Making Room to Breathe: Wrapping Text Around Elements
By Carrie Cousins on
Text wrap can be a useful tool when embedding images into blocks of text and when used properly can add to your site’s readability. ...
Articles
In this category you will find articles about web design, web development and related topics. Here we also feature inspirational collections, opinions and articles about best practices.
Understanding the Lingo: Typography Glossary
By Carrie Cousins on
Ascender, descender, tail, ligature. What do they all mean? A glossary of terms can help you understand the parts of type for your next project ...
Effective Typography-Driven Web Design
By Carrie Cousins on
Using type as a primary design element comes with a set of characteristics that are often found in clean and easy-to-read websites. ...
Type Effects in Web Design: It’s All About Moderation
By Carrie Cousins on
Type effects – from bolding, italics, tilting, strokes and underlines – can make or break the typography on your site. Using type effects in moderation is the ke ...
The Divine Proportion and Web Design
By Carrie Cousins on
Learn to identify and use the golden rectangle to create harmony in web design projects. ...
Successful Web Design: It’s All About The Details
By Carrie Cousins on
Pay attention to alignment, contrast, type effects and color because these items can make or break your website design. ...
Color and Emotion: What Does Each Hue Mean?
By Carrie Cousins on
Color can evoke a wide-range of responses and it is important to understand the effect a hue can have on your message when planning a design project. ...
Add Impact to Type-driven Projects
By Carrie Cousins on
In type-driven design, use varying type sizes, weights and color for impact and to create hierarchy. ...
More Examples of Fresh Effects in Web Design
By Mary Lou on
Another set of websites that use some unconventional and fresh effects. ...
Condensed fonts: The good, the bad, the ugly
By Carrie Cousins on
Condensed fonts can be tricky use and should be avoided for blocks of type, although they can work well when used sparingly. ...
Understanding and Using Type Categories in Web Design
By Carrie Cousins on
Knowing how to identify and use fonts from different type categories can make your projects come together more easily. ...
Principles of Color and the Color Wheel
By Carrie Cousins on
Add the right feeling and mood to your site using the color wheel, mix and match hues and create effective color schemes. ...
Establish a Mood with Typography
By Carrie Cousins on
The typefaces you select for a project can impact what people think as much as the actual message you convey. ...
Overcoming the “User Designer” Disease
By Patrick Cox on
I constantly struggle with design, it's sort of a never ending three sided war: my imagination vs. design knowledge vs. design tool proficiency. But I came to a real ...
Type Effects and Modification
By Carrie Cousins on
Understanding type modifications can help designers focus on readability for chunks of type or a hint of flair for a more artistic approach. ...
Keys to Email Creative Success: Marketing and Design
By Patrick Cox on
Let's talk about some ways to design and build better email creatives and campaigns. ...
Modular front-end development with LESS
By Delwin Campbell on
I am constantly looking for ways to make my work as a front-end developer easier and more efficient, but it is only recently that I have paid my good friend CSS any ...
Be Less Annoying: Reduce Bounce Rates through Better Web Design
By Patrick Cox on
A properly designed site can reduce bounce rate and increase engagement significantly. In this article, six important elements are introduced that are important for ...
5 Things Every Mobile Design Should Have
By Patrick Cox on
As much as we think mobile web design is very different from full screen web design, it really isn't. There are some considerations that you may wish to take when de ...
Jumping the Hurdles of Brainstorming
By Patrick Cox on
Usually, brainstorming sessions happen within a group so that individuals can feed off each others ideas. However, for the majority of us, brainstorming and creative ...
Examples of Fresh Effects in Web Design
By Mary Lou on
Having some fresh and maybe even unexpected effects on a website, can juice up the experience for the user. Be it a whole new and experimental way of navigating thro ...
How Often Do You Try New Things?
By Patrick Cox on
Web design in complicated and requires a lot of time and knowledge — and patience. It's no longer just embedded text background images and slices; it's interactivi ...
25 Examples of Perfect Color Combinations in Web Design
By Gisele Muller on
Today we will show you some examples of websites that are using beautiful and inspiring color combinations that match perfectly and create an eye candy result. From ...
Design It to Build It: What to Consider When Designing for the Web
By Patrick Cox on
For me, Photoshop is becoming more and more of a prototyping or blue printing tool: it's basically just a canvas for creation. When it comes to the actual constructi ...