30 Beautiful Dark-themed Web Designs for Inspiration
Using a dark color theme in a website can convey many types of feelings and emotions towards its visitors. Edginess, elegance, modernity — these are just a handful of things that can be associated with dark colors.
There are countless of gorgeous dark-themed web designs on the Web. In this web design showcase, you’ll find 30 hand-picked websites that use a primarily dark color palette.
Creating Websites Optimized for Google’s Panda Algorithm
Whether you’re in the process of building a new website or redesigning an existing site, it’s vital to build it with search engine optimization (SEO) in mind.
The king of search engines, as everyone knows, is Google, making up over 65.3% of all search traffic (in October 2011).
Google’s goal is simple: to give their users the most relevant, high-quality search engine results as accurately and quickly as possible. So in early-2011 Google introduced an update to their search engine algorithm, dubbed Panda, as part of the company’s continual pursuit of that goal.
Announcement: Winners of 123ContactForm Subscriptions
We recently held a giveaway for five 1-year Platinum plan subscriptions to 123ContactForm, a top-notch web form and survey builder. In this post, you’ll find the five lucky Six Revisions readers who’ve won this awesome prize.
20 Free Online Tools for Website Speed Testing
We all should be aware by now that Internet users are impatient when it comes to waiting for a web page to load. Thus, your website’s performance and ability to render speedily is critical to its usability and, ultimately, its success.
In order to help you build faster websites and identify troublesome website performance bottlenecks, consider incorporating some of the following tools into your web development process.
Writing Better JavaScript with CoffeeScript: The Basics
I’m a huge fan of JavaScript. Its popularity has really surged in recent years with the advent of rich internet applications (RIAs), Ajax and web development libraries like jQuery that makes JavaScript more appealing and accessible to a broader audience.
However, that doesn’t mean the language is without its quirks, and often these can come from nowhere to bite you. There’s a long running joke about JavaScript’s good parts compared to its bad parts and how the language has many problems. In this multi-part guide, I’ll present you with a solution to most of these problems: CoffeeScript.
Quick Overview of User Experience for Web Designers
How many times have you been in the following situation? You just spent two weeks working on a design that you’re showing to a client. He likes it, but he wants to make a couple of changes that would take a couple more hours of work. Why? You don’t know.
He doesn’t know. Nobody knows. He just thinks that adding an embedded map on the right side of the web page is cool. He really likes his own idea and wants you to make the change, and you’re left with one of two options: make the client happy, or make users happy.
Firebug Guide for Web Designers
Firebug — an open source web development tool extension for the Mozilla Firefox web browser — is incredibly powerful, with a wide range of super useful and practical features that would benefit any web designer or developer.
In fact, this browser extension (also available in other web browsers with limited functionality) is so useful and popular that it has browser extensions of its own.
