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We’ve all been there: that bit of JavaScript functionality that started out as just a handful of lines grows to a dozen, then two dozen, then more. Along the way, a function picks up a few more arguments; a conditional picks up a few more conditions. And then one day, the bug report comes in: [...]

Great design is a product of care and attention applied to areas that matter, resulting in a useful, understandable, and hopefully beautiful user interface. But don’t be fooled into thinking that design is left only for designers. There is a lot of design in code, and I don’t mean code that builds the user interface—I [...]

» MapBox Develops an Open Source Vector Format for Maps MapBox’s new vector-based map tiles are more stable, more scalable, and customizable to an amazing degree.

I know you’ve been asked this plenty of times already, but: no new vendor prefixes, right? Right? Nope, none! They’re great in theory but turns out they fail in practice, so we’re joining Mozilla and the W3C CSS WG and moving away them. There’s a few parts to this. Firstly, we won’t be migrating the [...]

Typekit is the easiest way to use real fonts on the web. Add a line of code to your pages and choose from hundreds of web fonts. Simple, bulletproof, standards compliant, accessible, and totally legal. Learn more at http://typekit.com

» Research Tips For Designers and Developers How is the waterfall web design process like the childhood game of “Telephone,” and how can we fix it? Bringing designers and developers into the discovery and research phase is a good start, says Happy Cog creative director Chris Cashdollar, who shares stakeholder interviewing tips in this helpful [...]

» W3C to Publish Encrypted Media Extensions Specification The W3C announced today that it intends to publish the controversial Encrypted Media Extensions extension specification despite highly outspoken resistance, paving the way for native web DRM.

In any given day I can find myself reading up on a new W3C proposal, fixing an issue with our tax return, coding an add-on for our product, writing a conference presentation, building a server, creating a video tutorial, and doing front end development for one of our sites. Without clients dictating my workload I’m [...]

Ilya Grigorik discusses in detail how to construct a mobile website that loads as quickly as possible. A site that not only renders in 1 second, but one that is also visible in 1 second. With hard statistics as evidence to show why this matters, Ilya discusses techniques to deliver a 1000 millisecond experience.

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This may be of some interest to folks interested in tech and web development so I’m cross-posting from my personal blog. I am going to embark on a personal crusade in 2011 to scale back my reliance on Cable TV in favor of the HTPC approach. If you’re interested in that sort of thing check [...]

Recently I was listening to an Economist podcast (embedded below) where the discussion centered on where things would stand 25 years from now. When talking about what types of things would and would not exist 25 years from now the gentleman speaking said he was certain that books would exist but many current high tech [...]

Holy tablets Batman! CES 2011 was flooded with companies promoting their soon-to-come tablet computers including Toshiba, Vizio, Acer, Samsung, Motorola, Blackberry and more. Most will run some version of Android but a couple will have other operating systems like Blackberry or Windows 7. Two major players who didn’t announce anything tablet related, but probably will [...]

I have seen a lot of blogs posting their favorite iPhone or iOS apps which seems to make sense since there will be a lot of new owners of iPhones and iPads after the Christmas and Hanukkah holidays. So in the spirit of sharing I decided to post links to a few of the apps that [...]

I have been watching the discussion about the Google Chrome OS with great interest. Since there hadn’t been much news on the OS in the past year I thought maybe that Google had decided to focus more on Android and continue to develop Chrome as only a web browser. But then Google launched their Chrome [...]

If you listen to the shows This Week in Tech and This Week in Google on Leo Laporte’s TWiT network you hear lots of interesting commentary on tech topics. Unfortunately from time to time you also hear some ridiculous hyperbole, most of which references News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch is famous for many things [...]

When big companies such as Yahoo acquire small companies like Delicious or Flickr they usually do so with the best of intentions but almost always seem to end up messing it all up. The world of Web 2.0 has seen more than their fair share of these situations. Think News Corp’s acquisition of MySpace. Or [...]

Well, this isn’t what Google hoped for when they released their very hyped Google TV software. The “this” I’m referring to is the blocking of the software by major television networks. Since Google TV supports Adobe Flash in the browser (Chrome) included with the software many assumed that they would be able to access sites [...]

There are major changes afoot in the world of computer operating systems. Since the original iPhone was released in 2007 many people and companies have altered their expectations about their mobile device experiences. For many years cell phone operating systems were expected to be just utilitarian enough to easily manage a few basic tasks such [...]

It has been busy week for web conglomerates shutting down services that are not performing. Six Apart decided to shutter their Vox blogging service. Amazon is folding Amie Street into their current music download service. Finally, IAC Interactive is killing web-based RSS reader Bloglines. None of this is earth shaking news but it serves to [...]

