As a designer and general lover of software and technology, I am always looking for new ways to make my life easier. When it comes to design and blogging, its no different. Lately, I have noticed that all these great programs can be resource hogs. They take up so much space and some of them…

This is how websites are usually built:

1. You have an idea. You call up a local website design company that you find in the phone book. You talk to a salesperson who is very nice. They show you their portfolio of sites, and everything looks very good. You decide to hire them.
2. First they make a sitemap of your site, and then one of their designers comes up with some designs to propose to you. Eventually you find a design that you like, so you approve the rest of the work...

Developing and designing for the iPad has never been so popular, free resources are currently being created daily to help aid and simplify design and development. The changing dimensions of hand held devices have had a huge impact on the internet and the way we use websites, this has sparked some challenges for web designers [...]

Controlling who is able to view a post is a simple task once the system is established. Limiting access to certain users has several applications, such as enabling a design studio to distribute artwork to its various clients, or enabling a small school to arrange for homework to be posted online using a cheap and easy solution.

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If you love small wed design usability goodies and want to improve your website’s user friendly level, we think this roundup will sweep you along. What we have for you today is a bunch of jQuery tooltip plugins that will help you show any extra information on website without cluttering its design. jQuery tooltips are good for user experience...

Autor: Charlotte West

Source: Imprint

Directors Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey have recently produced another design documentary that easily deserves a spot on the shelf next to Gary Hustwit's trilogy, Helvetica, Objectified and Urbanized. Now screening at independent theaters around the country, Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the Painter provides fresh insight into the personal lives of the couple behind the iconic chairs. While best known for their modernist furniture, the Eames also dabbled in a variety of other creative mediums, including film and exhibition design.

Autor: Connor Turnbull

Source: ActiveTuts+

We’ve been talking about the tablet and web design together for nearly two years now, but always as the consumer device that we’re designing for. However, the tablet is not only for our consumption of websites, but also the creation of them through the availability of a bunch of great design-oriented apps.

Autor: Joseph Labreque

Source: ActiveTuts+

With the year 2011 at a close, it is time to reflect upon some of the major industry events of the year. A lot happened… we’ll pick out some of the bits and pieces that will be most interesting to browser app and game developers from the world of industry, web, runtimes, operating systems, mobile, and more!

Autor: Anie Ajamian

Source: Web Design Ledger

 With new additions or changes to HTML5 happening quite frequently, it can become hard to remember all the new various features. These nice up-to-date cheat sheets, created for WDL by InMotion Hosting, can help web designers and developers keep track of it all.

Autor: Henry Jones

Source: Web Design Ledger

jQuery was first released in 2006. Nearly 5 years later, it’s still going strong – due largely in part to the community that’s been built up around it. This community of developers constantly releases plugins that allow web developers to easily add amazing functionality to their projects.

Continuing our “Best of 2011″ series, the focus this week is on jQuery plugins. Over the past eleven months we’ve seen a lot of great new plugins being released, which made choosing our favorites extremely difficult.