Color Choices You Must Avoid – Quick Guide

Creative Market released an infographic guide to help you make the right choices in selecting the correct color combinations for your next web design project. There’re reasons why certain colors shouldn’t be used altogether, here we have 5 color combinations you should use with extra care. Never use pure black Red and green don’t play… Continue reading Color Choices You Must Avoid – Quick Guide

Tips for Designers Who Don’t Code

I hail from a design background and moved into front-end development some years ago. With responsive web design, the requirement of the designer is shifting. Here are a few tips collated to help designers who don’t code. In an ideal world, everybody designing for the web medium would also be a front-end developer. The reasons… Continue reading Tips for Designers Who Don’t Code

10 Reasons Why Your Design Skills May Seem Lame

The design field is pretty crowded. If this is your “calling,” then you have to accept that you are in competition with a lot of creatives that may know more than you. You have to accept that you will have to take all of that creativity you have and translate it into products that others… Continue reading 10 Reasons Why Your Design Skills May Seem Lame

10 Mistakes to Avoid While Designing an App

Every good app developer constantly learns how to create the best apps avoiding the common pitfalls. How can you be up to date with the current methodologies and ensure that the app is bug free? There are two ways to learn. One is from the experience of developing an app and the other from other… Continue reading 10 Mistakes to Avoid While Designing an App

10 Explanations Why Web Projects Fail

Nowadays every task utilizes some form of CMS. In place of painting a canvas in the old days of HTML, the necessity is always to build applications that require to follow more traditional development approaches. If the project is coded improperly, then quite often you have to throw it away and start over. The cost… Continue reading 10 Explanations Why Web Projects Fail

15 Websites to Find Free Resources For Designers

I always like to say, that there are only 24 hours per day. And we can’t turn time back. That’s why we are always looking for a some hacks or methods how to save time, especially when we are working. Designers have the same problem when they are creating something from A to Z, it… Continue reading 15 Websites to Find Free Resources For Designers

8 Areas of Specialization for Web & Graphic Designers

Some designers prefer the jack-of-all-trades route because it offers more job security. But most specialists would debate that focusing on a particular skillset improves your recognition amongst clients and employers. This isn’t to say you should only learn one area of design and never try anything else. The idea of specialization is to do amazing… Continue reading 8 Areas of Specialization for Web & Graphic Designers

15 Responsive Design Tools for Savvy Designers

Having a responsive website is a necessity for almost any business in 2016. As a designer, you’re always faced with the pressure to deliver quality results as quickly as possible. Today we are reviewing some of the responsive design tools that will provide for a stellar user experience on multiple devices. These are the kind… Continue reading 15 Responsive Design Tools for Savvy Designers

Tips about how to Design the Great Logo

The fundamental shapes of universe’s geometry derive from the knowledge of ancient civilizations. These fundamental forms and functions have constantly helped us to divide time and space and have now motivated every known science (technology, languages, math, physics, civil evolvement, etc.). Art and culture have actually mostly benefited from shapes such as for example circles;… Continue reading Tips about how to Design the Great Logo

Designing Websites With Big Hero Images – Best Practices

One of the most important trends nowadays in web design are website hero images, which are generally defined as being a type of large banner that is typically located at the top of a website. Oftentimes, these images are the very first things that people see when they log on to a website. This, in… Continue reading Designing Websites With Big Hero Images – Best Practices

Metrics That Matter in Web Design

It’s not easy being a Web designer. We craft works of art that adhere to a multitude of environments, and deliver our message to a globally and culturally diverse audience. Despite having tools and apps to guide our processes, increasing demands upon our time and skillset mean we occasionally forget, ignore or fail to fully… Continue reading Metrics That Matter in Web Design

Critical Mistakes To Avoid When Quoting A Web Design Project

Striking out on your own as a freelance designer can be incredibly exciting and rewarding, but to be successful, designers who go this route must hone much more than their design skills. A successful freelance designer must have exceptional organizational and presentation skills. He/She must also understand business development and know how to properly quote… Continue reading Critical Mistakes To Avoid When Quoting A Web Design Project