The Art & Design Inspiration Fix pulls together a collection of my favourite graphical images that I’ve come across over the past week to give you a fix of creative inspiration. This week we have designs from Aaron von Freter, Rogier de Boevé, Yu Ping Chuang, Pavel Fuksa and Issam Erraya. Widow Maker by Aaron [...]

Sometimes it’s fun to create a logo design for a fictional client. Just pick a design style and play around with a concept of your choice without the hassle of the client approval process. This also gives you the chance to experiment with styles and trends you’ve seen around but never had the opportunity to [...]

The folks at Fan Extra have supplied some amazing goodies for Access All Areas members in the past, and today another super useful resource is being donated. Members can download this detailed set of ink brushes for Photoshop. They’re high resolution and perfect for creating edgy designs or roughing up your artwork. Fan Extra members [...]

While I’m no pro videographer I do enjoy creating videos of my adventures on an amateur level. Recently I’ve been editing loads of footage from our road trip honeymoon in the USA, so I thought I’d share some of the techniques I’ve developed in Adobe Premiere to create cool vintage or retro style video effects. [...]

I regularly post links to interesting design tutorials and articles over on my Twitter and Facebook accounts, but in case you missed them here’s a roundup of my top pickings from my recent browsing of the web. This week we have some great content from GoMediaZine, DesignM.ag, Codrops, Vectortuts+ and Psdtuts+. How to Design and [...]

Most of the artwork I produce myself for tutorials here on Blog.SpoonGraphics are based on basic geometric shapes. I’ve had plenty of fun in the past creating posters and designs using various geometric patterns. Today we’re going to take a look at some amazing artwork from elsewhere on the web, all of which are either [...]

The Art & Design Inspiration Fix pulls together a collection of my favourite graphical images that I’ve come across over the past week to give you a fix of creative inspiration. This week we have designs from Allison Cruzado, James Olstein, Yoni Alter, Kevin Harald Campean, Martin Filipovi? and Jamison Reisbeck. Stolen Away by Allison [...]

If you’re a regular reader of my blog you’ll know I love creating artwork in Illustrator using simple or basic shapes. This tutorial takes that idea to the extreme by using nothing by the rectangle tool to create a simple 8-bit style pixel character. Pixels are usually associated with Photoshop, but the great thing about [...]

It’s that time of year again! Every April I create a blog post to celebrate the growth of my little blog and share recent statistics and behind the scenes updates to share my experiences running this site with all my loyal readers and subscribers. Looking back at 2012′s post there’s been some big changes to [...]

Not only is creating characters lots of fun, it’s also a great way to get to grips with a particular design application. Regardless of whether you’re working in Photoshop or Illustrator, the techniques you learn can be applied to all kinds of projects. This post rounds up some of the best free character design tutorials [...]

So you want to make the background of your website red eh? You’ll probably put this in your CSS: body { background: red; } Done! Check out this Pen! You’re going about your business and then all the sudden one day this happens: Check out this Pen! What in the heck? Why is the red [...]

The ultimate primer on web type for web developers by Jessica Hische. Direct Link to Article — Permalink jQuery Conference Portland 2013 has a limited number of regular tickets still available. Two days. Two tracks. Fresh speakers. Jun 13-14. $50 off for members of the jQuery Foundation. Join today and get your first year of [...]

I always wanted to write something on all the technologies that a website relies on in order to have been created and work. My attempts have so far failed because it spirals out of control so quickly. Kevin Kelly sums it up: A web page relies on perhaps a hundred thousand other inventions, all needed [...]

Just in case you have brain farts about this constantly like I do. If That’s what media queries are: logical if statements. “If” these things are true about the browser, use the CSS inside. And The keyword and. @media (min-width: 600px) and (max-width: 800px) { html { background: red; } } Or Comma separate. @media [...]

I’ll be speaking at the upcoming Front End Design Conference in Florida. If you have tickets, see you there! If not, sorry, this one is sold out. I recently spoke at TXJS, and they recorded the talks, so mine and a bunch of others are available on their Vimeo channel. Next week I head out [...]

The following is a guest post by Marcel Shields. Marcel in a difficult place where he needed to change the image on a page but didn’t have access to the HTML. Rare, but I’m sure we’ve all be in weird situations like this. He explains how he managed to replace that image without needing to [...]

Auto-filling forms is nice because it saves time and is less prone to user error. Even better is not even needing to see a form in the first place. Direct Link to Article — Permalink Chrome’s requestAutocomplete() is a post from CSS-Tricks

Is an open-source app modeled after CodeKit. Prepros runs on Windows where CodeKit is Mac only. From people who have tried it, it seems good. Direct Link to Article — Permalink Prepros is a post from CSS-Tricks

Among the many super nice design features of the Yahoo! Weather app for iOS is the transition between city screens. The background image doesn’t just move away as the screen moves from one screen to the next, the background image itself slides. It appears to be hiding some of the “old” screen and revealing more [...]

