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Articles from 2010
- 50 New Useful CSS Techniques, Tools, and Tutorials
- The 10 Golden Rules For Coders
- Effective Search Engine Optimization for Web Designers
- Web Fonts at the Crossing
- The Principles Of Cross-Browser CSS Coding
- Responsive Web Design
- Breaking the Rules: How to Effectively Break the "Rules" of Good Web Design
- CSS3 Solutions for Internet Explorer
- Seven JavaScript Things I Wish I Knew Much Earlier In My Career
- 10 Principles of UX
- Why You Are Losing Clients (How to Stop)
- You Are Not Your User
- Why Designers Should Code
- The Problem with Passwords
- Get Your Clients to Stop Comparing Rates
- Email Newsletter Design
- Definitive Guide To Styling Web Links
- Overlays in Web Forms
- Developing Sites With AJAX
- 40 Valuable Tools and Resources
- Progress Trackers in Web Design: Examples and Best Practices
- Mutually Exclusive Input Groups in Web Forms
- Introduction to CSS Escape Sequences
- My Top 5 HTML Coding Preferences
- 45 Powerful CSS/JavaScript-Techniques
- What's In A Price: The Guidelines For Pricing Web Designs
- Showcase Of Modern Navigation Design Trends
- 30 Fresh AJAX Tutorials And Techniques
- 10 New Year's Resolutions Every Freelancer Should Have
- Too Light for Print
Articles from 2009
- Optimizing HTML
- To Serif or Sans-Serif, That is The Question
- Exploding the Myths of Web Design
- How To Explain To Clients That They Are Wrong
- UX Trick: Display Form Data as Tabular Data
- Four Key Principles of Mobile User Experience Design
- 23 Pure CSS Effects/Solutions to Make JavaScript Angry!
- Designing CSS Buttons: Techniques and Resources
- 10 Short 'n' Sweet Tips on How to Design for Web
- Ultimate Guide To Grid-Based Web Design: Techniques and Tools
- 50+ Useful CSS Professional Techniques
- Developer's Snack: Exploration on Web Tab Modules
- Essential CSS/HTML Lists Styling Techniques
- Can You Say That in English? Explaining UX Research to Clients
- The Ails Of Typographic Anti-Aliasing
- Time to Stop Showing Clients Static Design Visuals
- The Myth of the Page Fold: Evidence From User Testing
- CSS Differences in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8
- An Event Apart: Thinking Small
- An Event Apart: A Site Redesign
- How To Persuade Your Users, Boss or Clients
- Usability Testing Demystified
- Fluid Or Fixed Width
- 3 Easy and Fast CSS Techniques for Faux Image Cropping
- The Importance of Abandoning Crap
- Simplicity in Good Web Design: Advantages & How-to
- Inline Validation in Web Forms
- What To Say To Your Low-Balling Clients
- Horizontal Navigation Menus: Trends, Patterns, and Best Practices
- Are Vampire Clients Sucking the Life Out of Your Business?
- Design at Facebook
- Top 10 UX Myths
- Mastering Photoshop With Paths
- 10 User Interface Design Fundamentals
- The Definitive Guide to htaccess Techniques: Do's and Don'ts
- Color And Accessibility
- Are You a Daredevil Freelancer?
- Attract Visitors to Your Site
- The Content Conundrum
- How to Make Your Web Design Stand Out From the Crowd
- The 10 Most Common Mistakes Web Designers Make
- Guidelines and Standards
- The Definitive Guide to Using Negative Margins
- 10 Reasons to Politely Decline a Web Design Gig
- 50 New CSS Techniques For Your Next Web Design
- Make Your Pages Load Faster by Combining and Compressing Javascript and CSS Files
- Ten Simple Rules for Choosing the Perfect CMS
- How to Compete with the Agencies
- 10 Productivity Tips That Work Surprisingly Well
- CSS 3 Cheat Sheet (PDF)
- Developing Design Principles
- How to Handle a Missed Deadline
- HTML 5 Cheat Sheet (PDF)
- The Roadmap To Becoming A Professional Freelance Web Designer
- Get Clients to Say "Yes!"
