Design Vitality

What consumers see as freedom of choice when choosing a browser, CSS coders see as a nightmare. (more…)

Open-source programs and tools have really come a long way. Almost any program out there has an open-source equivalent. Using any combination of the tools below, it is possible to create, author and publish a website entirely for free (legally). (more…)

So why does saving paper even matter?

For starters, the pulp and paper industry is the third largest consumer of energy and uses more water to produce a ton of product than any other industry. In 2005, out of 245,000,000 tons of waste 34.2% was paper according to the EPA. That is over 83,300,000 tons of paper that is wasted every year.

When I first heard about Blog Action Day I knew this was a way that everyone, including designers, could easily help the environment.

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Your website navigation plays an integral role in keeping your site easy to use and navigate. Button tutorials are useful because you can take the techniques you like from a tutorial and use them to make your own custom buttons to match the site your working on.

I have filtered through the millions of results to highlight the 39 button tutorials you should have in your arsenal. (more…)

Usability on websites is exploding right now. AJAX has enabled web developers everywhere to add functionality to their sites like never before. I’ve gathered 43 extremely useful (but still easy to implement) AJAX applications for use on any website. Keep your users coming back and increase your website’s functionality. (more…)

WordPress is everywhere on the Internet. Who hasn’t seen a blog, news site or portfolio that isn’t at least partly powered by WordPress. WordPress is a very powerful, easy to install, easy to use blogging program. So what do you do if you want to start your own WordPress powered site, or improve your existing one? You check out this Wordpress Quickstart Guide and get yourself some awesome knowledge of WordPress!

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Video tutorials can make learning new Photoshop skills quick and easy. Unfortunately, hunting down decent Photoshop video tutorials online can be pretty tough.

To save you the trouble of searching through pages of the same videos about editing some girls face over and over, we’ve tracked down some of the better Photoshop video tutorials and put them all in once place. Enjoy! (more…)

With the widespread adoption of CSS, web designers have been given more style freedom than ever before. What once was done with images and tables can now be accomplished with a few lines of code. This article gives examples on how to accomplish common design elements with the use of very minimal images, if any at all. Use CSS to lose the excess images and keep your page loading fast. (more…)

Most web designers look to the usual resources for inspiration: web design portfolios, social media sites and CSS galleries. But what happens when you do that? You get a site that looks just like everyone else’s.

Check out these resources that inspire you to build a website that separates itself from the pack. (more…)

Prizes in our 2007 WordPress theme design competition include $1,000 USD, the choice of a Nintendo Wii or an Apple iPhone, and 2 years of Web Hosting. You also get the bragging rights of being able to say you emerged victorious with your killer WordPress theme, and all the web fame that comes with it. (more…)