If you have a small business, are a startup or are thinking about starting a business in the future, here are a few design considerations: 1. Create a brand identity. A complete brand identity includes a logo, consistent fonts, a color palette and design elements that...
The font Times New Roman is looked upon poorly by many individuals, but is it the next up and coming trend? Times New Roman was invented back in 1931 for the British newspaper The Times. It was created like other great serif fonts, to aid in readability for the...
CSS3 triangles are great - they can be used to add a lot of spice to a design or elements that would other wise be flat and boring. However, they also come with one or two problems: mainly that borders don't accept percentages. SO, if you would like to add triangles...
We're continuing our series of answering your most common questions and today we're going to answer a very common question - do you custom design everything or use themes to build your sites and which is better? The short answer is that we custom design and code 99%...
typography [tahy-pog-ruh-fee] n. 1. the art or process of printing with type. In our era of instant-streaming and cloud data storage... it seems crazy that anybody would choose to do some good ol' fashioned reading. However, effectively using typography can be a great...
I have designed a lot of websites over the years and worked with a lot of different companies in the process. One thing that has come up year after year is a client who has experienced a bad website design process with another firm. I often hear that the firm has been...
WordPress has really taken the development world by storm in the last 5 or so years. It's grown from a relatively small blogging platform to one of the most versatile and easy to access content management software in the world. Its capabilities, flexibility,...
Imagine you want a website done and you want it to be mobile-optimized. You have two firms who want to take different routes to make the site look good on mobile - one wants to build a mobile-optimized site and the other wants to build you a responsive site....
Apple's recently placed a lot of emphasis on retina screens - screens that have 4X the resolution of past Apple screens. They're already used on all new iPhones, iPads, and MacBook Pros and are rumored to be coming to iMac desktops in about two months as well. The...
Google makes constant changes to their algorithms, as we've mentioned before they make over 500 changes a year. However, several changes have led to a new wave in ranking standards that was previously impossible: measuring user experience. User experience (UX) is a...