Make Your Website Responsive to Mobiles and Tablets

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More and more our online experience is being accessed by handheld devices. Many of us have been stuck with a website of maybe 900 to 1000 pixels wide which smaller devices would reduce in size. The mobile users would have to constantly zoom in and out to access various parts of the site (read: navigate [...]

How To Teach Yourself Web Design

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Yes, it is perfectly possible to teach yourself web design. I asked around this week to see how people managed to acquire the skills and I tried to remember what worked for me. There are three main ways you can teach yourself web design. By doing. People learn by actually creating websites. By using online [...]

Free Software for Web Designers

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There is certainly no need to be daunted by a financial barrier to entry when starting your own web design company. Don’t be put off by the price of Photoshop or the whole Creative Suite – there’s loads of free software for web designers that can help you keep costs down. Online image editors Photoshop [...]

4 Rules of Readability and Accessibility in Web Design

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This article is more of a “plea” to web designers. Don’t look at a web page as a work of art. Look on it as something that does a job and, for God’s sake, make it legible! Too many times we see readability sacrificed at the alter of web design. But first, some statistics for [...]

How to design and code a beautiful web button

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The internet is daunting, disorganized and idiosyncratic. Web designers should try to make the user’s journey as simple and as pleasant as they can. What’s more, there are certain actions that webmasters would like visitors to perform – to go to a page, to submit some information, for example. For these reasons, knowing how to [...]

Creating Content and Experiences People Want

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I’ve only used a gun on one occasion – the results were catastrophic. That sentence has nothing to do with this article, its only purpose was to get your attention. And that second sentence’s job was to keep you interested. Once I have got you to read the headline, I have maybe 2 to 3 [...]

Multilingual Website with WordPress

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The internet is a big space but the world is even bigger. Although English is the most widely used language on the internet at the moment, in less than 5 years it will be Chinese. We read in our native language, search in our native language and join social groups who use our native language. [...]

Small Business Growth – a Web Design Case Study

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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it [...]

How Web Designers Fare in a Recession

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This is a guest post from Bailey Digger about the realities of web design in challenging economic times. Some jobs are recession-proof while others suffer more when the economy is bad. Web design is not an essential service but there are several reasons why it can be considered recession-proof: Web designers can seek work in [...]

How to Sell a Website to a Client

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I often get quote requests for websites. The requests vary greatly. Some will be for small sites; some large sites. Some will want a logo; others won’t. Some will have a website already they want to improve; others will want a brand new one. However, I often write the same answers to client requests. Over [...]

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