Business cards are key when it comes to making new contacts and approaching prospective clients. Having a creative business card that showcases the pinnacle of your artistic abilities is crucial when you’re trying to convince someone to visit your website and view your...
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...
I was talking to a friend earlier today who works for a large design firm and he admitted to me that he’d never make it as a freelancer. His reason was based solely off the amount of time it took him to find the perfect font for everything. That lead to a rather...
Branding a business can be quite the difficult task, regardless of if it’s your own or a clients. 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...
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...
Every now and again I’ll get a client who already knows exactly how they want their website to look. Now, some times 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...
In the past, creating your own online store would have cost you thousands of dollars, or more likely tens of thousands, to cover the cost of developing a powerful, eCommerce site. Not only would the site need to have the store front consumer side created, it would also need a...
For many people, designing a content-based website is not unlike being the layout editor for a digital newspaper. It involves presenting headlines, stories, and images in a way that can cleanly convey a bigger picture and appeal to the reader – all while establishing a...
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...
Featuring professionally edited photos on your website is a surefire way of making your site stand out above others. Slideshows are a great way to capture the attention of a visitor and hold them on your page. It will cause them to pause and watch the pictures rotate through...
