http://www.smashingmagazine.com —  Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That's why we have decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers over 12 months. And to ma...

http://www.smashingmagazine.com —  The start of a new year is often a time of reflection on the past year, both personally and professionally, as well as a time to look forward to the year ahead. With that in mind, we thought it would be interesting to do a New Year's group interview with a number of top designers...

http://www.smashingmagazine.com —  We are definitely not Santa Claus, but we love to release high-quality sets and themes for free. And, of course, we do have some beautiful and unusual and (hopefully) useful presents for the upcoming New Year's Eve. Today we are glad to release three icon sets, one Photoshop brus...

http://www.smashingmagazine.com —  2008 was a successful year for us and for Smashing Magazine. Reviewing what has happened on Smashing Magazine over the last year, we could have told a couple of impressive stories that happened here and there, but we won't do that. Instead, we would like to take a rather critical...

http://www.smashingmagazine.com —  In December we asked few designers to come up with some creative, beautiful, memorable yet usable icon sets. Some designers had a tight schedule and couldn't get work done in time, but three designers agreed and delviered their high-quality Christmas icon sets - right in time bef...

http://www.designshack.co.uk —  As we arrive at the last month of yet another year, it's time we revise and reflect on all the goodies this year had to offer. At the same time it's great to practice the tips and lessons learnt for the years to come! We have brought together a series of what we feel are some of ...

http://www.alistapart.com —  We, the people who make websites, have been talking for fifteen years about user experience, information architecture, content management systems, coding, metadata, visual design, user research, and all the other disciplines that facilitate our users' abilities to find and consum...

http://news.cnet.com —  I'm a social-networking addict. I'm never away from my Twitter stream, I always check Facebook for friend updates, and Friendfeed is probably my favorite Web tool this year. I check out Hi5 to catch a glimpse into the future, head back to Friendster from time to time, and can't h...

http://www.computerworld.com —  Microsoft's Live Labs on Wednesday introduced a new service that lets users collect snippets of information from Web sites and share the collections with others. A user investigating vacation ideas, for example, might find Thumbtack helpful. Once users log into Thumbtack, they c...

http://www.smashingmagazine.com —  Smashing Magazine loves useful stuff. For months, we have been bookmarking interesting, useful and creative CSS tools and related resources. We have been contacting developers, encouraging them to improve their tools and release their handy little apps to the public. Last year we...

http://freelanceswitch.com —  No matter how much freedom you have as a freelancer, if you’re suffering from a double whammy of recession and rejection, it’s tough going. Throw in the big holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s), and for some lonely freelancers, it’s a difficult t...

http://www.visitmix.com —  Scour the Web searching for some permutation of the keywords "web", "design", "workflow", "process", "aneurism" - OK, not so much the last one - and, you'll probably find a plethora of literature that delves into five-phase processes that usually start and end with phases "Concep...

http://arstechnica.com —  On December 1, Microsoft announced that the Windows Live Wave 3 beta was closing down, and that the company would begin moving its Windows Live users to the final version of its web services. A Microsoft employee confirmed that as of Tuesday night, all the users have been moved o...

http://www.smashingmagazine.com —  RSS is one of those technologies that are extremely simple yet extremely powerful. Currently, RSS is the de facto standard for blog syndication, and it is used widely in both personal and corporate settings; for example, in blogs. And because a large percentage of these blogs run...

http://www.smashingmagazine.com —  Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s why Smashing Magazine has decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers over 1...

http://www.smashingmagazine.com —  If you haven’t taken a look at the (X)HTML/CSS templates that are available for free from a variety of sources, you may be surprised by the quality you can find. WordPress themes tend to get a lot of exposure and attention in the design community right now, but there is als...

http://freelanceswitch.com —  My web design sucks! If you’re like me you’ve probably said that to yourself at least once in your career. When you browse through sites like cssBeauty and FaveUp, you are wowed by the beautiful designs, and you can’t help but ask yourself “What am I miss...

http://www.computerworld.com —  Keeping up with holiday errands, parties and travel plans doesn't need to be as difficult as it used to be, thanks to some handy free Web 2.0 apps that you can access from your browser on your family computer or mobile phone. For these holiday-helper Web 2.0 tools, we had a few ...

http://www.smashingmagazine.com —  Your website represents your brand. New visitors will form a first impression of your service or product within seconds of arriving at your website, and the visuals, layout and aesthetic will play a large role in shaping that impression. Sure, your website may be very usable and ...

http://www.smashingmagazine.com —  Every now and again Smashing Magazine takes a look around, selects “fresh” high-quality free fonts and presents them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current proje...