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Adobe Muse Lets You Build Websites Without Any Coding Knowledge

4:30PM August 15, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Adobe has a new Muse — graphic designers. While “Muse” is just a working title, the beta of the graphic design software has gone live which lets users work around the fact they don’t know a scrap of code. More »


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Why Do Restaurant Websites Suck?

1:20AM August 11, 2011 | Kwame Opam

Slate’s Farhad Manjoo did a piece recently taking restaurant websites to task for being so awful most of the time. Flash-heavy and obsessed with entertaining instead of informing, they’re often murder on the eyes. But why? Probably because designers get paid so well to do it. More »


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Learn The Basics Of Photoshop: The Complete Guide

10:20AM February 15, 2011 | Adam Dachis

Want to learn how everything works in Photoshop? We’ll help you make your photos better, draw vector graphics and design a website. More »


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Washington Post Seems To Have Heard Of This ‘Facebook’ Site

4:00AM December 15, 2010 | Sam Biddle

A well-designed website should be clear, above all. No flashing GIFs (we miss you, ’90s!), no obnoxious flash menus, no overwhelming lists of links. And heads up, WaPo website: it shouldn’t be blanketed in insanely redundant Facebook sharing buttons. More »


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Amazon Should Definitely Adopt This Redesign

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10:45AM December 14, 2010 | Nick Broughall

Amazon may be a bargain hunter’s dream website when it comes to getting certain products from the US, but the site is fugly. It’s also not very user friendly, especially for international shoppers. That’s why Maurice from Queensland web design firm Kintek decided to propose a redesign for the Amazon site. And the results are infinitely better. More »


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Web Designers Vs Web Developers, Visualised

11:20AM November 12, 2010 | Brian Barrett

Web designers and web developers: seemingly so similar, in fact worlds apart. Here’s just a few of the differences between the two, visualised for your pleasure and, once you see the salary gap, potential crushing disappointment. More »


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Why Twitter’s New Design Might Seem Familiar

11:20AM September 30, 2010 | Brian Barrett

When Twitter decided to revamp its homepage, the design was no fluke: Twitter Creative Director Doug Bowman made that perfectly clear with this Flickr upload. More »


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Geocities-izer Transports Websites To The Halcyon Days Of 1996

5:40AM April 28, 2010 | Brian Barrett

Geocities might be dead, but its spirit lives on. The Geocities-izer does you the enormous favour of transforming your favourite (or least) website into not just a Geocities page, but a really bad Geocities page. And my god, the music! More »


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When Pissed-Off Customers And Automated Tag Clouds Collide

8:26AM December 5, 2009 | John Herrman

Tag clouds provide a quick visual summary of the most popular subjects on a particular website. Newegg’s “Shopping EggXperience” forum gives customers a place to talk about their experiences with the site. They make an excellent couple. [Reddit] More »


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Moving Scroll Bar Clock Makes My Inner Web Designer Queasy

8:40AM November 19, 2009 | John Herrman

On the surface, scroll clock looks like a simple visual trick: Look, it’s a clock made out of moving scroll bars! This is a marginally clever animation! Then you realise that every one of them actually works. More »