22 excellent restaurant web designs that we've curated for you from our collection here at CoolHomepages - take look at this tasty group and find out if you're missing something in your own designs >>

This is part of a great post from our friends at inspiredm.com -- they got the CSS Awards team to create a gallery from last weeks submissions that we think you'll really enjoy.

CSS, HTML, HTML5, jQuery and Scriptaculous Cheat Sheets

Grids are the secret of the professional layout artist. Grid based layouts are layouts designed with a specific grid overlayed on the design and cut into sections, columns boxes, etc - the idea being that ultimately everything will line up along in various places and feel more balanced than if there was no grid in place. We've come up with a great collection of grid based designs for you - many of which really feature the grid itself. Most grid based designs don't really feature the grid, it's there but it's not plainly evident. Have a look >>

Great post that Guy Kawasaki found on Hubspot -- if you have a website you need to read this and think real hard! Here are the 15 things people hate about your website >>

Typography can make or break your design. It's really one of the things that separates a seasoned designer from a newbie who still has a lot to learn about design. Check out these fantastic examples of great typography >>

SpeckyBoy goes crazy and gives away some fantastic PSD web templates - thanks SB! Get em >>

What are two of the coolest colors in web site design? And do you think we've assembled a collection for you that will knock your socks off? Take a peek >>

Come and see the best designs we've located for early April! You'll be glad your expanded your design horizons >>>

Very nifty free tool for testing your web site display the way iPad users will see it - a must have for web developers...

Collage style layouts can be really active, loose, fun and give the viewer a sense of a physical space. We've assembled a great collection of attractive collage style designs to get your creative juices flowing - which is your favorite?

Most designers don't start thinking "Hey let's do a yellow site." But maybe they should. There's a reason yellow and yellow-orange are paired with black for highway construction signs and police barriers - they get attention. But is it too much attention? Find out...

Feast your eyes on 50 of the best bold and manly web designs we've come across lately. Some products and services deserve a bold and direct approach to design and these sites are strutting their stuff with bold manly colors, layouts and design. See how it's done...

Often we look for a new color scheme or a new layout. but we forget that we've been doing nothing but using rectangles in our design for years. Circles are the strongest shape in design! Consider them. See 40 great examples >>

What is hip? It's cool, smart, unique, progressive, up to date, and somewhat anti-establishment. What is ULTRA hip? Take a look at these forward thinking designs to find out >>

Who's a love of big bold typography in web design... oh wait, it's US!! What about you? Using big bold type is a fantastic way to... (read on)

Free download and preview of 65 fantastic free fonts for web designers and graphic deigners. Nothing to give your day a little lift like a load of free, good looking fonts...

How you use fonts within your web design is as important as your layout, or your color scheme. Don't make the mistake newbies make when they forget to properly design their sites with type in mind - here are some good tips to get you started >>

The HTML5 juggernaut is full steam ahead. Get out your javascript skills and bone up on the new HTML5 tags. Meanwhile, get some inspiration from these fine looking sites coded in HTML5 >>

Lunatics in government are working to blacklist websites and stop the free flow of information here in the USA like they are doing in China, Iran and Syria.

Great tutorial on how to take your design and turn it into a WordPress theme. Lots of images and explanation make it an easy read, with fairly extensive code views and explanations too >>

Think you know the secret to evaluatating a web design? What elements go into making a good one, and what separates the OK from the great? Two experts help us out with the answers >>

Has the proliferation of smaller ad content networks, combined with the extraordinary high prices people are asked to pay for sponsored links finally putting a chink in Google's armor? Take at look at 2011 Adsense trends >>

Here's a chart of the most important, and most utilized website technologies including up/down trends. Can you guess what is more used than PHP? Can you guess where YouTube ranks? Take a look >>

Here are some inspiring textures to add that important organic feel into your work. Don't underestimate the importance of organic elements in design... they can really take something from drab to fantastic >>

Here are 20 low-grade but hilarious billboard designs, that you should certainly not have in your city! Take a look >>

We've gathered 20 fantastic print advertisement designs for your enjoyment. Do you find it hard to be creative day in and day out? Feast your eyes on these 20 great print ads and get your juices flowing ...

