In this short blog post I cover 5 important design tips to consider for your own website or blog. The first is offered below.
Don’t clutter your website with every widget or third party advertisement you can. Less is most definitely more where design is concerned, and two or three well-placed ads will attract much more attention than a host of flashing icons.
A few weeks ago I asked you how can I improve my blog? I thought the response was superb!
There are so many font sites out there that for the first time searcher it’s kind of over-whelming. You need time on your side when choosing the right fit for your design work. I think UrbanFonts.com is the first font site that I’ve taken a decent look at through my blog posts, and I’m doing so after they paid ReviewMe for my time.
How much do you know about the steak you’re eating? The cow ain’t a small animal in case you haven’t noticed, and my futile attempts at cow-tipping gave me an up-close appreciation (the joys of youth).
I found out yesterday, thanks to Michael from DesignNotes, about a nicely developed and informative beef guide from FreshDirect.
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If you’re like me you’ll enjoy listening to music when doing some design work. You’ll also enjoy finding out about new artists that match your music tastes. There’s a nice FREE online music player that lets you enter your favourite musicians or bands and it’ll create custom stations around their music genre.
For instance, in my [...]
When it comes to the first time you view a website, what do you look for? I suppose that hinges on the purpose of your visit. For instance, if you go to a news site you want to see the headlines first, and easy navigation. If you go to a shopping site you want a [...]
How much would you charge someone to take control of their website design / development? Would you be happy to accept a few hundred dollars for your time? After all, it’s just chucking a few images on a page and pasting in some text. Isn’t it?
Here’s a nice article from Pop Stalin, titled “What Everyone [...]
If you’re like me then we both have a basic grasp of CSS - enough to allow us to develop a website that looks how we want it to look, cross-browser.
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. Its most common use [...]