- UI Pattern Documentation Review
- Web Form Validation: Best Practices and Tutorials
- Go, Go, Go! Setting the Rules for "Rush" Projects
- Top 10 Information Architecture Mistakes
- 35 CSS-Lifesavers For Efficient Web Design
- 10 Common Mistakes In Logo Design
- 22 CSS Button Styling Tutorials and Techniques
- Web Form Layouts: Some Additional Guidelines
- Five Common Client Phrases Decoded
- Plan the Perfect Site
- Adaptive CSS-Layouts: New Era In Fluid Layouts?
- How To Make Potential Customers Pick You Over 'The Other Guys'
- Managing Werewolves
- Hit a Plateau? 4 Ways to Improve Your Skills
- Fixed vs. Fluid vs. Elastic Layout: What's The Right One For You?
- Essential Guide To Regular Expressions: Tools and Tutorials
- Burnout
- Free Download: Good vs. Great Design
- The Ultimate Ways to Test Your Site
- Negative Space
- Clients - A Designer's Surival Guide
- 10 Transition Effects
- An Event Apart: Revealing Design Treasures from The Amazon
- An Event Apart: Comps vs. Code: Couples' Therapy
- An Event Apart: A Site Redesign, Part 2
- An Event Apart: A Site Redesign, Part 1
- 20 CSS Short Hands You'll Love
- Taking the Guesswork Out of Design
- The Art of Crafting Beautiful Stylesheets
- 7 JavaScript Differences Between Firefox & IE
- 8 Simple Ways to Improve Typography In Your Designs
- Hey, Lose the Pedantic Negativity
- Myth World
- To Spec or Not to Spec
- The Freelancer's Battle: Fighting Distractions and Staying Productive
- Customer Loyalty - Why You Need It and How To Get It
- Browser-specific CSS Hacks
- Working with PNG
- In Defense of Eye Candy
- 5 Simple Tricks To Bring Light and Shadow Into Your Designs
- 10 Cool Things We'll Be Able To Do Once IE6 Is Dead; And A Few We Can't
- Button Design Showcase
- How to Spot Quality within Web Design: Examples & Tips
- 42 Questions Every Freelancer Should Ask Their Clients
- The first question every web site designer must ask
- Table Layouts vs. Div Layouts: From Hell to ... Hell?
- 15 Steps to a More Productive Workday
- 15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website
- 25 Most Useful Blogs for Web Design & Development
- 10 Simple and Impressive Design Techniques
- Defining User Experience
- 11 Great Resources And Inspirations Of Current Design Trends
- Designing Drop-Down Menus: Examples and Best Practices
- The Elegance of Imperfection
- 6 Reasons Not To Use AJAX … and 6 Reasons Why You Should
- White Space: How to Get it "Right"
- 10 Types of Bad Clients and How To Avoid Them
- Smarter and Faster Web Design
- 5 Simple Ways to Improve Web Typography
- Ten Characteristics of a Good Client
- Bargain Basement Usability Testing
- 70 New, Useful AJAX And JavaScript Techniques
- Fluid Grids
- 7 Ways to Make Your Laptop Battery Last Longer
- Vertical Centering With CSS
- 20 Steps to Better Wireframing
- Getting Your Foot in the Door
- 50 Excellent Icon Design Tutorials
- Developing a Client Process from Inquiry to Project Completion
- Recreating the button
- 50 Best Ever Web Development, Design and Application Icon Sets
- Previous and Next Actions in Web Forms
- Web Development Project Estimator
- Myths, Half-Truths, and Other Freelance Lies
- The $300 Million Button
- 10 Useful Web Application Interface Techniques
- 10 Smart Javascript Techniques For Manipulating Content
- How to Correct an Overexposed Photo in Photoshop
- Tips on Surviving In Tough Times
Articles from 2008
- Reinstall and Restore Your Windows PC in Eight Easy Steps
- Web Design Trends: Call To Action Buttons
- 10 Useful Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs
- 16 Useful .htaccess Tricks and Hacks For Web Developers
- 20 Signs You Don't Want That Web Design Project
- 10 Common Typography Mistakes
- Flexible Fuel: Educating the Client on IA
- Local Market Factors that Influence Design
- 10 Signs of a User-Focused Design
- The Fast, Good and Cheap Pricing Method
- 12 Principles For Keeping Your Code Clean
- Are You Making These 10 CSS Mistakes?
