We’re back with yet another gargantuan collection of free resources to fill up your toolbox and keep you rolling out awesome work well into the new year.

In 2014, if you have a website that isn’t responsive, it doesn’t count. Responsive web design has now become a standard when it comes to creating new websites. More and more people are viewing websites from their phones, it has become really important to adapt to those changes and design websites in such a way that they work across a variety of different screen sizes.

You are at the right place if you were looking for some free to use CSS tools for accelerated development.

From patterns, to videos, to images, there are a lot of things to choose from when it comes to selecting the perfect backdrop to any design project. While the texture or image you choose is not necessarily intended to be a main part of the overall message, it can have quite an impact. Today we’re sharing a few tips and tricks for how to choose an effective background.

Today, we have the 2014 edition of our top 50 jQuery plugins of the year. They are the 50 jQuery plugins that we feel are the most useful, most innovative and most time-saving solutions to many of the modern design and development issues you may have.

We have some of the best free design resources that will definitely help in your projects and drive your clients crazy.

For artists and photographers, WordPress is an ideal platform for showcasing the beauty of your work to the rest of the world. The only problem is, if you don't know what you're going, it's easy to make mistakes that can leave visitors to your website less than impressed. So let's look at the three most common mistakes you'll find on image-heavy sites and how to avoid them.

In this guide, we're going to have a quick look at the absolute minimal set of CSS you need to take care of when building a WordPress site.

Learn how to engage your visitors more with these 5 Simple Steps to Designing a Perfect Footer! (and check out my custom footer on my website at http://bkmacdaddy.com)

Creating design resources is definitely tough. But creating design resources that everyone uses is tougher. Every designer loves to have his resources being used and talked about. So what is it that makes designs usable? One absolute metric that speaks for itself is “the time spent by the user” on the site. To put it in simple words, if a user is hooked to the website, implies that the site is usable. To put it simply, your user interface design should be so brilliant and beautiful that it keeps a person hooked to the page they are using, be it on any platform – mobile, website, application or software.

Just over four years ago Ethan Marcotte penned the article “Responsive Web Design”, and a year later we published his book by the same name at A Book Apart. It’s no stretch to say that both have gone on to shape the very way we design websites now.

Typography is arguably the most important part of any website’s design. A huge header on a blank white page might look like a minimalist’s dream come true, but what happens when we start shrinking our page for smaller and smaller devices?

In this post, we are presenting a list of the best HTML5 text editors that are completely written for the web.

A tutorial to show how to automate this process.

"Why?" One of the best tools a designer can have. Why is a powerful thing to ask if you really want to get to the bottom of something.

When Google Reader was laid to rest on July 1, 2013, many users flocked to Feedly, one of the most popular alternatives. Even if you don't use Feedly, it's likely that many of your blog's readers do. Therefore, if you want a true picture of the number of your RSS subscribers, digging into Feedly’s numbers should be part of your research.

I believe the title says it all.