Jake Rocheleau

Jake is a writer and designer with over 10 years experience working on the web. He writes about user experience design and cool resources for designers

Latest posts

Google Webmaster SEO Guidelines for Beginners

After launching a new site online it can be a hassle dealing with marketing efforts and the typical SEO practices but just creating a Sitemap is not a…

Web Design Trends for 2014

After spending hours online at different websites, you tend to pick up discernable trends in design. Over the years I have written about changing tren…

Flow: A Full-featured Task-management App

For those who have never heard about Flow, it is a powerful task management suite that offers an online web app, iOS mobile app, and a native macOS ap…

30 Common Reactions Programmers Have When Things Go Wrong

Developing applications can be a very stressful job. Nobody is perfect, and running into buggy code is fairly commonplace in this career. Some program…

A Nostalgic Journey: Evolution of Popular Websites Over Time

As the digital landscape constantly evolves, so do the designs of popular websites. Whether for better or worse, these changes reflect the ever-shifti…

Animating Content Visibility with jQuery: A Step-by-Step Tutorial

Over the past few years, I’ve observed a wide variety of portfolio website layouts. The diversity of techniques available for such a staple interfac…

Implementing Infinite Page Scroll Effect on Static Websites

Users of popular social networks like Twitter and Tumblr must be familiar with infinite scrolling. This effect is a wonderful dynamic replacement for …

Web Design & Development Salary Guide: Comparisons

So I think it is worth a comparison between annual salaries over different countries. Here’s how we’re doing this. I have put together salary info…

Top 10 Co-working Spaces in the United States

The style of coworking (not to be confused with co-working) allows small teams and lone freelancers to work together in a single, shared office enviro…

Building A Step-By-Step Guide Using Intro.js [Tutorial]

There are numerous plugins for creating your own guided website tour. This animated page effect is very useful to new visitors who are just learning t…

30+ Tools to Manage Web Projects – Best Of

With the ever-growing market of tech startups, Web apps and in-browser tools have become extremely popular among developers, designers, freelancers, a…

Ultimate Guide to Flat Website Design

The combination of bright colors and exotic typography has paved the way for unique flat interfaces. Minimalism is a big part of this design idea, and…