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 ...
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.
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 ...
6 Questions You Should Ask Yourself When Choosing Fonts
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 ...
Inspiring Examples of Symbol and Metaphor Use in Web Design
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 ...
Top 10 Reasons to Use HTML5 Right Now
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 ...
20 Examples of Centered Website Designs
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 ...
Communication, Mood and Meaning: Lines in Web Design
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 ...
25 Fresh Examples of Beautiful Typeface Combinations in Web Design
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 ...
25 Inspiring Examples of Texture Use in Minimal Web Design
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 ...
Be More Creative through Design Constraints
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 ...
Developing Unity in Web Design
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 ...
Architecture in Web Design: Applying Vitruvius’ Principles
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 ...
25 Examples of Emphasis Applied in Web Design
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 ...
Mobile: The Web’s New Minimalist Movement
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 ...
Developing Emphasis in Web Design
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 ...
Is There Room for Negative Space in Web Design?
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 ...
Developing Balance in Web Design
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 ...
HTML Only – The Significance of Proper Markup in Web Design
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 ...
Why Do Chairs Have Four Legs? The Cornerstones of Usable Websites
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 ...
Developing Visual Rhythm in Web Design
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, ...
Minimal and Contrasty Color Schemes in Web Design
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 ...
Living a Dual Life – A View on the Coding Designers Debate
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. ...
25 Examples of Inspiring Product Display in Web Design
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 ...