Why so gloomy and sad? Maybe it’s because you’re clicking on the wrong websites! You see, all those dark hues and glum colors can get to you, especially when you are exposed to them for an extended period of time. What you need is a little bit of cheerfulness, and that’s where the color yellow comes in.

Web designers who have been in the business for quite some time have their own trade secrets. If you look close enough, you will find these secrets whispering to you in each designer’s work. It seems like they always use the perfect font, the most suitable icon, and the sharpest photos.
As an amateur or a budding designer, you wonder if these new age artists have the time and the financial means to be able to come up with such a diverse collection of web designs. If you are thinking of hacking a web artist’s computer just to copy their collection, it will be a total waste of time. You will not find what you are looking for because everything is on the internet, and best of all, you can access the resources for free.
Below are 10 of our favourite websites with free pictures, icons and fonts. In that exact order.

Anyone who follows web design news knows that flat design is one of the hottest things right now in the industry. If you have your own website, then you may be thinking about how to incorporate a flat design so that your site stays current.
But before you do that, here are some things you ought to know about flat design first.

This post is going to have very few words. But it’s going to have more value than any post with a thousand words. Why? Because it’s a freebie post!

When talking about e-commerce, the idea behind it is to drive traffic to your website and sway users to buy your products. In 2013, business owners frantically ramped up their e-commerce campaigns to push up sales during shopping periods like Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Christmas season. With constant improvement and technological changes, here are e-commerce trends you need to follow if you want your business to prosper.

We use color in web design not just because we think it looks nice. Color affects people’s thoughts, moods, and feelings, and that should be considered when you pick colors for your website template.
With the color purple, these feelings can be somewhat complicated. It’s not exactly a very common color is it? That’s part of its charm, but then again, it can also be a drawback.

My boss gave me a new project the other day, it was a website that they had purchased from somebody, they wanted all content, links etc to remain the same they just wanted to “Give it a new coat of paint” and move it to our own web hosting account. Luckily, the website was WordPress based, easy I thought, just slap a new theme on it and move it to our own web hosting.

In 2003, WordPress started as an international tool for blogging. While people up to the present day still think that it is still a blogging platform, WordPress has evolved as the world’s largest self-hosted Content Management System. In a nutshell, a CMS is a web application that facilitates managing, editing, and adding of content for users who are not tech-savvy.

What is a good user interface? I asked myself this question today and here is what came to mind. Read on to find the 9 important ideas to keep in mind when designing user interfaces.

Some people think that web design is easy. They couldn’t be more wrong. This is why there are so many ineffectual websites out there, as well as too many websites that seem to look too much alike. Doing it yourself is fine when it’s just a hobby and you just want to set up a simple blog. But if it’s a serious website for a serious purpose, then you have to take web design seriously. Web design is complicated, which is why even some professionals make mistakes.
Sometimes these mistakes can be really deadly, and even just one false step can wreck the whole website. Here are some mistakes which you should be wary about.