Articles by Web Design Ledger from October 2015

Font Combiner is a free web tool used to customize, reuporpose, and publish fonts to get them ready for use on the web. Users have access to 100+ different free web fonts that are ready for customizat...

There are dozens of great websites to check for new web design jobs. Unfortunately this can be tedious, and tedium breeds mediocrity. Instead of checking out a dozen websites you can just visit DSGN J...

The GOTO Berlin conference is a yearly event held all around the world. It’s a place for like-minded folks to gather and share ideas between software developers, engineers, architects, and proje...

While many browsers have developer tools, most of then work within complex containers and have lots of excessive unused tools. Live CSS Editor is much like the Chrome Dev Tools editor, however it upda...

Hive is a WordPress theme with magazine-style layout and minimalistic design, which makes it perfect for publishers of any kind. With black and white photos the theme looks exactly like an old-fashion...

One of the fastest time saving techniques for web development is to reuse code. Naturally this may come in the form of snippets saved locally to your computer. But it may also come in the form of code...

First there were social sites like Digg and Reddit covering all topics of user-powered news. Then niche websites popped up like Hacker News and Designer News. This has paved the way for smaller commun...

The South Dakota Code Camp event is a single-day meetup for people to gather for talks and practice coding. The 2015 event will be held in Sioux Falls, ND on November 7th. It’s actually a free e...

Once you have an idea how you want your website to look, the first step is to take that idea and create a conceptual design. Once the conceptual design is firmed up, you can begin the page building pr...

Designers are not always masterful typographers and this includes the ability to perfectly match up interesting font choices. The Type Genius webapp was made specifically for help with font matching. ...

Have you ever needed to find information regarding your jQuery scripts? It’s common practice to scour through code looking for a certain function that targets an element on the page, or find whi...

Managing a website’s deployment digitally may seem like a chore at first. But once you understand the fundamentals and learn to work within a system it can become a tremendous time saver. Spring...

The PHP/MySQL CMS Joomla has been around for a very long time. In fact, 2015 is the ten year anniversary of this well-respected Content Management System. A large annual gathering known as Joomla Worl...

Recently at Generate NYC 2015 we saw a number of incredible presentations. Some of these have been posted on YouTube and one in particular has resonated with freelancers, contractors, and anyone who d...

CodeMyUI is an interesting project that catalogs open source code snippets from around the web. Its primary focus is on frontend code that often pushes the boundaries of modern web development. HTML/C...

Software development is a rapidly growing industry with more demand for programmers across the spectrum. Nowadays mobile apps are another huge area that offer career opportunities beyond just websites...

The Big Data TechCon event will be held for two days from November 2nd-4th in Chicago. It’s a fairly small yet impressive gathering of data folks from database administrators to software enginee...

A few decades ago the prominent forums were run on top of vBulletin or Invision Power Board. These systems are still around today but they’re fairly clunky and cost a lot of money. Flarum is a c...

This autumn we figured wed give you an early Halloween treat and share with you our list of the best tools and resources available for all web professionals, regardless of whether youre a seasoned pro...

As far as team & task management goes, Asana is one of the greats. Most people at least know about Asana or have used it in a professional environment. Now there’s a great free Mac applicat...

Once you’ve launched a new startup there’s always a long delay to find users. Unless you’re well-connected or have a marketing budget, the first few months will be an uphill battle. ...

Most PHP CMS’ on the market run a traditional database engine – commonly MySQL. But in recent years PHP developers have been mixing it up to move around towards different paths, one of whi...

iOS prototyping encompasses the entire world of iPhone & iPad development. Typical desktop software includes the likes of Illustrator of Sketch – but now there’s AppStarter as an alte...

The Washington State Convention Center is home to a two-day digitally-focused conference known as the Seattle Interactive Conference. This event draws attention from developers, developers, and everyo...

Most developers say that Apple’s Swift dev documentation is by far the best place to learn. For the most part they’re right. But what about people who have a tough time getting started in ...

