Month: January 2017

You have a clear vision for your website, and it includes plenty of images — images of your product, images of your team, images of your brick-and-mortar building. In other words: Images, images, and more images! But there’s a point of diminishing returns on everything, images included. Eventually, you have to ask yourself a big question: Can there be too many images on a website? (more…)

Sometimes, certain websites just stand out. They may be traditional and sophisticated, or highly unusual and visionary. What makes them different from the rest? The differentiating factors usually include the combinations of standard website elements mixed with a heavy dose of ingenuity. If you want to create amazing user experiences (UX) but you’re fresh out of novel ideas, we have some inspiration for you. Below are 10 websites featuring exciting web designs. (more…)

Online web design and mobile design share many similarities, but they have some significant differences. These differences are essential for web designers to keep in mind, especially when educating their teammates and clients. Five of the biggest ways that online and mobile web design differ are explained below. (more…)

You want a website. No, you need a website. But what’s the ideal way for you to get the best website you can? Should you do it yourself and use one of the web builders you’ve read about? Or is it best to hire a designer who can take your ideas and run with them? It’s a conundrum faced by many professionals. Frankly, there’s no one way to come to an answer, either, except to look at the pros and cons of each situation. (more…)

Are you a web designer who wants to streamline the designing process? It can be a challenge for creative people to smoothly develop designs for websites, even if you’re not new in the field. Our recommendation? Put together a checklist of the most important site elements so you have a starting point for every job. (more…)