If you’ve ever wanted to include streaming video in your designs, but didn’t want to bother with messy code solutions (or Flash), we’ve got two … [Read more...]
6 Tips to Bring Internationalism to Your Web Design
The advent of the internet has introduced the world to a whole new experience of globalization and internationalism. Unlike the traditional marketing … [Read more...]
Tips for Using Light Fonts in Web Design
Light fonts are thinner or slimmer than most fonts. Because they are thinner, they should be handled differently than you would other, bolder fonts. … [Read more...]
Working with Visual Weight in Your Designs
In design, visual weight is the notion that design elements have varied weights; that is, some objects, even on a two-dimensional medium, can appear … [Read more...]
Useful Tips for Designing a Business Website
Gone are the days when designing a business website was one of the most difficult things to do. These days you can find a lot of information on … [Read more...]
Enhancing Brands within Web Designs
Branding is a huge part of design. With our ever increasing attempts to have a dynamic and unique layout it’s important that we put across the right … [Read more...]
Symmetry in Design: Concepts, Tips and Examples
Symmetry creates balance, and balance in design creates harmony, order, and aesthetically pleasing results. It is found everywhere in nature, and is … [Read more...]
The future of web design
The year is 2011 and we have again found ourselves at dawn of a changing web. Emerging technologies like smartphones and web-enabled tablets have left … [Read more...]
Designing for the New Fold: Web Design Post Monitorism
Designing for the ‘fold’ has long been a priority for many Web Designers, but with so many devices capable of displaying your website, how on … [Read more...]
Understanding And Choosing The Best Typeface
After the introduction of digital forms of character types, the number of available fonts for designers has increased exponentially, so it is … [Read more...]
7 Signs your Website Calls for A Revamp
We all know that Internet changes at lightning speed (could be faster) and that means, techniques and technologies we used 3 years ago are obsolete! … [Read more...]
Designing Websites with Personality
We all have personalities, and no one is exactly like another. Our relationships and memories are built on our interaction with other people. Like … [Read more...]
Simple Tips for Improving Web Typography
There are plenty of different things to consider when it comes to typography on the web. In this post, we will be looking at Ellen Lupton’s Thinking … [Read more...]
Web Design Tips For International Markets
A web designer’s priority is usually to perfect a site’s usability and aesthetics – thinking about the business end is for the client to worry … [Read more...]
Capture Visitors’ Attention Through Your Home Page
What made me decide to share with you this article is the experience I had when I was working as a part-time freelancer. I remember that whenever I … [Read more...]
The Scaling Fallacy and Web Design
Put simply, the scaling fallacy is the phenomena where people wrongly assume that something that works at one size will also work at another size. In … [Read more...]
Are Current Web Design Trends Pushing Us Back to 1999?
In 1991, a groundbreaking and forever influential album was released by a then-unknown band called Nirvana, led by guitarist and lead singer Kurt … [Read more...]
10 Ideas for Creating Innovative and Unique Web Designs
I am a big fan of Twitter. I consider it the one tool that helped me develop from a person who simply knew how to make websites to a web designer … [Read more...]
10 Design Tips For Ecommerce Sites
Using up-to-date technologies people are able to buy goods and pay for services sitting at home. No need to go out and walk for hours and hours … [Read more...]
Responsive Web Design: What It Is and How To Use It
Almost every new client these days wants a mobile version of their website. It’s practically essential after all: one design for the BlackBerry, … [Read more...]