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June 2012 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper

June is here, and with it comes the glorious sun, heat, patios, trips to the mountains and all that fun stuff. Get inspired for those summery things with this free June 2012 desktop calendar wallpape...

16 h ago

Found Friday Vol 90

It’s Friday! That means a) the weekend is near, and b) you can look forward to another volume of Found Friday – the week’s best designy finds on the web. This week we have: a Photos...

18 may 12 1 person likes this

How to Kern Properly: Essential Tips & Resources

If you’re not manually kerning your headlines and other important type, your designs aren’t as good as they could be. There, I said it. Kerning isn’t an overtly difficult skill to b...

14 may 12

Found Friday Vol 89

We’re back this week with Found Friday Volume 89: the best designy finds o’ the week. This week we have: a new WordPress code reference site; a handy online calculator for responsive web ...

11 may 12 1 person likes this

May 2012 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper

It’s May! Isn’t this the month where we start to clean up our houses and yards? Well, now you can clean up your desktop with this minimal and classy May 2012 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper. A...

30 apr 12

Found Friday Vol 88

Welcome to Found Friday 88, where we share with you the best design-related finds o’ the week. This week we have: the world’s longest running invoice; a great WordPress plugin for WordPre...

27 apr 12 1 person likes this

Found Friday Vol 87

Found Friday 87 is here, and it’s chock-full of resources and other cool stuff. We have: a bunch of limited-time free design resources; some code snippets for your WordPress functions file; how...

20 apr 12 2 people like this

Found Friday Vol 86

Well, it’s been a couple of weeks, thanks to stat holidays (and me being a lazy bum), but we’re back with another episode of Found Friday! This week we have: some handy Javascript for sty...

13 apr 12

4 Solutions for Full-Screen Background Images

Full-screen background images are nothing new in web design, but the ways in which we can achieve this effect have changed and improved as our industry has progressed. Additionally, the whole respons...

09 apr 12

April 2012 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper

April’s here, and the birds are currently chirping outside. That is my feeble attempt at a segue into saying “Hey! We have a new desktop calendar wallpaper for you”. Because yeah &#...

30 mar 12

Found Friday Vol 86

It’s Found Friday, and I’m rapidly typing this out so I can get back to losing my March Madness pool. This week, we have: a bunch of jQuery plugins to help with responsive design; an arti...

16 mar 12 1 person likes this

Evaluate & Improve Your Blog Design

On March 10, I had the privilege of presenting at BlogWest 2012. BlogWest is a blogging conference (obviously), to which end I ended up speaking on the topic of evaluating and improving one’s b...

11 mar 12 1 person likes this

Found Friday Vol 85

This week’s Found Friday is heavy on the web & responsive design. We have: a new product from Adobe for testing websites for mobile; a free icon font collection; the border-box box-sizing h...

09 mar 12

My Web Design Workflow

A little while ago, I wrote an article on the steps to take before starting the web design workflow. The steps mentioned in that article ensure that a solid groundwork is laid for a successful web de...

05 mar 12

Found Friday Vol 84

After a brief hiatus, we’re back with Found Friday vol 84! This week, we have: a neat online app for collaborative sharing of anything from photos to websites and much more; a free WordPress th...

02 mar 12

March 2012 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper

It’s March, and almost spring. That means it’s time to try something new. This month, we’re not only releasing a variety of desktop calendar wallpaper sizes – we also are rele...

29 feb 12

Found Friday Vol 83

This week’s is a good one, folks. Yes indeedy. We have the following: some beautiful new t-shirts for web designers; a preview of the new Mac OS coming summer 2012; better background images for...

17 feb 12

Steps to Take Before Designing a Website

Us web designers… we like to jump right into the creative ball pit sometimes, and get right to the fun stuff in Photoshop & CSS. I know I’m guilty of it sometimes, and I bet you have ...

13 feb 12

Found Friday Vol 82

Welcome to Found Friday, volume 82. This week we have: an in-depth tutorial on creating a filterable jQuery portfolio in WordPress (much like what we use in our portfolio); a cool new font that creat...

10 feb 12

Found Friday Vol 81

This week’s finds are all about two things: typography and web design. If you don’t like either of those things, what are you doing here?!? This week, we have: a great free font family; a...

03 feb 12 1 person likes this

February 2012 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper

It’s February! That means it’s almost March, and that means it’s almost going to get warmer. Kinda reaching there, aren’t I? Anyway, here’s this month’s desktop ca...

01 feb 12

Found Friday Vol 80

The eightieth version of Found Friday is here, and this week we have: a beautiful wood iPhone case; a collection of great plugins for those of us using WordPress as a CMS; a neat little tool designed...

27 jan 12

How to Design an Inset Button in Photoshop

Buttons are a great way to grab a website viewer’s attention, and a way to hone your user interface design chops. They can be used to effectively drive traffic to desired subpages, drive more s...

23 jan 12

Found Friday Vol 79

It’s Friday! Let us help you celebrate with five great designy finds from the web. This week, we have: a must-use plugin for those using WordPress as a CMS; a limited-time, free bundle of desig...

20 jan 12

Found Friday Vol 78

This week’s Found Friday is a goldmine for web designers & developers. We have a great demo/download for some beautiful CSS buttons; we have a neat online app for creating Photoshop-esque &...

13 jan 12

Found Friday Vol 77

Number 77 of Found Fridays checking in here. You know what else was #77? Ray Bourque. There, maybe you learned something today. Feel free to learn more (perhaps related to your profession, i.e. desig...

06 jan 12

The Best Parts of Being a Designer

The online design community has its fair share of articles, comics and websites about the downsides of design work. Forums and comments are rife with stories about being “forced” to creat...

02 jan 12

January 2012 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper

Welcome to 2012, the year the world ends apparently. I know, what a nice way to welcome you back. However, if the world does go up in flames, at least your computer will go out in stylish fashion if ...

30 dec 11

Responsive Web Design: Standard or Feature?

Web design is a flexible, consistently evolving medium. There are a variety of different ways to accomplish the same goal; there are always new techniques and best practices on the horizon; web desig...

12 dec 11

Found Friday Vol 76

Found Friday Vol 76 is upon us, and this week we have: a dead simple article on responsive design; a gorgeous letterpress poster for sale based on a Steve Jobs quote; a great tutorial on numbering o...

09 dec 11 1 person likes this

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