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Five important lessons Mark Zuckerberg taught us about business

You don’t get to 600 million friends without doing something spectacular. Mark Zuckerberg knows this more than anyone.…

How to make money from a $3000 website

I don’t believe that the $3000 client is the lost cause we often think they are. Sure, for most agencies, a $3000…

The ultimate HTML5 resource guide

Despite the fact that the HTML5 specification won't officially be finished until 2022, (though it will be mostly…

Win a MacBookPro and $1,000 printing credits from UPrinting

The folks at UPrinting are bringing us one of their hottest giveaways so far! Check this out: They'll be giving away a…

Mind blowing examples of experimental typography

Typography is often thought of in its practical form, as text on a web page or printed material. A designer may look…

How to create a cute little monster in Illustrator

Today, we're going to show you a simple way to achieve a gradient-heavy illustration of a little monster. It’s got a…

Book review: the Smashing Book 2

In February, Smashing Magazine officially released their latest print book project, The Smashing Book 2, and they were…

Interview with Dribbble's co-founder Dan Cederholm

Dribbble has quickly become one of the most popular communities online for designers. It offers the opportunity for…

A showcase of mobile e-commerce

Optimizing websites for the mobile web is a chore. And optimizing e-commerce websites for the mobile web is a beast…

BundleHunt returns with more design awesomeness

The folks at BundleHunt have done it again and are back with another great bundle full of all the hottest apps for Mac…

Win 10 copies of Thread's Not Dead eBook

Go Media's Jeff Finley put together a great ebook containing all the info he gathered through the years for designers…

The secret power of bookmarklets

Bookmarklets are special links that users can add to their browser’s favorites. These special links include code (i.e.…

What’s new for web designers – May 2011

New apps and websites appear on an almost daily basis, but trying to find the good ones among them can be tough,…

An Introduction to Lomography

Lomography and lomography-styled photography has been growing in popularity in the past year or two, largely spurred by…

Design a forest inspired Tumblr theme in Photoshop

Tumblr is a micro-blogging platform that allows users to easily publish snippets of information to the web, such as a…

Big vs. small: Challenges in responsive web design

As the number and variety of devices from which we access the internet increases, new web design challenges present…

Advanced commenting systems for WordPress

WordPress has a perfectly adequate commenting system built-in. But it can quickly grow unwieldy and commenting can take…

How Facebook Comments is changing commenting on the Web

Facebook Comments is a recently released plug-in commenting system by Facebook that allows commenters to use their…