The following is a guest post by Alex Young (@the_alexyoung). Alex has created a simple technique to “rotate” the subject of a photo simply by hiding and showing multiple stacked photographs taken at different angles. Enjoy! Web designers and developers have always fascinated us with fun and engaging ways we interact with their websites. I [...]

Advertise here via BSA FROONT is a web-based design tool that runs in the browser and makes responsive web design accessible to all kinds of visual designers, even those without any coding skills. FROONT makes responsive web design visual. Design can be done in-browser with intuitive drag-and-drop tools. After all, humans judge design with their [...]

Advertise here via BSA jQuery.swatches is a free to use that turns a one-line div into a sweet color swatch. You can customize the class as you want. Using different classes would allow you to render groups of swatches at individual times by calling swatchify() on a different selector. Requirements: jQuery Framework Demo: http://maxmackie.com/jquery.swatches/ License: [...]

Advertise here via BSA This article recently appeared on the Atari Arcade Developer Center, a collaboration by the teams at gskinner.com , Atari and Internet Explorer. The Atari Arcade: a true game portal showcasing what’s possible with web standards like HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Slick graphics, fast, multi-player gameplay, and platform agnostic. Initially only targeting [...]

Advertise here via BSA HTML5 Up! is a small showcase of the free responsive HTML5 + CSS3 site templates that AJ put together while developing 5grid. All of them are clean, minimal, fully responsive site templates built on HTML5 and CSS3. They are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license. Requirements: Skel.js Framework Demo: http://html5up.net/ [...]

Advertise here via BSA Editr is a HTML, CSS and JavaScript playground that you can host on your server. it is based on ACE Editor. It’s super easy to setup. It supports multiple instances on one page. Configurations are available via JS object or HTML attributes. Editr is licensed under MIT License. Requirements: JavaScript Framework [...]

Advertise here via BSA Easy responsive tabs is a lightweight jQuery plugin which optimizes normal horizontal or vertical tabs to accordion on multi devices like: web, tablets, Mobile (IPad & IPhone). This plugin adapts the screen size and changes its form accordingly. It supports Horizontal / Vertical Tabs to Accordion. Tabs and accordion are created [...]

Advertise here via BSA Two.js is a two-dimensional drawing api geared towards modern web browsers. It is renderer agnostic enabling the same api to draw in multiple contexts: svg, canvas, and webgl. Two.js aims to make the creation and animation of flat shapes easier and more concise. Two.js has a built in animation loop. It [...]

Advertise here via BSA Twitter has adopted a Facebook Timeline-like cover display for main profile pages, opening up a new avenue for visual creativity. Ranked as one of the ten most-visited websites and three most used social networks, twitter is definitely changing the face of social media by actively engaging with the targeted audience. TwitrCovers [...]

Advertise here via BSA When I started out on this app I was only really just interested in seeing if the web platform had really evolved to a point where an app like the hugely popular Instagram app could be built using just HTML, JavaScript and CSS. As it turns out we can in fact [...]

Advertise here via BSA Transit is a super-smooth CSS transitions & transformations for jQuery. You can make transition on any CSS property. They will happen much smoother than if you were to use jQuery’s default .animate(). You can easily translate, rotate, scale, skew and etc. Transit degrades older browsers by simply not doing the transformations [...]

If you don’t already know, the hgroup element is obsolete in HTML5. Advice is now provided in the HTML spec on how to mark up subheadings, subtitles, alternative titles and taglines using existing and implemented HTML features. Advice for marking up subheadings and the like The important question for developers is: How do I mark [...]

Steve Faulkner – invariably prefixed by the honorific “The Mighty” by those who know him – is Australian living in London with his wife and two kids. He works for The Paciello Group, a well-known web accessibility consultancy, and is a co-editor of the HTML5 spec at W3C Today, we’re pleased to announce that he’s [...]

In the first article in this series we looked at the history of HTML5 forms and many of the new attributes available to us. In this second and final part of the series, we’ll look at the new input types available in HTML5. As we’ll see, these new features will go a long way toward [...]

No doubt you interact with at least one form on the Web every day. Whether you’re searching for content or logging in to your e-mail account or Facebook page, using online forms is one of the most common tasks performed on the Web. As designers and developers, creating forms has a certain monotony about it, [...]

When building web sites and web applications, we often need to provide essential feedback to a user informing them of the progress of their request or task, be it uploading a file, playing a video, or importing data. HTML5 makes life easier for us by defining an element whose sole purpose is just that: the [...]

One of our readers commented on an article a while ago (I won’t tell you which one just now asking about marking up items on Pinterest. It struck me that this would be a prime candidate for a Simplequiz, so here we are. Pinterest, for the uninitiated of you, allows you to organise and share [...]

