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Saturday, January 28th, 2012
Nowadays, many professional bloggers have turned to WordPress as their blogging platform due to the enormous availability of WordPress themes. If you have created your website with WordPress, why don’t you modify the elements on your site and come up with a professional looking custom WordPress theme?
The WordPress themes are ...
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Saturday, January 7th, 2012
How much would it cost you to have a CMS website?
The answer, of course, is from none to thousands of dollars. At the very least, a website powered by a content management system is free. You can get free website hosting, use WordPress as your CMS and WordPress plugins for ...
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Saturday, December 31st, 2011
Besides the actual skill and ability of the designer, one may consider when planning on having a website developed is whether to choose a freelance designer or a design company.
Freelancers
The actual definition of a freelancer is someone who offers services to an employer without any long-term obligation. A freelance designer ...
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Saturday, November 26th, 2011
Vintage web designs popped out of the woodwork in 2007. Some will claim that they’ve been around longer than that, but the influx of retro web design happened three years ago, with blog templates using flower power themes, rainbows, and afro-haired cartoon characters in bright shirts and bell bottom pants. ...
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Saturday, November 19th, 2011
Whether you’re a brick-and-mortar shop or a purely online business, the logo is always an important element in your website design. The logo practically sets the direction of your website’s color scheme and style. More importantly, it shapes the identity of your product’s or service’s brand. This is why it’s ...
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Saturday, November 12th, 2011
There’s a growing stress on typography and the magazine layout these days as more and more web designers turn to old school strategies for inspiration. It’s a good thing they are, too. The fusion of print and online publishing practices is an interesting one.
The Magazine Layout
In keeping with CSS (Cascading ...
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Saturday, November 5th, 2011
When you’re considering the design of your website, always put yourself in the website visitor’s shoes. Not all website visitors have fast internet connection. Not all of them will be viewing your website from flash-compatible gadgets. While flash videos give websites an “edge” because they look more modern and are, ...
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Friday, October 21st, 2011
Typography is an integral part of web design. A website is not a website without textual content. The presentation of this textual content is as important (if not more important) than how well the images are placed on the page.
There are two very basic families of typefaces and they ...
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Friday, September 9th, 2011
What if the artwork overshadows the website’s message? This is what usually worries small business owners when they use extremely artistic and rather experimental website designs. While hand-drawn images are trendy in shirts and blog sites today, they’re not always the right background images to use on a website—unless they ...
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Friday, September 2nd, 2011
The distinction between print and online layout standards is blurring. People are seeing more and more conventional print layouts used in websites as well. Why is that? Some people think it’s because old habits die hard. Readers are so attuned to seeing these standard layout designs on magazines that they ...
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Friday, August 5th, 2011
Whether you’ve chosen to lay everything out on a single page, or to create a more conventional “gateway” website with a lot of links in columns, a good website design is always like a good photograph. It needs to have a single focal point. It has to have a subject. ...
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Friday, June 17th, 2011
The single page layout is one of the most challenging layouts to master in web design. Web designers need to put every element together so that a single unified effect is achieved. Of course, the limitations can have its perks. Stripped of the freedom to redirect to several pages ...
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