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8 web industry surprises no one warns you about

For the past 5+ years, I’ve been in web development marketing in some shape or form. From the customers to the travel,...

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7 Ways a Design Kit or Template Can Save Your Project

You do not have to start—and finish—every new website design from scratch.Seriously!Before you scowl, think about it...

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8 Proven Ways to Turbo-Charge Your Productivity

According to recent research, we are fully productive for less than 3 hours a day. Stress and poor planning are just two...

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How to Plan Your First Successful Website

Planning a new website can be exciting and — if you’re anything like me — a little daunting. Whether you’re an e...

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5 Ways to Keep Designing When the Power is Out

There’s a certain peace to be found at night, when the world goes dark and silent. You might settle down on the couch ...

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Confessions of a Web Design Generalist (a.k.a. The Person Who Does Literally Everything)

There’s a special kind of web designer out there. You won’t always spot them in the wild because they’re usually b...

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How To Speed Up Your Bootstrap Development Process

Bootstrap is naturally a pretty fast development solution, as it allows you to access everything you need to create your...

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Making It Pop — 5 Ways to Combat Subjective Design Feedback

“It looks great, but can you make it ‘pop’ more?”We’ve all been there, the dreaded subjective design feedback,...

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10 Web Dev Trends for 2025 That Will Make or Break Your Career

Web development is dead. Well, the version you knew is…The future? It’s less about your meticulous hand-coded maste...

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What is the “Minimum” in Minimum Viable Product?

Minimum viable products include just enough features to attract early adopters and validate your idea in the early stage...

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A Beginner’s Guide to Designing Conversational Interfaces

Whether you love them or hate them, conversational interfaces have started making a significant impact in the business/b...

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The Slow Implosion of WordPress: 2025 and the CMS That’s Losing Its Soul

WordPress, the behemoth that once empowered a third of the internet, stands in 2025 as a paradox. On one hand, it’s st...

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Who Do Web Designers Really Work For?

It would be way too easy to answer this question with: “Whoever pays your bills.” And, honestly, I don’t think you...

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How to Get Started with the MVP Workflow

Over the years, as development processes have evolved, so too have the workflows experts use to bring their ideas to lif...

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Is It Time to Reset HTML?

HTML is one of the foundational building blocks of the Web. But just as web design best practices and techniques change ...

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eCommerce Metrics that Matter

It’s nearly 2020, and every eCommerce brand should be using key metrics to pinpoint advertising, boost sales and impro...

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Design Handoff Pitfalls: Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

When it comes to web design, the handoff process is where the magic (or more often, the chaos) happens.For many advanced...

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15 Best CSS Frameworks: Professional Bootstrap and Foundation Alternatives

Whether you are a CSS expert or a front-end beginner, using the right CSS framework is crucial for your daily tasks. The...

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Progressive Web Apps (PWAs): Unlocking The Future of Mobile-First Web Development

As we move towards a new ‘mobile internet’, demanding consumers are constantly looking for new ways to improve their...

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6 Ways to Collaborate for Better Design

Your team is all spread out— your designers are working from Lisbon, your content team is in New York, and your projec...

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Introducing ChatGPT Pro: The Ultimate Assistant Tool for Coders

OpenAI has just leveled up its game with ChatGPT Pro, a premium subscription aimed at users who want to supercharge thei...

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7 Tools for Developing Your First Progressive Web App

UX has been the focal point of modern web development for quite some time now. This is influenced by several factors, in...

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Overcoming Blank Page Paralysis

Whether you’re new to the job or are an experienced designer, the anxiety of a new project can sometimes – often une...

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Help! I Can’t Stop Wasting Time…

There are so many distractions when you are a freelancer. From kids coming into your home office or time sucks like Face...

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5 Tips for Cleaning up After a Design Project

As every kid knows, making cool stuff is the fun part. You dump all of your toys on the floor, and sort through them unt...

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How to Tackle a Redesign

Stepping into a website that’s already well-established isn’t always easy. For starters, you have to be careful abou...

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Rock Solid WordPress Security: Keeping Your Business Safe

WordPress is the web’s favourite CMS (content management system), renowned for its low-entry level and vast array of t...

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Twitter turns 10

The microblogging platform that revolutionized how the world communicates and markets with 140-character snippets just t...

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The Decline of Stack Overflow: Where Are Developers Headed Next?

In the early days of web development, Stack Overflow was a lifeline. It was where developers turned for answers, code ...

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HTML Tables: The Layout Hack That Somehow Worked

Ah, the humble HTML table. Once the crown jewel of web design, now a relic that makes modern developers roll their eyes ...