Hot on the heels of our interview with Robin Berjon, editor of HTML5 at W3C, over the weekend I interviewed Ian Hickson, editor of HTML “The Living Standard” at WHATWG and, arguably, the most influential individual working on the Web today. Hickson, known as “Hixie”, works for Google and previously worked for Opera (my employer) [...]

Pro HTML5 Accessibility is an exhaustive book. Author Joshue O Connor is senior accessibility consultant with National Council for the Blind of Ireland’s Centre for Inclusive Technology and a stalwart of many W3C working groups. Don’t be afraid of the title. The book doesn’t assume that you’re a professional accessibility expert – quite the opposite; [...]

Playing cached audio for offline use on iOS Safari has long been a challenge that has proved to be mission impossible. But with the advent of the (WebKit-only) Web Audio API, it is now finally achievable — although you still need to jump through a few hoops. The bad news is that you still can’t [...]

At the recent Apps World expo in London, Doctor Bruce spoke on a panel with Robin Berjon, recently appointed W3C HTML5 editor. He took the opportunity to ask Robin some questions on process, living standards and male grooming. Bruce and Robin   Tell us about yourself. My name is Robin Berjon (@robinberjon, berjon.com) and I [...]

Yesterday, I looked at the new Daft Punk web experience on Pitchfork. It was visually stunning, featuring rich-animations throughout. I noticed however that scrolling on the page felt quite janky. It was sluggish and stuttered regularly. You could reproduce this … Continue reading →

Preface: This article assumes prior knowledge of Grunt, the JavaScript task runner and that you've heard of Traceur, the ES.next to ES5 transpiler by Google. Getting started guides are available for both projects. For information on the current state of … Continue reading →

“The Unicorn has a special ability to help it's master when in trouble. When tamed, they will not attack humans or tamed creatures, but will attack anything else with negative karma" The DevTools Heap Profiler and Timeline Memory view can … Continue reading →

Today we're happy to announce the release of Yeoman 1.0 beta 4. A number of large updates have been made to the project since beta 3, covering scaffolding, performance improvements and overall stability. The community around the project has also … Continue reading →

The past year has seen many leaps made to improve developer productivity through better tooling. We're paying increasing attention to our workflow and many of us have spent time optimising our usage of tools like Grunt, Bower, Yeoman and the … Continue reading →

At my jQueryTO keynote on paint optimization, I mentioned the performance benefits of promoting DOM elements to a composite layer using GPU acceleration in Chrome. Moving compositing of page layers to the GPU can offer better efficiency than the CPU … Continue reading →

Increasingly, whether it’s on desktop or mobile, users want their web experience to be snappy and delightful. This means that even if the browser is busy rendering the page or loading in content, the user should still be able to … Continue reading →

The video from my DotJS talk in Paris is now up. I hope it's useful. In it I walk through how to performance profile your apps using DevTools Timeline and the Heap profiler, debugging your mobile apps using Overrides, sexy SASS Source … Continue reading →

  Many of us care deeply about developing our craft, but staying up to date can be a true challenge, especially when the quantity of fresh information we’re regularly exposed to can be a lot to take in. 2012 has … Continue reading →

  We all want to create high performance web applications. As our apps get more complex, we may want to support rich animations and that ideal 60 frames a second that keep our apps responsive and snappy.   Being aware of … Continue reading →

YouTube is already hosting lot many hindi movies which are available to watch  for free. Few weeks ago, YouTube showcased the blockbuster movie “Dabangg” and now they have launched the YouTube BoxOffice which premieres with the latest blockbuster from Yash Raj Production named “Band Baaja Baaraat“. YouTube BoxOffice will showcase one blockbuster movie per month. [...]

The next version of Windows operating system i.e. Windows 8 is getting ready for the first beta release. Microsoft is very much excited about this version and few days ago, they released the first preview of Windows 8 build (demo video attached below). On the lock screen, an icon of a webcam was visible where [...]

Are you active on Twitter? If yes, then go ahead and add official “Follow” button on your website or blog to let visitors follow you on single click. Twitter has released a Follow button with counter to show number of followers and one click follow option. This post “How to Add Twitter Follow Button on [...]

Do you want to have your desktop’s Google Chrome bookmarks available on Android device browser? I think if you have maintained a nice list of pages in computer’s Chrome bookmark then this free app will prove pretty useful. This post “Access Synchronized Google Chrome Bookmarks on Android Browser” first published on Internet Techies. Related posts: [...]

Earlier we shared a list of 5+ online services to send fax for free and also shared couple of services to send fax trough email. Now adding to the list of online services to send fax for free of charge, we are going to provide you couple of more links. This post “Few More Free [...]

Are you planning to start hosting your website’s data on managed hosting servers? Are you confused whether you should go for shared hosting, VPS (Virtual Private Hosting) server or Dedicated one? These questions should be answered before making the final decision. Compare and find best hosting provider for your requirements. This post “Find Best Possible [...]