Create Your Own Professional Forms for Free with JotForm

If you’ve ever built a form for your website, you must have taken a few minutes to scratch your head here and there. The task at hand can often be daunting, which is why a lot of people don’t build their own forms. Forms can sometimes take the back seat when it comes to the… Continue reading Create Your Own Professional Forms for Free with JotForm

When Launching a New Website: Avoid These Four Simple Website Mistakes

Having a website is essential for just about every business these days. Not only is it expected, but it helps improve your image and your accessibility for customers. Putting together a website doesn’t have to be complicated, but it isn’t just a snap and to go project either. It takes work. Businesses often tend to… Continue reading When Launching a New Website: Avoid These Four Simple Website Mistakes

The Essential Elements of a Portfolio Website

Professionals in the photography industry are feeling the heat when it comes to demonstrating the value their work can impart. Whether it’s winning an assignment with a top-rate photography magazine, being hired by a client or seeking a photographer’s job role at the daily newspaper – the indispensable role of a photography portfolio cannot be… Continue reading The Essential Elements of a Portfolio Website

How to Build Compelling and Powerful Startup Website

Do you have any cool ideas that you want to implement in your business to spread its presence through the internet? The first essential step towards this will be a website-designs compelling and powerful startup website, but it is not an easy task to make a new website that is impressive enough to attract visitors.… Continue reading How to Build Compelling and Powerful Startup Website

68 Easy Ways to Promote Your Design Services for a Steady Flow of New Clients

With the huge amount of freelance designers, small studios, and agencies out there offering web and graphic design services it can be difficult to maintain a steady flow of new clients. While it would be nice to have all the clients you need coming to you for work, the reality for most designers is that… Continue reading 68 Easy Ways to Promote Your Design Services for a Steady Flow of New Clients

Tips for Designing a Beautiful Single-Page Portfolio Website

Many trends in general web design can also be applied to single page layouts. But there are some unique features to the lone webpage which can add more flavor into a design. Like most of the web design field, common sense and user experience always trumps inessential creative ideas. But that doesn’t mean anybody can… Continue reading Tips for Designing a Beautiful Single-Page Portfolio Website

Web Design Trend Showcase: “Tools of the Trade”

Every so often strange trends appear in the web design industry. One of those little trends is the presentation of “tools of the trade” on the forefront of the website, where a series of objects that relate to a specific industry are neatly laid out on a tabletop, or a product is shown during its… Continue reading Web Design Trend Showcase: “Tools of the Trade”

6 Extremely Crucial Choices That Determine Your Freelancing Future

Ultimately, freelance web design is all about choices. The choices you make as a freelancer will determine your business success or failure. The best course for a freelance web designer is to proactively plan how you will approach each choice. You can always change your approach later if you feel that something is not working… Continue reading 6 Extremely Crucial Choices That Determine Your Freelancing Future

5 Adobe Photoshop Common Mistakes

Adobe Photoshop, one of the most popular computer-based software, has fans and users spread all over the world. Many of them think to be able to use the program in the best way possible but, they may be committing some common and easy-avoidable mistakes. In this article I have listed some errors that are generally… Continue reading 5 Adobe Photoshop Common Mistakes

CSS3 Websites Design – 20 Cool Examples

Houndreds new websites are launched everyday! CSS3 is far the most intuitive and mostly used in CSS galleries and awards This blog post will show you twenty CSS websites designs that you will love This collecting is based on viewers rating, CSS and HTML5, UI and user experience (UX). I will put together a list of… Continue reading CSS3 Websites Design – 20 Cool Examples

Engage Your Community Using Web Design

As we enter further into 2014 a few things are becoming more apparent than ever before. The world of marketing is moving so much faster and has become viral on digital and interactive levels. The social media boom and the internet has truly changed the face of the world, so much so that if any… Continue reading Engage Your Community Using Web Design

The Yin and Yang of Web Design: Pure Black & White

It is quite unusual to find website home pages that feature absolutely no other color than black and white – there is usually a call-to-action button, the company logo or social media buttons that have some color. Even in printed media simply black and white is unusual these days. Today we have scoured the internet… Continue reading The Yin and Yang of Web Design: Pure Black & White