Raise your hand if you’re tired of people asking you what your New Year’s resolutions are? Well, I’m going to jump on the bandwagon and suggest 5 more original ideas that will change your life forever, or at least give you something to think about until next year. Feel free to also leave your own [...]

So as stated in the title, The Designed is for sale. Hopefully this won’t be a sad thing for many people and I hope whoever ends up buying this site continues to update it with great content. A Brief History of TheDesigned.com Back in about May of 2008, I really wanted to get a blog about web [...]

jQuery is quickly becoming one of the most popular java script libraries that developers are using. There seems to be so many new tutorials always popping up all over the place, so here’s some of the newest jQuery tutorials that you might not have seen before. 1. Top Up 2. Coda Slider v.2 3. jQSlickWrap 4. JQuery Sprite Animation [...]

jQuery is quickly becoming one of the most popular java script libraries that developers are using. There seems to be so many new tutorials always popping up all over the place, so here’s some of the newest jQuery tutorials that you might not have seen before. 1. Top Up 2. Coda Slider v.2 3. jQSlickWrap 4. JQuery Sprite Animation [...]

Flickr is a great site for uploading and managing all of your images. What happens when you want to integrate those images into your site though? Well that’s where these image galleries come in handy… 1. Open Source Flickr Photo Gallery Using jQuery 2. Flogr – A Flickr powered photoblog 3. Flapi 4. Flickrshow 5. Create a Photo Gallery [...]

There are so many different way to display your product’s features. Here are a few that I really like. Most of them are clean, minimal ways to get across a lot of information. 1. Virb 2. Campaign Monitor 3. Livestream 4. Dialogix 5. Checkout 6. Mint 7. MailChimp 8. Cobblestone 9. Wufoo 10. Squarespace 11. ConceptShare 12. The Resumator 13. Zcope 14. activeCollab 15. Big Cartel 16. Strutta 17. Pulse 18. Zendesk 19. Get [...]

The Designed finally has a contest and I’m pretty excited to announce it. The Designed is giving away 2 free licenses for Fanurio Time Tracking Software. This is a great opportunity for freelancers to try out some new software. What is Fanurio? Fanurio is a time tracking and billing software application, highly appreciated by freelancers for its [...]

Single page, simplistic websites seem to become more popular everyday. I for one love the simple, one page look. I like them because they just get straight to the point. Here’s a few extraordinary examples of single page sites for your enjoyment. 1. Fortyone 2. Frederik Moes 3. Riley Hamilton 4. Carbon House 5. Alex Edward Fish 6. James Lipscomb 7. Bunton 8. [...]

Slideshows in modern web design are becoming increasingly popular, so for this post I’d like to share a couple that I enjoy. So sit back and take a look at some of these hand-picked slideshows that are meant to inspire creativity. 1. Tracermedia 2. 45 Royale 3. Zcope 4. Violet 5. Notepod 6. Winestore 7. Graphik 8. Kinder Aktuell 9. Wilson Miner 10. Teapot 11. Deluge [...]