Microsoft Expression Web 3 has some unique features that make it invaluable to web developers. In this article, Raena puts the web development tool through its paces and cranks out a simple PHP page. After reading the article, you can test out your knowledge with the Expression Web Quiz.

The first step to creating a top-notch form is to plan ahead: conduct research, look for inspiration, and draft wireframes. In this excerpt from our brand new release, Fancy Form Design, Jina Bolton shares her tips for building a solid foundation for elegant and functional forms.

Designer, speaker, and author, Mark Boulton spoke to SitePoint recently while in Sydney for Web Directions South. In this interview, Mark speaks on matters typographical, and clarifies that rumor about Comic Sans.

Raena caught up with Simon Pascal Klein—designer, speaker and self-confessed rampant typophile—to talk about his upcoming appearance at Edge of the Web 2009.

There’s a lot of great desktop software available in the open-source world. In this article, Tim shows us a few cool tricks using GIMP, a free and open-source image editor.

Luke Stevens is a web designer who believes firmly that testing is the future of web design. Matt quizzed him on data driven design, A/B testing, and Google Web Optimizer.

We recently decided to develop some personas to represent the core readership of sitepoint.com, and this is what we came up with. How well do you think we've captured the SitePoint readership?

When Matt created the SitePoint Personas, he combined two different methodologies, and it worked surprisingly well. Here, he describes the process he followed, and explains how you might do the same when designing your own web sites.

In this first part of a three-part series, Andrew shows us how we can write a Twitter app in Flex and PHP.

In the first part of this series, Andrew showed us how easy it is to mock up an application interface in Adobe Illustrator and Flash Catalyst. In part II, we'll add the rest of the code.