In his famous 1908 essay, Ornament and Crime, modern architect Adolf Loos wrote: The evolution of culture marches with the elimination of ornament from useful objects.

By Angel Wardriver
Web development is time consuming and quite challenging.

By Paul Andrew
Every graphic designer will end up, at some point, with a client who needs an icon designed.

Today, I have some very big news at Noupe. I am thrilled to announce that Noupe has been acquired by Smashing Magazine. This is certainly both a good move for Noupe and a benefit to our readers.

Few weeks ago we announced the Mega Freebies Day, and celebrated with a new design for Noupe.

In this post we release a new and free Social Media Icon Set: A Custom Icon Set,

Internet Famous: A Practical Guide to Becoming an Online Celebrity is the perfect book for those of us who dream of fame, but have absolutely no idea how to go about getting it!

You've probably noticed it: Noupe.com loads pretty fast. If you tried to visit Noupe in the past,

jQuery Tools is a collection of the most important user interface components for the web. These are tabs, accordions, tooltips, overlays and scrollables.

Designers have an urge to stand out as unique, specially when it comes to logo design.

We will start a new set of posts that will demonstrate different way of creating and styling various design elements.

Simplicity in website design doesn't necessarily equate with a minimalist design aesthetic. Simple sites just remove all unnecessary elements from the design, content, and code.

Systemization is basically what it says on the tin, i.e creating a series of processes or a pre-defined set of steps to speed up and quicken a laborious and or repetitive task.

If you're a designer, artist, or photographer, chances are you need to display your work online.

After one year using that brownish layout the time for a change has come.
With over 32,000 subscribers, its been a great year. Were celebrating with a new look on our Mega Freebies Day.

Web designers compete to impress visitors with distinctive and appealing visual elements.

Typography can be one of the most creatively rewarding parts of web design, but it can also be one of the most frustrating.

Photo manipulation is probably one of the most popular application areas in which Adobe Photoshop is used extensively.

Creating beautiful, unique websites seems to get harder every day.

As a web developer, you can broaden your potential client base and add value for existing clients by listing WordPress' as an area of expertise.

1. What are Regular Expressions
The main purpose of regular expressions, also called regex or regexp, is to efficiently search for patterns in a given text.

1. What are Regular Expressions
The main purpose of regular expressions, also called regex or regexp, is to efficiently search for patterns in a given text.

Most business cards tend to be forgotten, which is why they are not effective.

Mod_rewrite is an Apache-based rewrite engine for dynamically rewriting URLs. It's built into Apache servers natively, though not enabled by default.

What's in your Cart?
Finding the right theme can be a long and arduous process a process that becomes more important when were talking about Shopping Cart or eCommerce themes.

Introduction
This is the third and final part of series on how to create a twitter style web application with Ruby on Rails. This part will cover how to add friendships between users.

The more intuitive layout structure is designed, the better users can understand the content. Whatever content you have to present, you can present them in a more interactive more responsive ways.

Of all the elements of web design and coding, htaccess can be one of the most intimidating.

I always read tons of design blogs as well as buying books and magazines to gain more knowledge on design and bring fresh ideas to Noupe.

Adobe Photoshop is probably one of the most popular graphic editing program used extensively. There is one simple reason for that.