CSS preprocessors make styling faster, easier, and cleaner. With the LESS CSS preprocessor, you can use variables in your stylesheets, reuse entire classes, and nest selectors for cleaner structure (among other neat features).

Learn how to mimic a click event using the CSS3 "target" pseudo class. Easy, lightweight, and compatible in all modern browsers.

Hackers never strike at an opportune time. Take a few minutes to go over this simple list of actions that will help bolster your defenses against impending attacks on your WordPress install.

Create a personal showcase of your favorite music on your website using jQuery and Last.fm. Learn how to fetch information from Last.fm, and style a vinyl record display of your favorite albums.

This beginner level tutorial will show you how to create festive winter brushes in Adobe Illustrator.

Eric Vasquez wrote a tutorial over at Design Instruct for adding some nifty lighting effects to vector illustrations in Adobe Photoshop. Source files included.

Use shapes and smart objects to create a semi-realistic iMac Icon design in Adobe Photoshop. Useful tricks included for starting UI designers.

Learn how to create a 3-color screen print in Adobe Illustrator, and how to prepare it to allow a screen printer to easily print the color separations that create the separate screens for each color print.

Explore the process of illustrating the super-villain Megamind in Adobe Illustrator from sketch to finish. Source files included.

Learn how to create a very realistic still life scene of a corded telephone in Adobe Photoshop. Created from scratch using paths, the smudge tool, and other neat tricks.