Iconography is an integral part of any UI design project these days. Icons have the ability to communicate ideas, functions and meanings in a common visual language.

Let’s examine the amount of work that goes into creating an icon set, as well as the logical phases to follow when doing so. For the purpose of this article we’ll work...

To make special characters and accented letters show up on your pages, use a special set of codes called character entities, which you insert into your HTML code and which your browser will display as the corresponding symbols or characters you want.

Media queries is a CSS3 extension to media types that allows us far greater control over rendering across different devices than do media types alone.

Hey Flash developers! In this tutorial series we are going to go through the process of developing a very basic Tower Defense game. In this first part of the series, we’ll learn how to deploy turrets on the game field, give them the ability to aim at an object (in this case, the mouse) and make them fire particles.

Final Result Preview

Once...

If you, like many Flash developers, are looking into using HTML5 for your web apps, you’ll almost certainly have come across jQuery. It’s a very popular JavaScript library, used by a large percentage of the most visited websites – but what’s all the fuss about, and should you use it?

Background

If you know AS3, you basically...

Today we’ll be making some awesome CSS3 buttons! They’re based on the popular PSD freebie Orman Clark made for his website Premium Pixels. We’ll try to make a CSS copy of them, as precisely and with as little HTML markup as possible.

Editor’s Note: Orman has sportingly allowed us to CSS-ify any of his Premium Pixel freebies...

Autor: Web Designer Wall

Source: Web Designer Wall

As much as we don't like to deal with the IE bugs, we still have to face it because your boss and visitors are still using Explorer. It gets frustrating when different versions of Explorer displays web pages differently due to the inconsistent rendering engine. We typically use IE conditional comments to fix the IE issues. But there are more ways than the conditional comments...

Using the Google Maps API is one of the most popular (if not the most popular) way to show geo-locations on today’s websites. In this tutorial I’ll demonstrate how I give my google maps a more realistic look and I’ll give you some tips on how to make your own maps really shine!

Step 1: Warming Up

Our aim is to give the map a...

Twitter’s Bootstrap is an excellent set of carefully crafted user interface elements, layouts, and javascript tools, freely available to use in your next web design project. This video series aims to introduce you to Bootstrap; taking you all the way from downloading the resources, to building a complete Bootstrap-based website.

When Mark...

Autor: Lewis Howes

Source: Talent.me

Getting your dream job is already very difficult and given this economy the job search process is only getting tougher. Networking to get to the right leads has never been as important as it is in this market.

Autor: Lilian Rigo

Source: Template Monster

We all know that Photoshop has a daunting learning curve – you need to get the hold of many tricks and techniques to get the feel of this mainstay design software and start performing like a pro artist. In our effort to feature the most interesting tutorials for the creative community of graphic designers, digital artists as well as casual enthusiasts, TemplateMonster blog team now brings the list of top 25 Photoshop tutorials of the year 2011.

Autor: Tom Green

Source: Webdesigntuts+

In this tutorial I’ll demonstrate how easy it is to create a jQuery Mobile theme in Fireworks, preview the theme, and move it into an HTML5 jQuery sample in Dreamweaver CS 5.5.

Autor: Komodo Media

Source: Komodo Media

It’s the social web now. We share everything, from our musical tastes, to the bacon avocado burger we ate for breakfast, to the very funny things we say and do.With amazing APIs such as the ones offered by Last.fm, Twitter, Flickr and more, we can now put them all on our sites, showing close to real-time updates of the music we are listening to, conversations we are having, and the things we are seeing.

Autor: Andrew Gladwin

Source: Webdesigntuts+

If you’re serious about your work, I’m sure you have a well-thought-out backup system that you run as if your income depends on it. An external hard drive, offsite backup, online backup, whatever. For a freelancer, it’s the ultimate insurance plan.

Autor: Mark Dunne

Source: Activetuts+

In this tutorial you’ll build an extreme particle system whilst learning how to squeeze more efficient goodness out of the Flash Player than you ever thought possible!