The incredibly myriad of developers conferences can leave anyone gasping for air. How do you know what to attend and what’s worth the money? Well when it comes to frontend development and Sass/C...

Krit is a self-branded toolset made by freelancers, for freelancers. The site is an overall toolset full of various tools useful to freelancers of all industries. Check out the site homepage to find m...

The countless number of web tools can be dizzying and rather off-putting. How do you even know where to start? Well thanks to the StaticGen webapp you’ll be able to find a long list of open sour...

WordPress has a built-in visual editor for manipulating parts of any theme. These parts often have to be hard-coded into the theme via PHP template hooks. But similar features can be added with plugin...

If you work with Google’s material design then you know all about this popular design language. It has suggestions for animations, styles, and various color choices. Well a new app named Materia...

Ruby on Rails has changed the face of web development and grown into an incredibly popular open source framework. While there are many conferences all around the world each year, Rails Israel is the l...

Whether youre an entrepreneur, a blogger or a photographer, having a website is a must for you these days. However, choosing the best website platform and theme could be challenging due to the number ...

Whether youre an entrepreneur, a blogger or a photographer, having a website is a must for you these days. However, choosing the best website platform and theme could be challenging due to the number ...

Whether you need a simple or complex web form or survey, this offer is for you! 123ContactForm is an online form and survey builder with many features that allows you to create, customize and publish ...

JSON Generator is a free web tool for building sample JSON content. You simply enter a few parameters based on custom data like avatar photos, user names, etc. A built-in algorithm passes over the syn...

Phalcon PHP is a high-performance PHP framework that’s both open source and highly-customizable. It runs on PHP with the ability to also tie into C extensions. If you’re a PHP developer th...

The toughest part about implementing a new plugin or framework is time spent browsing the documentation. Well-organized documentation is easy to find on larger projects – not so much on smaller ...

UX Design is a rising industry with more jobs hiring all over the world. It seems to be the connection between frontend development & visual UI design work. As this industry expands there’s...

A single-day JavaScript & web development event named Thunder Plains will be held on November 3rd in Oklahoma City, OK. This is geared towards JavaScript programming and how it can apply to the w...

Most designers know about Lorem Ipsum but that’s not always best for lo-fi wireframes. UI design often does need typography to fill in the gaps, however the typographic choices can put the brake...

Apple’s creation of iOS forced mobile developers to learn the Objective-C programming language which is a superset of C. It’s a fairly verbose language but has been used in OS X developmen...

The designer & developer Tal Florentin has been working in the web for over 18 years. He has about two decades worth of experience and is prominently known as the author of the UX Hero comic seri...

Online dev tools are growing rapidly with a larger audience of new and experienced developers. One such area is code generation with more specific code generators focusing on particulars like CSS3 pre...

The web of 2015 offers a much easier time of locating resources than the web of 2005. Dozens of web applications pop up every year with a focus on particular areas. Since many of these sites are made ...

The ongoing group of free Sketch plugins just got another member with Sketch Measure. The plugin already has over 2,000 stars on GitHub with dozens of separate forks. Photoshop users don’t have ...

Finding work can be tough if you don’t already have a name for yourself. Freelancing can be a terrific way to earn consistent money while working on your own schedule. A new service Toptal is me...

One of the fastest-growing segments of the development field is JavaScript, both frontend + backend with libraries like Node.js. It seems there are more jobs than ever before looking to hire JavaScrip...

Vivus.js is the best way to bring core SVG animation to your images without building the motion into SVG files. You can setup JavaScript snippets with no dependencies as the animations all run with pu...

I recently stumbled onto an interesting build tool by the name of Brunch. This seems to be made for constructing picture-perfect HTML files without a lot of hooey. Brunch is made to compile scripts, t...

Photoshop users with a prowess for animation can typically build their own custom loaders. But this process takes time and effort that isn’t always available on tight deadlines. That’s why...

