Design
FAQ Pages: Best Practices and Examples
FAQ pages are a vital part of many websites. While not every site needs one, if you’re selling something, providing a service, or giving information about a complex subject, an ...
Business Online
Design
Breaking the Rules: How to Effectively Break the “Rules” of Good Web Design
We’ve all seen articles devoted to the various web desing “rules” out there. In fact, they’ve probably been drilled into all of our heads ad nauseum. And for ...
Business Online
A DIY Web Design Education
A lot of designers and aspiring designers take formal design courses (or get design degrees), while many others wish they could take the time to get some formal design education. But ...
Design
Multi-Layered Design: Guidelines and Examples
There have been tons of posts about minimalist and simple web design. It’s something every designer should consider and study, as minimalist and simple design principles are ...
Business Online
How to Turn Anything Into a Website Design
Occasionally, clients might present us with inspiration for a design that doesn’t come in the form of other website or graphic designs. In many cases it’s their product, ...
Design
Single-Page Websites: Examples and Good Practices
Single-page websites are becoming more popular among web designers, both for their own projects and for client sites. There are a lot of cases out there in which a single-page site ...
Inspiration
Showcase of City Tourism Website Designs
Tourism websites can be a tricky beast. For some areas, where there are very specific attractions, designing their site can be simple. But for areas that have a host of attractions that ...
Themes
Creating A Quality WordPress Theme: 12 Points to Consider
Many designers enjoy creating WordPress themes. And creating a theme isn’t that difficult if you have a basic grasp of CSS and can follow directions (WordPress’s Codex has ...
Design
Mobile Web Design: Tips and Best Practices
Last year, more than 63 million people in the United States accessed the Internet from a mobile device. It’s forecast that by 2013 there will be more than 1.7 billion mobile ...
Design
Everything You Need to Know About Image Compression
Proper use of image compression can make a huge difference in the appearance and size of your website image files. But compression is an often-misunderstood topic, partly because ...
Design
Fantastic Information Architecture and Data Visualization Resources
Information architecture can be a daunting subject for designers who’ve never tried it before. Also, creating successful infographics and visualizations takes skill and practice, ...
Business Online
The Complete Guide to Getting the Most Out of Twitter
We’ve all heard of Twitter at this point, and I would be the majority of our readers are already using it. But that doesn’t mean we’re all using it in the most ...
Design
Usability Testing Toolkit: Resources, Articles, and Techniques
Usability is paramount in creating a good website or web app. If your site isn’t user-friendly, the majority of visitors won’t come back, regardless of how good your content ...
Business Online
How To Create The Perfect Client Questionnaire
Discovering what your clients really want is one of the most fundamental steps in creating a good working relationship. If you can figure out exactly what your clients want for their ...