Windows 7 Ultimate is having BitLocker application which can encrypt and password protect USB Flash drives and other drives on disk. Learn how to carry important data with peace of mind. This post “Encrypt and Password Protect USB Drive with BitLocker in Windows 7” first published on Internet Techies. Related posts: Protect USB Flash Drive [...]

If you are facing common problems on Windows 7 Computer like Iphone not syncing with PC or Aero Effect not working etc. then you should take a look at the Infographic attached in this post. This post “Solution for Common Problems on Windows 7 Visualized [Infographic]” first published on Internet Techies. Related posts: How to [...]

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Whether you installed Windows 7, XP, Vista or any other version of Windows OS, it starts to slow down after few months or years of installation. With the same hardware configuration and similar usage, you always like the Windows to operate as fast as it does in earlier days of installation but it slows down. [...]

Advertise here with BSA When targeting search engine results you need to understand the most common strategies for website ranking. Longtail keywords are the searches which make up over 70% of Google search terms. These are often longer than 3-4 words and they can be very specific in relation to your website. This is why [...]

Advertise here with BSA The open source jQuery library has penetrated fields of the old methods for coding JavaScript. New frontend developers have a larger toolbase to start building with, and so we can see loads of new plugins being released every month. This combination of open source codes along with plugin functionality means that [...]

Advertise here with BSA Listen up guys! Today we have an iStock promo that is SO BIG it is only available for 24 hours so we don’t want you to miss it! Today iStockphoto is offering 50% off credit downloads for vector illustrations. What makes this offer even better is that we still have several other iStock [...]

Advertise here with BSA Just a quick reminder: Registration on LearnWebDevelopment.com’s WordPress Bootcamp is ending this week – May 23, 2013 at midnight. If you want to learn WordPress – and create your first website in just a few days – this is the bootcamp for you! You’ll learn how to build a fully-functioning website [...]

Advertise here with BSA There are so many newly released icon sets which are free to download and use in your own projects. Building a website application will take a lot of time and patience. If you are using a CMS or backend programming framework then it might shave off some time. But overall you [...]

Advertise here with BSA Video players both HTML5 and flash-based are becoming more popular. Faster Internet connections are leading towards a full technological breakthrough all around the world. We are now able to share content with people in almost every country – and streaming video is one of the cornerstones to Internet media. I want [...]

Advertise here with BSA Building your own website is certainly a task in-and-of itself. But to then fill up your website will useful content and get those pages indexed into Google is a completely separate task. The obligations are much different and SEO factors a big role into the equation. But webmasters should feel comfortable [...]

Advertise here with BSA Food pictures have become one of the more prominent forms of photography. Years ago no one took the time to photograph food as a hobby but with the growth of picture focused blogs and mobile devices it has become the primary focus for a lot of photographers. Today we are featuring [...]

Advertise here with BSA Tumblr is an online social network for blogging and connecting with other users. It is easy to post new photos and reblog what others have posted. I really like this system because of the Dashboard UI, which displays all the latest reblogs from everybody you follow. It is much different than [...]

Advertise here with BSA Bakeries and cake shops around the world are the sweetest treats. Business owners want their website to reflect this and draw in customers based on the unique and tasteful design. But this process can be difficult if you are unfamiliar with design techniques. I want to offer a series of 29 [...]

This set of free characters is ideal for adding a little personality into your designs. With a variety of actions and poses to chose from you can easily adapt them into your designs anywhere you feel needs it. Inject a little fun into your dull and boring help pages, emphasize a feature or a button [...]

Creating a website is no easy task. WordPress is an easy solution for creating a Blog, but sometimes something a little more, in terms of functionality, is needed. After trying many other platforms, I have found WordPress to be the easiest to use. Because of it’s wide array of themes, great plugin system, and easy [...]

A redesign can be worth its weight in gold if you get it right. There is a thin line between freshening up your design, and taking a step backwards with a redesign.  Sometimes a redesign can be subtle and simple, and other times it can be a huge re-vamp of a company and it’s goals. [...]

Demo & Info That’s right, we’ve worked on a Joomla Theme. Although we love WordPress we realize it’s not everybodies’ first choice of CMS. So we felt it was only fair to make something just as pretty as our WordPress themes for the Joomla people. The result, Hallmark, a premium Joomla theme ideal for running [...]

Everyone knows that WordPress is one of the most, if not the most, popular blogging systems on the internet today. With its out of the box features, plugins, and great theming community, its no wonder WordPress has been accepted as today’s standard. However, sometimes you just want to add a little more. It seems the [...]

Another collaboration between ourselves and WooThemes, the result: this stunning theme with optional layouts. We’ve realized, that while a lot of people no doubt love magazine style themes – there are still a lot of people who would like the option of having something a little more personal. So here you have it! As always [...]