Whenever you’re building a new project it’s always recommended to stick with a version control system. Git is by far the most popular which is supported on both GitHub and Bitbucket. These...

If you’re looking for a job in the industry there’s one thing employers care about more than anything else: skill. You need to prove that you’re capable enough to be trusted with a j...

PHP developers around the world tend to enjoy their meetups and conferences. There are dozens of events focused on various frameworks like Laravel, CMS’s like WordPress, and of course some tradi...

Writing your own forms in PHP or Ruby requires a decent level of knowledge on backend coding. This isn’t something that all developers should shy away from – yet it’s someting that n...

A unique webapp named GetTerms allows startups and smaller companies to auto-generate legal text for their Terms of Service & Privacy Policy. This app was created by the design agency Humaan to a...

Web developers and database enthusiasts are sure to love this single-day conference focused solely on database creation, architecture, and maintenance. All Your Base will run on November 13th in the h...

If you run a Node.js app then it’s likely you’ve needed to run testing at some point. This can be done using a myriad of libraries, but a new contender named Nightwatch.js has recently dra...

Folks who want to get into programming iOS apps often start with the basics of C/C++ and move onto Objective-C. This delves into the Cocoa programming library for building any type of Apple program. A...

Do you ever find yourself lying awake at night thinking about typography? Do your friends catch you analyzing menu fonts when you’re out to dinner? If so, you may be a font fanatic. It’s O...

Adobe MAX has revealed some incredible new programs and updates to older ones. Adobe users are chattering on about these features and about how they’ll impact creative workflows. A presentation ...

The UltraWide Festival 2015 is hosting a number of contests for folks who’d want to win some cool LG stuff. The primary contest offers a dream setup for anyone running their own popular YouTube ...

Over 250 developers will gather on the east coast in America’s capitol for a single day of JavaScript fun. NationJS has turned into an annual event with many returning guests attending to share ...

PHP developers already know the tremendous hurdle it takes to get into writing code. Beginners who only understand HTML/CSS will have an uphill battle – yet somewhere along the way it all starts...

Web & mobile app designers rely on tools to expedite their workflow. Thankfully the number of useful tools has skyrocketed over the past few years where we can expect to find helpful resources fo...

One of the largest and oldest conference groups is the “Future of…” events. These include Future of Web Design, Future of Mobile, and of course Future of Web Apps. These conferences ...

Magento continues to impress millions of webmasters running e-commerce sites, and Magento’s recent major upgrade builds on some of the content management system’s best features. Ensuring t...

A new marketplace has emerged very similar to Flippa but for startups. The website Buy My Startup recently launched with a small batch of startups willing to sell. This is a fascinating idea with the ...

The tech world moves fast and it’s common for people to switch roles and jump ship to another company. This often comes with a pay raise, but more importantly it comes with experience. If you...

New specs allow developers to create games and all kinds of cool stuff in your browser. Naturally this has lead to a renaissance of interesting stuff built on top of HTML/CSS/JS which furthers the cur...

An Italian yearly exclusive is the RubyDay conference hosted in Italy each year. This is the best place to meet incredible Ruby programmers located all over Italy and even parts of Europe. In 2015 Rub...

Usability and accessibility are two very important topics in web design. When building a website you should try to support as many possible devices and browsers as possible. But what about people with...

It often requires effort to search around and find just the right tutorial to fill your void. And it’s never an easy task to learn if the writer or instructor doesn’t teach properly. But t...

We all know that web developers and designers are always searching for new tech tools to help them deliver excellent projects. At the same time, there are many non-tech savvy users that want the same ...

There’s been a steady rise of incredible web applications related to free CC0 images. These include Pexels, Little Visuals, Magdeleine, among many others. But the problem is finding time to sear...

The Concise CSS framework is a completely free open source lightweight option for frontend developers. It’s written in Sass for the modern developer who can’t part from his/her favorite pr...

