Web Design

30+ Websites that Feature a Hand-Drawn Style

30+ Websites that feature a Hand-Drawn style in their design
In the past 5 years we’ve seen an increasing trend of designers using a hand drawn style on their websites. As designers have gotten better and better at designing and developing websites we expect more out of them — we expect them to look cleaner, [...]

40 Brilliantly Blue Website Designs

As promised in yesterdays post, here is today’s colorful inspiration. This post is a collection of over 30 websites that showcase the color blue in all its shades and boldness. What do you think of all these blue websites?
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8 Super Sexy Web Statistic Software

Webstats can be a pretty boring thing to look at even if you are obsessed with your stats and traffic. Luckily, there are plenty of web analytic programs out there that have added a little spice to web statistics.
Many of these website analytic tools offer a free trial or online demo. This way [...]

How to Build a Better Portfolio Website

All to often designers use their portfolio to flex their creative muscle. They want to show off their design and/or coding skills by creating a monster of a website. more time then not, this ends up in a visually stunning design, but lacks the fundamentals. The design may get you some street [...]

Discussion: How to make a more dynamic Wordpress sidebar?

Back before WP Designer sold out, I read a post he wrote about how static sidebar suck. I couldn’t agree with that idea more. If each page of content on your site is unique (especially blogs) why wouldn’t you want the information in the sidebar to be unique to the content on the [...]

16 Web Designer/Developer Resources

This post was the work of Amy Cullen, who responded for our call for support when our database was attacked. Please thank her for her support by visiting her website. Amy Cullen, Designs Web Designer for IDM by day and freelancer by night

Here’s my list of the most useful resources on the web right [...]

Another Premium Wordpress Theme Giveaway

You may have noticed are newest sponsor Wordpress Designers. They are one of the newest design firms to jump into the growing premium Wordpress theme market. We have seen a few of the designs that they have yet to release and they look awesome. If you are in the market for a [...]

Awesome CSS Code Snippets

It never ceases to amaze me the things you can do with CSS. Add a touch of Ajax and you can do just about anything. So much so its a wonder why anyone would bother with other types coding. From stylish drop down menus to creative form elements, CSS can do it [...]

Design Inspiration - Group Writing Project

There is no shortage design inspiration online these days. You don’t have to search to hard to find a CSS, Flash, logo, or graphic design gallery. In fact, I think it is safe to say that many of us have probably wasted more hours on these types of sites than we [...]

Premium Wordpress Theme Giveaway

I enjoy a slick looking blog design almost as much as I love to collect icons I’ll never use. The premium wordpress themes have always been a great source of inspiration for me since they hit the market. If you have spent any amount of time looking at or researching premium wordpress themes, [...]