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6 Tips for Writing Content Regularly

Okay, you need three to five new ideas for articles, all on the same general topic. Go…Now here’s where we separate ...

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The Secret to Site Traffic, and 7 Ways to Make it Happen

Whenever someone asks, “How can I increase traffic to my website?” the answer is invariably, “Regularly post new c...

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Local vs. Global Web Design: How to Reach the Right Audience

Businesses have more options today in terms of how they get their goods and services out to customers: strictly brick-an...

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7 Ways to Sell Words Online

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a lot of photographers aren’t getting paid enough. When a writer actually mana...

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12 Tips to Improve Your Web Design Skills

There are many reasons you might be wanting to improve your design skills this year. Perhaps you have extra time on your...

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6 ways to harness social media for your brand

Social media has become a constant in modern daily life. By now it’s not uncommon for grandparents to have their own p...

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How to Create a Visually Appealing Instagram

Instagram truly is the social media platform of this decade. It has exploded in popularity and seen massive growth. Inst...

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Using KPIs to Improve Web Content

Tracking content performance is the key to a successful campaign, but you can’t do that unless you know which metrics ...

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Is It Time to Embrace AMP?

If you own a website, you should have at least heard the term AMP before. If you haven’t, it’s likely you will hear ...

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4 Web Design Principles Hollywood Reboots Can Teach Us

At least once every day, some designer somewhere in the world will look at something made months or years ago; failing t...

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11 Experimental CSS Projects That’ll Blow Your Mind

There’s a lot you can do with just CSS and a web browser. Great developers love to push the envelope and show just how...

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4 Tips For Getting Design Proposals Signed Faster

This article will explain how to create a fantastic business proposal that looks great and gets signed quickly. Although...

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The Future of the Web Is Decentralized (Whether You Like It or Not)

Let’s be real—the internet is broken. It’s a mess! Once upon a time, it was this wild, open frontier, a digital pl...

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How to drive UX with AJAX

With mobile internet usage eclipsing desktop-based web browsing, it’s more important than ever for websites to be buil...

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Creating WebVR Experiences with A-Frame

WebVR is an amazing way to create immersive 3D Virtual Reality experiences in the browser. It’s an experimental specif...

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Discovering and fixing image delivery issues

If you have a modern website or mobile app, there’s no doubt you deal with a lot of media resources, particularly imag...

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So, You’ve Won An Exciting Redesign…What Now?

The transitioning of power is fraught with difficulties. Different teams have different values, different experience, di...

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9 Tips for Designing an Email Signature

It’s no secret that email signatures have a major impact in the world of email marketing. It’s also clear that they ...

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The quick guide to speeding up your websites

Speed is usability.To say it more accurately, website speed is a major part of usability. The most intuitive interface e...

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Creating Your First Interactive JavaScript Chart

Data is all around us, and its visualization has already become an essential part of our lives. Charts, infographics, ma...

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When to Use Old Code

The point here is simple: the world more or less runs on old code, and that’s not always a bad thing. We, as designers...

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How to Code a “Click to Tweet” Button

With Instagram, Snapchat and other “young” social media platforms taking over the internet, Twitter still remains on...

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CSS goes 3D with voxel.css

The web is often seen as a decidedly two-dimensional medium. And, to be fair, it is. That’s what it was designed for.W...

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How to write clickbait-free headlines

Content is design, and our content is full of clickbait, these days. Sadly, there are many sites that are still using th...

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Speed up your sites with HTTP/2

HTTP/2 is a new way of making your website load much faster by eliminating many inefficiencies associated with the curre...

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Get Ready For Next Month’s Google Shakeup

With the update scheduled to roll out in May 2021, now is the time to make sure your websites are prepared for it. It’...

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Is it Time to Transition to JAMStack?

For a while, Jamstack was mostly written off as just another buzzword in the developer space. However, today, it’s gro...

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Do Design Sprints Work (and Are They Worth It)?

Truth be told, there’s a lot of value that comes from doing design sprints. However, it’s not as simple as adopting ...

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The web reacts to Facebook’s Reactions

It’s inappropriate to ‘Like’ someone’s firing, breakup, fashion disaster, or untimely demise. That’s the conun...

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Designing effective web surveys

Web surveys are important tools that websites and businesses can use to gauge important feedback from their site visitor...

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Dynamic sites at static speed: the art of website caching

A lot has been said recently about the merits of static sites. But in many situations a dynamic approach is a necessity....

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Supercharge Your Site With a CDN

As a web designer, you already know that great design is essential for a website—it’s the concept of design you trus...

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Poll: should CSS become more like a programming language?

I’ve made no secret of my love for LESS. It was my first CSS pre-processor, and still my favorite, even as pragmatism ...

