Articles, resources, tutorials and inspiration from around the web. Kick off your weekend with some tasty snacks.

Visual Swirl and Emma Looney are proud to present the fourth installment of your Desktop Wallpaper Calendars for 2010. April’s calendar is another beautiful example of the work of graphic designer, Emma Looney. Keep reading for a little insight from Emma about this month’s design.

Article promotion is essential to building traffic for your design blog. Check out this roundup of over 60 sites to submit your design articles and tutorials and tips to help generate buzz about your blog.

Articles, resources, tutorials and inspiration from around the web. Kick off your weekend with some tasty snacks.

Last week we started on a series geared towards new designers getting connected to the design community. This week we continue the series with a look at great design blog RSS feeds to follow as well as some tips to consuming large amounts of content.

Getting plugged into a community should be a high priority for a new designer and one of the best tools for design networking is Twitter. See my recommendations for designers to follow on Twitter and a few tips to get you started.

Articles, resources, tutorials and inspiration from around the web. Kick off your weekend with some tasty snacks.

Here are 24 beautiful examples of web designs that feature a specific color across the color spectrum. If you’re in a color rut, take this opportunity to expand your horizon and be inspired by a color that may be out of your comfort zone.

Determining a website’s popularity can be beneficial when you’re looking for areas of growth or sizing up the competition. Use these 10+ tools to help determine a website’s popularity and figure out if your site has a Rockstar status that you can show off to your friends.

Watercolor art is no longer exclusively for the canvas. More and more sites are taking the brush to the screen and incorporating some beautiful hand-painted creations. Intersecting mediums provides a fresh approach to a web design and the look achieved with water color for the web is fantastic. As you browse this selection, notice the effect that brush strokes have and allow these 25 watercolor web designs to inspire you.