A roundup of 30 examples of extreme minimalism in web design, including web apps, portfolios, and other websites

A roundup of 105 examples of clean and minimal Twitter apps, for inspiration, fun, and a minimal use of brain power.

I have previously posted a roundup of 20 Really Short URL Shorteners, but now I feel the need to list the shortest URL shorteners out there, or at least the ones I know about.

Data is boring, information is interesting! I’ve always used this statement whenever the issue of data is being discussed. No one is really interested in looking at a large number of data rows, or even a small one. As humans, we tend to better understand a particular issue when it is presented to us in a visual way…

When it comes to online color palette and color scheme generators, the choice can be hard, as there are many tools out there that offer such functionality. At one point, I was tempted to list the 50+ generators that I know about, but then thought, this isn’t about making another "ultimate" list, what matters most are the tools that offer the functionalities required to unleash your creative juices.

What governs efficient browsing is the speed of finding bookmarks, specially the most used ones, and the fastest way to do that is the ability to easily spot what we need. In the case of bookmarks, a snapshot of a website would be the solution, and that’s what triggered the creation of visual bookmarking.

Last week I have posted a roundup of 15 Online Background Generators, and since then I’ve realized that many people needed specialized generators for Twitter backgrounds, something that was brought to my attention by many feedback from the readers, and they are right about that. Twitter has become the place for anyone’s online presence, and having a good Twitter profile page is very important as it reflects who you really are.

I think we all agree that backgrounds, whether viewed on a website, a mobile phone, or a desktop, act as a key visual element that could render the viewing experience from pleasant to utterly disturbing. Of course what we are interested in is to have a great looking background, and there are many simple ways to achieve that.

In the world of web development and design, creativity does not have to come from a person who does this for a living. The beauty about this field is that it allows anyone, willing to learn and give, to turn out great websites and code that even the pros could learn something from. Today we have the opportunity to meet such a person, today we meet Ozh, creator of scr.im and of so many useful WordPress plugins.

Many of us may only know Petr Stanicek trough his great tool Color Scheme Designer, but what we probably didn’t know, at least for non-Czech people, that Petr (aka Pixy) is the author of a bestseller book about CSS, and that Petr, is a multitalented, multilingual, confident man with wisdom derived from his experience dating back to the "prehistory" of the internet. Today we learn, we get inspired, today we meet Petr Stanicek.