Branding a business can be quite the difficult task, regardless of if it’s your own or a client’s. One of the most difficult things to do in this process is come up with a logo. A sole image, or tag of some sort, that will effectively portray what that business that it’s representing is about … Read more
If someone asked me to explain what a corporate website looked to them the odds are I wouldn’t use words like “attractive”, “visually pleasing”, or “creative.” Unfortunately when I think of a corporate website the immediate stereotypes that come to mind are minimal design elements, lots of text, black and white. The site serves its … Read more
Websites with full page backgrounds are pretty cool, there’s no doubt about that. Whether you’re using Flash to achieve your full page background, media queries in CSS, or simply setting your height and width to 100% and not particularly caring about the quality of the image, the outcome is usually one that will catch the … Read more
I have always appreciated an athlete who has their own website. Especially nowadays when they could call it good with a Facebook fan page, or really go above and beyond with a Twitter account. There are some certain trends that you can see present throughout the majority of these world class athlete sites, lots of … Read more
With more people surfing the web from their mobile devices, designers and developers have been trying to figure out the best way to cater to visitors on both mobile devices and computers. When internet capable phones first began gaining popularity the method was to have two separate sites, a mobile site and a “full” site. … Read more
Every now and again I’ll get a client who already knows exactly how they want their website to look. Now, sometimes this can be quite nice as it makes the design process quite a bit easier on my end, other times it can be a bit frustrating as their idea is either something that doesn’t … Read more
When it comes to web design, simplicity and visual stimulation is what we like, and even though it is a very difficult to balance these two, there are some website designs that pull it off. One of the easiest ways to do so is by featuring a full-screen background image on your site. Accomplishing this … Read more
I recently met with two new clients to discuss the development of their websites. I typically like to see if there are any specific colors they’d like to use, along with any preferences they may have towards layout and content. I was quite surprised to hear both of them tell me they liked, “earthy tones”. … Read more
I have compiled a list of 10 top forums that all web designers must know about. Now I haven’t don’t it by the amount of traffic or how many users each forum has / how popular it is.
Anyone who works on a computer has a workspace. Some peoples work spaces are clean and look nice, where as some people just go way over the top. I have compiled a showcase of 50 different web designer workspace setups.
25Typography is a very important part of any design. The fonts you choose for a web or graphic design project have a great impact on how the viewer perceives your work. There are a variety of great free fonts on the web, with thousands of different styles, but today we decided to focus on finding … Read more
If you remember, a while back we provided a roundup on parallax scrolling websites (10 Awesome Parallax Scrolling Sites). Developing a parallax scrolling website can be rather complex and requires a fair amount of coding in jQuery, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Well, that was the case until these pre-made templates appeared! If you want a … Read more