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  • Providing responsive images with Drupal

    Serving images to mobile devices can prove a major annoyance for developers. Michael Herchel highlights a number of methods to make life more flexible
    By Michael Herchel on

  • Simon Collison on the privilege of being a designer

    Ever-restless designer, author and thinker Simon Collison tells Martin Cooper about his decision to leave client work, his current work with ‘product shop’ Fictive Kin, and the importance of continuing to question established practice
    By Martin Cooper on

  • Five killer ways to integrate social sharing

    Creating your own buttons to get people to Like or tweet your own or your client’s pages isn’t always an option. Matthew Smith takes a look at the right way to integrate social networking into your sites
    By Matthew Smith on | 1 comment

  • Prototyping in code

    Alex Morris, user experience director at Mark Boulton Design, walks us through some of the rationale, the tricks, the processes and techniques you can employ to build HTML prototyping into your workflow
    By Alex Morris on | 3 comments

  • Jonathan Snook on Photoshop vs Fireworks, and more

    The Canadian writer, speaker, blogger and designer/developer extraordinaire answers your questions on choosing software, getting inspiration, learning how to architect apps that can scale nicely, and what’s holding back the web
    By Tanya Combrinck on

  • .net Awards 2011: the 10 sites of the year

    In the last of our .net Awards 2011 profiles, we showcase the 10 websites of the year that you have nominated. They all are rich in visual flair and imagination but which one really pushed the boundaries of the web this year?
    By Oliver Lindberg on

  • Emotion in design

    Our creations need to be more human, says Aarron Walter, lead user experience designer at MailChimp. He argues that the task of designing a pleasurable experience is made easier when we create a distinct personality for our interface
    By Aarron Walter on | 3 comments

  • Five killer ways to use a gallery style

    On a gallery-style website, we tend to look over the whole view to see what suits our artistic palette. Digestible chunks of copy or images can be processed like a great tapas meal, argues Matthew Smith
    By Matthew Smith on | 2 comments

  • The .net strip #1: The Fold

    In the first of our new, weekly comic strips - exclusively created by Brad Colbow - we look at the design concept that's been the cause of many a headache since the birth of the web: the fold

  • ZURB

    Californian agency ZURB specialises in helping web startups connect with their customers. Partner Jeremy Britton explains its approach and philosophy to Oliver Lindberg
    By Oliver Lindberg on

  • When perfect code gets FUBAR ... and how to avoid it!

    You hand your beautifully crafted code to a client, colleague or even CMS, and the next time you check in, it's all ruined. Front-end alchemist Scott Lenger explains how bad code happens to good people, why it matters, and the steps you can take to prevent it

  • 10 beautiful examples of illustration on the web

    As more and more graphic designers and illustrators gain web design skills, illustrations can increasingly be found on the web. UK designer Mike Kus showcases his 10 favourite examples of websites using illustration to enhance the user experience.

  • .net Awards 2011: top 10 designers

    Another new category in the .net Awards recognises the world's best web designers. Here we profile our shortlist compiled of your nominations. Whose designs rocked your world this year? Make up your mind and cast your vote today!
    By Oliver Lindberg on | 3 comments

  • 50 fantastic tools for responsive web design

    To get started with building a responsive site, having a strong toolkit can make a world of difference. Here Denise Jacobs and Peter Gasston round up 50 great tools to aid the process of making your sites responsive
    By Denise Jacobs And Peter Gasston on | 47 comments

  • Self-educate to survive

    If you lack a formal design education, you’ll need to self-educate before you can progress in your career, says Ryan Downie. Here's a checklist of the subjects he studied to help him to understand more about web design

  • The perfect web design app… and why it doesn’t exist

    Designers and developers share with Craig Grannell their tools for designing websites and demand something more in keeping with modern practices. The perfect tool, it seems, simply doesn't exist yet, as highlighted by the Project Meteor campaign
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