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  • Redesign your portfolio site in 10 easy steps

    Designing for yourself is one of the toughest tasks for a web designer. Grace Smith rounds up 10 vital steps you need to take to pave the way for a successful redesign of your portfolio site

  • How to find better clients

    Long live client services! Carl Smith, founding member of nGen Works, answers Khoi Vinh's post calling for the end of the client services model, explains how it has to evolve and how we can find better clients

  • Earn money in your sleep!

    It’s every web designer and developer’s dream: a passive income stream that generates cash all by itself. Adii Pienaar explains how to create one of your own
    By Adii Pienaar on | 3 comments

  • .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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Why the doodle matters

    Don’t dismiss doodling – in the right hands, it can be a serious and useful tool that should be deployed when problems are most messy and topics most serious, says business owner, author and leader of the doodle revolution Sunni Brown
    By Sunni Brown on | 5 comments

  • 7 ways web conferences suck (and how to fix them)

    Robert Hoekman Jr has been speaking at web conferences for six years now. Here he analyses seven things that are wrong with such events and comes up with a few ideas about how to fix them
    By Robert Hoekman Jr 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

  • Report: dConstruct 2011

    Software developer Brian Suda reports from Friday's dConstruct conference in Brighton
    By Brian Suda on

  • .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

  • Where ideas for design come from

    The creative process isn't just magic. Web Hosting Search's Jane Campbell explains how and why designers' creative process works, and goes through it from practice and preparation to execution
    By Jane Campbell on | 3 comments

  • 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.

  • Crowdfunding: get paid for free stuff

    Voluntary payments are picking up pace on the web. Linus Olsson, the co-founder of social micropayments system Flattr, draws on the lessons the team has learned from their users and explains how you can be funded by your fans, too
    By Linus Olsson on | 1 comment

  • 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

  • .net Awards 2011: top 10 online games

    This new category in the .net Awards recognises the year's best online games, where timewasting is positively encouraged. Here we profile our shortlist compiled of your nominations. Let the game play begin!
    By Oliver Lindberg on

  • .net Awards 2011: 10 brilliant newcomers

    The Brilliant Newcomer Award celebrates the ultimate shooting star in web design and development who really has excelled in their field. Here we profile the top 10 newcomers as nominated by you. May the best one win!
    By Oliver Lindberg on | 1 comment

  • .net Awards 2011: top 10 redesigns

    This week we profile the top 10 redesigns that you have nominated in the Redesign of the Year category of the .net Awards 2011. All the entries on our shortlist are examples of sites that went beyond an aesthetic makeover
    By Oliver Lindberg on | 5 comments
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