A while ago we had the pleasure of working with DreamTemple for a WordPress Theme which they’ve given away for free on Smashing Magazine. That means you can get this beautiful and unique theme for free, from the king of freebies Smashing Magazine. We’re very happy to once again have some of our work featured [...]

Ahh yes, the Design Community. I love it! This is the topic of a recent guest post I wrote over at MyInkBlog. Below is an extract from the article, but you can read the full the article here. Please leave your feedback and comments on the actual post rather than here. Why I love the [...]

Demo & Info To celebrate the launch of Theme Forest and our new theme Evo, we’re giving away 5 sets of $25 credit to be used on any theme on the site. Find out more at the end of the post. The theme is ideal for either being used straight out of the box, or [...]

Demo & Info First off, I’d just like to introduce myself. My name is Spencer, and I am the lead developer here at Function. I’m the guy that takes Liam’s awesome designs, and turns them into working sites. Liam had this design laying around, and I knew I couldn’t let it go to waste. So, [...]

Jen and Omar tell us a few of their favorite things… We are huge fans of designers, illustrators and fellow Ohioans Jen and Omar from These Are Things!  Recent podcast guests (coming soon!) and speakers for this year’s Weapons of Mass Creation Fest 2013, we just cannot get enough of their distinctive and oh-so-cool maps, as [...]

Hello all, The very talented Steve Knerem is the guest artist behind a majority of the content of our vector set 22.  In this tutorial, he shows us how to assemble a rad rockabilly poster using various elements of the set, a bit like what Jeff did for us when we released Set 18.  In the [...]

Well Hello! All is quiet here at Go Media – heads down, noses to the grindstone! We’ll start with the bad…well, bittersweet news.  Our Community Manager, Marissa Mele, has bid us adieu.  Our hearts broke as we watched Marissa leave Go Media for the very last time, but we must admit that we’re happy too [...]

Sitting down with Dan Morgan of Straight Shooter Filterstorm, PhotoGene, Camera+, iDarkroom, Instagram.  With a flick of a finger, a simple effect, a toasty filter can bring a dull photo to life. In the age of the iPhone, such easy access to the camera itself, combined with photo-editing software gives us power and confidence we’ve [...]

Meeting the Chief of Awesome: Skidding across fresh, bright black and white tile, a very exuberant 6-month husky jumped up excitedly to greet me at the door of Yellowcake, a recently renovated and expanded Gordon Square boutique.  Owner and Cleveland designer Valerie Mayen was quick to follow.  “Mango!  Get down!” “Sorry… She gets very excited!” [...]

WMC Fest 2 Night Stand We are excited to announce that 2 Night Stand is not only expanding to multiple cities in 2013, lead by amazing creatives across the country, but also that we will be having the first, non-Chicago event in the days leading up to the WMC Fest 2013. We’ve had over 1000 [...]

Drum Roll, Please! The day has come!  We are proud to announce the winners of our Weapons of Mass Creation Fest 2013 Portfolio Contest!  We must admit, we were overwhelmed by the number of submissions and votes, but after much debate we chose five stellar artists/designers.   These lucky folks will be featured at our WMC design [...]

Hey Go Media faithful! Over the next few months I’ll be posting five excerpts from my forthcoming book Draw to Business as a series of teaser articles here on the GoMediaZine. So, without further ado, here are seven tips on writing winning design proposals. Regurgitate back exactly what your clients tell you. Writing a good [...]

Beautiful Solomon Font Family (12 fonts) for only $9 (regularly $279!) Fonts can be so much fun to work with. Whether you’re creating a logo, a T-shirt or a funky poster, having the right font can make all the difference. If you’re looking for something new, something clean, and something fun, you’ve come to the [...]

Announcing our 2013 WMC Speakers The countdown is on! Weapons of Mass Creation Fest is only a few months away, and we are working tirelessly to make it the best art, design and music festival possible. We are so excited to welcome 20 insanely talented speakers into Cleveland Public Theater August 16 through 18.  Here is a [...]

Cargo-cult programming is what a programmer does when he or she doesn't know a particular language or paradigm well enough, and so ends up writing redundant and possibly harmful code. It rears its head quite often in the land of JavaScript. In this article, I explore the concept of cargo-cult programming and places to watch [...]

We have 5 tickets to give away for our newest Tuts+ Live Workshop, all you have to do is subscribe to our newsletter. Be quick though, this giveaway ends on Monday! We have a superb new Workshop, Introduction to WordPress Plugin Development, starting in a week. This is your chance to win a free ticket! [...]

RESTful API's are hard! There are a lot of aspects to designing and writing a successful one. For instance, some of the topics that you may find yourself handling include authentication, hypermedia/HATEOS, versioning, rate limits, and content negotiation. Rather than tackling all of these concepts, however, let's instead focus on the basics of REST. We'll [...]