- Golden Ratio in Modern CSS
- How to Spot a Dud Client and Get Out While You Can
- 21 Ways Websites Communicate with Visitors
- Strategic Design: 6 Steps For Building Successful Websites
- Common Visual Design Misconceptions
- Articles About Buttons
- Working From Home: The Readers Respond
- When a Client Can't Afford You: Why It's Still Better to Bid High
- A Conversation About Spec Work
- 20 Websites to Help You Master User Interface Design
- Use Whitespace to Indicate Relationships Between Content Elements
- Creating Usable Web Site Navigation
- Understanding Disabilities when Designing a Web Site
- CSS Typography: Contrast Techniques, Tutorials and Best Practices
- Label Element Secret Powers
- 25 Extremely Useful CSS Shorthand Tutorials/
- Useful Cheat Sheets for Web Designers
- Form Elements: 40+ CSS/JS Styling and Functionality Techniques
- 50+ Articles to Make You a Better Web Designer
- Context Over Consistency
- 15 Graphic Design Interview Tips
- The Survey, 2008
- Fix Your CSS
- Top 10 CSS Buttons Tutorial List
- Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Developers
- Why are Designers Never 100% Satisfied?
- Flexible Layouts: Challenge For The Future
- CSS Do's and Dont's, Part 2 - Markup
- The 10 Commandments of Web Design
- 30 Essential PDF Documents Every Designer Should Download
- Progressive Enhancement with CSS 3
- Faux Absolute Positioning
- Using CSS to Fix Anything: 20+ Common Bugs and Fixes
- Web Designers Should Do Their Own HTML/CSS
- 7 Tips for Amateur Type Designers
- Web Form Design: Labels Within Inputs
- 7 Factors that Separate Good Web Sites from Bad Web Sites
- Design Decisions vs. Audience Considerations
- Perfect Pagination Style Using CSS
- Top Reasons Your CSS Columns are Messed Up
- Styling File Input Type In Forms
- 11 Inspiring Lessons from Web Design Experts
- Zebra Striping: Does it Really Help?
- 30 Exceptional CSS Techniques and Examples
- jQuery for JavaScript Programmers
- 50 Essential Photoshop Text Tutorials
- 10 Tips for Writing Graphic Design Briefs
- 5 JavaScript Best Practices
- Techniques for Designing with Type Characters
- Planning a Semantic Web Site
- Some PHP Abilities You May Not Know About
- Most Used CSS Tricks
- 960 Grid System
- Designers and Communication Skills
- Grid-Based Design: Six Creative Column Techniques
- Findability, Orphan of the Web Design Industry
- 5 Most Common Web Standards Misconceptions
- 11 Accessibility Tips
- 8 Premium One Line Css Tips
- Fast, Faster
- Powerful CSS-Techniques For Effective Coding
- What is the Responsibility of a Web Designer in Regards to SEO?
- How to Create Beautiful and Elegant HTML Lists Using CSS
- 21 Ways Your Audience Affects Your Design
- Create Resizing Thumbnails Using Overflow Property
- 7 Tips for Great Print Style Sheets
- 11 Ways to Gain Exposure as a Web Designer
- The Rules of Digital Engagement
- 10 Principles Of Effective Web Design
- 10 Realities of Designing Websites for Clients
- 8 Web Design Mistakes That Developers Make
- 5 Steps to a More Engaging Web Site
- Top 101 CSS Techniques Of All Time
- 21 Factors to Consider Before a Redesign
- 12 Steps to Creating a Professional Web Design
- Overcoming blankcanvasphobia
- Fingers Ablaze: 20 Shortcut Keys for Web Workers
- Blog Design: What Should Be Above the Fold?
