Color is one of the most important parts of both web design, and design in general. Color helps to make things stand out, to give something purpose and to create an atmosphere. Color can define a brand, and it can be used to warn or to welcome.

Depth and 3D effects are just another part of the web design process and they’re becoming more and more common across the web. I mean, what better way to drag your readers in than to have your design sit off the screen? So in this tutorial I’ll go over some of the key ways you can make your design ‘pop’ as it were.

In my opinion, how you organize your website is very important: If you organize your website right you’ll be able to find everything when you eventually need to fine tune it, which can be quite hard if your files are scattered all over the place. At some point or another though, you’re going to end up with a query URL, for instance ?id=1. To make this more search engine friendly, you’re going to have to alter it somehow, and that’s where mod_rewrite comes in.

10 Things is a Series of posts outlining 10 short and sweet points (sometimes more) to help you as a web developer

Getting exposure as a blogger when you start out can be hard. Today there’s so much competition from other bloggers, and grabbing an audience’s attention or standing out from the crowd can be hard when you’re just beginning. Below are 10 things to help you stand out from the crowd and get more exposure.

Hey all. First of all I’d like to wish you all a Merry Christmas: hope you’ve had a great day. Anyway, lets get down to business. With the amount of CSS3 Resources on the net today, it’s hard to separate the good from the bad. I thought then that it would be a good idea to do a nice little roundup of the best CSS3 Resources for you, me being a big fan of CSS3.

Over the past 10 years design has came on leaps and bounds from what it was originally thought out to be on the web. This has spread into various other parts of our lives such as TV user interfaces, posters and much more. The impact the web has had over the past 10 years has been enormous, from the dot com bubble burst right up to this very day.

Hand drawn fonts or fonts in that style can really add a personal effect if used in the right way. On top of that, hand drawn fonts are very creative and nice to look at, and are a lovely addition to a font collection. Below are 30 of the best hand drawn fonts on the web today for your amusement and download.

The $_FILES variable in PHP is one of the more complicated global variables in PHP. With it, you can upload files to the server and find a bunch of stuff out about those files. Below is a little guide and writeup about this variable and how to use it, I hope you enjoy it.

Usability is key to any website; using websites is what people come to them for, so clearly how easily they can use it is incredibly important. Below are a few ways you can increase the usability of your website. Some of them are pretty straight forward to implement, and will definitely benefit your users.

The layout of your code can really affect how fast your project happens, and whether or not you meet deadlines. On top of that it can also determine how easy it is to read and edit later on, when you’re making alterations to it. That’s why it’s important to follow some of these best practices on how to successfully code a neat website.