Category: Web Resources

Have you ever had your computer or hard drive fail? It’s not nice and unless you’ve got all your files backed up you could be in all kinds of trouble. This article tells of my experience with a recent hard drive failure and will hopefully encourage you to double check how and when you backup your important files!

If you use Photoshop you’ll be familiar with the flexibility of brushes and the creativity they can add to your designs. They are a great time saver and there are brushes for all kinds of design styles and purposes.

This is a guest article written by Christina Jenkins. Christina is a new stay at home mom who is venturing out into the world of blogging to keep her sanity in this new phase of her life. Here she writes about the top trends in web design from 2010.

My Smarter CMS is a new innovative online service aimed at making it as easy as possible for someone to create & manage websites. It works for web designers, graphic designers and also entrepreneurs. My Smarter Website is giving away a free account worth £240

Since Apple announced version 10 of iTunes on Wednesday there has been a bit of an online uproar over the redesigned icon. I’ll agree it may be a bit garish and perhaps not as refined as other Apple applications but at the end of the day it is just an icon!

Heart Internet are looking for an inspired designer to create a brand new magazine advert that will set Heart Internet apart from our competitors and showcase their Reseller Hosting product.

Freelance web design is becoming a successful business for many people wishing to go self employed. But what inspires these folks to leave the security of full time employment?

Shutterstock is a royalty free stock photography website that let you subscribe for one month, three months, six months or one year, and download up to 25 images per day. There are no hidden or additional fees after you become a subscriber. They’ve kindly written this guest post to give our readers some handy tips on using stock photography.

We are delighted to have been provided with 2 full licencses for the complete crosoft Expression Studio 3 suite courtesy of We Are Social.

I’ve been using Outlook to manage my e-mails for as long as I can remember but recently I started to want something simpler and more streamlined. The obvious choice was Gmail so I decided to try it out as my primary e-mail client for 30 days to see how I got on with it.

We are delighted to welcome our first guest author to The Web Design Blog. Darren Pinder is a Web Designer working out of Glossop, Derbyshire and in his first article he shares five very handy PHP tips.

We are delighted to have two Heart Internet Reseller Professional annual accounts worth £300 each to giveaway (plus a free .co.uk or .com domain name)