As a web designer, designing a professional website with the right aesthetics is of paramount importance. Maintaining the right colour shade, determining which font style goes with the text on the page, image selection and placement, and so on so forth. Seems like a daunting task doesn’t it? Nevertheless, with the right web designing tools, the work becomes comparatively easier than you would have imagined. In this post, we’ll cover some of the best online…
Attention, Web Designers! Once you have launched your web design career, most of your decisions are driven by your right-brain thinking because you are obviously a very creative person and your expression manifests itself in artistic and aesthetic beauty. You have become a web designer to create great sites and give form to great ideas but for your business to continue to grow, you have to ensure that certain left-brain centered activities such as paying…
Before I begin writing anything of significance, I have a little exercise for you. Just scroll through these fonts below & mentally make a note of two things: The tone it sets – is it casual or formal? The age group it could possible be targeted at – kids, young adults, adults? Ready. Set. Scroll. Notice how it took you less than 5 seconds to figure if the design was casual or formal, for kids…
SiteWars in association with Donuts is an online worldwide web design contest set to take place on WDD – the community for Web Designers & Developers. How does this work? We have answers to all your questions below! What is SiteWars in association with Donuts? SiteWars in association with Donuts is an arena where the best minds in Web Design & Development from around the world can battle for the honor of becoming a champion…
Bright colours, flashing buttons, multiple fonts are all elements that were iconic of the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. Today, these websites look cluttered, ancient & lack taste. A major reason for high bounce rates on websites today are poor web designs. Let’s face it – our website designs are cluttered with too many colours, way too many fonts & navigation that’s the furthest thing from simple. In this blog post, we’ll give you a…
Web Designing is a tough job. We understand the tight deadlines, the multiple iterations, the late nights so we’ve put together some best practices & some design hacks to help you work smart & deliverer nothing short of excellent. Here’s how: Before You Start 1) Have a Plan: Before you get to work on your project, it’s a good idea to draw out what you’re about to execute – the layout, the design, the images,…
What differentiates a good designer from a fantastic one? It’s the tools a designer makes use of while creating his masterpiece. In this article, we’d like to list a few of design-necessary cool tools to equip you and keep you on top of your design game! 1) Zurb: Zurb has a fantastic collection of tools and knowledge to equip designers to execute challenging projects. From Pricing Tables to Loading Screens and Typography, the library has…
A user friendly, well designed website is one of the biggest assets that adds value to any business today. With the ever-increasing need of having an online presence today, people are trying their best to come up with a website that’s designed perfectly according to their respective needs. No wonder website builder tools are gaining popularity with each passing day. As internet access is getting faster and more reliable with time, website builders are becoming…