Mozilla is known for some amazing stuff beyond just Firefox. They have the Mozilla Dev Network, Thimble, and loads of open source projects. They’re also big sponsors for design/dev events like V...

Have you ever built a small little project and wanted to garner some feedback? Well a new site Plunker is the place to do that! It’s a free online community of developers sharing their latest pr...

A somewhat recent post on Reddit encouraged me to delve into a fascinating YouTube channel full of great advice from professional developers. The channel is named Christophe Limpalair and it contains ...

Who doesn’t love a great conference? I’m frequently covering the most interesting conferences and while they are simply amazing, there are also way too many of them. A good way to find con...

Intern is a self-proclaimed JavaScript library for managing test cases. It’s not just a way of reading code language – it’s actually a library made for humans. Take a look at this sn...

A lot of brand new eCommerce owners are struggling to make their first sale. It’s not uncommon, but it’s also nothing to have looming over your incipient business. The number one question ...

There aren’t as many useful testing libraries as there are plugins for carousels and parallax effects. While this may not be a surprise, JS testing is still a vital part of the development proce...

Building a custom code documentation from scratch is always hard work. You often need a team of developers to help with bug fixes, supply add-ons, and even offer support as needed. ReadMe is a way to ...

The elFormo webapp is a platform for handling form submission. It’s meant for people who don’t want to manage their own backend code and would rather rely on an external service. While thi...

Countless job boards focus on topics ranging from design to development, but most of them mix results for part-time and full-time work. An interesting website named Remotejobs actually focuses solely ...

The jQuery repository jquer.in is perhaps the best place to find brand new jQuery plugins. It’s a self-branded webapp with “a jQuery plugin a day”. You can find everything from menus...

Parallax and page scrolling plugins are rather popular among the open source community. A new one to add into the mix is pagePiling.js. This completely free open source plugin runs on top of jQuery fo...

Desktop software like Photoshop or GIMP can be useful for compressing images. But these tools are not automatic and they require some knowledge of image manipulation. But a free webapp by the name Com...

We all know about the countless web design inspiration galleries littering Google’s search results. Many are great, others are OK and some are just downright horrible. But one thing they all sha...

Sketch has so many components that it’s practically surpassing Photoshop’s 25-year run as graphics editor. The Sketch App fanbase is creative and passionate about extensions and apps that ...

Hard-coding an HTML table requires much more work than we’d like to admit. Developers can spend a good amount of time planning the rows/columns and then structuring code to match accordingly. Bu...

The general idea of Flexbox makes sense to most developers, however shoddy browser support and confusing syntax makes it difficult to implement. But what if there were a way to really nail down the co...

A brand new eCommerce shopping cart platform is out there and ready for use. Its name is Snipcart and it offers an effortless shopping experience. Via Snipcart you’ll have access to a series of ...

Revolve Conference is a branding and marketing conf as related to larger companies and digital agencies. It’s meant to be for anyone who designs or creates brands for any platform. 2015 will run...

Web 2.0 aficionados dont like traditional design because as they are quick to point out, guidelines are too rigid grids, color theory, fonts, kerning, hierarchy of information, folds, etc. Web 2.0, o...

With the popularity of Sass & LESS there’s no doubt that pre-processing is the way of the future. But do these 2 engines have to be the only way? As it turns out, no! One great option is My...

Have you ever wanted to browse the Internet while simultaneously enjoying a certain video? Granted some people may want this for pure entertainment, but developers and designers could use a feature li...

The creative software company Adobe has cornered a large portion of the market. Designers always have alternatives, but many of the largest firms still rely on Adobe software to this day. This gives A...

Browserify uses a NodeJS-based system that allows developers to use the require command with modules directly on the web browser. It’s compatible with a voluminous number of browsers including I...

Are you doing everything right and still striving to get results? Are users still abandoning your landing page? Do you think that you are not getting enough results from the money which you are spendi...