- Messing Up the Interface
- 7 Things You Can Do TODAY to Kickstart Your Freelancing Career
- Why Web Standards are Important in Web Design
- Getting Specific With CSS
- Frameworks Round-Up: When To Use, How To Choose?
- 7 Advanced CSS Menus, A Great Roundup
- The First Thing to Do This Year
- Cheat Sheet for CSS Beginners
- Top 25 Free Icon Resources for Web Designers
Articles from 2007
- 9 Timeless 3 Column Layout Techniques
- Another Look at Enclosing Floats Inside Containers
- End of Support for Netscape Web Browsers
- 5 Things You'll Love About Firefox 3
- 24 Ways to Impress Your Friends (2007)
- Challenging the Apple Archetype
- 9 Ways to Gauge Your Visitors' Experience
- 9 Essential Principles for Good Web Design
- The Importance of Using Lists for Navigation
- 47+ Excellent CSS Forms
- Collected CSS Wisdom: 9 Points of Debate
- Killing Some Bad Layout Conventions
- Getting jQuery into Big Corporations
- Creating Sexy Stylesheets
- Choose an Accessible Image Replacement Method
- What Does Accessibility Mean?
- 20 Horrible Habits of Clients
- 50+ CSS Best Practices and Coding Guidelines
- 21 Factors that Influence the First Impression of ... Visitors
- The Rules of Unobtrusive JavaScript
- Product pages: So Much Suck, So Easy to Fix
- CSS fix for Graphical Input Submit Button Off-Set
- Future-Proof Your Web Site Design by Planning Your CSS In Advance
- How to Size Text in CSS
- Understanding Web Design
- Pagination Gallery: Examples And Good Practices
- Tips for Presenting Your Work
- 25 Bad Habits of Graphic Designers
- The Seven Rules of Unobtrusive JavaScript
- 99 Resources for Web 2.0 Design
- 5 Common Mistakes Made When Hiring a Web Designer
- Using Multiple Classes Within Selectors
- POSH - Plain Old Semantic HTML
- Give Your Résumé a Facelift
- 7 Tips on Quoting Freelance Projects
- Web Site Optimization: 13 Simple Steps
- 12 Tips for Your Design Business
- 53 Ultimate Tips For Photoshop Users
- If architects had to work like Web designers...
- 5 Absolute "Yes's!" for Freelancers
- 10 Absolute "No's!" for Freelancers
- 5 Ways to Make a User Interface Intuitive
- I'm a beautiful and unique snowflake
- Elastic Design
- 30 Usability Issues To Be Aware Of
- How to create a great Web site
- 101 awesome CSS Resources
- Top 10 Ways to Fire the Client From Hell
- 10 reasons why your Web site sucks
- How to Continually Sharpen Your Skills
- 10 Usability Nightmares You Should Be Aware Of
- Hat Heads vs. Bed Heads
- Scrap text resize widgets and teach people how to resize text
- 50 Designers x 6 Questions, part 2
- 51 Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials Every Designer Should See
- Home Sweet Home
- The Importance of Design in Business
- The 10 Biggest Mistakes Freelancers Make, and How to Avoid Them
- Design by Metaphor
- Blasting the Myth of the Fold
- 15 Design Decisions That Annoy Readers
- CSS Hacks & Issues
- Understanding Pseudo-elements
- Color Inspiration from the Masters of Painting
- Web Application Form Design
- Frameworks for Designers
- Web Design-isms: 7 Surefire Styles that Work
- Formal Weirdness
- Coding for Content
- Soft Serve Font-Size
- Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid
- Are Gradients Great?
