The watercolour effect is becoming increasingly popular within the design community of late, if done properly it can be really effective and you could end up with a great looking design at the end of it.
I have compiled a set of watercolour brushes for Photoshop and Illustrator, Illustrator does come with a set of watercolour [...]

We would like to thank everyone who entered the competition, its been great to see all your comments. Chris Coyier had the difficult task of picking out three winners, and has just let me know their identities.
Congratulations to Randy Deutsch, Angie Bowen and Jason A. your details have been passed on to Chris and he [...]

Slab fonts are a part of the serif font family and are incredibly effective for logos, headlines and in printed media. Slab fonts can be rounded, angled or block like, the common stand out feature is that slab fonts are chunky, bold and big.
I have collected 10 top slab fonts for you to use in [...]

When designing your own Wordpress theme to utilise widgets your sidebar must be widgetized in order for the widgets to appear.
What I’m going to show you today is a very quick and easy way to widgetize your sidebar and start making full use of widgets.
Before making any change to your template, please backup your files [...]

Pagination can be an important aspect of your design, many sites nowadays have a need for pagination as they can have a huge list of articles or items and by using pagination it saves all that scrolling and will offer a better experience to the reader.
Pagination for those who don’t know is a method of [...]

Submitting your design articles can be incredibly beneficial for your site, you can get a traffic boost for a start but you also could get a little more recognition for your work.
I have listed a bunch of sites where you can submit your design news to, but I’m not talking about your general social bookmarking [...]

There is a growing trend which I feel can be of great benefit to the design community, more and more blogs and magazines are offering a user contributed link feed which allows users to submit their design news to your site.
Some may think it just drives traffic away from your site but maybe that’s not [...]