In an effort to garner web design inspiration, I frequently visit CSS galleries to increase my design vocabulary and see new, cutting-edge design trends. Often times, however, these websites are consistently making the same amateur design mistakes that shouldn’t ever be done by gallery-worthy web designs.

1. Thou shalt preload all CSS:hover images If you’re willing to put the time into changing an image on :hover, isn’t it worth your time to do it right? Often, users won’t even notice your :hover efforts because it’ll take too long to load a new image on-demand. To read more about preloading background images, check out Please preload your CSS images

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Maki, the author of an internet marketing and social media blog called Dosh Dosh, recently revamped his website with a completely new design, which received both positive and negative feedback on his blog post announcing the new theme. Being a long-term subscriber of his website, I would like to provide a review of his new theme. As a developer, I’ve found that one of the best ways to improve my own skills is to evaluate the skills of others.

If you haven’t heard of DoshDosh.com, I highly encourage you to visit — he has phenomenal content related to blogging, freelancing, marketing, etc. that would be extremely useful for any web developer.

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