This helpful article examines the start of grids and how to create one in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.

In February, Smashing Magazine officially released their latest print book project, The Smashing Book 2. This review goes into the strengths and weaknesses of the book.

This article talks about how the number and variety of devices from which we access the internet increases, the way we design for the web needs to change as well.

Life as a web designer can be insanely busy. This article gives helpful tips on how to put some sanity into the insanity of freelancing.

Read this interesting article that gives a brief overview on commenting systems. Very useful if you're planning on changing from Wordpress native comments.

Facebook Comments is a recently released plug-in commenting system by Facebook that allows commenters to use their Facebook identity to post comments on content around the Web. And as simple and innocent as that sounds, it has caused an uproar throughout the Web.

This article talk about how email newsletters can be the perfect opportunity to inform your past visitors of reasons to return to your website.

This article details the process of creating the album art for If I Were A Mountain's EP entitled “Dreams Are For Their Dreamers".

This interesting article dives into the topic of interface buttons and how to create buttons that people will want to click.

If you want more design work, stop designing the same portfolio site as the next guy. Speak in a different tone. Write copy for your individual pages in a way that appeals to your ideal client. Your website design and copy acts as a filter to get the perfect clients that suit your creative strengths and personality traits.