WordPress is an amazing platform that allows you to make your own website. For this, there are plenty of online resources that can guide you every step of the way. However, not all of them are tailored towards building a speedy site. [Read more…]
Archives for June 2016
Mistakes To Avoid On Your Ecommerce Site
It’s the age of ecommerce and the small business website. Hundreds of thousands of new entrepreneurs have flooded the internet with ecommerce websites of all kinds, and many individuals rely on ecommerce websites to provide another income stream. Given that the world is increasingly net-reliant, small businesses which rely on ecommerce are increasingly taking notable market share away from bigger businesses, and more than half of all shoppers prefer to buy the goods they need online rather than in person at a store. Even better? Even conservative estimates indicate that the increasing trend of smartphone use will increase ecommerce opportunities. [Read more…]
3 Elements of Stellar Flat Web Design
Flat web design is “in” – and likely isn’t going anywhere. Tenets of old-school web design featured often-overcrowded webpages with flashy illustrations, drop shadowed text, textures, and more. In the wake of the cluttered and ungainly web designs of old, flat design is a breath of fresh air. It’s sleek, minimalist, and to-the-point. [Read more…]
How and Why Designers Can Back Up Their Work
If you’ve ever had a project that you’ve invested hours in suddenly disappear, then you know the hopeless feeling that comes with it. You also know that something must be done to prevent future data loss. [Read more…]
Design Focus: Site Frames
Designs of the Week
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There’s a nice mix between a modern feel and subtle grunge touches here, which sort of represents both the music management and artist aspects to their company. The page scrolls inside the box and there are three menus which overlay on the area once clicked: social media, music, and the main menu.
A clean, simple, predominantly black-and-white site with a boxy, bento-style layout.
Nice bright colors marking each section and product of the homepage. The large imagery and small descriptions are a familiar pattern in websites these days, but the fact that the layout doesn’t span the entire width of the browser instantly makes it look different from the rest that’s out there, not to mention the treatment of the above-the-fold block.
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CSS – Ways You Need To Tell The Browser How To Optimize
“Rather than the presumed “browsers will get faster at running my code”, there is a little more “I need to change the way I code for browsers to get faster.””
Typopgraphy – glyphdiff
“Glyphdiff is a simple tool comparing the differences of two fonts on given glyphs.”
JavaScript – JavaScript for Designers
“Rather than sit, and try to digest boring definitions, we’ll dive right into building an interactive HTML prototype, and have fun learning JS together along the way.”
