Looking at some of the bigger site’s UI design can give you some inspiration for usability and of course the aesthetic side of things.
These bigger sites have design elements that work and users are comfortable with, so they are a good starting point for your own projects.
The following tutorials mimic these elements and show you [...]

Website optimization in general is an important factor for any designer as page load times can be crucial, if your page takes 30 seconds to load users will not want to hang around.
What we are covering today is image optimization, basically image optimization is making your images smaller without losing quality so your page loads [...]

Print designers can’t do the job without the proper tools at their disposal. These tools include industry standard software packages, essential physical tools used on a daily basis and several online applications, which can give you a winning edge over competitors. We’ve compiled a list of these tools below for you to peruse.
Chances are if [...]

Whilst jQuery may be the frontrunner in the javascript framework race, MooTools is certainly a horse that you shouldn’t ignore as the MooTools framework is very lightweight and flexible and can be implemented in many design elements.
What we are going to cover today is navigation as your project’s navigation is always an important design element [...]

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: [...]