Currently in its fourth year, the CSS Dev Conf lines up for a 2015 run that will knock your selectors off. This year’s conference runs from October 26th-28th for three days of CSS-devoted talks ...

The myriad of Google Chrome extensions can be dizzying to consider. But taken one at a time they’re often rather charming and surprisingly helpful. A new free extension named Tabtics allows user...

Swift programmers are a small yet growing group of people building on top of Apple’s dev platform. The Swift page has lots of info from Apple’s official team, but it’s ultimately a w...

The open source Bootstrap framework has grown precipitously over just a few years. This framework allows developers to craft websites built on a codebase that pre-styles elements, grids, and typograph...

There are many ways to minify the size of a website. First is to obviously minify the files themselves. Then comes database consolidation/clean-up, JS request minimaization, image optimization, etc. T...

Devs who want to build apps fast rely on frameworks and code libraries. Reapp is one such example built on React.js and JavaScript. This open source library can be installed via Node package manager a...

Git users are sure to be familiar with the intial setup requirements on any new server. This may be worthwhile or even fun for some developers – but others just want to get the job done right. G...

The homepage for PocketSquare is an encouraging sight for developers. With so many existing portfolio sites for designers it’s nice to finally have a place made for showcasing code and dev proje...

Modern open source frameworks remove a lot of the grunt work from web development. No need to manually reset all elements or give custom defined styles for all typefaces. The problem now is deciding w...

Many designers know about the wireframing/prototyping app called Webflow. It just recently underwent an overhaul on the design side and has since placed a greater focus on company branding. However an...

How many times have you landed on a form where the “opt-in” checkbox was already checked? Well that’s recently been termed a dark UI pattern and it’s heavily discouraged among ...

Apple fans who can remember the early days will certainly love this illustrated look back over history. The Tower app for Git published a new blog post covering an illustrated history of the Mac OS X ...

An early-access release of SpotClarify is currently available for anyone interested. The site is more of a tool for building guided tours to help users sign up and grasp your product. It relies on an ...

Most developers already know about Sass and the value of using Sass on web projects. The difficulty comes with learning version differences and rendering engines. Sass Compatibility is a free open sou...

A two-day Cocoa development conference named NSScotland returns again in October of 2015. This conference is aimed at people who write in Objective-C on top of Cocoa of OS X & iOS applications. T...

A brand new open source plugin named Sketch Constraints has been officially released on GitHub. This integrates freely with Sketch to manage certain limitations on individual layers. This may sound li...

Much like the other PHP-based CMS’, Sphido stands out for certain unique features that make it worthwhile on certain projects. WordPress is great for blogs & portfolios, Magento is great fo...

Mozilla’s developer network includes a repository of the most common JavaScript programming terms. This refefrence guide is often used by novice-to-intermediate developers searching for a tidbit...

Ian Paget is a British-born designer with an incredible spectrum of skills. He’s primarily a self-taught designer who has undergone various career opportunities filling many distinct & infl...

Airoplay is an API made for building custom games or game controllers. It’s made on top of JavaScript in a way that it can interact with all HTML/JS in-browser games. The Airoplay developers sit...

It seems Microsoft is finally following along with the same trends as Apple has set forth in their MacBook/MBP series. The Microsoft Surface Book is a new laptop with its own landing page on the Micro...

Last month we introduced you to a website calledTheHungryJPEG.com. Thiscompany offers the most incredibledesign bundles & packages each month for huge discounts, generally around 95% off per packa...

If you plan on designing anything for the new Apple TV OS then you’ll likely want to start with a UI kit. This will save a whole lot of time recreating default elements & give your design a...

Facebook has turned into the largest social network to day & supports profiles from all around the world. But other smaller networks have popped up over time with a specific focus on niche areas ...

There’s a common trend among e-mail applications which all point towards a removal of spam. Nobody likes spam(except maybe spammers) and countless measures have been put in place to deal with it...

