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A Complete Guide to Good Website Designing

Tweet As a senior designer and developer I have identified some problems that are common with a large number of web projects. The main one is the failure to make a good plan. Therefore I’ve pieced together this guide to

Tweet Have you ever wondered if content is everything on the web then why does designing consume a whole lot of time? Each day designers have a discussion on layout, functionalities, aesthetic appearance, but they hardly debate on the content.

Tweet You’re a designer looking for ways to build a great reputation online. You want your blog to reflect your design skills and establish you as a “go-to” designer in your area of expertise. Naturally, you are brimming with ideas

Tweet Typography can have a huge impact on the style and message of a design. Big, obvious differences – like whether it’s a hand-drawn, elegant script, a big bolded fun, rounded style sans-serif or a stern, professional serif font (amongst

Tweet If anything makes the web go round, it is Web Hosts. Without them we wouldn’t have anywhere to put our sites (easily) and the web may not have grown so exponentially if it weren’t for the abundance of affordable

Tweet Sometimes the web can get boring when you see the same design schemes over and over again, but today we are going to spice things up! In this showcase we’ll look into some websites that are a bit different

Tweet Ever think of implementing something from the web in print? These people did, and it looks awesome! Most of the time though it is the other way around, designers on the web take inspiration from the offline world of

Tweet Mobile isn’t just an exciting idea with a lot of potential anymore; it’s a powerful marketing platform for potentially every business. Here’s why you should have a marketing plan which includes – if not focuses on – the mobile

Tweet We’re sure you already know the reasons why a successful logo design is extremely important for a restaurant business (or any business!). In this showcase we’re featuring some nice and clever (in our opinion) logos that are being used

Tweet Logos can be incredibly difficult to design. Good logos show off a personality and capture the style of the brand well, but great logos go the extra mile by being memorable and interesting. There’s a huge range of logos

Tweet Valentine’s Day is approaching, which may mean more to your small business than you realize. Last year, consumers who celebrated the holiday spent $126.03 on average per person, up from $116.21 in 2011, according to a National Retail Federation

Tweet Perhaps the quintessential difference between sales and marketing is that a salesperson sells a product, whereas a marketer sells a brand. The marketer puts the company's image, its promise and its heart and soul in front of customers. It's

Tweet If you’re creating an iPhone app, keep in mind that a big part of your job – if you want it to be successful – is to also promote it. You can’t rely on being featured in the App

Tweet Well Everyone, 2013 is here, its been here for a while now (some of us are still trying to get used to it though haha). I am sure many of you set some new years resolutions and I hope

Tweet If you are like me, whenever you run across an extremely creative website for one of your favorite brands or products, after the shock and awe wears off your first thought is “Who made this?!”. Odds are, it was

Tweet Once upon a time, when the internet was just an infant, most software applications were completely hideous and not user friendly at all. Usually you were confined to your desktop as well if you were running a business –

Tweet The retro look is in, if you haven’t noticed, it has been in for quite a while now. From street fashion to product design, print ads to the web, people are embracing the styles of the last century and

Tweet Despite the vast majority of people now being computer literate to at least some degree, the concept of search engine optimisation is still foreign to many. Tell someone you own a search engine optimisation company, and you’ll likely be

Tweet The mobile phone industry has advanced in technology and its features throughout the years. You can now buy any kind of smartphone and you will be able to utilize them for many uses (it is like the swiss army

Tweet Holiday Season: Get Your Online Marketing Prepared Most businesses are happy maintaining a modest profit throughout most of the year. Some even budget to take a loss for 9 of their twelve operating months. But when the holidays come

Tweet We cover a lot of print design inspiration like brochures, posters, flyers, etc. but folders don’t get enough love, and they should!! Most of the time this stuff comes in folders, and if the folder is boring and not

Tweet Ah yes, The mighty brochure. The staple of business marketing for decades before the internet! It’s time is far from up, however, many businesses still use these paper masterpieces to display their information to current and future companies. Today

Tweet Gamers all over the world are fist-pumping with delight with the near-concurrent upgrade releases of the world's most popular existing franchise games. Released during November's election week,"Halo 4" is a first-person shooter video game developed for the Xbox 360

Tweet In web design today there are so many things to remember, that it is really nearly impossible to build it all from scratch every single time on every single project, this is where frameworks and kits come in. You

Tweet Designing a brochure for your business is a challenging step that requires planning and resources. Since this promotional tool can create the impression that you want for your product or service, you must be able to come up with