Top Five Design Tips
Great graphic design looks effortless, but it requires lots of attention to details. Think back to an eye-catching advertisement, publication, or flyer you saw recently. Do you remember why you liked it? Perhaps it was something specific like the use of a cool graphic or font. Or, more likely, the layout and the words worked together to create an eye-appealing, memorable message. More ...
What is a security certificate?
I bet one time or another you've surfed the web and suddenly found a pop-up window in front of you, demanding your approval for a security certificate. I occasionally see these on shopping sites, usually the smaller, less-well-funded companies. More ...
What is "Above the Fold?"
The term 'above the fold' originates in the paper publishing industry where 'fold' refers to the place where a newspaper is folded in half. Of course, on the Internet there is no 'fold', the phrase 'above the fold' now refers to the area visible when a visitor first loads a webpage in their browser. More ...
Ten Important Points to Consider to Launch Your First Ecommerce Website
You have to consider several factors to make the web store keep visitors engaged and seduce them to buy the products and services. In addition focusing the look, feel, features, and functionality of the website, you also need to explore ways to optimize its user experience. More ...
How To Reduce Web Hosting Bandwidth
You just received a higher than normal monthly bill on your credit card for web hosting. Your hosting company explains that you exceeded your monthly minimum for bandwidth usage and suggests reducing the size of your web site files. More ...
Five Useful Design Sites for Creating Content
Not all of us are gifted designers or even have an inkling as to how to design anything, let alone gorgeous content. Never fear, here are five sites that will help you design content online and for free! More ...
Creating an Effective Web Site
There's more to creating a great web site than taking your paper documents and throwing them on-line. Working in hypertext takes a little more thought and planning. By its very nature, hypertext works differently from paper documents; it's more of an active media. More ...
So, You Want To Be A Web Designer?
Before you can offer web design you need to fill your design toolbox! While you can spend a ton of cash in this phase, the best strategy is to acquire the bare minimum, at least until you have a few clients under your belt. More ...
Keys to Real Estate Sites - Ten "Must Haves" of Real Estate Sites
Web sites in real estate come in every shape and color. Some are very good at achieving the intended goals and some aren't. Some of the best designed sites are not the best sites either. Why? Because they don't result in the achievement of the intended goal and that is sales. More ...
Eight Tips for the Newbie Web Designer
This article is targeted at designers just entering the field. These suggestions shine light on some potential problems a new designer might not think of. More ...
How to Run User Testing Fast and Cheap
Teams don't often have enough time and resources for a proper user testing or replace it with customer feedback. That's why it is better to run even the simplest form of user testing to validate your product functionality before moving to the next development stage. More ...
Six Tips For Writing User Interface Instructions
When people are online, their behavior is often driven by specific goals. They have things to accomplish. Therefore in many web page designs there is information to help a user perform an action. More ...
