Some clients, upon encountering Linux website hosting, tend to remark that they’re surprised to see a big company running Linux. Being a Free/Open Source Software system, people get the idea that it’s all done by volunteers. Right away they picture some hippies in sandals and tie-dye shirts, flashing peace signs and saying how they’re going [...]

Get ready for the newest trend: A “*chan” is any image-board ending in the suffix “chan.” The most famous example is 4chan, but there’s a host of *chan boards out there – so many that directories are popping up. Here’s a comprehensive one. (And be warned, many image boards host indecent, NSFW, shocking, or downright [...]

One web marketing strategy often overlooked is the simple quiz. Whether its in an ad or on a site, in Flash or Javascript, a quiz is fun and challenging and brings the clicks from the kind of people who don’t click anything else. Maybe it doesn’t boost your SEO much, but a quiz can help [...]

Any website developer knows the drill: you put up anything requiring a login, and people are usually going to pick the laziest possible password. As documented in Ars Technica’s lament on the failure of the password model, this problem has existed unabated for 30 years. Users are still just as sloppy about password security as [...]

Web designers, developers, and entrepreneurs, does your world seem dominated by e-commerce web pages? Are you stuck in a world of whitespace, neutral colors, politically-correct stock photo imagery, and 3-column layouts? Here, let’s wake up your imagination again! Visit these sites and bask in the fact that the web isn’t all serious business, and doesn’t [...]

Bookmark this and come back to it when you need inspiration; there’s a lot to see here! 66 Websites which use Beautiful Illustrations – Sometimesjust one nice illustration can make or break a website’s design. Micrography: Text Art and Typography – Text or images? How about text that is an image? 24 Kick Ass Portfolio [...]

It’s hard to believe that Jakob Nielsen is still in the game after all these years; he’s the first person many of us read when we got into web design. So he has observations to make about distributed content. And he still has the same good sense he always had about it. The study is [...]

You know those pictures of cats with the funny pseudo-textspeak captions on them? Well they made somebody a web tycoon. Advertising Age carries the interview with the one and only Ben Huh (yes, his real name), founder of “I Can Haz Cheezburger,” “Failblog,” “Engrish Funny,” “There I Fixed It,” “Roflrazzi,” and “That Will Buff Out.” [...]

This is going to seem very unintuitive to post on a web design blog, but bear with us. HowStuffWorks posted this Top 10 Mistakes in Bathroom Design, and all the way through, you can apply it to analogies in web design! Web designers can identify with “Small Budget for a Big Project,” right? “Improper Installation” [...]