There are often times when you inspiration hits you like a bolt out of the blue, and you are either away from the t'internet - or need quicker access to your blog.  There are a couple of desktop based solutions this that some bloggers may prefer and this post reviews 7 of the best free blog client ...

Finding great web design resources is tough work. A good number of resource pages have cropped up on the web, and are must bookmark sites for the creative professional. Here are eight of my fav's definitely worth checking out for future reference. I've tried to add a blend of the one's tiered toward...

Following on from an earlier post, there have been a few awesome designs based on the horizontal scroller trend within website design. Some of these sites have been around for a while, others have just been launched on the web. If you are looking for inspiration when designing a site that you think ...

Refresh Belfast is a regular meetup of designers, programmers and pretty much anyone involved in the web in the Greater Belfast area. It is designed to help educate and grow the community at large, encouraging debate, best practise and standards, and is part of the Refreshing Cities movement. As ...

The first thing that I do when I'm promoting a particularly good piece of content is to scope out the websites within the design community that allow user submitted content. There are a couple of larger sites / blogs with good content that allow this - a simple tagline with a link that can direct vi...

For creative graphic designers, fonts on the web have always been (and probably always will) be a bone of contention. Essentially typography on the web has been limited to a small subset of fonts that exist on the three major platforms (Win / Mac / Linux) - and thus creative use of these has come fr...

Cloud computing is the next big thing. Or so the media keeps telling us. I have to agree that it looks very much like there is a real possibility that the processing of all (or most of our apps) will be done server side. Already, a lot of us use web applications to get the job done. So then, for ...

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. An old adage and one that still rings true. With any website project, it can be easy to just jump straight in and start developing, once you have client approval before taking time to plan. By the time you show your first iteration of the design to the client, ...

The digital landscape is changing. I've already mentioned before how the web is shaping businesses forever, music is no different. Creating a multimedia piece online is relatively easy now, with the rise of Youtube videos, and sites such as Qik and Animoto, make publishing multimedia content even ea...

Side scroller websites have been around for quite some time, but with the penetration now of javascript effects and frameworks, some new sites popping up around the web are really beginning to shine. Some of the following websites show how javascript can be employed to great effect to create eye po...