Incorporating jQuery effectively and modestly in your website build process is a great way to enhance and take your user experience to another level. Using jQuery plugins can be a great tool for helping display content to your users in a much more intuitive and interactive way. The jQuery community is fantastic, developers are consistently releasing new, quality jQuery plug-ins for us to incorporate into our websites.In this post I will take show you a collection of jQuery plugins that are really useful for improving your overall user experience on your website. Read More

One of the most important aspect of modern and effective web and graphic design these days is typography. Good selection of font type, size and color can make your website look more interesting and attractive for your website visitors. Using large typography you will easily grab an attention of website visitors and it will be easy to impress them and send the message at the same time. You will see that huge typography is being used everywhere in the website, starting from header and finishing with footer. In this collection you will find 30 inspiring examples of big typography implemented in modern web design. Read More

Travel websites should be inspirational to the user, featuring large images, videos and written content selling the travel bug to the user. In this post I am looking at 20 perfectly designed travel related websites, some of these travel websites are destination specific, others are blogs and some are accommodation focused travel websites. Read More

In every community there is a different story to be told and different artists to tell it. Musicians come from all walks of life and there are so many to turn to, novice or professional, that it can be hard to find new music that is worth listening to. In this day and age, it is important for an artist to stand out if they want to be noticed. In this post, I examine 30 inspiring music websites for design inspiration. Read More

There are currently over 800 million active people using Facebook, an average user has over 130 friends making Facebook an incredible marketing tool for your business. A majority of websites link out to their Facebook fan pages making their page an extension of their brand and a great platform to leverage exclusive deals and connect with their customers and users.Facebook allows you great flexibility in creating your own page, you can create advanced apps that integrate with your own website or choose from a wide selection of freely available apps to enhance the functionality of your Facebook page. Take a look at this collection of unique and creative Facebook fan pages that will hopefully inspire you to create your own. Read More

Responsive web design means adjusting and customizing your website design so it can accommodate screens of different sizes and display content to the user to make a better user experience. To make your website responsive to different screen sizes you should use fluid grids, images and queries, to do this there are many responsive web design tools available to assist you. You can see some examples of responsive web design in action in a previous post: A Collection Of Exceptional Responsive Web Designs.In this post I am going to take a look at some of the available mobile WordPress templates available that will allow you to easily convert your WordPress theme into a fully responsive design that can display your content on browsers of all different size, including the iPhone and iPad. Read More

Single page website design is a great way to allow users to navigate their way through the content fast and easily without the hassle of having to reload unnecessary content and bloated CMS pages. Single page web designs can allow for a more interesting user experience, you can create awesome navigation affects, such as parallax scrolling and present your content in a more creative layout compared to a traditional content landing page within a CMS.Single page designs are also great if you prefer a more stylish minimalistic web design or if you want to quickly and easily focus the users attention on a specific product or call to action, check out these fantastic single page web designs I have collected. Read More

Your website has to be user friendly. If your website usability is poor and your site is hard to use, customers are more likely to bounce off the site, reducing your chances for success. This means that it is important to make sure that your website usability is tested with easy to navigate and to use architecture, after all you want an intuitive website. The good news is that there are online usability tools that can help you figure out how others see your website. Read More

Responsive web design is a hot topic in the design/development community right now, many sites are converting their design to incorporate a responsive layout and for many new builds a responsive design that serves many different browsers and media sizes is a must.Last week DesignWoop published a post providing a selection of tools to help you create a responsive design, today we will look at a selection of websites that are responsive and immaculately designed. Read More

The creation of the iPad made it more easy to digest content on the go without having to carry around and boot up a bulky laptop, with this also came the ability to create content on the go.When I first got my iPad I found it overwhelming at the amount of applications available to designers and creative types, following on from last months ’10 useful web apps for designers’ I thought I would share with you a collection of iPad apps I have and of course some that are on my wish listI have included a selection of iPad apps that will allow you to sketch, code, create beautiful CSS3 and create app and website mock ups. Read More