Today I’ve gathered several artists/albums/specific songs that I can personally say help me very much when I’m working, be it designing a new website in Photoshop, programming CSS/XHML/PHP, or just browsing the web. Feel free to let us know what you prefer to listening to in the comments as well!

I asked a few of my friends on Twitter what they listen to when designing, and most agreed that Trance is the genre of choice. It used to be the only genre I wanted to listen to when working, but lately I’ve found more artists that can fill the void in the same way with different sounds, such as Explosions in the Sky and Ulrich Schnauss.

Tags: music, rock, techno, trance

When trying to redesign your website, you may get stuck since there’s so many different ways you could take it. You may also run into the problem of not knowing how you even want it to look. In this article, I’m going to show you every version of my new design, from the first concept, to the final result, and explain what I did and why. This should hopefully help you on your next redesign as well.

Tags: article, redesign, tips, web, web 2.0, web design, web design tips, web designer, website design, website redesign

In this article, I am going to explain some important things that you need to know in order to be a good web designer, from CSS and XHTML code to good design practices and standards. After reading this, my goal is to help you stop designing boring, unmemorable websites and start making ones that really convey the message and make everyone happy.

Having spent over 6 years designing websites that were not what they should have been (granted Web 2.0 hadn’t come yet), I think that I can do a good job of helping people skip the “crap era” of designing and go straight to making good designs, and then improving on that.

Tags: article, tips, web, web 2.0, web design, web design tips, web designer, website design

After searching my computer for something, I stumbled across the code for one of my old MySpace layouts I had made for myself. I decided to make a new page dedicated to MySpace DIV overlay layouts, and put this one up as the first! If you don’t know what those are, they are pretty much designs that do not conform to the standard MySpace layout and design. They “overlay” the normal layout, or even sometimes just hide them, and then there’s a completely custom design on top.

Tags: div overlay, free, myspace, myspace layouts, myspace profiles, myspace profiles 1.0, myspace templates, myspace.com. css