There are the dos and don’ts of web design, then there are the annoying aspects of site designs that make you simply want to cringe. They are all around us, and even I have occasionally forgotten about my visitors, and have resorted to using any of these tactics of increasing conversion rates. No matter what [...]

Geared with its simple and clean lines, Helvetica has become the favorites of designers from all around the world. When you walk into the streets and look around closely, you will come to realize that Helvetica is indeed used very widely. If you are in doubt, watch this trailer. How often do you see a [...]

While coding HTML pages, I have always wondered if there was a better, quicker and easier way to write lengthy and repetitive code that is present in almost every web page. I asked myself time and again, if there were people who thought on the same lines to make the code more crisp and abbreviated.
To [...]

I shared the following yesterday as a comment on one of my “Technology 4 Teachers” students’ blog posts. Her statement to which I was responding was, “Technology in classrooms today are too often dependent upon money, rather than the needs of the student.”
Money is always an excuse that is pulled out for technology not being [...]

Spectacu.la, a WordPress theme club, has just announced the release of their free threaded comments plugin for WordPress. Basically what this plugin does is replace your theme’s comments template with a new one, generated by the plugin.
In addition to that, you also get pagination and jQuery based roll up of subordinate comments. For [...]

It’s been a while since our last free WordPress theme. This one is designed by Roshan from Rambling Soul, who has recently returned to designing free templates after a long absence. This theme has a number of interesting features, which will be gone over below.

Read on to check out the features in more [...]

There’s an ancient Chinese proverb that says "工欲善其事，必先利其器"; the direct English translation means "In order to do a good job, once must have a good tool." When it comes to the design industry, the tool is Photoshop.

Photoshop is truly a designer’s best friend. It is used to design almost anything, be it icons, websites, photo [...]

Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and we [...]

You’ve likely seen the terms bounce rate, return visitor, and page views hundreds of times if you are a blogger or looking into starting your first blog. Those terms are commonly used, and often confused.

Photo by DDFic
This post will sort all the definitions out, making it easy to tell the difference between them. After you’ve [...]

This recent post by Martin Jorgensen is one of the most heartfelt and touching stories I’ve read in quite awhile.
Savor and bask in the sunshine the day may offer.
Martin’s website is “The Digital Narrative.”

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