24 Award Winning Portfolio Designs That Follow Current Trends

The current trends that have really changed the whole concept of website design during the last few years seem to be set to stay at least for the coming year. We have seen the rise of trends such as vertical scrolling, flat design, retro or minimal color schemes, slideshows including animation or video and, of… Continue reading 24 Award Winning Portfolio Designs That Follow Current Trends

7 Best Practices of Responsive Web Design

Considering the rate at which the mobile web is growing, it’s becoming crucial that your website be ready to accept visitors who are coming in from a widely assorted array of different devices and screen sizes. This is where responsive design can come into the picture and save your day nicely. However, with responsive design,… Continue reading 7 Best Practices of Responsive Web Design

Webydo: The Code Free Website Creator Platform For Professional Designers

Let’s say you are a designer who is hired by clients to create websites. The traditional process is to design the picture of the website in Photoshop and get it approved by the client. Once he approves it, you will have to hire a developer or a coder who will then convert that design into… Continue reading Webydo: The Code Free Website Creator Platform For Professional Designers

5 Web Design Mistakes of Small Businesses

It’s happens many times that you have decided to put lots of money and time into building a better web presence for your company. But the final result you see from all efforts and money is no growth in traffic or business from the new website. Before you or your company should launch a new… Continue reading 5 Web Design Mistakes of Small Businesses

Quick Tip: Add a Progress Bar to Your Site

Since the advent of mobile, web sites are turning more and more into “apps”. Concepts that make sense for a locally running application are transferred to the web. One of these is the recent addition of “progress bars” to some of Google’s websites that show the loading state of the page. In this quick tip,… Continue reading Quick Tip: Add a Progress Bar to Your Site

Building a Prelaunch “Coming Soon” Site with WordPress

While you might be tempted to keep your site offline prior to its completion, or hold off from creating a web presence until your product or service is ready, it might be a better idea to create a coming soon page to use during your prelaunch phase. Even you if think your site or project… Continue reading Building a Prelaunch “Coming Soon” Site with WordPress

Beginning With WordPress: Editing the Look of Your Site With CSS

This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series Beginning With WordPress So, now that we have a child theme set up we’re ready to get make some changes to the look and feel of our site. What You’ll Need Web browser – I’m using Chrome Text editor – I’m using Text Wrangler FTP… Continue reading Beginning With WordPress: Editing the Look of Your Site With CSS

Free Responsive HTML5 + CSS3 Site Templates

HTML5 Up! is a small showcase of the free responsive HTML5 + CSS3 site templates that AJ put together while developing 5grid. All of them are clean, minimal, fully responsive site templates built on HTML5 and CSS3. They are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license. Requirements: Skel.js Framework Demo: http://html5up.net/ License: Creative Commons License

Tricks of Web Design that Would Make You Site Go Viral

The importance of web design is known to almost all entrepreneurs who are looking forward to venture in this swarming market. Be it in any field, the level of competition is skyrocketing thick and fast. In order to keep up with this volatility, entrepreneurs are in a constant endeavor to improve their online presence.Web design… Continue reading Tricks of Web Design that Would Make You Site Go Viral

Cross-Site Scripting in WordPress: Practical Tips for Securing Your Site

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Cross-Site Scripting in WordPress In this series, we’re taking a look at how to secure our WordPress projects from XSS – or cross-site scripting. In the first article in the series, we defined what cross-site scripting actually is, understanding how it works, and why it’s… Continue reading Cross-Site Scripting in WordPress: Practical Tips for Securing Your Site

11 WordPress Plugins That Will Get Your Site Ready for 2013

As the clock struck midnight on New Years Eve, many resolutions were being made all over the world. If you own a website, yours might have included a few decisions about your website. Even if you aren’t the New Years resolution type, you probably have a few things you’d like to change for your website… Continue reading 11 WordPress Plugins That Will Get Your Site Ready for 2013