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.

Grace Smith is a designer, self-proclaimed Apple fan-girl and Twitter addict based in Northern Ireland. Her design studio, Postscript5, specializes in Blog and User Interface design. Grace works with individuals and companies based mainly in the UK and USA, on a diverse range of projects and enjoys collaborating with other designers and developers.

Grace Smith is a designer, self-proclaimed Apple fan-girl and Twitter addict based in Northern Ireland. Her design studio, Postscript5, specializes in Blog and User Interface design. Grace works with individuals and companies based mainly in the UK and USA, on a diverse range of projects and enjoys collaborating with other designers and developers.

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

Phillip Lovelace is a web designer, avid blogger and twitter addict who enjoys creating standards-compliant code and CSS from his studio in Berlin Germany.

Phillip Lovelace is a web designer, avid blogger and twitter addict who enjoys creating standards-compliant code and CSS from his studio in Berlin Germany.

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.

Damian is an applied psychologist but don't let that scare you, he's actually quite nice. With 10 years experience, he's worked as a usability and customer experience expert for a number of employers including BBC New Media, Wheel (LBi), and National Air Traffic Services. He is customer experience director at Experience Solution.

We've produced some high resolution common household textures that you can download for free. The textures include wood, fabrics and work surfaces that would make an ideal background for a website or print project.

Luke van de Paverd is a successful a freelancer from Victoria, Australia. He started freelancing in 2007, went full time in late 2008, and runs the 6 Figure Freelance blog and the Freelance Total web app.

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.

Mark Perkins is a full time tea-drinker and general web geek who runs Medium, a one-man web design and development studio in Brighton, UK. Mark has recently started freelancing under the name of Medium.

Mark Perkins is a full time tea-drinker and general web geek who runs Medium, a one-man web design and development studio in Brighton, UK. Mark has recently started freelancing under the name of Medium.

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)

Jan Cavan is a web/graphic designer, illustrator, blogger, geek, the girl behind Dawghouse Design Studio... and a breakdancer wannabe. We've interviewed Jan about working as a freelance designer and running a blog.