5 Ways Your Small Business Can Boost Facebook Engagement

Love it or hate it, Facebook is still the number one social network and first-stop web destination for a majority of web users. Despite this, many entrepreneurs are still unsure of best practices for using the site to benefit their small business. The truth is, Facebook is one of the best ways to market your…

Free Productivity Tools for Webmasters

In this post you will find 7 of the best free web applications that can simplify your work life. It doesn’t matter if you are a supervisor, manager, office worker, home user, student, developer or designer – these tools will definitely improve your performance at work and make your life easier. Just take a look…

Why Your Design Needs Negative Space

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Lewis Sellers, founder of the web design agency Pinpoint Designs. It’s what you can’t see that counts, well in the case of negative space; it’s being able to see what’s not there that counts. The power of negative space in art and also in design is extremely…

The Mobile Book Reviewed

A review of The Mobile Book – the latest print book from Smashing Magazine covering techniques, tools, and ideas for designing for the mobile Web.

What Does CRO Stand For? Designing For Your Audience

Today we have a guest post from : Daniel Travis Brown is a Manchester-based Conversion Rate Optimisation Consultant at Web Vitality, and regularly writes articles on his ideas and findings over at the Web Vitality blog. For more updates and information find Daniel on Twitter @DanTravisBrown If you’re looking to guest post on a design-related…

How to Get Your Clients to Pay You On Time

Most of us were drawn to design as a career path for one reason: we’re creative. Design allows us to tap into our creative sides and spend our time creating and brainstorming. Because we tend to be right-brained, however, we’re also not always the best at dealing with the business side (read: boring) of daily…