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It’s been almost twenty years since the first branded Content Management Systems (CMSs) hit the market. They were an unbearable kluge back then, and didn’t work well; but hey, if you had a bajillion dollars to toss at MarchFirst or any one of hundreds of other pre-dot-bomb era consultancies, you could have a half-baked Web CMS, delivered by a team of twenty dot-commers living large on VC funds, and talkin’ you up in Red Herring or Business 2.0 Magazine. Hey, who doesn’t want that? The fast times flourished, and whoever could spew the most syllables per second of consultant-speak won the CMS implementation gig (seriously). Could designers design with it? Nope. Were writers or sitebuilders creating content with them? Not with WordPerfect or Claris Homepage in the next room. Nope, CMSs’ usefulness was often an afterthough … Read the rest of the article on : Speckyboy Design Magazine

Twitter Bootstrap has simply exploded in the web development community. There will always be skeptics and haters but on the whole the project has been a smashing success and can constantly be seen at the top of the Forked and Watched charts at GitHub. As a result of Bootstrap’s fame, lots of great related resources have been put forth by the development community. Today we’ve collected our favorites into a list of everything you need to get started with Bootstrap. From introductory tutorials to wireframing kits and custom generators, there’s something here for every Bootstrap lover … Read the rest of the article on : Design Shack

Back in the days when you lose the standard mobile phone, the loss is limited to just the hardware. The new owner would probably just remove your SIM card and put in his or her own and no one would be the wiser. But with smartphones, this situation presents a larger set of problems. For starters, you will lose all your precious data: music, photos, apps and contacts. Getting a new phone would mean you have to start recollecting all these items from scratch. If hearing that gives you a headache, let me remind you that the person who has located your iPhone will also have access to all your online accounts: social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, personal emails — and if you are one of the many people who do their banking online, better change those passwords quick … Read the rest of the article on : hongkiat.com

HTML5 and CSS3 are great languages to start off learning with, and I’ve always thought that one of the best ways to start learning is to just dive in and manipulate the code. As you could probably tell, this is where generators step in. They are a great way to generate some code, play with it, and learn. Not only that, they are incredibly useful because often times as a developer or designer we find we are doing things over and over again. Well, generators can take off that edge and do those small things for you each time. As an example, I have a text-expander snippet that creates an HTML5 template that I wrote about here. Now, text-expander is great but it doesn’t solve every need, and in this case there is a big need for generators so I took the time to find 20 of my favorite and describe why … Read the rest of the article on : Webdesigner Depot

Downloading your collection of data stored within Google products can be a tedious job, especially when you have been using Google for years across many different applications. With hundreds of files and photos already uploaded, downloading them one by one is hardly an idea worth considering. Instead of scrolling and surfing page after page of your Google accounts and downloading each file, one after the other, be it the data and files from Google Docs, Google+, Buzz, contacts or even your photo album on Pic … Read the rest of the article on : hongkiat.com

Advertise here with BSA Real Shadow is a simple-yet-effective jQuery plugin for creating realistic shadow effects for any HTML element. With a simple function, it works by targeting any number of elements and manipulating the value of box-shadow CSS property for the elements in accordance with the mouse position. So, the shadow's location and size is determined by the [...] Read the rest of the article on : WebResourcesDepot

“Hey, I want to show you something I built. Ignore the design please, it is not finished yet.” From school science fair projects to real world product prototypes, if I had a nickel every time I heard that sentence I would be a lot richer by now. The truth is that a lot of people ask us to ‘ignore the design’ simply because we humans tend to judge anything new that is shown to us by its looks. It is a universal truth. You can talk until you tire about how looks should take the seat behind functionality, usability and any new ‘ility’ that people might come up with in the future, the ugly truth (pun intended) is that good looks are important to warrant a second look. Functionality comes next. Neither can do without the other. In spite of this a lot of people gamble on the looks of a product and in exte … Read the rest of the article on : Speckyboy Design Magazine

Pay per click (PPC) is an Internet advertising used on websites, where advertisers pay when the ad is clicked. Here is a list of money making websites for those who are looking for how to make money online. As we know that there is lots of scam online so trying to make money is almost an impossible task if you have no idea what you are doing. Then the first thing is that you have to understand that every money making websites are not scam. The list is beneficial for those who don’t have idea about it. In this we manage our blog or website according to requirement we set ads, links at various places. A blog which is regularly updated with good content, which attracts clients, is definitely going to earn some money. Here we have great list of that websites which gives you money online by placing ads when that ads are clicked by reader then your earn money. These are the major source of monetizing our blog but if we placed these a … Read the rest of the article on : SaveDelete

An almost unbearably bright and colourful site for a web development company based in India. I like the bold approach, but feel the site could do with an overhaul of its typography. This design was featured on the Sunday 29th of April 2012. It falls under the category of Design, and has a layout style of One Column. If you’d like, you can visit this site, or view all our other featured designs. … Read the rest of the article on : Design Shack

Editor’s note: This is a guest contribution by Erik Hans Rasmussen who writes and designs custom t-shirts for Fibers. Erik can be faintly heard tweeting @LookRad. We are all familiar with the challenges of receiving recognition in the highly competitive and saturated industry of art and design. Whether you are producing work for a client, for school, or for yourself, it’s a challenge to stand out from the crowd. Without recognition, we won’t be able to pursue our career as professional artists, because no one will know who we are. This is why we need to enter design competitions. I’ve created this guide to essential design competition directories to help you carve your own path through the growing crowd of designers and artists who are all vyi … Read the rest of the article on : hongkiat.com