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…)

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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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…)

According to Apple, iPhone “Developers can create Web 2.0 applications that look and behave just like the applications built into the iPhone, and provide seamless integration with iPhone applications and services” and this post helps you do just that. These days, everyone from Matt Cutts to Craig at A List Apart are talking about developing/designing for the iPhone and it’s time for you to get in on the action.

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Anyone who’s been to MySpace knows that a majority of the profiles look like something out of Geocities. Who hasn’t seen a profile with sparkling text, tiling images or black text on a dark background?

These 15 MySpace layout resources give you downloadable themes from professional designers as well as supply you with the knowledge needed to create your own custom design. Use these to capture your creativity and help keep bad design out of MySpace.

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For those of you who do not already know what Google Website Optimizer is, “it’s a multivariate web page testing tool that can help you understand which web page designs really work.” In other words, a free landing page optimization tool. (more…)