Fluid Vs Fixed Design: Which is Better?

For as long I can remember, the question I am always asked or ask myself when working a design is, “Which is better? Fixed or fluid design?” This is a great question and the answer is it depends. Personally, I prefer a fixed design. Today, I decided it was time to talk about fixed and […]

QuickTip: How to Quickly Search and Find People On Google Plus

With the growing popularity of the Google Plus Network, its only natural that the subscriber numbers have reached over a million users. With so many people using Google Plus you should be able to connect with your friends, niche related contacts, and new social media friends. But with the limited options Google gives to make […]

How to Craft a Modern Resume [Infographic]

Lately I have been going to a weekly networking meeting. These meetings usually have speakers that talk about anything from finding that perfect job or using social media and how it can help you with your career. Recently we had a speaker that talk about the traditional resume being boring and that as a job […]

High Quality Metal Textures

This week’s free textures are from a great site called Grunge Textures. This site offers high quality grunge textures for personal and commercial use. While looking through the different texture sites for inspiration, I was drawn towards Grunge Textures’ metal textures. I found so many great textures and I decided that this weeks free high […]

Site Will be Going down For a Few Hours

Hi guys, just a quick post to let everyone know that I will bring the site down for a few hours to remove some old plugins, clean up the database, and to start some testing on the theme that is about to go live. If you see any weird design issues or the maintenance page […]

Get an Easy to Remember Google Plus Network Profile URL

If you have been using Google Plus Network, you know how ugly and hard it is to remember your profile URL. Currently Google Plus doesn’t offer a Google Plus Vanity URL. Currently from what I found about why doesn’t offer a vanity URL, they believe that if they offer vanity URLs it might leave users […]

Mash Up #17: Topics in Design, Multi-Author Blogging, Search Rankings, SEO, Social Media, and HDR Photography

Hi everyone, it’s time once again for our weekly Mash Up series. This series is a list of great articles I have read over the last week or so and I share them here. Generally these lists have articles for everyone. You can usually find a great listing of design related articles. But I also […]

Hootsuite Hits 2 Million Sign Ups!

Back in November 2010, Hootsuite hit the one million mark for new signups. Now Just a few months later, they hit two million signups! For those that do not know about Hootsuite, it is a Twitter client and more. Its your personal media sharing tool. You can send a status to variety social networks and […]

QuickTip: Format Your Google Plus Statuses

One of the things I like about Google Plus is they are trying to build a great user experience for everyone. They are adding new features and refining features that have issues. One of the features that I like is the ability to format your Google Plus statuses. Although formatting of status updates isn’t a […]

QuickTip: How To Find the Permalink for a Google Plus Status Update

Just like most social networks, each status update in Google Plus gets its own permalink (web URL). If you ever need access to a status update, all you have to do is click on the timestamp in the top left corner next to the user name. This will then open up that status’ web page.

5 Free High Quality Concrete Textures

Hi guys, its been a while since I last did a free texture article. The free texture series a series that we try and do weekly, but with the lack of time and other great articles that were needed to release on Wednesdays we had to put the textures series on hold.  In the future […]

25 Beautiful Examples of Surreal Photo manipulation

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s and features elements of surprise, unexpected objects to create a disorienting, hallucinatory dreamlike reality. One of the most popular uses for Adobe Photoshop is Photo manipulation. One of the reasons for PhotoShop popularity is its ability to blend real images with vibrant colors and […]