Designing for love? Five free design elements to add to your collection.

Subtlety is the name of the game this week on Friday Focus. We’re featuring designs with light hues and textures for a relaxing, elegant feel overall.

Can a single font really be a designer’s best friend? I look at some ways people are showing their Helvetica love.

Use less Flash- without losing any of the pizazz. Here are four ways how.

This week on Friday Focus: websites that are split right in the middle! A case of design schizophrenia? Let’s find out.

Spend a lot of time in WordPress admin? Check out these plugins that just might make your life easier.

Well-optimized CSS can be a beautiful thing. Get the job done with these four (free!) tools.

This week on Friday Focus: these folded, boxy 3D-looking designs pose an interesting challenge to the designer in creating perspective and breaking out of boundaries. See how these websites did it!

When it comes to web content readability, it does matter if it’s black or white.

Andy Sowards is your all-around web designer and developer. In this interview, he talks about his 12,000 Twitter followers, making it in the indsutry without any formal training, and juggling his work and family.

Looking to create and send some email newsletters? Check out some of my top choices.

At one point in our internet lives, we learned to avoid typing in all caps, because it meant we were yelling. At another point, we became attachmented to typing in lowercase, because it looked and felt cool. We see a lot of designs going lowercase in many portions of text, but nowadays, going uppercase is is all the rage. These designs seem to pull that off quite well.

It’s free font time! Five fresh ones that belong in your collection.

I’m sure that one of the things on your mind as a full-time designer is whether to take the leap to finally make it on your own. Everyone dreams of having their own design company – or at least, private practice – but never really know how to begin.