Web Design / Development Blog

While this is an old debate and it is clear that we won’t get very far with it, I want to make some statements regarding the things a web designer should consider in order to improve present skills.

Hopefully you now know what form of web hosting that is suitable for your website. The next step is picking a web host, something that can be tricky as there are quite a few to choose between. Below you find a couple of tricks that will help you find a hosting plan matching your needs.

This post will be composed of all the positive and negative things in web design that I think are worth mentioning. You may agree or not with the list and please complete it with your own Love-Hate things. So here are my 2 lists with the things I find rewarding and the things I detest in Web Design.

When looking for web hosting you might become somewhat puzzled by all the different forms of web hosting. What do they all mean and which plan is the perfect match for you and your website? Below you will find descriptions of the most popular types of hosting, making your decision easier.

If you want to have the same experience over multiple browsers and different machines then testing your website is vital. In this article I’ve gathered some of the most important tools that you can use in testing your site against various errors – CSS Errors, HTML Errors, Cross-browsing Errors etc.

Back in September 2007, Steve Souders published his book High Performance Web Sites. This book is describing ways to improve your site speed and at the same time to create a better user experience. In the book there is one rule that says: CSS at the Top. By this, Steve is saying that you should put the CSS in the Head section of your HTML using the LINK tag. The…

Do you know what WordPress is? Of course you know… everyone knows – the best open source and most advanced blogging platform. It has great plugins and one of the best if not “the best” community ever. And through this post I want to capture all the movement around this great tool: themes, developers, tricks, cheat sheets and other.

Today I will start a new section here on Graphic Rating. It is called Bing’s Weekly Lectures. The main idea for these next articles is to sum up the additional information displayed on top of Bing’s daily pictures in a week time frame. I really like the feature and I think most of the phrases are quite valuable. So, here is the first Bing Weekly Lecture:Week #1.

I think you remember the middle ages, it was back when Yahoo! wanted a redesign. Well, after a great deal of time, the redesign is here. Fresh or not, good or bad … I will detail my conclusion over the latest revamped version of Yahoo! portal.

The third site in the Inspiration category is KISSmetrics. I will not speak too much about it because the design speaks for itself. The colors are well connected as well as the typography and images. Also you can check their blog too, because it has a simple design using same elements from the main site.

Title on Techmeme: WhitePages unveils $2.5 million Web site redesign. That got me curious. I wanted to see for myself and show you a $2.5 million redesign. Of course that it is not just the visual side and some CSS, the bill pays for backend as well (hopefully).

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a Community News section in Wordpress. There are 4 simple steps and for anyone with little Wordpress knowledge this should be a relatively simple.

In this post I want to showcase all the applications that are very important in my web design & development process. From commercial applications to Firefox plugins, this post will cover all my favorite web design tools.

In this post I’ve listed 11 websites where you can get great information about your site. Whether you want simple Google PR or Technorati ranking, number of feed subscribers or a SEO analysis and even more – this is the post you want.

Kyan Media’s website is one great destination for web designers that want to see how perfection can be achieved. I know that this sounds too much but belive me, their portfolio is awesome with great and diverse developed websites.