Adobe Illustrator used correctly can be a fantastic tool for any designer, its incredibly flexible and allows you to express yourself graphically as you could using a pencil and paper. This sounds great right? It is great, but you have to learn to use the thing first, I feel the learning curve can be steep [...]

Name: Marc Perel
Location: South Africa
Job Title: Developer and co-founder, Obox
Sites: obox-design.com
Twitter: @MarcPerel

Today WebM.ag is speaking with Marc Perel from Obox Design, Marc co-founded Obox along with David and handles the developers role at Obox using a wide variety of languages including Coldfusion and PHP but to name a few. Marc is the second of three [...]

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are one of the most time saving and useful languages to ever to grace to world of web design, they are now so commonly used that coding a stylesheet alongside your HTML page is second nature to most designers.
Online there are some great tools to assist with your CSS and save [...]

The sidebar in your Wordpress install can often be underused by designers and bloggers, the sidebar can appear on all pages of your blog and many people do nothing or very little with it.
Most people will add some subscription options as well as archives, pages and perhaps a search bar, but there are plugins for [...]

Merry Christmas to all WebM.ag readers old and new! We have had a great couple of months here at WebM.ag, we launched on 1st September 2009 and have seen our visitors and traffic increase, so we would like to thank you for re-tweeting, blogging and sharing our articles with your friends and networks as its [...]

Ajax commonly is thought of as single language, but in truth its actually a collective group of languages such as DHTML, Javascript, XML and JSON. Its becoming commonplace in many design niches as its very flexible, easy on the eye and can really improve user experience due to its fast response times.
There is a learning [...]

Photoblogs work in a different way than your standard blog, the content is likely to be predominantly image based, whether it be photography or other artworks used.
Artists have turned to photoblogs in recent years and the photoblog is enjoying much success, for the artist it is a much more professional and aesthetic way to showcase [...]