March 12th, 2010

5 Can’t-Miss Usability Tips for Mobile Website Designs

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Finding your way around a majority of the mobile websites that exist has become a nightmare with the lack of proper usability being implemented into their designs.

This has caused the quality of designs (especially the mobile usability factor) to decrease on a larger scale when compared to the sites that not only practice good mobile aesthetics, but allow their users a smooth transition between the regular site to an enticing experience on their mobile devices.

Because of the instability in a lot of the mobile web design information that is being distributed on the web, a lot of websites have very poor mobile interface designs. Below, we’re going to cover a few simple, yet prominent steps to designing a much more effective interface and increasing the quality of a mobile websites usability.

March 12th, 2010

8 Ways to Promote Your Work Through Internet Collaboration

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Promoting our products and services can be a time consuming and daunting task. A lot of us get tangled up in online self promotion without realising the value in collaboration more often with other people through the web. It can be a wise way to expand your network, pool resources and save time, money and work.

March 11th, 2010

Astounding Ajax/CSS Forms: 30+ Modern Trends , Tips and Techniques

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Form is an important element in a website.The recent developments in web 2.0 scenario and the growing quantity of web apps has even make it more important. The most important point in building a form is the usability fact. Form should be easy to understand so that visitors can enter values into the form correctly without getting confused.

In this article we will explain the various techniques, tutorials, examples relating to the modern trends in building web forms to enhance the user experience.

March 10th, 2010

A Look into Color Theory in Web Design

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Unarguably one of the most important aspects of any design is its colors. Designers create the style of a site, as well as the movement it makes, the emotion it creates, and its purpose based largely upon the color choices they make. Colors are powerful tools and an important thing all designers should understand when creating websites.

March 10th, 2010

Top 8 Dreaded Favors Asked of Web Designers

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Long before you officially take the profession of graphic or web designer, your friends and family will support your ambitions by developing your talent. At first, your loved ones inspect your work and if they like what they see, you’ll get flooded with their requests for one page flyers, t-shirt designs, logos, and company websites. When you are just starting out, you welcome their requests because it gives you a chance to grow your skill set as a designer. After all, it’s almost like dealing with real clients, right?

March 10th, 2010

How to Increase Conversions on any Website in 45 Minutes

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If you’re anything like me, it’s easy to “finish and forget” when it comes to web development. Once a website is live and the boss or client is happy, we close the project, kick off our shoes and crack a beer.

Part of the problem with this approach is the ever changing landscape online. Something that converts visitors today, might not be working two months from now (in some cases, it may not be working in the first place, but no one took the time to test it).

March 9th, 2010

Save Time and Money by Systematizing your Photoshop Workflow

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Repetitive tasks can quickly become tedious. As a designer, you probably often find yourself designing the same elements over and over from scratch. STOP!

Wasting time is so old-fashioned. It also means you’re wasting money! So, let’s review some ways that you can automate and systematize your Photoshop workflow. And be sure to download the project base for all of your new designs!

March 9th, 2010

8 Design Elements Your Blog Should Have

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There are certain design elements that all blogs should have to keep readers happy and engaged in your content. With the evolution of blogs and social media sites, the expectations for a blog are much higher. Readers expect to be able to read a post and have the ability to quickly comment and share by using the Twitter or Facebook accounts.

The other aspect is having a clean and consistent layout with your blog content. Users have higher expectations now and expect a blog that will be easy to read, find what they are looking for, and navigate.

March 7th, 2010

The Ingredients of a Successful Website

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The first published article on Six Revisions was about the things you need for a web project to succeed. Two years later, the site has reached a point that I would consider “successful”.

The definition of “success” is different to everyone. To me, I define success as having a large audience that consists of readers from all over the globe that love and enjoy your work as much as you do.

March 6th, 2010

Most Important Design Conferences In 2010

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A designer is supposed to be always on the top of any professional new wave and that’s why these conferences are supposed to have importance for all of us. These conferences join the best members of our profession to argue about their professional experience – they might be available at some workshops as well, so different processes and techniques may become very useful and exciting when you’re trying to do what the “Master” is trying to teach You.