More and more of 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 more...]
How To Teach Yourself Web Design
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. … [Read more...]
Create a WordPress Theme with Genesis [Video]
I've posted a few articles recently about making a child theme in Genesis for WordPress as I "filmed" almost the entire process of a client website creation. Here I'm going to put all the videos together and run through the process from beginning to end. I start off with a mock-up of the home … [Read more...]
Free Software for Web Designers
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 … [Read more...]
How to Start a Web Design Business From Home
There has never been a better time to learn how to start a web design business from home. The opportunities for entrepreneurs are enormous. If you have a passion and love for the internet, you can do it. You don't need a lot (in fact you just need a laptop, phone, electrical supply and decent … [Read more...]
10 Ways to Build Better Client Relationships
Blindingly obvious opening statement: clients are very important to your business. Not only are they your number one source of income, but also more than half of your new business will come from existing clients and recommendations from them. I disagree with a lot of advice about client … [Read more...]
How to create your own website – 4 essential steps
Google estimates there are over 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique web pages on the web and there are an estimated 7.3 million new ones added every day – but don't let these figures overwhelm you, you found me. My website was set up with only a few dollars and a bit of common sense. And, if … [Read more...]
10 things I wish I had known about web designing 10 years ago
10 years ago I had a big problem. I was a print designer but I loved the web and desperately wanted to work with it. I wanted a software package that would let me mess around with drag-and-drop functionality and when I was ready I could click "GO" and miraculously produce perfect code. I was … [Read more...]
Why web designers should learn code
Back in the olden days just after Al Gore invented the internet, designers designed and programmers programmed. The web was full of slow good-looking sites that didn't do much and useful busy sites that, frankly, looked like a dog's dinner. But every year since then more and more fantastically … [Read more...]
I need a website designer and developer – what do I do?
Enter "web designer" in a search engine you will be confronted with thousands of results – how do you know which one to choose? What sort of website to you want to create? Web developers love jargon as they like to give your site a label. So is the site commercial (an e-commerce or affiliate … [Read more...]