I love Xara Xtreme! I use it all the time for vector work. In fact, most of the design for this site was done with it! The main thing that keeps me using it time after time is the incredibly fast rendering engine speed.

Clive Walker is a freelance web designer/developer based in Horsham, Sussex, UK. He lives online at CVW Web Design and writes a blog with the same name. At weekends, you can find him trying not to fall off his mountain bike.

We’ve designed some multicoloured Twitter Bird Speech Bubble icons that are free to download and use for both personal and commercial use. The icons are provided in AI, EPS and transparent PNG file formats and come in 9 different colours.

Paul Stanton is a coffee loving designer / developer who specialises in being a generalist simply because “there’s too much fun stuff to play with”. Paul says he’s a perfectionist and imperfectionist in equal measure and wants to play in the World Series of Poker one day.

The world went crazy for the iPhone, thousands of us have bought one and hundreds of talented developers have created applications that we can all download on it. Luckily, quite a few are very useful for web designers!

Designing a logo that is memorable, original and creative is a tough task. Take away fancy colours, gradients and icons and it gets even tougher. A monochrome logo is forced to rely on the shapes, lines and space to convey it’s message which is a real art in itself.

It’s taken a long while to create but I’m delighted to announce the launch of The Web Design Blog. As it’s name suggests the blog will be dedicated to the wonderful world of web design covering news, articles, tutorials, interviews, reviews and free downloads.