A new iOS app named SwiftBites offers a great environment for developers to learn Swift quickly and easily. It’s a mini-course unto itself teaching the absolute basics of Apple’s latest pr...

Node.js developers work eagerly to organize meetups and conferences about this fascinating new library. Now the empire state New York has its own conference aptly named EmpireNode. The 2015 conference...

Apple’s HIG documentation has all the info a designer could ever need. Too bad it’s mostly scattered between pages of not-so-intuitive links and complex nav menus. Ivo Mynttinen created a ...

The folks at DensityDesign Research Lab created an interesting web tool for generating vectors straight from documents & spreadsheets. This tool was created to fill a certain void with transferri...

We’re constantly writing about the latest design/dev conferences because they’ve grown into such a powerhouse industry unto themselves. There’s always something to learn at one of th...

A two-day Angular.js conference is coming to Exel, London on October 20th and 21st. The AngularConnect conference is popular across all of Europe and brings guests from many of the western countries. ...

Zurb has built an impeccable reputation from their Foundation framework which is soon to see a Foundation 6 release. The team has been busy as they also recently open sourced a Sass animation library ...

A very large digital studio ustwo is world-renowned for their incredible work and attention to detail. The studio has offices in many locations and works with some of the largest brands and companies....

Almost every designer and blogger should know about Medium. It’s the most recent way to people to write and share their thoughts with a tremendous audience and inline comments. Today the site la...

A popular frontend development conference Front Porch runs again in 2015 opening for one day in Dallas, TX. Front Porch is made for web designers and frontend developers that want to improve their ski...

Jessica Walsh is a lovely designer hailing from New York where she’s built up a lxurious career for herself working for Sagmeister & Walsh. She’s a very talented designer with work ra...

For as crucial as they are, online forms dont get nearly the attention they deserve. Without them, scores of businesses would crumble (metaphorically speaking) and information wouldnt be shared in the...

Improving any skill simply takes time and practice, and you can lengthen the former by increasing the latter. Some people take this idea to extremes by issuing themselves challenges. One great example...

With tools like PageSpeed and YSlow it’s relatively simple to test a website’s technical performance & locate problematic areas. But what about an overall website rating that counts t...

Although currently still in beta, Clubble is a very handy tool for teams that use Slack to get work done. Creative work often requires direct communication with clients and this means sharing new idea...

Icon designers are more than familiar with the process of converting vector art into PNGs or even SVGs for the web. But what about the process of creating an icon font? This is often much more convolu...

A large gathering of web & software developers named HTML5DevConf runs from October 19th-23rd in San Francisco, CA. It’s meant to bring together folks with varying levels of knowledge toget...

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Free APIs like Google Maps offer a decent option for developers who need in-page maps. While they work great and most people are familiar with functionality, they don’t typically offer as many c...

A Magento Solution Partner named Forix just recently published an incredible infographic on the changes of Magento 2.0. This infographic is visually appealing but also highly educational. It covers th...

It can be tough to find a worthwhile dev job even with references & experience. Sometimes you’re lucky enough to find a company or interview at the right time. But what if there was a way t...

Free and premium icons are some of the most prominent freebies currently on the web. But what about combining iconsets into one location for easy-access? This is the plan of SmartIcons which is buildi...

Almost everyone knows about Product Hunt and its vast audience of tech enthusiasts. Well a new site called Photoshop Hunt is following suit as a resource for designers. Photoshop Hunt collects the bes...

Large design teams often rely on digital communication to share updated versions of projects or new creative resources. Since design software now includes a myriad of Adobe programs + Sketch App, it o...

With so many free photo sites like Unsplash and Pexels it can be tough to know where to turn. I think it’s useful to bookmark all of them which allows designers a greater size of quality photos ...

The Modernizr detection library is a popular way of pulling which features can run properly for which users. This allows developers to serve up webpages that offer the highest level of capability to i...

