Having a background texture or pattern on your site can really compliment your design, you may want the design to appear softer, dirty, chaotic or just to add some texture or greater depth.
There are many resources across the web offering free and paid solutions, here we have collected a number of free patterns and tiles [...]

More and more sites you visit seem to have some kind of lightbox script displaying a multitude of elements, images, videos, ajax inline content and external and internal webpages.
For those of you who may be unsure what a “lightbox” is, basically it is a script that allows you display large images using various modal dialogues [...]

Time for some inspiration! In this post I have found a few of my favourite “hand-drawn” website designs, I mention hand-drawn in the speech marks as the sites are not fully hand-drawn but have hand-drawn elements, whether it be in the illustration or the navigation. Regardless of the usage of the sketched elements, the sites [...]

Minimalist web designs and themes are an underused entity in modern web design,  there are some great sites using minimal designs, some of which we have covered on webm.ag recently.
Back when the blog began most of them had minimal styling and a blog looked like a blog, nowadays the emphasis is on packing the blog [...]

Hand drawn fonts and hand drawn website illustrations are becoming an ever growing trend in the web design community of late, its a great look if you get it right and is used is a variety of niches.
In this post I have listed some of the most aesthetic of the hand drawn fonts, please note [...]

Adobe Air is a breath of fresh air (pardon the pun) allowing communication between internet applications and the desktop is something that was sorely missing, now thats changing.
A huge amount of Air Apps are becoming available from publishers, mostly over at the Adobe Marketplace, but others are offering on their blogs and sites.
Below is a [...]

Many sites use gradients whether they are used in the the logo (like twitter) or the background (like tr.im) they can break up blocks of solid colour and become an aesthetic compliment to the sites design.
Gradients enjoyed a burst in popularity with the “web 2.0″ aspect of design, but they can be used on sites [...]