Best Website Designs — January 2014's Picks

With the New Year in full swing, we did not hold back when assembling this month’s Top 10 Websites for Designers. In this first collection of 2014, you’ll find an engaging site that fights homelessness, a resource for seeing fonts in use, and a stylized design app. These are just a few of the gems that Adam Ladd, HOW’s art director, found while picking the best to debut in this month’s roundup of top website designs. - See more at: http://www.howdesign.com/design-creativity/top-10-websites-designers-january-2014/#sthash.V5AHxmqN.dpuf

17 Sites for Web Design Inspiration

Now that anyone can learn to code, and probably should, web design and development are becoming more and more personal in both approach and learning curves.

Cool Websites — February 2014's Picks

I Love Ligatures will get your heart beating in this edition of Top 10 Websites for Designers. As Apple celebrates the Mac’s big 3-0, don’t miss the rich site that documents the tech giant’s impact in the creative world. HOW’s art director, Adam Ladd, scouts out these cool websites and more each month to help you stay sharp. - See more at: http://www.howdesign.com/design-creativity/top-10-websites-designers-february-2014/#sthash.wldiLj7H.dpuf

A Web Designer’s Site Launch Checklist (Including Portable Formats) – Design & Illustration – Tuts+ Tutorials

At FHOKE we’ve been through it all, from perfect launches to ones that have turned into complete nightmares! Through our experiences we’ve compiled a list, in no particular order, of a process we go through before we launch our sites.

How Modular Content Works

We thought this made website planning easier. As it turns out, it’s just made it dumber. The conceit of this approach is that for any content or content arrangement that can’t be done using a basic content area and its friendly WYSIWYG editor, we can create a custom template with its own set of fields and logic. In the old days, when most content was quite at home in a single column of text with the occasional image here and there, the idea that special content could have its own definition in the CMS and its own, unique template seemed quite sophisticated. We were crafting this content just so. Had we known better, we would have called it “artisanal.” Maybe then it wouldn’t be so obviously outmoded today.

The top 10 free UI kits for web designers | Web design | Creative Bloq

Save time and effort when designing a user interface: we round up the best UI kits for developing in CSS.

Applying App Design Concepts to Website Design | Codrops

If you ever look up best practices, design techniques, or trends in application design, you’ll notice something significant: there seems to be a much greater focus on what is most important, that being the user experience, usability, and functionality.

10 names every web designer should know | Web design | Creative Bloq

In every industry there are champions who define the landscape, break new ground or simply lead the way. Web design is different, so check out these ten people every web designer should be familiar with.