How to create a social networking or dating site...

Social networking is huge and is only getting bigger. Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and now Google+ as well as dating sites like PlentyOfFish are very successful – users spend hours of their time on them on a daily basis. As well as these social networking giants of the internet there are thousands of smaller, specialized networking sites connecting people with similar interests...

A Comparison of Joomla vs. Drupal...

The world of CMS (Content Management System) is very competitive and the top two contenders are famous Joomla and powerful Drupal. Of course we cannot ignore WordPress, but for now, we will let the two giants fight and see who wins. Let’s start with a brief introduction of both. Joomla Say hello to the award winning CMS that lets you develop websites and many online applications. It has many...

How to create mini sites...

You may have heard about creating mini sites in the past and how people build them to make some extra income from affiliate programs or advertising. Sounds like a plan, but how do you go about quickly creating web sites without spending hours struggling with design or coding? For absolute newbies often free blog sites are recommended where you simply create an account, choose a theme and start...

How to create your own emoticons...

Creating a custom set of emoticons does not have to be difficult. You will need a bit of graphical knowledge and an image editing program such as GIMP in order to begin. To make things easy for you, you can use an emoticon template (see link at the bottom of this article), or you can create your own. If you want to create your own base, typical emoticons are designed in 32 x 32 square .png files...

10 free social networking icons...

Liverpool web design team Tropica is offering the above set of 10 social media icons to download for free. So if you are looking for any one (or more) of Twitter, Technorati, Last.Fm, Digg, Reddit, Myspace, Mixx, Facebook, Delicious or an RSS feed icon, head over to Tropicaweb.co.uk to...

Happy New Year...

Happy new year to all! I want to say thanks to Blog & Web and BloggerBlog Templates for converting the Squick Design to a blogger template. Also a big thank you to Smashing Magazine and Steven Snell from Vendalay Website Design for featuring this site. Wishing everyone a happy and safe New Year and a great...

Halloween graphics roundup...

Avatrs.nnm.ru has a great collection of Halloween icons and images. Halloween web templates at TemplateKingdom ...

Colour palettes by topic...

For this article I have decided to do a little research and find some popular colour palettes being used across web sites of various topics. Some of the sites I looked at are the most popular in their field while others are just personal favorites. Basically these are not exactly scientific findings, instead simply some colour combinations that I enjoyed and found effective for their topics. So...

Web templates...

Every day I get emails asking for help and explanations of terms and processes in web design. This is why I have decided to create a series of articles aimed at beginners. This article is the first in the series. Web templates – why use them Web templates are ideal to use when building a professional looking website in a small amount of time and on a lower budget then when hiring someone...

Design Inspiration of the week – nemstudio...

This week’s design inspiration comes from blog.nemstudio.com. As well as the beautiful header, the right hand side bar also has a fantastic design with careful attention to detail. I love the...