For all web design professionals, here is an awesome site, which helps you look up HTML5, CSS3, etc features. This indicates when and how to use them and if there will be any fallbacks. A great reference guide during web production to avoid those debugging headaches across browsers.
Google has changed part of their algorithms to minimize number of results within search engine results page (SERP).
An example
Let’s say Nick searched for [bacon] and URLs from your site appeared in positions 3, 6, and 12. Jane also searched for [bacon] and URLs from your site appeared in positions 5 and 9. Previously, we would have averaged all these positions together and shown an Average Position of 7. Going forward, we’ll only average the highest position your site appeared in for each search (3 for Nick’s search and 5 for Jane’s search), for an Average Position of 4.
More information about updated SERP results can be found here.
Being a web designer in profession, I’m bound to always be on a lookout for web trends and inspiration. Not for work reasons per se but for my own creative development.
I’m sure many web designers will understand when I say too much visual input can be so stimulating or at times too common, that we end up with nothing. It is hard to describe this kind of dilemma as our resources abound to millions of websites out there.
With this predicament, I’ve recently deleted some design feeds to not be overwhelmed. Below are the galleries I often go to for project inspiration.
There are two (2) things I look for in a design gallery:
1) Not too much background graphics. Minimalist design is preferred. We surely don’t need background graphics compete with thumbnails.
2) Appropriate web thumbnails size. We use the web to find things fast so being able to view a number of websites by few scroll-downs is a plus.
