By Carrie Cousins on
One of the emerging challenges for web designers is creating web typography that works in the mobile environment as well. But it can be difficult, and there are many ...
By Hugo Giraudel on
This is a collection of some basic styles that can come in handy when creating your own style definitions. Learn how to make some useful classes for simple styles an ...
By Carrie Cousins on
Proper alignment techniques for text and other elements can add punch and readability to your website. ...
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 ...
By Carrie Cousins on
Learn to identify and use the golden rectangle to create harmony in web design projects. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
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 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
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 ...