Effective Banner Advertisement Design

If you look for the word “Banner” in the dictionary, you’ll see it can either be a flag, sign, or an ad. It doesn’t matter whether we’re talking about…

4 jQuery Plugins For Superior Typography

4 jQuery Plugins for Superior Typography

Typography is such an important element of beautiful design, yet when it comes to the web it is often overlooked. Even if you pay meticulous attention to typography in…

Creating HAL 9000 with Pure CSS

Creating HAL 9000 with Pure CSS

You may be wondering why on earth am I writing a tutorial about creating HAL 9000 with pure CSS. First of all, this tutorial shows you how advanced CSS…

Helpful Tools to Optimize Images for the Web

Helpful Tools to Optimize Images for the Web

An important aspect of web design as well as online business ventures is a fast loading website. You can use many ways to achieve a fast loading website. One…

60 Websites Using Full Screen Photographic Backgrounds

60 Websites Using Full Screen Photographic Backgrounds

Using a large photograph as a background is becoming more and more popular in website design. The photograph offers more interest and far less work than a design. Many…

10 Properly Designed Promo Campaigns on Facebook

10 Properly Designed Promotional Campaigns on Facebook

The new Facebook page layout also known as Timeline provides us with tons of opportunities to promote and advertise any content or products via visual means. Many brands grasped…

SCUBA Diving and the Defining Principles of Usability

SCUBA Diving and the Defining Principles of Usability

Since explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau and engineer Emile Gagnan developed a method for commercial SCUBA diving and then popularized the beauty and enjoyment of spending time underwater, SCUBA diving has…