CSS3 Is together with Canvas one of the more exciting elements of web design. With this post we want to showcase some awesome techniques to improve your design with the help of CSS3.

This week on Friday Focus: designs that prominently feature user-submitted content, particularly images. How do you prevent monotony and preserve quality on these sites? Let’s find out.

Getting inspired is easy, but finding inspiration in the first place is sometimes a little harder. Here, tips on how to find inspiration everywhere.

Randa Clay is a 39-year old mother of two noisy boys. She used to be an opera singer too! However, she took a sharp career turn when she left her cozy marketing job six years ago to build a name for herself in the design industry.

Got something to measure? Here are five free on-screen rulers I love.

Have you considered outsourcing development work?

In my last post, I talked about how deliberate practice is the key to improving your skills. Today we’ll look at the characteristics of this type of practice and how to apply it to web work.

Spiff up your About page with these tips, and these inspiring pages.

It doesn’t happen a lot on Friday Focus, but this week we have a bunch of websites featured, all dressed up in brown.

Five design celebrities to follow on Twitter.

Twitter has just turned three but it it’s still the most talked about webapp in ages. That’s because people are constantly coming up with ways to extract, arrange, and present its data. Let’s take a look at some nicely designed 3rd-party websites that harness its power.

An informal survey of 15 minimalist blogs reveals some surprising statistics.