Making your website ready for Retina display doesn’t have to be a hassle. Whether you are building a new website or upgrading an existing one, this guide is designed to help you get the job done smoothly. Make it Retina First The easiest and most time-saving way to add Retina support is to create one [...]

Like most content management systems, PyroCMS uses front-end themes. Though PyroCMS themes are built a bit differently than what you might be used to from other systems, they’re still quite easy to create. They’re so easy, in fact, that very little PHP experience is required to assemble them! The Folder Structure PyroCMS themes consist of [...]

There are several firewall applications for Linux, but what you may not realize is that, at the heart of all these programs is a single all-mighty application that is built right into the Linux Kernel: iptables. This is the Linux firewall. No matter which program you use to configure your firewall under Linux, it ultimately [...]

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Frameworks provide a tool for rapid application development, but often accrue technical debt as rapidly as they allow you to create functionality. Technical debt is created when maintainability isn't a purposeful focus of the developer. Future changes and debugging become costly, due to a lack of unit testing and structure. Here's how to begin structuring [...]

NodeJS gives me the ability to write back-end code in one of my favorite languages: JavaScript. It's the perfect technology for building real time applications. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to build a web chat application, using ExpressJS and Socket.io. Setup Environment Of course, the first thing to do is get NodeJS installed [...]

Early in 2012, a developer, named Egor Homakov, took advantage of a security hole at Github (a Rails app) to gain commit access to the Rails project. His intent was mostly to point out a common security issue with many Rails apps that results from a feature, known as mass assignment (and did so rather [...]

Abstract backgrounds can prove to be quite useful in your own work for designing websites, wallpapers, posters, and other items. Today we have a set of 5 abstract backgrounds (3500 pixels by 2000 pixels) that can be downloaded and used in your own work. These backgrounds were created for our readers by Grzegorz Grzelak. They [...]

You’ve probably seen this trick used before with social icons or a sidebar that sticks to the top of your screen as you scroll down the page. The problem is that often they don’t stop scrolling and up either disappearing behind another element or overlapping something they shouldn’t, which looks cheap and unprofessional. In this [...]

When it comes to art and design sometimes the best way to boost your own creativity is to browse inspirational works of art from others. In this article we’ll showcase 40 examples of amazing doodles. The hand-drawn style is one that can be used in a variety of different ways and on all kinds of [...]

Finding the right WordPress theme for your website or for a client’s website is not an easy task. Even with the huge selection that is available, if you have some specific things in mind for your site you may find that it’s very difficult to locate a theme that would be a perfect match.  In [...]

Today we have a free download that will allow you to create your own custom avatars. The icon elements come in Adobe Illustrator format and you can mix and match various elements to create your own avatar. These icons were created by Freepik especially for our readers. You can download the set and use them [...]

Welcome to the second article in the new series that showcases inspirational photo manipulations, and here we are back with some amazing works or art that will amaze you once again, as promised. So without wasting any more time, let’s dig in, and see what we have here for this month. TV Bots Computer Man [...]

Many of the most beautiful and awe-inspiring photographs are in black and white. Although color is an important part of photography and design, sometimes limiting the colors can result in powerful imagery. In this post we’ll showcase 25 different black and white photos for your inspiration and entertainment. The photos showcased in this post come [...]

Many churches in need of a quality website at an affordable price are turning to WordPress. One of the main reasons for this is the number of themes that have been designed and created with the needs of churches in mind. Common features of church themes include things like support for sermon audio and/or video, [...]

Hi everyone. We know it’s always better to keep your attention focused on doing a good job than losing time looking out for resources. That’s why we bring you a handy list of tools and plug-ins to save you time and keep your work going. Enjoy. Responsive Navigation Be responsive with this JavaScript plugin that [...]

Today we have a set of 5 textures from padded envelopes. The set includes scanned textures from both the inside and outside of a padded envelope, and they can be used for creating backgrounds in your own designs. These textures are free for use in your own personal and commercial projects. Download the textures (8 [...]

Are the 80s really back? It seems like neon is all over the place these days, and I’m loving the bright and bold colors as we approach summer.

Check out these awesome neon color inspirations:

For your inspiration check out these colorful palettes:

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I absolutely love colorful handcrafted items, and Yulia’s paper crafts are breathtaking. I am so impressed by how Yulia was able to create such intricate works of art by only using paper.

What do you think of these amazing pieces?

The Wheatfield by Katie Daisy is a collection of gorgeous and and unique typography art pieces. I’ve absolutely fallen in love with these pieces. Each art piece is comprised of gorgeous colors, and I can’t get enough of these colorful prints. Which is your favorite?

Every image will take you directly to Katie’s work by clicking through on the image.