One of the most infamous concert rider from a rock and roll band... tell me you've heard the story about the M&M's at least a hundred times kids, but see more here... >>

How to find work as a web designer - it's a great question and we found some great answers for you - take a look at these 15 sites that can help you get working >

Developers should learn about Adobe Edge which promises to be an important software tool as Flash starts to lose it's footing due to the onset of HTML5.. Download a test drive free >>

If you are not already a pro at jQuery you will be feeling the pinch. How to learn to use jQuery? Get straight on the official site, and you will see the long code you must travel before you will be at the cutting edge.

These might be the handiest little Holiday gifts you'll get all year - fantastic HTML5 cheat sheets for all tags, event handlers and browser support. Download these sheets and save 'em for reference, you'll need 'em!

Will we all need to re-orient and adapt our Flash code to HTML5 anytime soon? Is there a death knell ringing for Flash? What do you think? Read on to get the dirt on this hot topic.

If you're a designer trying to make your way in the world, you are going to need a kick ass portfolio... no two ways about it. You need to show off your design skills and your own site had better be a winner or prospective clients won't contact you. What better way to learn what to do than to study some really excellent looking fellow designers' portfolios? Take a look at these 32 stunners we found for you.

Are the best designs done for the design agencies themselves? Or do the clients of the design agencies get the best work? You be the judge -- here is a selection of 48 excellent web site designs which are the design agencies' websites. Take a look...

This list of great WordPress plugins will excite you, help you and just plain make you dizzy there are so many good plug-ins here. WordPress is one of the core web technologies that you just have to know these days and even if you don't plan to use all these plugins, you owe it to yourself to know what's out there because you or a client might need one of these great plugins soon.

There's a great pros and cons list from foliovision that does a good job answering the tough questions of which to choose? WordPress vs. Mambo/Joomla vs. Drupal?

You know you love it... clean web design! We've scoured the world for 31 Fantastic Clean Website Designs to inspire you and help you achieve the kind of cleanliness in your design that even your mother would be proud of...

Chrome Surpasses Firefox - Web Developers Take Note

Need some new jQuery tricks to rock your site? Check out all these great jQuery examples - freshen up your latest design, learn something new, spend a few moments learning to use some of these great techniques. JQuery is becoming more and more important to everyday web development, so...

What do you think about single color designs? We are fans here at CoolHomepages -- see what you think about these.

Typography is an often overlooked part of design, and it is not only a critical part of a good homepage design, it is really one of only a couple things that can take a design from "good" to "great" when it's done properly. Here are some tasty sites that paid close attention to their typography...

Google has just released true REAL TIME analytics in their free Google Analytics suite. The new interface allows you to see things like how many users are on your site right now, what they are doing, what they are clicking on, where they came from, etc.

Find out what the experts say are the 113 Most Important Home Page Design Guidelines... and my Number One Guideline - in this must read post.

I need a web site design, but is a web design template a good choice?

Web templates are an excellent choice for anyone on a small or medium sized budget who doesn't need to have a 100% unique design or a lot of custom programming.

Consider saving a lot of time and money with a web design template for your next web site - we'll explain all the ins and outs of making the decision and how to get your website built.

We've created a quick and easy jQuery tutorial that will have you running your first jQuery animation in a few minutes. Take the time to look it over, because jQuery is the coolest thing to hit the web interface world since CSS. Go ahead - learn to use jQuery - even a newbie can do it!

We've gone out, paid the airfare to scour the globe and bring you back 40 of the best fashion web site designs we could find. These are among the best websites in the fashion industry - all top designs and top designers. Get your pocketbook out because these rags ain't cheap, but you'll look good in these fashions and hats off to the some of the web's best designers who put these website designs together.

Here's an absolutely phenomenal collection of the best infographics we could find. Some humor, well.. a lot of humor, some great typography and a lot of mind blowing statistics. You'll want to set aside a little time to let the stories these charts and graphics have to tell really settle in.

Gorgeous shiny, reflective social icons... a must have for every site. Download while you can!

It's easier than you think to make fantastic looking DIV boxes using pure CSS. Forget about simple stuff like borders and rounded corners, we're gonna add inner gradients and outer shadows to really give the DIV boxes some flash.

Fast track to cool looking shadow/gradient CSS DIV box:

I want to fast track you on this.. as you know there are a lot of browser incompatibilities when it comes to rounded corners, gradients and shadows in CSS, so let's get it done!