“Another super post from the Tutsplus network which teaches you how to use Nathan Smith’s 960 Grid. If you haven’t heard about the 960 grid before, it’s a CSS grid system which is supposed to make designing webpages easier. End of this post you should have a good understanding on how this amazing framework functions and be able to use it effectively on your web design work.”

We’re already familiar with the 12- and 16-column variants of 960.gs, but did you know that a 24-column alternative exists too? In this article, you’ll master the 960 grid system by dissecting the 24-column version demo. If you’ve only used 960gs before for Photoshop mockups, consider this your lucky day. By the end of this article, you’ll be able to convert your designs to HTML and CSS in no time at all.
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“Here is a post form paper-leaf.com that gives you a simple checklist of SEO tasks to complete for a website. The author talks about 8 important points that will improve your site’s SEO”

Search engine optimization, or SEO, is and always will be a bit of a mystery. Google, the king of search engines and what everyone shoots to be at the top of, is constantly changing their algorithm to avoid being “gamed”. However, there are a few simple best practices that are proven to improve search engine rankings – practices that are relatively easy for web designers to implement.

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“A great collection of quality CSS and XHTML web layout templates are shown in this posts, a post from speckyboy.com”

Whether you download and dissect pre-built CSS templates to learn new layout techniques or if you download them to be used as easy-to-edit ready made and standalone web sites, you shouldn’t be limited to using one of the many cloned, dated and often dull templates that are freely available. Popular trends and techniques change very quickly within web design and as such your choice of template should reflect that.

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“We found this post from webdesignledger.com. Its a great collection of single page websites that talk way more than some sites with hundreds of pages”

Single page websites are still a big hit this year, and we see new examples of this trend popping up everyday. To put this list together I was able to find many great examples on One Page Love, which is a great source for those who like to stay tuned in on the single page world. So enjoy the list…

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“This is a very cool post from line25.com in which chris spooner walks you through the steps to make a clean web page design using adobe photoshop”

Build a complete website design mockup for a fictional design studio, starting with the creation of the initial layout then moving on to designing the individual page elements. The result is a modern, crisp and clean webpage layout ready for coding.
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