A website is like a puzzle, made up of pieces that fit together to make a bigger picture and achieve a goal. The goal of any one website may vary, but the pieces that make up the page are fairly standard from one to the next. One of the most important of these pieces is the header.
Over the past several months, I've had the opportunity to design a few mobile sites, and from a designer's perspective, they're a lot of fun. What I find engaging are the design challenges that come with optimizing a full-size website for a small screen.
Good things take time and a good, custom web design is no exception. I'm constantly torn between needing time to get it right and needing to wrap it up for the sake of budget.
If you aren't already aware of our upcoming webinar, you should be. It's called Five Social Media Mistakes You Can't Afford to Make and we've been trying to get you to sign up for the past couple of weeks.
I'm sure many of you can think back on a time when computers weren't a part of everyday life. Unfortunately, I don't have those memories. Often times I daydream about how my career might have shaped up had I been born in 1965, rather than 20 years later.
At the top of the Digett home page we have a rotating promo area which allows us to promote important content elsewhere on our website. As creative director at Digett, it's my job to design these promotional graphics; and while doing so, it's important I keep a few things in mind.
Often times in web design we have the need to create a repeating background image. This can be simple or fairly complex depending on the type of background that needs repeating. I've developed a method for creating such images with ease.
This is a tutorial on how to make a cinemagraph. I've been intrigued by the growing popularity of these cinematic photographs and I spent some time making a few myself and documenting my approach. Let's start from the beginning, shall we?
I've written recently about icons in web design, a trend that doesn't appear to be going out of style anytime soon. With sites like iStockPhoto.com and IconFinder.com offering thousands for download, it's clear there is no shortage of icons depicting any subject.
In part one of Giving Your Content Wings we asked the question, “Is my content findable?” In today’s installment we’ll be discussing accessibility — a broad category that covers everything from your site’s design to your contents’ reading level.
