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by Aaron Mentele ∙ Design studios have traditionally worked on a "launch and dash" model: we study a client's business problem; address it in design, UX, and content strategy; inject templates into a CMS; take the money, and run.

What does it take to craft a great product? For those of us who design and build apps, websites and software, a great product means one that delights its users. But digital product development is a complex beast.

CSS articles, tutorials and tricks from some of the industries most respected and revered developers

Psdtuts+ is a leading blog and community for Photoshop tutorials. Learn photo manipulation, retouching, icon design, text effects, and much more.

If you develop websites and your environment is not WordPress, you still don't need to live your online life in visual darkness or hide beneath the sheets. We curated a list of awesome templates layered in HTML and CSS to make your work easier, and with a lot of different grooves to find the appropriate one for your web.

The previous post on creative business cards was very well recieved. Today we going to share another 60 well designed embossed business cards that stand out of the crowd. Embossing your business card is a great effect to grab your audience's attention, along with printing on different mediums, sizes of card and utilising complimentary techniques such as letterpress, spot UV and die cut.

After analyzing our new focus here at 1WD, which basically is teaching new, young, designers about web design and helping them improve their skills and to start in the business, we realized that we really need to go as deep as possible into the basics.

In a series of tutorials, I'm going to help you get started with Grunt, an open source JavaScript task runner that will automate some of your web development tasks. This nifty JavaScript library will notably speed up and improve your web development processes, and also help you sidestep common human errors.

Most recent post When trying to force an element to always extend to the height of its parent I ran into some peculiar browser behaviour that I thought was worth mentioning.

Web Design Blog. Tutorials, web design articles and blog, Tips and Tricks For Web Designers at CoolHomepages.

Pligg is an open source content management system that lets you easily create your own social network .

A while back CSS3 introduced a new set of properties, which are responsible for creating columns within your layout. You simple apply these to one of your elements in order to divide it up, automatically and hassle free, into a multi-column set up. This property is very easy to comprehend, set up and manipulate.

Published July 24th, 2013 in Business, Make Money - 2 Comments Many web designers are also entrepreneurs. They often have money-making side projects. Some even go on to found start-ups and even wind up incorporating themselves. Unfortunately, other designers go on to start new business ventures-only to have them fail after a few months.

Back in May we showcased here 19 Inspiring Examples of Text Over Images in Web Design and we had a really good response on the designs we featured. So for this post, type will take the center stage again. This time showing you beautiful ways to draw attention to your text.

The online Google Webfonts service provides an enormous benefit to designers around the world. Instead of paying for a subscription or hosting your own fonts locally, this allows you to include a bit of CSS...

Photoshop brushes, gradients and styles ready to download for your design projects.

DesignM.ag is a blog and community resource for web designers. Follow industry news and browse through our design gallery as well.

Following on from my recent showcase of websites featuring full screen videos, today's post looks at the sub-trend of big video headers in web design. HTML5 and jQuery make it easy to add dynamic video content to your site without bogging down the browser with Flash.

A book is one thing that people from all walks of life love. A book can be a great source of knowledge, entertainment and it has a great impact to...

PelFusion is a weblog to help web-developers and designers. We include tutorials, free stuff, photography and Wordpress resources.

Design Tutorials, Graphic Design Articles and Free Resource Downloads from the blog of Graphic Designer Chris Spooner

Web Design Resources for Web Designers. We include Photoshop Tutorials, WordPress Plugins, and Web Development tools. Download free icons, Photoshop brushes and tools for web and graphic designers.

10Steps.SG is a photoshop blog on easy Photoshop tutorials for beginners. Our aim is to teach beginners how to use photoshop.