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20 essential CSS tricks every designer should know

This one’s for the absolute beginners. Once you’ve learned how the box model works, and how to float those boxes, it...

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Punched card coding: the secret of interactive email

Email predates the Web by around 10 years (depending on who you talk to) and in that time the web has evolved into an dy...

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9 Ways To Boost Your Domain Authority

Domain Authority (DA) is a ranking metric that predicts how well a site will rank online. It goes by a scale of 1 to 100...

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Looping Measures of Effectiveness Back to the Creative Team

When analysts for professional sports teams noticed that marketing promotions that included the team’s logo vastly out...

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Designers Should Code: Build an App from Scratch

A breakdown of a simple app, from UI design to deployment, that shows off why coding is a magic tool for designers.Figma...

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Master Information Architecture by Designing with Data

In today’s digital era, having an impactful and compelling website is a critical component for any business or organiz...

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Beyond Blogging: Guest Slots & Thought Leadership

Including high quality blogs and other forms of useful, interesting content is a great way to boost SEO and encourage re...

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CSS Wrapped 2024: 17 Features Transforming Modern Web Design

In 2024, CSS has introduced a suite of features that significantly enhance web design capabilities, offering developers ...

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5 freelance tests you’re probably failing

Marketing is a waste of time. At least that’s how it feels for many designers. They’re not getting enough traffic, c...

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How to Run a Successful Design Critique

The quality of critique sessions is a clear indicator of how well the creative process is being managed. When a design c...

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18 Tips For Running a Successful Design Sprint

Development time is a precious resource. In order to be more efficient and responsive, product teams continuously try to...

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5 Biggest Challenges Web Design Agencies Face

With billions of internet users worldwide spending several hours online each day, the online presence of brands is now a...

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Poll: When will you start using CSS Grid Layout?

January is the time most of us cease reflecting on the year gone by, and start looking to the months ahead. It seems eve...

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5 Simple Steps To Effective Wireframing

There are many occasions when we get stuck or overwhelmed for hours in front of a new project. This is where creating wi...

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7 Steps to Successfully Onboarding Design Clients

You’ve done the hard work: you’ve taken a lead and turned them into a paying customer. Congrats! Now, you have to bu...

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AMP Stories Are a Thing Now

Revel and rejoice, designers! Google is working hard on that second problem. It’s a simple fact [not sure if sarcasm a...

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Static-site success: Jekyll against the rest of the world

I’m stood in the center of a room, confident my choice to go all static had been a good one. It’s a serene scene—n...

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Why Responsive Design is Failing Modern Users

Yet, despite its widespread adoption, modern users are increasingly frustrated. Why? Because the once-revolutionary appr...

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6 Things To Discuss With Your Web Developer Before Kickoff

So you’re designing a new website or online store, and you need a web developer. You might need them to develop a site...

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How To Power Through Designer Apathy

The dread of going back to it is paralyzing.There are many reasons you can stop caring about your work. Maybe you’ve j...

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Rethinking Responsive Grids with a Content-Aware Approach

Responsive grids were supposed to save us. Once upon a time, they were the answer to our multi-device nightmares. No mor...

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Will the Web like Facebook emojis?

We all know about Facebook’s most popular button: the Like button. You’ve probably already used the thumbs-up icon m...

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Vibe Coding: Revolution or Recipe for Disaster in App and Game Development?

There’s a buzzword circulating in tech forums and developer communities that’s hard to ignore: vibe coding.You might...

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How to Reduce The Carbon Footprint of Your Website

On average, a web page produces 4.61 grams of CO2 for every page view; for whole sites, that amounts to hundreds of KG...

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Modern web layout with flexbox

Let me say this first: flexbox is easy. Whether it’s because of early-adoption issues, or because we’ve learned to t...

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So, Can We Use CSS Variables Yet?

With all the talk lately of finally being able to use CSS Grid, it got me thinking: What other amazing CSS features can ...

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5 Brilliant Ways to Tackle Designer’s Block

I have spent many hours trying to get rid of this annoying wall. It took some time, but I have found some tactics that w...

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9 Ways To Drive Traffic To Your WordPress Blog

WordPress has made it easy for everyone to launch a blog, but even though launching a blog isn’t a difficult task any ...

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Instagram unveils Stories, for more meaningful sharing

Looking for a new way to experience Instagram and get something more out of it? If you are, then Instagram Stories is ju...

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8 Ways to Make DesOps Work For You

In the modern world, it’s the development team’s speed that often defines the viability of a product. At the same ti...

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Introducing CSS’ new font-display property

We take web fonts for granted these days. We didn’t always have the option of setting our text in almost any typeface....