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.
By Patrick Cox on
If you're like me, selecting fonts for your web design is going to be either easy or the most difficult task you'll face. Fonts are a huge, powerful part of any desi ...
By Mary Lou on
There are many creative ways of showing what a website is about: the use of images, videos, descriptions and more. Symbolic graphics and metaphorical pictures are a ...
By Patrick Cox on
In order to further demystify HTML5 and help these knuckle dragging designers and developers to jump on the bandwagon I've put together a top ten list of reasons why ...
By Mary Lou on
Centering elements in a web design is a very effective way of creating visual balance. Centered designs can also make responsiveness easier, a property that is becom ...
By Patrick Cox on
Lines, lines, lines. Lines are everywhere in design, they are used to divide space, direct the user's eye, create flow, create emphasis and organize all design eleme ...
By Gisele Muller on
Typography is a very important part of design and choosing the right type for your design can be very challenging. From print to web layouts, typography is the cente ...
By Gisele Muller on
Today we decided to gather a few examples of minimal sites using texture to add detail to their layout. From really subtle and delicate examples to complete textured ...
By Patrick Cox on
For a lot of designers constraints are kryptonite or a barbed wire fence that is a prison for their design freedom. But design constraints shouldn’t be viewed as p ...
By Patrick Cox on
In the previous "Developing {blank} in Web Design" articles I've discussed Rhythm, Balance and Emphasis. But we are missing the last main principle of design — Uni ...
By Patrick Cox on
Let's make a real world comparison: buildings are very much like web sites. So are we (web designers and developers) essentially just architects? When you compare we ...
By Gisele Muller on
Last week Patrick wrote a nice article about Developing Emphasis in Web Design, and today, based on that article, we decided to show you some examples of emphasis in ...
By Patrick Cox on
Is it just me or is the popularity of mobile devices pushing a new minimalist movement in web design? Web design trends come and go from time to time: the dancing ba ...
By Patrick Cox on
Developing emphasis in web design can be tricky in that it all depends on what you want to accomplish with it. For the most part, whatever the product is, is what wi ...
By Patrick Cox on
Negative space is most commonly associated with logos or compositions where the empty space creates a unique shape or represents something - like the arrow in the Fe ...
By Patrick Cox on
Your design should be inviting and allow your users to sit down, relax, hang out and maybe look around a bit and the best way to achieve this is through visual balan ...
By Patrick Cox on
This article is about the importance of proper markup in a website. A great way to make sure your site works properly is to write your HTML first before you jump int ...
By Patrick Cox on
A huge, gigantic, humongously important part of web design and development is usability - the ability for your users to actually use your web site. Just as chairs ne ...
By Patrick Cox on
In design, rhythm is created by simply repeating elements in predictable patterns. This repetition is a natural thing that occurs everywhere in our world. As people, ...
By Mary Lou on
Making a web design with contrasty colors will allow for a better focus on certain areas of a web site. With a minimal color scheme, more contrast can be achieved an ...
By Patrick Cox on
Lately I've noticed some great discussions in web design forums, on Linkedin and Twitter about the role of a web designer and what skills a web designer should have. ...
By Gisele Muller on
Choosing the best way to display products is a really important step of web design, since the way you display your products can drive attention to it and make users ...
By Gisele Muller on
Wikipedia tells us that "thumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures, used to help in recognizing and organizing them, serving the same role for images as a nor ...
By Patrick Cox on
Designing and developing a web project is difficult enough, but adding project management, invoicing, hosting, file sharing, and staying on task to the mix? That's e ...
By Patrick Cox on
When I design landing pages I don't try to cram everything above the fold and clutter up the top 500 pixels of my design, but I do like to design so that images, hea ...