- Ruining the User Experience
- 10 Quick Tips for an Easier CSS Life
- Five Principles to Design By
- Semantics and Structure
- Copyright: Get to Know the Facts
- Enhance Your (Page) Performance
- Tutorials Round-up
- Paper Prototyping
- 53 CSS Techniques You Couldn't Live Without
- Seven accessibility mistakes you don't want to make
- Real-world CSS Zen for your site
Articles from 2006
- Don't make the Demo look Done
- Internet Explorer and the CSS box model
- Easy cross-browser transparency
- Switchy McLayout: An Adaptive Layout Technique
- Resolution vs. Browser Size vs. Fixed or Adaptive Width
- Wake up and smell the IE7!
- Internet Explorer 7: Were you ready?
- The Form Garden
- Five Simple Steps to Designing with Colour, Part 2: A Few Basics
- Five Simple Steps to Designing with Colour, Part 1
- 12 Lessons for Those Afraid of CSS and Standards
- The Web Standards War is Far From Over
- Why Standards Still Matter
- Internet Explorer 7 RC1 in Standalone Mode
- Scope in JavaScript
- A Field Guide to Developers
- The Future is Hybrids: How Javascript Can Purify Pure CSS Solutions
- Vision Quest
- Where Am I?
- Screen Resolution and Page Layout
- Designing Through the Storm
- The Elements of Style for Designers
- Icon Analysis
- 20 Pro Tips
- User Interface Design - Taking the Good with the Bad
- Creating & Maintaining a Web Style Guide
- Building Accessible Widgets for the Web
- Behavioral Separation
- Prettier Accessible Forms
- HTML Emails - Taming the Beast
- Designers, Engage Your Brain
- User Experience 101: How to Create a Great Online Experience
- Understanding "Any Order Columns"
- Pricing a Project
- Stop Hacking, or be Stopped
- How C.R.A.P is Your Site Design?
- DOMinclude
- Web Standards in a Nutshell
- A Designer's Guide to Prototyping Ajax
- Nifty Corners Cube
- Invisible Content Just for Screen Reader Users
- Four Modes of Seeking Information and How to Design for Them
- Just Build It: HTML Prototyping and Agile Development
- Standardista Table Sorting
- qTip
- Bubble Tooltips
- Cross-browser strategies for CSS
- Lightbox JS
- Designing for the Web
- Semantic Horizontal Forms
- Mini Slide Navigation
Articles from 2005
- Thinking Outside the Grid
- Sensible Forms: A Form Usability Checklist
- Ten Reasons to Learn and Use Web Standards
- Become a Better Standardista
- Design Choices Can Cripple a Web Site
- High Accessibility Is Effective Search Engine Optimization
- Rethinking Application Design
- 10 Reasons Clients Don't Care About Accessibility
- Getting IA Done, Part II
- An Overview of Current CSS Layout Techniques
- The Elements of Design
- Color Theory for the Color-Blind
- Still Throwing Tables
- Architecting CSS
- Easy Peasy PHP 2
- Losability vs. Usability
- Essentials of CSS Hacking For Internet Explorer
- The Principles of Design
- Getting IA Done, Part I
- 11 Ways to Improve Landing Pages
- Exceptionally Negative
- CSS Organization Tip 1: Flags
- Creating a Site Design Plan
- Page Description Diagrams
- Easy Peasy PHP
- Web Standards Trifle
- The Dollars and Sense of Building to Standards
- The Four Best Web Design Books You May Have Missed
- A-Z Indexes to Enhance Site Searching
Articles from 2004
- The Top 20 IT Mistakes to Avoid
- 2-col Tableless Layout
- Z-Positioning: The Definitive Guide
- What We Saw When We Looked Through Their Eyes
- Ten CSS Tricks — Corrected and Improved
- Ten CSS Tricks You May Not Know
- Web Development Mistakes
- Reading Online Text: A Comparison of Four White Space Layouts
- Throwing Tables Out the Window
- DOCTYPES not Relevant?
- ROI is Not a Silver Bullet
- Competent Classing
- Bulletproof Slants
