Following up on last week's post about custom Twitter icons, we wanted to give our readers something cool. The first thing I thought of was to have Brandon Reese design a custom icon that you can use on your website, as your twitter icon, or whatever you want to....

Last week Doug Bowman let us all know he was leaving Google as their “Visual Design Lead.” I don’t know for sure but it sounds like he’s been Google’s Art Director. He had a pretty specific reason for leaving as he noted in his blog post: Without a person at (or near)...

I'd wager an unscientific guess that about 90% of the sites in our gallery in the last year or so have some sort of Twitter icon. Normally, it's an icon that someone pulls from an icon site or a version of the twitter logo. But there are some that go above and beyond...

The Problem Every so often the Wordpress plugin directory does not offer a complete solution to a problem you are having. When this happens, sometimes the best option is to dig into the Wordpress Plugin API and build what you need. A Development Environment To begin,...

If you saw the last news post, or have been following our twitter feed, you know that Gene and I went to Future of Web Apps 2009 in Miami. Ryan Carson of Carsonified really put on a first rate show, the speakers and topics were truly enlightening, and most of all,...

So we're off to Future of Web Apps 2009. Really looking forward to hearing some of the speakers, people like; Gary Vaynerchuck, Jason Fried, Joel Spolsky & Kevin Hale. We'll be trying to meet some interesting people there who work on the web and gain some insights...

This article isn’t meant to hash over the pro and cons of which one is better in the age-old (at least since 2001 or so) css vs. tables debate. I really don’t care which one you use. If you can get your work done quickly, make money, and sleep well at night, then that...

Today we've launched a brand new face for unmatchedstyle. We've aimed for a design that is clean and simple and focuses on the most important part of the site, the websites we feature and that you keep coming back for. A couple of the things we want to bring into more...

If you've noticed a lack of posts for the last few days, fear not. We've been working hard to roll out a new design and should be launching real shortly. The new design will cleaner and simpler and we hope you will have some good stuff to say about it.

It seems almost every day, I come across a new XHTML coding service, a company that will take your design and turn around XHTML/CSS in some short amount of time. There must be a burgeoning need for these, considering how many there are. Smashing Magazine recently did...

The web design world, if you pay attention to many of the css and webdesign gallery sites, can seem a bit insular. Seemingly every few months, a new design accouterment pops up out of nowhere and is seemingly on every site. A past example of this is what I'll call the...

Welcome to a new era at unmatchedstyle.com. We are Period Three and the new ownership of this fine website. Thanks for hanging in there the past month or so during our transition and for being so understanding while we stretch our legs here. Some misplaced posts and...

I've just bought 12 more sites in my biggest area of expertise, so it's time to let go of some of the other sites that I've collected over the years so that I'll have time to focus on the new ones. The first site I'm letting go is this very site. I'm packaging...

I wrote back in February that I was looking for a new web host. My current host, Mosso, seemed "to be cratering under its own weight, and I now believe it’s more likely that the problems will get worse before they get better." Well, I was right. We're now almost...

We already have a UMS section for best blog designs, but none of those can be downloaded and used on your own blog. So, I've now introduced a brand new site featuring the best WordPress themes that have been made available for free download for anyone to use. Why?...

There's a good chance you've already seen this, but A List Apart is running a survey for web designers and developers: Designers, developers, project managers. Writers and editors. Information architects and usability specialists. People who make websites have been at...