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Is a Design House-Style Really Necessary?

Is a Design House-Style Really Necessary?

Web Design

In my previous post I mentioned that I was currently developing a website and as part of those developments I wanted to look at introducing a house-style. It seemed like…

Quick look at some of the Popular Web Design Trends from 2011

Quick look at some of the Popular Web Design Trends from 2011

UX Design / Web Design

Looking back over the past year we can pick up a lot of fresh emerging trends. Web designers around the world are connected like never before through a seemingly endless…

7 Essential Features a CMS for Beginners Must Have

7 Essential Features a CMS for Beginners Must Have

Web Design

When you are looking for a CMS, there are many factors to consider. Obviously, the feature it has is one of them. However, you also need to consider your skill…

How to Design Functional Sub-Navigation Menus

How to Design Functional Sub-Navigation Menus

Web Design

JavaScript libraries such as jQuery have fundamentally shifted the course of web development. It is now easier than ever to prototype UI functionality, animations, slideshows, and of course dynamic navigation….

When a CMS becomes Restrictive

When a CMS becomes Restrictive

Web Design

I’ve been working with Content Management Systems, both bespoke and open source for over 7 years. In that time a lot has changed as to how flexible and adaptive CMSs…

How the Cloud is Affecting Web Designers

How the Cloud is Affecting Web Designers

Web Design

By now you must have heard of the buzz labeled as cloud computing. The basics of the cloud are still unknown by many designers, but it’s not difficult. A general…

Things You Have to Consider When Designing for Mobile

Things You Have to Consider When Designing for Mobile

Web Design

As designers, we will have to start thinking about mobile users by designing not only for desktops but also for smaller devices.

Rubber Layouts – Combining Static and Fluid Layouts

Rubber Layouts – Combining Static and Fluid Layouts

Web Design

Many web pages nowadays are using fluid layouts. While these are very useful, they do have some minuses. Imagine trying to read a fluid layout on your phone – it’s…

Guidelines for Creating an Elegant Email Newsletter Layout

Guidelines for Creating an Elegant Email Newsletter Layout

Web Design

Marketing is the lifeblood of the Internet industry. Running your own brand and corporation can be tiresome, not to mention extremely difficult. But with a powerful e-mail marketing campaign you…

Technostress – The Freelancers Disease?

Technostress – The Freelancers Disease?

Web Design

The phrase Technostress is being bandied about all over the shop at the moment. The English Wikipedia defines it as: Technostress is, in many ways, the resistance to change that…

Useful Tools To Check Cross-Browser Compatibility Issues

Useful Tools To Check Cross-Browser Compatibility Issues

Web Design

With today’s modern web it’s not uncommon for many visitors to be using a different browser. The options seem almost unlimited with Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, and of…

How to Build Credibility with Responsive Website Design

How to Build Credibility with Responsive Website Design

Web Design

Website traffic is the key component to building any strong community. As web designers, we often forget about the user experience and focus on pretty graphics and pixel icons. However,…

Stop Thinking in Pages: A Web Developer’s Perspective

Stop Thinking in Pages: A Web Developer’s Perspective

Web Design

In the early days of the web, when it consisted mostly of academic papers and newsletters, it made sense to call the things we built “pages”. It was a much…

Essential SEO Considerations For A New Website

Essential SEO Considerations For A New Website

Web Design

So you are in the process of designing and developing a website and you want to adhere to the best SEO practices (good idea). There is a plethora of good…

Website Speed Part 2: Working With and Optimizing Images for the Web

Website Speed Part 2: Working With and Optimizing Images for the Web

Web Design

This is the second part the website speed series where we closely look at the techniques employed to make a website run as fast as possible while still maintaining it’s…

Building Up Your Web Design Education

Building Up Your Web Design Education

Web Design

Walking the path of a web designer is one challenging road. There are many techniques to be studied, and the vast wealth of knowledge available can just slightly ease the…

Beginner’s Study Guide to HTML5 Microformats

Beginner’s Study Guide to HTML5 Microformats

Web Design

For years the web has been a static development block for housing information. It hasn’t been up until recently that micro-format designs have been released into the semantic web. These…

Tips for Compromising Between Designers & Developers

Tips for Compromising Between Designers & Developers

Freelance / Web Design
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