The developer Kerem Sevencan recently put out a cool Sketch plugin for designers. It’s called Sketch Iconfont and it’s loaded with easily-accessible icons for UI design. Sketch is the UI d...

A new website UX Designer Salaries has collected a tremendous amount of data regarding average UX Design salaried positions. The data is all user-submitted and contains information from 70 different c...

Each icon font library has their own icons and no iconset is created equal. But with so many to choose from it can be difficult finding the best one to suit a new project. GlyphSearch was made as a wa...

This year’s 2015 JSConf Colombia event is sure to be a fascinating meetup for all JavaScript enthusiasts. Speakers will be coming from all over including the US, Brazil, Germany, and the Netherl...

If you don’t usually work in an office then you know it can be tough to get work done. Many freelancers work from home which creates the distinct problem of separating work life from home life. ...

Founded in 2001, MailChimp has now 7 million users that collectively send over 10 billion emails through the service each month. MailChimp is an email marketing and newsletter service functioning well...

Creative Market is back with another amazing bundle of unbeatable design resources. For October, theyve rounded up 73 items worth over $1,300, yours for just $39. Read on to see what’s included ...

Pushing out updates to a new website or mobile app can be intimidating. For larger sites it often takes a team of people to get the project moving and to fix any potential bugs. But a new service call...

It can take 15-20 minutes of browsing YouTube to find a good video on the topic you’re looking for. Conferences around the world often record their presentations and set the up on video sharing ...

Over the past few years Laravel has become one of the most beloved PHP frameworks of the entire industry. It offers a solution for every situation with plenty of room for extending your own libraries....

It’s been said that web design is 95% typography. So as a web designer, getting the typography right is over half the battle. Today with the growing popularity of web fonts and modern CSS techni...

If you work in Sass then you know it’s an incredible language with many benefits. One of the most confusing aspects tends to be a management of things like variables, mixins, and other Sass-rela...

Users often rely on copy/paste to fill out form fields or rearrange content on a dynamic website. Clipboard.js is a brand new library that’s completely free for any web project. Some developers ...

Many extensions have been developed for Google Chrome that allow users to add special data into their new tabs. Rather than leaving them blank or setting a homepage, each new tab can instead be custom...

Between the many popular open source platforms it’s tough to make time for new additions. Plone CMS is an open source Python framework that’s been around for years. It has a growing commun...

The online blogosphere is full of websites talking about how to make websites. But there are also many niche topics like vector art, pattern design, and pixel-perfect icons. Chris Spooner has risen to...

The Typekit team just published a new blog post detailing some brand new fonts added into their collection. It seems Q4 2015 users and beyond will have access to some grand new font families, along wi...

So many companies are looking for great talent but it’s hard to find the perfect fit. With the Internet it has become so much easier, but there’s still a gap with knowing where to find gre...

The widely popular Hacker News site has gained notoriety for breaking stories related to the startup & programming sphere. Popular stories rise every day and it’s a very lively community. M...

A new hand-curated website collects some of the best applications for businesses and organizes them based on features. The site is called Stacklist and it seems to be growing in popularity. It’s...

A brand new website has launched under the name Internships in San Francisco. It’s meant to be a large data collection of internships for programmers, designers, marketers, and anyone else who m...

Hundreds of free open source CMS engines have flooded the market with new releases every year. Advancements in development have allowed for greater support among CMS devs that go far beyond general Ra...

Designers love to hear other designers share their knowledge and tidbits of advice regarding the design indusry. You can hear this stuff at conferences, but those cost a lot of money and travel time. ...

The popular online magazine Huffington Post is prepping to release a brand new redesign in early Q1 2016. The project has been a collaboration between the Huffington Post team along with the creative ...

Designing a brand-heavy digital style guide is no easy task. This requires a bit of research and common sense into matching colors, fonts, logos/icons, and proportions. Most designers are capable of s...

