A Blog in Suburban Glory: Web Design Ideas and Inspiration

I've just finished my next set of £199 templates with this batch for accountants and all those working in the financial industry.

In terms of design, they are a lot more subtle than the templates for the car repairs sector, but that was intentional. The feel of these web sites had to be qu...

Over the last few weeks I've been having a rethink of my business model. Economically, times are tough with this being the worse recession in living memory. Consequently, marketing budgets have been slashed while most micro-businesses either do not have the money or are not willing to pay for custom web design...

Optimisation for quicker web page speed will be the talking point in the web design community in 2010. In November Google declared it a central issue for webmasters after spokesman Matt Cutts announced at an SEO conference that Google will change its algorithm ...

Outlook is Microsoft's personal manager software and is an essential tool for most office workers. It has many features but its primary use is that of an email client.

As of their 2007 version the company announced that they would limit support for CSS and HTML and instead use the rendering...

Net magazine, of which I am a subscriber, has an excellent article on working for free for specification (spec) work.

A number of key players in this debate are involved: NO!SPEC<...

In a deep 20th century crevice, inbetween the mud and gas of the First World War and the permafrost of The Gulag Archipelago, lies the Constructivist movement in the USSR.

In an era that has witnessed Damien Hirst display his jewel-encrusted skull, it may be stupefying to know that past art...

Andy Clarke was once a design hero of mine, but like all heroes they fade and die or sell out eventually. Just recently he wrote a blog post entitled Universal Internet Explorer 6 CSS on the website For...

Grids have become deeply ingrained in the approach and working practices of today's web designers.

Some years back there was a reaction to the dead rigidity of tables in the form of the fluid layout, against which there has been another reaction that has lead on to a greater appreciation o...

If you feel that you have created a website that is above and beyond the call of design duty then why not submit the URL for possible inclusion in Patrick NcNeil's next instalment in his Design Meltdown series.

Yep, that's right, we are talking dead trees here - a book.

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