Every so often you come across a website that just takes your breath away with its intricate attention to detail, its immense vibrancy or its awesome illustrative uniqueness.  We showcase 10 of them here.

As we all know, Twitter can be a very effective advertising and marketing tool if you use it correctly. In this article we look at how you can make that extra push to get people to your website by adding a snazzy Twitter page background!

All web designers and front end developers use Cascading Style Sheets to at least some degree, but have you considered the many ways of streamlining your stylesheets and optimising your markup to reduce page weight and keep your documents tidy? We run down 5 top tips for improving the way you use CSS

Imagine how dated a website would be if you couldn’t share the information it has to offer. The web is becoming a very sociable place, with people tweeting, sharing, and referring more than ever. We examine ways in which to integrate social tools at a pre-build stage.

Recently a friend of mine who is just starting out in the web design world (at uni) sent me an email asking me what core photoshop skills would a web designer need, as I was writing my reply I realised this was turning into a blog, so here it is