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
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
By Gisele Muller on
Following the recent trend of using big background images in web design, we decided to gather a list of websites using portraits in their layouts. So at this showcas
By Patrick Cox on
Implied textural designs are not new to the interwebs. Most of the time texture is used as a design device to add depth, dimension, or just used to spice up a bland
By Mary Lou on
The use of the parallax effect or parallax scrolling effect in websites can add a nice three dimensional depth illusion to the design and make the visit very interes
