For years, web design has followed the same pattern of going to the drawing board, drafting up an idea, and putting it on the web. However, agile web development calls that methodology into question, and it may be exactly what your business needs for an overall better user experience. [Read more…]
10 Future Web Design Trends to Grab Right Now
Every December, you can expect to see a list of web design trends that gives designers an idea of what to expect in the coming year. But what if you want to plan further ahead than that?
Lucky for you, we’ve compiled a list of predictions that will help you prepare for the longer term. [Read more…]
Website Security For 2016 That All Developers Need To Know
Website development has been around since Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML and the web browser back in 1989. The whole field of web development has undergone some drastic changes since those heady days. [Read more…]
Think Outside the Box: Offline Sources of Web Design Inspiration
As a web designer, it’s easy to get into a rut. As different styles and trends come and go, it can seem like all of your clients and peers want the exact same websites. For a creative mind like yourself, this can be frustrating. How are you supposed to grow as a designer when every website you’re designing is simply based on another website that someone else designed?
When you reach the realization that every website you design is nothing more than a tweaked copy of another website, it becomes apparent that something must change. In order to pave your path and create your own style, you have to begin thinking outside the box. [Read more…]
5 Ways to Finance Your Small Web Design Firm’s Content Marketing
Building a successful Web design business takes a veritable Swiss Army knife of different skills. There’s the work of designing and building sites. There’s the work of marketing so you can ensure you have someone to design and build sites for. There’s the work of making sure you keep good enough books to pay taxes on time. There’s also the work of getting paid. In short, building a successful Web design business takes a lot of — you guessed it — work, and where work won’t suffice, it’s inevitable that money is needed.
If you’re trying to build up your Web design business, then the odds are good that you’re no stranger to work or the pressures of money. High-quality content marketing is one of the fastest and most reliable ways to build your business, and, if you can’t do the work yourself, here are five ways you should be able to finance it. [Read more…]