Looking to create similar stunning typography art pieces? Check out these awesome items from Creative Market to create stunning typography pieces:

Creative Market, your ultimate resource for handcrafted, mousemade design is pleased to announce that Go Media is now selling goods on their platform. Go Media brings great design to life with their awesome products.

Check out some of my favorite products in their storefront and start getting creative today with Go Media.

Everywhere I go, I seem to see large or small animal accents in clothing stores and home decor and furnishing retailers. I absolutely love animal print, and am so happy to see more and more of it popping up and being popular. How would you incorporate small or large animal accents into your home or outfit. How animalistic do you want to be?

Check out some of these awesome uses of animal print for your inspiration:

Check out these awesome patterns for inspiration:

If you’re looking for more creative inspiration, check out Creative Market’s awesome selection of animal print vectors, patterns, and graphics for your creative projects:

I love looking at gorgeous fabrics from around the world and seeing the different styles of patterns and textures across different cultures. It’s surprising to find so many amazing differences and variations of similar patterns. It’s also interesting to find how different cultures view certain colors and which colors are favored over others.

Here are some of my favorite fabrics and patterns from around the world:

If you enjoyed these colorful clothes from around the world, check out these amazing patterns from Creative Market. You can incorporate these awesome fabrics into a variety of creative projects:

I’ve searched the web for some of the most creative and unique web design designs to inspire you to create an awesome blog or website of your own. Check out my favorite picks from around the web:

Bagigia: This is probably one of the most creative websites out there. Not only does the site feature parallax design, it’s page navigation is completely unique and interactive. You can navigate the page by scrolling with your cursor, using the circle navigation panel on the bottom right hand side, or dragging the mock “zipper” along the bottom of the page. As you transition from page to page you get to experience the unique features of the Bagigia products, it’s truly a unique and interactive experience.

IndoFolio: What I love about this page is it’s unique parallax design that involves horizontal scrolling. As you transition between pages you find that the background picture transforms and moves with you making page navigation fun and exciting.

Thibaud: This awesome portfolio design is one of my favorites because it allows users to select their preferred method of site navigation. You can alter and change the way that you navigate the portfolio by selecting various styles at the bottom of the screen.

Dulla: I love the animation and hand drawn illustrations featured on this site. The landing page is so creative, it draws users in and makes them want to learn what the site is all about.

Organic Grid:This landing page is so colorful and fun. I love using the navigation elements to experience new and different artists.

The Kennedys: I just think this landing page looks SUPER cool. I love all of the flashing colors and amazing illustrations. I feel like I could just stare at this page for hours upon hours.

VlogIt: I absolutely love the navigation on this site, it’s so much fun to watch the images change on the site and navigate through this interesting circular panel.

Ray’s Lab: I love how colorful the artwork is on this landing page. Simply because of its colorful layout and design, I’m intrigued to learn more about the site.

Tori’s Eye: I love the animated background on this site, and how the site continues to change and adapt to your actions and movements.

Tamron Island:This site looks so cool, it makes me want to visit this amazing land and never leave. It simply looks SO cool and navigation around the site is creative.

I hope you’ve enjoyed some of my favorite picks of the most creative website designs from around the web. If you’re looking to start your own site or re-vamp a site you already have, check out these awesome themes and templates from Creative Market to get you started.

I recently found this awesome infographic on the meaning of color in marketing. I think it’s so fascinating to think about the impact of colors on people’s perceptions, thoughts, dreams, and desires. I had to share this awesome infographic with you so that you could better understand the reasons certain companies utilize different colors.

The Meaning Of Colour In Marketing infographic by AttwoodDigital.

 

If you loved these colorful and creative infographics, check out Creative Market’s awesome resources to help you create similar infographics of your own:

I absolutely love stunning text effects that are easy to create. There is so much that you can do with Photoshop, that I could never come up with on my own, so I thought I would share some of my favorite text effects and tutorials on how to make them.

Grunge, Glowing Text

In order to create this awesome text effect, check out these products from Creative Market:

Concrete Style Text Effect

I love this fun and funky grunge text effect. If you’re looking to create this, check out these products from Creative Market:

Copper Text Effect

If you want to create this awesome text effect, check out Creative Market’s resources:

Elena Romanova is a full-time artist living and working in Europe. Her designs are absolutely gorgeous. I love how she creates amazing watercolor art in unique shapes. Check out some of my favorite designs of hers below and visit her shop.

London Cityscape by Elena Romanova

New York Cityscape by Elena Romanova

Flamenco Dancer by Elena Romanova

Paris Cityscape by Elena Romanova

World Map Watercolor Art by Elena Romanova

Love Art Print by Elena Romanova

If you’re looking to create whimsical and gorgeous watercolor art without the watercolors check out Creative Market‘s amazing brushes to create watercolor art: