So the Fifa World Cup is only 10 days away and I am an avid Football (you call it soccer) fan from Holland. Actually that is probably an understatement, I am a die hard fan.

I am also a respectful fan and have always been intrigued by the National Anthem for each team. When the Dutch national Anthem is played in a stadium of 80,000 people and the whole stadium sings along, it just gives me an adrenaline rush.

I know my own national anthem, but always was intrigued by what the other countries were actually singing, so I decided to contact the guys at Web Design Beach and collaborate on one of my passions, soccer and combine it with their awesome design skills to create a super simple iPhone application for the World Cup.

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If you are designer I guess all the time you ask yourself should I add underlines on links or not?

Sometimes links that are not underlined can fit better in design and that is the beginning of our dilemma.

Underline or not to underline links? The question is now.

Should we make compromise between design and usability? Can underlined links increase number of clicks and help user to easier find what he is looking for?

To track users you can use eyeTracking tools that are tracing users eye movements or you can just trace mouse click and generate heat maps. (more…)

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Complete CSS gallery list is my small contribution meant to help you increase your traffic in a very natural way. Be warned before reading on – list is rather long, and it will take time to go through it
to submit your website.

What’s the idea behind the list and all CSS gallery concept? For those who don’ know by now, CSS gallery are showcase sites where good designed websites, blogs, or even certain page elements are gathered in one place. So if you have eye catching design but hardly anyone stops by to see it, submitting to galleries might just be what you need.

Most of the galleries have their rules and guides regarding web design, CSS markup or used technology/framework so you can’t submit just anything. Artistic websites on the other hand or, websites that can match the style of these, can easily get on the homepage or be top rated in their respective categories in number of CSS galleries. That in turn brings exposure which transfers into traffic increase, not to mention that it’s always nice to get some additional backlinks. (more…)

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