If you need to build a mobile app or mobile version of a website there are a number of libraries you can use to do it. Many of them work well but the problem is that as new browsers, devices and features come out, they need to be updated. Detector, a simple PHP and JS…
Vector icons can be expensive business for web designers. Case in point: I just spent $16 on a collection of 314 icons. Being a sucker for punishment, I did a little research to see whether there were any free alternatives for the icons I just bought, and lo and behold I come across Iconmonstr. It’s…
Nowadays, web designers are no longer reliant on dedicated development suites on the desktop to create amazing websites. Whereas the past decade was more or less dominated by expensive, proprietary web design and development tools, modern designers are increasingly turning to free and open source solutions that live in the cloud. On-demand applications that are…
Chrome freebie is a gorgeous little design cooked up by creative genius and pixel perfectionist, Kerem Suer. Kerem designed this using Photoshop shapes so that you can resize it easily without sacrificing quality. What a nice chap!
Web standards were developed over the course of the last two decades by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and others in order to ensure that all websites displayed the same way in every major web browser. The hard work of standards governing bodies has resulted in recent developments like HTML5 and CSS 3, but…
There are many content management systems available today, and each has its own set of core features. These vary widely from system to system. With this, people have their own favorites. Web-savvy individuals keep track of the latest in the industry. However, we sometimes overlook lesser-known CMS with features that are worth checking out. These…
After a long delay, and a bunch of problematic designs that needed to be removed, I processed the entire design queue at once. Usually designs are processed a few at a time in order to give them front page exposure, but the amount of designs required processing them all at once. I would like to…
In the last few months I’ve been listening to user feedback and working hard in implementing new and exciting features to OpenDesigns. Also, as more and more awesome designs were submitted, it became harder and harder to browse them all, so a solution was needed. Today I am proud to announce the launch of the…
While uploading and browsing designs were always straightforward, finding the the needle in the haystack has always been a challenge. With over 1500 designs available on OpenDesigns, it’s getting harder and harder for a user to find the right design, and allot of awesome designs are not getting enough exposure just because they are way…
I am happy to announce that a problem causing many design uploads