6 Principles for Timeless Web Design

How do you stay relevant when your audience always changes? Just like fashion, film, and food, web design and UI are subject to an ever-changing set of standards and expectations. While you might sometimes want to cater to the crowd, having the know-how to create something that does the job and does it well is always… Continue reading 6 Principles for Timeless Web Design

10 Key Things Web Design Clients Should Know & Understand

Web design is always changing, and the future is about as clear as an oil slick. New trends emerge every day, it seems, and Google algorithms are always forcing everyone to adapt. SEO, web design, and the number of devices people use seems to expand web design horizons every day. All of this can be… Continue reading 10 Key Things Web Design Clients Should Know & Understand

What’s new for designers, February 2016

In this month’s edition of what’s new for designers and developers, we’ve included frameworks, code resources, UX and UI design tools, JavaScript resources, design and dev tools, apps, stock photo sources, and much more. And as always, we’ve also included some awesome new free fonts! Almost everything on the list this month is free, with… Continue reading What’s new for designers, February 2016

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

The Importance of Web Development Services

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A properly designed website is important for the success of any business. A unique website has the capacity of attracting many visitors to the business’s site, helping to turn them into customers. Web development can be said to be one of the most demanding tasks because it includes developing, designing, creating content, search engine optimization… Continue reading The Importance of Web Development Services

Why Pre-Built Websites Are the Future of Web Design

Web designers typically take one of the following approaches: They complete the design, and turn the project over to a developer; They do everything; from conceptual design through final testing; They outsource the project to a third party; Each approach has its pros and cons, but there is a new and different approach that is… Continue reading Why Pre-Built Websites Are the Future of Web Design

How to Spice Up Your Bootstrap Carousel

Carousel has been a great user element to present content. Though a carousel is not compliant with accessibility, it’s still a very popular way to catch user attention and organise content in an attractive way.  Twitter Bootstrap has a built-in basic Javascript carousel that does its job pretty well, but for those who want more… Continue reading How to Spice Up Your Bootstrap Carousel

20 Extremely Effective Unbounce Landing Page Templates

Have you heard of Unbounce? Unbounce is a great new web platform which lets marketers build, publish & test landing pages in minutes. This landing page platform is absolutely code-free and gives marketers some of the best landing page templates. Unbounce comes with a powerful drag & drop landing page builder lets you create responsive pages without any… Continue reading 20 Extremely Effective Unbounce Landing Page Templates

Trends & Examples of SVG Animation in Web Design

Animation on the web has transformed radically over the past 5 years. SVG animation is one of the newest techniques to manipulate graphics on a webpage. Although SVG has been supported for a long time, it only recently gained support in a majority of web browsers.   With greater support comes a greater audience and… Continue reading Trends & Examples of SVG Animation in Web Design

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

What’s Hot and What’s Not: Web Design In 2015

Web design is a constantly evolving space. New trends keep on knocking while old practices keep tumbling and toppling over. With every New Year we have a round of predictions and promises, and 2015 is no different. If you are a web developer, it’s for your own good to keep a tab on these changes… Continue reading What’s Hot and What’s Not: Web Design In 2015

10+ Beautiful WordPress Themes for Media Websites

Today we’ve got twenty amazing WordPress themes united by a similar topic: media. So, if you are browsing the Internet for those, this list will surely help you in your quest. Also, these themes might be of some help for those who don’t have the inspiration, time or skills to create a custom design. We’ve chosen only… Continue reading 10+ Beautiful WordPress Themes for Media Websites

Qards: Build Beautiful Websites Faster

Building websites is not a full-time job anymore. At least, it could be this way. Thanks to the evolution of technology and the strong desire to obtain quality results as fast as possible, now almost anyone can create beautiful websites. Why Qards could be the tool you need No matter the profile of the clients… Continue reading Qards: Build Beautiful Websites Faster

WordPress Admin Themes: Rebrand and Customize the WordPress Admin

How do you like the default WordPress admin ? Some people express distaste for it saying it’s stuck in the past design-wise and can be hard to learn for beginners. Personally I have never had a problem with it – that may be because I have used most versions and spend so much time in… Continue reading WordPress Admin Themes: Rebrand and Customize the WordPress Admin

Using OmniGraffle for Web Design

OmniGraffle is the OmniGroup’s visual design tool for Apple’s OSX and iOS. It has a deep, extensive set of features that makes it a useful tool to solve most visual problems. At JTech, we’ve found that it excels as a tool for creating wireframes and diagramming flowcharts of website hierarchies. Its diagramming and flowchart capabilities… Continue reading Using OmniGraffle for Web Design

Ten Most Common Blogging Mistakes you should avoid

We live in a world where we are given the freedom to present and speak out our ideas. Information is being transferred and transmitted across number of people every day at very cheap rates. Whether it is an email or a blog post or simply a new story, it is very easy to transmit them… Continue reading Ten Most Common Blogging Mistakes you should avoid

20 Beautiful Websites Designed With Squarespace

So much buzz has been going around about Squarespace and how it has changed the way people built their websites. And once you’ve seen some of the websites they power up, you’ll understand why this is so. Squarespace has definitely taken websites to a whole new level, adding emphasis on clean, high quality imagery and… Continue reading 20 Beautiful Websites Designed With Squarespace

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

23 Perfectly Minimal Portfolio Themes

How often do you need to update your portfolio website? Perhaps every couple of years or more? Although it may not be something all too common, there are lots of designers who wish to update their design style in a consistent manner. This requires tact, skill, patience, and quite a bit of free time. Unfortunately… Continue reading 23 Perfectly Minimal Portfolio Themes

Web Designs of the Best Selling WordPress Themes

WordPress themes are great sources of design inspiration, but it’s even more interesting to check out the best selling premium themes to see the kind of styles are popular with the general public. In today’s web design showcase I round up some of the most purchased themes from multiple marketplaces to compare their layouts. Can… Continue reading Web Designs of the Best Selling WordPress Themes

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

CMS Commander Lets you Manage Multiple WordPress Sites from One Central Location

If you are an agency or individual who manages multiple WordPress websites it can start to become a real pain as the amount grows, you have to upgrade core WordPress every time a new version is released, you have to update plugins as newer versions are released and you have to keep a record of… Continue reading CMS Commander Lets you Manage Multiple WordPress Sites from One Central Location

17 CSS3 Transition Plugins & Tutorials To Create A Single Page Website

Here is another collection of some CSS3 tutorials and this time, we are focusing on creating transition effect for creating a single page website. In the recent times, we have seen that single page websites have greatly increased the user experience by reducing the unnecessary loading time of duplicated page contents. So, without any further… Continue reading 17 CSS3 Transition Plugins & Tutorials To Create A Single Page Website