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Opinionate: Platform that generates logical arguments for debates (opinionate.io).

Pravat shares his latest opinion in this General Entry

Pravat shares his latest opinion in this General Entry

This is a new portion of web design and development articles, blog posts and resources recently retweeted at @htmlcut. 4 deaths and one evil in the section "Opinions", 5 extremely valuable articles in "Copyright and Legal Issues" (including a real example of dealing with a content theft), a whole bunch of useful examples of HTML5, CSS3 and JS code and many other interesting things.

A collection of controversial articles about CSS HTML preprocessors and frameworks and their role in the modern web design and front-end development: opinions, thoughts, and case studies.

It is a bit of a "wait and see" game. We all know the pros and cons of the platform, and we all have our own opinions on whether Windows 8 will be along-term success for Microsoft or not, but the critical factor is often whether other people are developing for it.

Round-up of recent articles on designing for Retina displays: Techniques, tips, and responsive design; working with images for Retina display; opinions; MacBook Pro.

With new Internet businesses launching daily, newcomers - and even seasoned e-merchants - have to be smart and quick on their feet. They have to separate themselves from the pack by using innovative marketing tools and platforms to share their opinions, perspectives and experiences.

DeviantArt.com has recently launched its very own online web-application based portfolio creation service, and they even host it for you as well. Users have the choice of either signing up for a free account or a premium account. In this article I'm going to cover the free account portfolio service they offer, show you a few images of the user interface and give my honest opinion on its worth -- for better or worse.

A footer is usually used to display the copyright information, and other links contributing to the website. In my opinion that sounds pretty boring. Why not

When it comes to web design projects, I've learned how to screw up royally the hard way. Luckily, there are easy ways to avoid basic mistakes. Or ensure that if they do happen, they cost you minimal sorrow.

WordPress is the most popular and the best (in my opinion) blogging platform, created by Automattic. It's really easy to use and it's very powerful, giving you the opportunity to build any kind of site, from blogs to shopping carts and CMS's.  In this series of tutorials, we are going to create our first WordPress theme. For this tutorial you need to have a little more than basic knowledge about HTML and CSS. Let's get started.You can Download source files and you can also Live preview the theme here. It's a basic css layout so it will be easy for beginners to convert it into a working WordPress theme.

I have always been fascinated by the visual clarity of the London Underground map. Given the number of cities that have adopted this mapping approach for their own subway systems, clearly this is a popular opinion. At a conference some years back, I saw a poster for the Yahoo! Developer Services. They had taken the concept of a subway map and applied it to create a YDN Metro Map. Once again, I was in awe of the visual clarity of this map in helping one understand the various Yahoo! services and how they inter-related with each other. I thought it would be awesome if there were a pseudo-programmatic way in which to render such maps to convey real-world ecosystems.

Collection of web design and development articles, blog posts and resources recently tweeted at @htmlcut. The section "Opinions" is really controversial this time.

Is web design and web development similar to bicycling or car driving? Some opinions pro et contra are presented.

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Josué Solano took his spare time to redesign the fashion designer Alexander Wang's website. The concept has beautiful ideas that are becoming quite trendy, the vertical orientation for text being a great example. Another thing that is a good reference, in my opinion, is the grid system and the way the content is showcased. It doesn't follow a regular order but more organic, much more like a magazine layout.

The UX/UI Design of the web application improves the user experience and customer satisfaction that ultimately helps increase the number of users of the specific application. So you should choose the web designer who has excellent understanding UI and UX. SynergyTop in San Diego can offers you best designer and developers in the industry. Visit the blog for their opinion about UI/UX.

TheHotSkills.com recently launched a new version of upgraded design of their website. Now SOTW (Site of the week) showing above the fold and increase the numbers of featured post of homepage. You can check complete website design of Behance or Dribbble. We also would like to ask your critiques on the design elements. Please take a time and leave your opinion in the comments, it would be useful to us. Your feedback is important for us! Moreover, TheHotSkills is a Web Design Inspiration Gallery and we are trying everyday to make it best for you.

Quality content has the power to communicate, spread knowledge, and change minds. It can draw the attention of the people with whom you can share your opinion as well as provide solutions to the existing solutions. With every major shift in technology, there has been a constant development of the ecommerce industry. The increasing online population demands more and more online shopping services, due to which, ecommerce sales boost every day. There is an uncountable number of shopping websites in the online world today.

Many opinions lean towards hating pop ups for being intrusive, rude and a place to lose your soul (I joke, but see my recent tweet). There are however those who swear that pop up forms are super effective for increasing email signups (see Problogger's tweet). So maybe you're considering a pop up form on your site but are wary of how it will affect your visitors and rub them the wrong way. Thankfully there are ways to use pop up forms and still give visitors a great experience. Here are 5 things you can do that will boost conversion rates on email pop ups while not annoying your visitors.

High-quality usability has been the center of discussions in the industry in the past ten years, as it becomes more and more important for users. Good usability can also help build brand awareness and can generally improve a user's opinion of a website and even a company. There is so much focus on usability today because big and small companies showed how important a good usability strategy can turn out to be. Good usability has been in the past couple of years at the heart of successful start-ups. Simple ideas are most of the time the most innovative and this is mainly what usability is about: making a feature or a product easy to use, while still keeping the product quality at a high level. Today's article comes a lot down to common sense. It seems that after years and years of discussing this issue, web designers still have a hard time understanding it. Usability is not a joke anymore and the advices below should be printed out and pinned on the wall in front of your desk.