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Managing a Successful Design Project
Creative design projects can be incredibly complex to manage. Especially if you’re trying to complete one under the direction of more than one individual in a client’s business, or if you’re completing...
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Transform Your Website Development Project Into A Heat Seeking Missile
Whenever you launch and manage a website development project, you know that it’s going to take longer than expected. Even when you account for potential breakdowns and pad your delivery timeline with...
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The Right Way to Deal With Your Landing Page Engagement Woes
The sole purpose of a landing page is to interact with users in a safe and controlled environment in an effort to move them to some sort of value-producing action. Thus, engagement is the precursor to...
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From planning to development: the stages of creating a web-based app
With mobile phone usage on the rise, web-based apps provide an alternative way for businesses to appeal to their audience and provider a better standard of service. A growing number of firms are...
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5 Tricks to Better Manage Downloadable Files on Your Website
It’s common for brands to offer downloadable content for users on their sites, either as a supplement to their existing content, or as a special offer in exchange for personal information (or in some...
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4 Compelling Homepage Designs Worth Mimicking
Your website’s homepage is the portal to your online brand. If you nail the homepage, you’ll wow people from the start. Flop there, on the other hand, and you’ll find it very hard to overcome that poor...
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Should You Start a Business or Remain Independent?
As a programmer, you’re likely used to working either as an employee or an independent contractor (which is basically an employee on temporary hire). However, there’s another option that gives you the...
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Which Front-End Development Languages Will Grow in 2017?
Front-end development is based on elements that users can visually interact with in order to make changes. It’s a bit different than the hard coding of some back-end applications, but many of them are...
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4 Things to Know About Starting Your First Web Design Company
The web design industry continues to be one of the fastest growing industries in the world. Despite the rise of drag and drop website builders, savvy companies still realize there’s immense value in...
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Designing Around Your Story: Tips For Business Sites
When you’re building a website, you may have dozens of stories you need to tell, big and small, but perhaps the most important one is the tale that underlies your brand. A great “About” page or brand...
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7 Ways to Differentiate Your App Idea
Any developer who has at least a few years of experience should have developed the ability to create a fully functional app. One of the biggest challenges in app development, however, is coming up with...
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One Brand, Many Stories: Understanding Color Schemes In Site Design
Color scheme is an important part of web design and can help distinguish your brand and attach emotional content to your message before users read a single word. And though color psychology is not...
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7 Ways to Improve Communication Between Clients and Developers
Regardless of whether you’re a development firm that’s trying to maximize client retention or a lone developer building side projects for a company you used to work for, your success is going to depend...
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Quick and Easy Web Development Tactics to Boost SEO
As you probably already know, developing a website can present some challenges, especially if the owner requires a website that is overcomplicated. When developing a website there are a large variety...
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Design Critique: The John Chow Redesign
John Chow released a new version of his site on September 10th, sporting a more controlled, almost corporate look compared top the previous version. The new John Chow dot Com is the third version, and...
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Outsourcing Comments: What Do You Think?
I’m reading that Automattic, the company behind WordPress and WordPress.com, as well as Akismet and Gravatar, has acquired IntenseDebate. The deal isn’t all that surprising, given the fact that several...
View ArticleBloatware: How to Avoid Bloating Your Application
I read an interesting reflection by Jeff Chandler over at Performancing. Jeff asks if all software is destined to become bloatware, and then applies it to blogging platform WordPress. While I don’t...
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Why I Love Web Without Words
Web Without Words (sorry for not typing it like you want to, creators, but it disrupts the type) is a great site. I love the idea, and as a designer, I love what it represents. Just take a look at this...
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Gravatars: Why Both Commenters and Publishers Should Use It
Gravatars are global recognizable avatars, a hosted avatar service for profile pictures, usually used to pimp comment sections on blogs, but also on forums, author pages, and whatnot. We’re using...
View ArticleHandling Headers: Where to Use h1 and h2
How to handle headers, ie h1, h2, h3, and so on, is something that I’m being asked a lot. The most common question by far is “should I have my logo in the h1 tag, or my post title, on my blog?”, and it...
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