Category: Web Design

Creating Effective Websites Using Typefaces

Creating Effective Websites Using Typefaces

One of the first things visitors notice on a website is its typography. Many well-designed and effectively structured websites miss out on a host of traffic due to not-so-perfect typography. When a user accesses your website, he or she should be allowed to read, navigate, and perform tasks without any...

Advantages of Responsive Web Design

Advantages of Responsive Web Design

The first question you need to ask is the importance of having an efficiently designed website for your company. A study by Compuware has found that almost 57% of users will never recommend a company with a bad website. Considering that more and more people are using mobiles to access...

How I Became a Web Designer: Following My Passion

How I Became a Web Designer: Following My Passion

Web designing is one of the most popular and well-paid jobs today. Just a few years ago, parents pushed their children to become doctors, engineers, and scientists; today parents push them to become web designers as well. Those who are most passionate about web designing can make it really big....

How Customer Personas Impact Website Design

How Customer Personas Impact Website Design

We now have the ability to design websites that provide custom browsing experiences for customers, and many businesses are starting to catch on. The days of creating a one-size fits all website are quickly fading away since websites now have the functionality that marketers crave for targeting specific customer personas...

Myth Busters – The Web Design Version

Myth Busters – The Web Design Version

One of my favorite TV shows is undoubtedly, Myth Busters on Discovery Channel. People are very interested in enjoying the latest crazy ideas applied into practice, exactly what the creators of the show, Adam Savage, Jamie Hyneman, Kari Byron, Grant Imahara, and Tory Belleci know best. I am grateful to...

30 Ecommerce Sites Using HTML5

30 Ecommerce Sites Using HTML5

Searching online it’s easy to find great examples of websites using HTML5, but less easy to discover such sites by category. Commercial sites using the fifth revision to its full potential have been showing up all over the world, so we decided to research and collate some of the better...

40+ Useful Free Online Books for Web Designers

40+ Useful Free Online Books for Web Designers

Today, Web site Design is a very important part of current Graphic Design. To keep up with the fast-paced web design industry you must look out self education sources, such as books, books are very important, helps us to build our spirit, give information, helps us to write and think...

HTML5 Best Practices for Designers

HTML5 Best Practices for Designers

HTML5 is sure to be a big hit this year as far as web design trends go, and rightfully so. It’s new, exciting, easy to understand and better than anything that has come before it. Up until recently, we have had to navigate a grey area in terms of compatibility...

Give Them What They Want: Targeting Your Audience with Blog Design

Give Them What They Want: Targeting Your Audience with Blog Design

You may have a list of blogs whose visitor counts you envy. With the right techniques, however, you too can increase your daily or weekly visitors, and possibly even one day rival this list of blogs. You may already know that a blog design should be highly customized to an...

The Psychology Of Color In Design

The Psychology Of Color In Design

Have you ever wondered why you seem to be getting hungrier while waiting to place your order at a fast food place or why you eat faster than any human should ingest that poison? Have you ever heard of a “power tie” in business? There are things that excite the...

30+ Inspirational Designs of the Year

30+ Inspirational Designs of the Year

As we move into the New Year, it is a important to review what happened in the design community in 2011. However, unlike usual surveys, I will do so by reviewing the notable designs of the year. Although it’s impossible to review all the designs from 2012—I don’t claim to...

How to Make Your Website More Accessible

How to Make Your Website More Accessible

Constant improvement is imperative to a world of progress, including the web world. Designing an effective website requires a lot of techniques, skills and testing. Testing determines the usability of the website, which ties into accessibility. Thus, one of the most important things to consider when creating a website is...

How to Correctly Handle the Colors of Your Website

How to Correctly Handle the Colors of Your Website

Using the RGB format and math is simple to determine that the number of existent colors is astronomical and the conclusion is obvious: we have countless colors to use in our projects. It’s true, the differences between these are sometimes too small and for some people the differences are unnoticeable,...

Construct a Framework for a Cross-Cultural Design

Construct a Framework for a Cross-Cultural Design

Nowadays Graphic Designers work globally in many different Countries. The designer should visually communicate symbols and colors. These elements are part of our social everyday life and come together with a various range of meanings which are different for each culture.This makes obvious how much the study of the cross-cultural...

The Art of using Illustrations in Web Design

The Art of using Illustrations in Web Design

There are many of elements that go into enhancing a web design project. Typography, new technologies and UX design patterns are only some of them. One the most powerful is illustrations and vector graphics. They can be handy in a broad range of applications. Remember the cliché, a picture is...