Have you ever needed to pull a fullscreen website photo without grabbing a screenshot manually? Dynamic libraries do exist, although they’re few and far between. Custom coding is another option ...

Bootstrap is one the most popular frontend HTML/CSS/JS dev frameworks on the market. It’s completely free and was originally based on Twitter’s UI design style. Over the years new features...

Not many designers place enough focus on the benefits of creative search fields. For content-heavy websites most users will be prepared to search for what they’re looking for. If the search inte...

The concept of frontend development in the browser would’ve seemed crazy just a decade ago. But now with apps like CodePen, jsFiddle, and Thimble, this almost seems like the norm. Codeply is ano...

A brand new website called CSS Animals just launched online. It’s part pet store, part webdev resource, & all-parts awesome(and/or strange). The site is a growing collection of animals buil...

How many times have you needed to copy elements from an existing document to recreate a design? Vector shapes are easy, but cross-platform shapes don’t play as nice. How do you edit anchor point...

The CSS pre-processor Sass has been around for almost a decade and has grown quite a bit since early beginnings. It’s now one of the preferred methods for writing CSS code to compile and run smo...

This is the perfect time to learn how to design or build websites. Anyone can start from a complete novice and become self-educated based solely on the dozens of free resources online. Level Up Tutori...

Just understanding the fundamentals of design is not enough to craft beautiful websites. A marketing strategy often includes webpage design itself, which naturally falls onto content structure & ...

Today CodePen just announced their latest redesign as it went public to all users. This would be CodePen’s first big overhaul since it launched online to compete with other web-based IDEs like j...

The powerful online prototyping tool Marvel just announced a new feature they call Layers. It allows designers to append layers on top of their prototypes which display interactivity between UI elemen...

Common domain search engines can check if a domain name is free while offering potential alternatives. These tools are great and have worked well for decades. But in the modern era of web development ...

Perhaps the most popular modern UI design trend is flat design. Apple’s iOS 7 adopted this design style with Google following suit afterwards. Many web designers also prefer the flat style for i...

Web Developers who work smart are often building on top of pre-existing frameworks. Open source CSS libraries are not hard to find – including many of the newer CSS3 effects. When structuring an...

Project managers are not the only people who can manage projects effectively. If you own a small web design and development business, then this area concerns you, too. The better you control your reso...

One of the largest digital conferences will appear again in 2015 hosted in Philadelphia, PA. Forge Conference runs for a single day on October 9th with an incredible line-up of speakers. This isn̵...

With hundreds of web fonts available for free use, designers are constantly searching around for the best option. Comparison shopping is easy when the price is free! Web design is largely based on typ...

Web developers and programmers have been using version control for years. Git and Subversion are two major projects with the former leading to its own community GitHub.com. But what about designers? P...

It’s always fascinating to read about the different journeys and pathways that people have walked. In the tech world there are millions of stories from developers, designers, marketers, and foun...

The Lenovo LaVie Z HZ550 super light laptop was first unveiled by its manufacturer at CES 2015. At the time, this very light but amazingly powerful notebook broke records for being the lightest device...

We live in an era where design is prevalent and technology is a rapidly growing sector of the private workforce. Yet there’s a shocking absence of quality documentaries that peek into the design...

Just recently Google announced a brand new application for the Apple Watch – Google Maps for watchOS. This is meant to bring directions and location search right to your Apple Watch. TechCrunch ...

The dizzying array of web-based color pickers can leave any designer at a loss for words. With so many free tools at your disposal it seems creativity is never at an end for growth. An incredible weba...

An invite-only network of designers carries with it a certain weight of prestige. Dribbble is perhaps one of the more well-known portfolio sites with an incredible roster of designers. It offers an in...

Previewing a new design can help to frame your concept in perspective. It can show what you’re doing that works, what might not be working, and how the final product should look. This process of...

Web developers and programmers have been using version control for years. Git and Subversion are two major projects with the former leading to its own community GitHub.com. But what about designers? P...