It is fair to say that many self employed web designers often have plenty of spare time on their hands, especially during the earlier days of their career.
One way of increasing your earning potential and making sure that you are always kept busy is to design and develop premade templates and themes. The designing and development side of this idea should be pretty straight forward, but when it comes to the actual selling of your premade templates and themes, things can become a little tricky. Continue Reading »
I have the pleasure of judging websites on occasion. There are two things that really annoy me. Firstly, design that compromises the readability of text – and, secondly, poor writing that doesn’t do justice to a brilliant layout. Here are some tips that you may find helpful.
When it comes to designing for print advertisements we can often find it to be a challenge due to the lack of ad space, or the fact that the reader cannot interact with a print advert like they could with an advert on the Internet.
Mastering CSS is one of the most important factors which will help you to become a successful web designer. Once you have this skill securely tucked under your belt, the possibilities for your web design career are endless.
We met some fantastic businesses at the meet the buyer event this Friday which was held on a fantastic ship in sunny Hull, East Yorkshire.
Using character illustration on your website can really help to grab your visitor’s attention. It is always nice to be welcomed with a friendly face, and your visitor will easily associate the character with your website. Characters also leave a lasting impression on your visitor and they are more likely to remember your website for how different it looked.
It is quite common for clients and designers to become overwhelmed with ideas at the beginning of the web development process. Wires can become crossed resulting in many required changes after the client has reviewed their finished website.
Thanks to everyone who has participated in the Microsoft Expression Studio 3 giveaway contest. The winner is Number 10. Andrew and he will be contacted by We Are Social to arrange delivery of his prize. For those who didn’t win, we will be hosting another cool giveaway real soon.
Unfortunately we are not all lucky enough to own and use Photoshop for our photo editing needs. Although I do use Photoshop for editing my photography work here in my studio, I have also tried a few other free photo editing services online. I think it is due to me being a complete photography addict that I seem to stumble across so many different services and feel the need to sink my teeth in to each and every one of them.
It’s fair to say that the design community is one of the most friendly and helpful ones to be found across the web. It seems nearly every designer creates some sort of useful resource at some point in their career, it is their way of giving back to the community who have also helped them.
