Testing your site’s usability is something everyone really should do, usability covers things such as colour contrast, website speed and performance, ensuring elements are placed correctly and general on site aspects such as broken links and cross browser compatibility.
Below are 8 interesting tools which check various aspects of your site and provides you with information [...]

Flickr is an incredibly popular tool, its really easy to add your images to your Flickr photostream and with the app for iPhone for instance you can even upload to Flickr whilst out and about.
The problem with uploading to Flickr is you have to download your images and manually add to your site, and if [...]

Name: Samantha Warren
Location: Just outside of Washington DC in Alexandria , Va
Job Title: Senior Web Designer, Phase 2 Technology
Sites: badassideas.com
Twitter: @Samanthatoy

Today WebM.ag is Speaking with Samantha Warren, Samantha is a senior web design at Phase 2 Technology in Alexandria. Samantha also is the brains behind badassideas.com which has an arsenal of great inspiration and resources.
WebM.ag: [...]

Javascript is one of the most supported and popular programming languages, most browsers can easily handle it and it can be gracefully degraded for browsers or computers that don’t support Javascript.
Because of its flexibility, popularity and relatively small size Javascript has been used to create animation frameworks to allow you to create smooth effects and [...]

Gradients have become commonplace in modern design, especially with the birth of “Web 2.0″ where we saw gradients frequently used in logos, icons, buttons and backgrounds.
Whilst design has moved away from the glossy web 2.0 look, gradients still have a use and I feel they can be particularly effective when used with subtle colour variations [...]

We all love stats although we don’t always admit it! Using various statistics are a good way of checking your site’s popularity and to identify subjects of interest for your readers for example.
I have collected 8 great Wordpress plugins that work with some stats that might interest you, such as feed subscribers, traffic, rankings and [...]

I recently has the (mis)fortune of creating a custom project for a client who wanted some fancy charts running in the back end of the CMS. They can look great and display whatever data you wish, such as traffic, hits, downloads etc…
I spent a good while reading and researching a number of options available to [...]