A web designer has to be able to design and code a page, that for me is extremely important because it’s the only way the professional will be able to create something that works not only in the visual sense through aesthetics, but also through functionality.

This week we have 6 beautiful sites. However, one in special has really caught our attention, visualize.us. A social bookmarking like del.icio.us but for images. It's really well designed and very easy to use. It's definitely worth checking it out, we sure that it will be very useful for you.

Yes, the brazilian both designer and illustrator Doug Alves from Nacionale hasn't updated his site for awhile. But if you don't know his works already, please check cause it's awesome!

The web design process is very time consuming, besides that, sometimes we want to focus more on some graphic details and we sort of forget about the CSS/HTML production and how important it is for a good website. Because of that it’s always good to have a fast and reliable service to do this job.

I've been kind of really into web apps, I sign up to almost every service I read something about and I always think they will be useful for me. Because of that this week I will list 3 really nice web services. Also I'll list the super cool new Boagworld site.

After a few weeks of intensive design work, we're proud to announce Tradd.us, a powerful web translation service, that will be very useful to some of our readers.

This week we will start a new series of articles that will be our weekly selection of sites. We've seen lots of great sites every day and we thought it would be very cool to share with you some of them. The list will have new sites, sites that we saw in the past and we think they are really good and have to be featured, an important redesign, or even a web app that might be very useful to all of us.

Reaching the end of the electoral race to know who's running for the democrates, Barack Obama shows that one of this main concerns was the design of campaign pieces. All material released, even his website shows us that.

This is the second part of the web design tutorial on how to create a website using Fireworks then CSS and XHTML.

Today we begin a new series of tutorials, about layouts developing for web, from design creation to CSS coding. These tutorials will come in 2 parts: 1 - Layout; 2 - CSS.

Nowadays is very important to have a blog or even a website, we can promote our portfolio, ideas and opinions. And if you are a freelancer it's one of the best ways for you to get some work.

When we think about web design, we always think about designing cutting edge sites, tons of information and integration. However, theres always the banners to to keep in mind. Who has never had to design a banner, I'm sure we all have.

Openjobs is a very cool project where I had the opportunity to work in partnership with my brother. It’s basically a job board target for the Brazilian Market, inspired by Krop, 37signals GigBoard and Authentic Jobs.

After some weeks planning, designing and developing, the Zee's new website is online. Much more than simply a redesign, we have changed everything, mainly because we needed to use a good and scalable CMS and create a blog for the company.

Nowadays we can have access to pretty much everything, and even for those like me, who don’t have the opportunity to attend to design events such as @media, sxsw, d.construct and others, we have the chance to listen to them via podcasts or using Odeo.