Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.14
There is a nice selection of sites in todays Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration, especially IOKON and Slidedeck who have both created very clean and stylish sites and the redesign from Fubiz and Adii, as always, are awesome. And of course this round-up would not be complete without the...
25 Last Minute Traditional and Downloadable Halloween Masks
Have you remembered your Halloween mask? If you haven’t, we have a cheap and cheerful solution to your problem: Downloadable traditional Halloween masks. Yep, click on any of the mask images below and press ‘print’, and hey presto you have your very own DIY Halloween mask, you will...
Why You Need A Business Continuity Plan
Continuity planning isn’t just for the big boys. Small business owners, freelancers and other solo professionals need to have a Plan B so they can maintain their income and continue supporting their clients if they are unable to work for a period of time or have their lives disrupted in some way. This...
De-clutter the Web With the Readability Bookmarklet
Sometimes it’s nice to read an article without distractions. SitePoint’s design features links, forms and adverts but I personally think its layout offers good readability. Unfortunately, there are many sites that give the impression their advertising is more important than their actual...
How to Use Twitter for Customer Service
One of the greatest ways businesses and professionals can use Twitter is as a customer service tool. More and more companies are starting to monitor their online reputation and respond to customer inquiries posted on Twitter, and the companies that do this successfully can benefit in a number of ways. While...
Do Your Web Forms Suck?
Frankly, most web forms do, whether because of poor usability, a lack of aesthetic values, or both. Fortunately, most of you realize this and seek out help—evident by the popularity of Fancy Form Design Using CSS, one of our all-time most successful tutorials. However, this tutorial could only cover...
Five Free Social Bookmarking Icons for our Readers
If you have followed this design magazine for a while, you will know how much we love well designed icons, especially the free variety. So, when Iconshock offered us the opportunity to have an icon-set exclusively designed for our readers, we jamp at the chance. What type and what style of icon should...
Can You Get Manipulative? Take This ColdFusion Quiz and Find Out!
In our latest tutorial, Kai Koenig takes you through the new service layer that has been introduced in ColdFusion 9 to keep pace with the current trend toward richer client side applications. One of the coolest innovations in ColdFusion 9 is its ability to make many of its services available as web...
“Live Like You Mean It” Logo Is Dead
The Tourism Department of the U.S. state of Wisconsin unveiled a new logo and branding in March of this year. The logo shows a silhouette of a person cart wheeling over the words Wisconsin, with the slogan “Live like you mean it” underneath it. Unfortunately, not very many people liked either the...
Are Competitors Hijacking Your Trademarks in AdWords?
Google AdWords, Yahoo Search Marketing, and Microsoft adCenter have been profitable for companies using the services and those running them. Although everyone would prefer their site to appear prominently in natural search engine results, SEO is not an exact science. It can be cheaper, easier and quicker...
18 Creative and Horrific Digital Images for Halloween
Horror art can be defined as being “the intrusion of a disturbing supernatural element into everyday human experience” (via Wikipedia). Chilling description isn’t it? Or, if you prefer, it could be described as being blood, guts and gore. Horror can be [mostly] a very disturbing...
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