The WordPress Design Award is divided into 5 separate categories: 1. Best Clean & Minimalist 2. Best Retro & Vintage 3. Best Grunge 4. Best Hand-Drawing Style 5. Best Modern & Elegant That being said, we are giving away $200 COLD HARD CASH (via PayPal) to the winner of each category. ...

We are constantly exposed to content management systems day to day and have a huge number of them (and it’s growing too!) in our CMS list. We have noticed more and more that people are having a hard time deciding how to choose the right CMS for the job. It’s not an easy task for some people, and...

The growing popularity of smartphones, and of mobile computing in general, is already starting to change the way visitors interact with your site. It’s not too soon to start laying out the blueprint for a version of your site designed expressly for pocket-sized screens. Times may be tough, but...

With RNC chairman Michael Steele already a laughingstock inside the Beltway, he seems determined to cement that reputation nationwide. Techies will roll their eyes over a proposal Steele sent out for a new GOP website. It's understandable that the Republicans want to get hip to this Internet thing. ...

I had a really great time this morning doing some actual work with Balsamiq Mockups (if you followed me on Twitter, you would know about this by now…). This is an Adobe Air app for making quick screen mockups. It’s a blast to work with. It’s rock simple, and therein lies its streng...

Kim Krause Berg got me thinking last week when she wrote Why I’m Not Comfortable with Web Site Clinics, an article that questions the value of those site review sessions you see at almost every search marketing/design conference. At the risk of paraphrasing, Kim’s argument — which I generally ...

JPG the popular photography magazine with user generated content is back from the gallows. Seth Familian, the VP of Product Management at JPG Magazine explains in  this blog post. “Our new investors agree with you–and believe strongly in the potential of JPG as a business. So I’m looking forw...

Filed under: Fugly Friday Last week I covered RogerART, but this week I'm going to look at a great source of ugly sites. Three sources, in fact. The first is known by millions of people: Fark. Yes, I picked Fark because it has, traditionally, carried a lot of links to local news sites or personal si...

Live blogging The Short and Glorious Life of Web 2.0 presentation at Webstock 09 by Zeitgeist Author and Wired Blogger, Bruce Sterling. Bruce starts by saying, here in New Zealand, we have lost sight of Web 2.0. Mistakes have been made. You think it’s the world of tag clouds, drop shadows and ...

Design for the web is considerably different to designing for print. This post discusses ten ways they differ and explains how we at Distilled design for the web. As a web designer, I’m constrained by the build. Not all designers and developers follow the constraints that I’m used to, bu...