October 2010

200 Fresh Web Design Articles You Always Wanted

The amount of high quality material being created by hard working skilled bloggers every day is amazing and can also make me dizzy. I have collected a huge number of useful articles that have been published recently and I promise you will be able to find inspiration, tools, ideas, Cool iPhone 4 cases etc. if you take a few minutes to read through it. If you want your article to be included in the future then you simply need to submit it here.

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40 Free and Premium Tools to Improve your Websites Usability

by Dustin Betonio on October 30, 2010

40 Free and Premium Tools to Improve your Websites Usability

Testing the usability of your site is one of the smartest things you can do. Usability involves making a website’s interface easier to use and simpler to understand, so that the user’s experience is as enjoyable as possible. Usability testing is test conducted to collect feedback and information from your website’s visitors or regular readers that can be very useful for future website revamp, enhancement or other adjustments.

Usability tools provide a detailed tracking of the user’s action. The tracked data gives you a precision of what a user like about your site, which area is the most prominent, most used and places which most users avoid. Do not underestimate the data collected because these figures can significantly boost up your site’s performance in terms of sales conversion rate, click-through and more. Visitors, however, don’t have this advantage. This means that testing for usability is the only reliable way to find out how well a website works.

In this article, we will review 40 best tools that you ca use to improve your website’s usability. Also make sure you check out this article covering web site testing in general. 40+ Freelancer Tools and Services for testing Web Projects

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55+ Super Nice and Sexy WordPress Themes for Female Bloggers

October 29, 2010

If you haven’t seen these Sexy WordPress Themes below you missed out on something! WordPress seams to be the number one platform for bloggers and it is also gaining popularity in other areas like business web sites (wordpress cms thmes), web shops (wordpress e-commerce themes) etc. What makes WordPress unique and a really strong choice [...]

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50 Creative and Beautiful Coffee Logo Designs

October 28, 2010

Coffee is a popular brewed drink prepared from roasted seeds, commonly called coffee beans, of the coffee plant. It is know to be the most traded goods in the word and some even say it’s an addiction while for many it’s an obsession and the only way to get a new day started. I personally [...]

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40 Smart and Creative Resume and CV Design Ideas

October 27, 2010

In these tough economic times, many designers find themselves applying for jobs and freelance gigs on a regular basis. So, how can you stand out from the rest and grab the attention of a design agency when they’re usually bombarded with hundreds of applications? All you have to do is design  your own resume that [...]

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40 Creative and Informative Infographics

October 25, 2010

Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information,data or knowledge. These graphics present complex information quickly and clearly, such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing  and education. With an information graphic,computer scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians develop and communicate concepts using a single symbol to process information. Infographic is one of the most [...]

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165+ Web Design News That Will Knock Your Socks Off

October 25, 2010

There is a lot of activity in the online web design community and people are producing articles, templates, code snippets, icons, inspiration… you name it like crazy. This article is a collection of links that have been submitted by reader of tripwire magazine and there is a lot of must reads in here. Enjoy!

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Free Web Design E-Books and Online Books Worth Checking out

October 24, 2010

E-books, guidelines, videos and other information products published online seams to be gaining popularity as a way to learn new stuff. Information products of any kind is simply available all over the Internet today. In the Web Design space there are tons of “information snippets” available and they are useful for sure, but there are [...]

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Elements and Principles for Creating Minimalist Web Design

October 23, 2010

Web Design comes in many flavors, but as you probably have noticed several times minimalist web design can be particularly beautiful and effective for achieving a specific goal. Even though most designer know the strengths of minimalist web design they find it very hard to create designs with very few elements that still look great [...]

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Why Most Bloggers Don’t Make any Money

October 23, 2010

Most bloggers wonder how they can make money from their blog and the many hours spent writing “give away high quality content”. Nearly all of those who are trying end up adding some ads and writing content to drive traffic to the ads. The idea is simple and fools many to believe it works. Write [...]

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