by Nathalia | Jul 2, 2015 | Design, Website elements
It might not be something you think about when designing your future website, but more and more people are browsing the web on their mobile phones. It’s easy to design your website to be responsive – that is, have it look great on both a desktop and mobile platform –...
by Robert Oliver | Jun 1, 2015 | Website elements
There are many definitions for ‘web designer’. We’ve always considered ourselves as a front-end developer, depending on who you ask or who your client is. Many clients, unfamiliar with what the various tasks involved in building a website, usually...
by Nathalia | Sep 3, 2014 | Website elements
Today, there are an estimated 2.3 billion internet users in the world. By 2015, a predicted 2.1 billion users will be mobile internet users. With more and more people accessing the internet from different devices, it’s important to design websites so that users on any...
by Lisa-Ann Oliver | Jun 16, 2014 | Design, Website elements
One of the most overlooked aspects of website design – and of graphic design in general – is typography. Typography is simply the art of arranging type in a way that achieves a desired visual effect and that conveys the meaning of the reading material....
by Lisa-Ann Oliver | May 15, 2014 | Design, Website elements
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for. ~ Georgia O’Keeffe Why do some places irritate you? Relax you? Energize you? Chances are color in these spaces is playing a part. Warm...
by Lisa-Ann Oliver | Apr 26, 2012 | Design, Google Fonts, Website elements, Website Fonts
Fonts add style and personality to a website. They make headlines stand out and they affect the readability of a site. Back in the dark ages of the internet, good web designs were limited to using web-safe fonts — fonts that are routinely installed on all...
