Web Design Tutorials & Articles

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Belgian Microsoft evangelist Katrien De Graeve lays out just what can be achieved with media queries in CSS.Read More
 
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Craig's latest tutorial describes how to use webfont icons in your pages and why they have several advantages over images.Read More
 
Stripes are a great way to create some energy in your background or just give your designs some texture. This collection gives you two sets of tools: generators and images. The stripe generators... Read More
If you are a freelance graphic designer or photographer, then you need a way to show off your work. WordPress is hands down one of the best ways to manage your own website. You can easily update... Read More
If you use WordPress to manage your website, you likely started with a theme that needs to be modified. It’s easy enough to use the built-in tools in WordPress to modify CSS and sidebars, but... Read More
Need icons in a hurry for your next web project? Here are five icon sets that can be had for free, perfect for web projects of all kinds and including a social services icon set. Token Glyphish... Read More
 
Continuing on from the previous article in this series, Designing for the Web: Resolution and Size , we cover some helpful and important factors while creating a template for designing a website. In... Read More
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) gives you unprecedented control of the layout and design of any web document. As browser support only improves, we will see CSS becoming the primary styling system. This... Read More
In recent times, people from all quarters have been getting their boots into Flash. The late Steve Jobs felt that (other than the competing business model issues) supporting Flash was not in the... Read More
Whatever your motivation — the client told you to do it, you’re tired of white or light backgrounds, or your deep-seated anger over your own father cutting your hand off (just don’t be a... Read More
 
As a graphic designer working in print, it is important to understand and work to a set of fixed standards. This ensures that what the designer produces will actually be usable as a print item and... Read More
It’s hard to find a great set of iPad apps that you can rely on as a designer amidst the constantly growing App Store, and most articles are filled with irrelevant apps — like social media... Read More
Dark websites can be hard to pull off. Making content readable, for one thing, can be difficult — we’re often reminded that black on white is the most readable setup. It’s also harder to pull... Read More
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When most people think about grids, they think about engineering and architecture. However, the grid is an essential tool for graphic design as well, and the use of grids in website design have... Read More