The Best Premium WordPress Theme Providers
Share WordPress is an amazing platform, with its 5 minute install and easy customising. It is perhaps the most widely used open source platform for making clearn and simple corporate websites or blogs. Themes for WordPress are readily available that are free, but if you want high quality then you need to find premium theme [...]
Creative Expansion! Acuity Designs and 2011 …
Share Dec 13 and we are all sat around the table here; some familiar faces and some new ones in the creative studio. A few hours, a long discussion and we are all very excited – 2011 will be very eventful year for Acuity Designs. Acuity Designs has just expanded to include a whole new [...]
Web Based SEO Applications and Online SEO Tools
Share As we move more and more into doing things via ‘clouds’ and online web based applications; one of the few things that I have yet to find is a truely comprehensive intermediate web application for search engine optimisation.. I soon came across one that seemed to fit the bill.
5 Quality UX Blogs Designers Should Read
Share Being a web designer should hopefully come with an inherent want to produce and design websites that are great to use for the end-user. As such it makes sense to stay up to date and informed on recent developments, assertions and techniques in relation to User Experience.
Quote Robot – A Nifty Little App!
Share Quote Robot is an app that I came across recently that seemingly streamlined the tedious task of writing proposals for lots of freelance designer’s out there. Intrigued, I signed up and have been giving the free trial a run for its uhh… money.
5 Articles to Help with Goals in Google Analytics
Share Thanks to a smashing article on six revisions about setting up goals in Google Analytics – we delved further into the subject and found these great 5 articles to help you get to grips with just the same.
5 Free Web Design Proposal Contracts
Share I recently wrote an article: what to include in a design project proposal. Which helped me think through the things I normal include in say a branding project. However, for the web its evident different things are involved. In my web travels I have found the following sample contracts and proposal examples – thought [...]
11 Articles To Stop You Making Designer Mistakes
Share 1) Just Creative Design – Bad Graphic Design Yes, this is a controversial topic, however I hope to raise awareness of some mistakes you may be making in your graphic design pieces that are making you look amateurish, but please keep in mind that none of these are hard and fast rules, this is [...]
Grade/Score/Analyse Your Blog
Share Whilst on twitter, I came across this nice little tool to help grade your blog via a tweet by Rutiso It then provides an analysis of your blog and outputs a score out of 100. It functions/looks vry similar to hubspot’s ever popular Website Grader. The tool can be found here: http://blog.grader.com/
Is Alexa Traffic Rank Important – 4 resources to help you find out
Share ‘Is Alexa Traffic Rank Important??’ is something a client asked me the other day, and I realised I didn’t have a definite answer to give them… I found the following 4 articles to be very useful! 1 ) SEO Book: http://www.seobook.com/archives/000944.shtml Over the last few days my Alexa has doubled from around 13,400 to [...]
Google Analytics Explained Almost
Share Google Analytics Explained, well almost… sort of As i continue my transition from flash to html, SEO/Web Stats has become a topic of increasing interest, and one that ha the rare ability to at times dumbfound me. Installing Google Analytics on our site, has for the most part just been used to count our [...]
Free Tool to Select Domain Names
Share Visit the tool by clicking below: http://domai.nr Domainr helps you explore the entire domain name space beyond the ubiquitous—and crowded—.com, .net and .org. Inspired by jish.nu, burri.to and del.icio.us, apologies to Flickr, and a high-five to Dopplr.
How to translate a website – considerations
Share Guest Writer: Tamara Bloom BSc, MSc Localisation/translating your website/… Do what with my website? First things first, why would you want to translate your website? Half the world speaks English anyway, right? In today’s ‘globalised’ society, clients are increasingly outsourcing commissions abroad in search of the best provider. If potential customers cannot even understand [...]
Designing for Print and Designing for Web Differences
Share Designing for print, and designing for web are two different kettles of fish, and learning some of the basic considerations between the two can save you many of the traditional rookie mistakes that plagued us, in our teething process. this little article should hopefully stop you from making any huge mistakes early on. Firstly, [...]
Check Your Google Position for a Keyword/Keyword Phrase Tool
Share Hi all. Today, I came across a great FREE (always nice!) tool that allows you to check your search engine position for an exact keyword or keyword phrase in Google, Yahoo and Live. You can then go further and a whole host of keywords to a full report which then includes backlinks. Visit the [...]
5 Tutorials and Resources for Image Replacement Techniques
Share 1) 9 techniques For CSS Image Replacement s a quick review, CSS image replacement is a technique of replacing a text page element with an image. An example of this would be including a logo on a page. You may want to use a tag and text for this for the accessibility and SEO [...]
10 Tutorials and Resources to Help You Understand/ Implement Copywriting Techniques
Share Copywriting is the use of words to promote a person, business, opinion, or idea. Although the word copy may be applied to any content intended for printing (as in the body of a newspaper article or book), the term copywriter is generally limited to such promotional situations, regardless of media (as advertisements for print, [...]
What is Usability?
Share During my web travels, I have seen the term usability thrown around everywhere and although on the face of things, its an easy concept to grasp; I searched for an in-depth resource to explain the term, its applications and examples. Then I came across this, give it time, takes a good 2 minutes to [...]
10 Resources to Help You Decide What To Charge for Design Work
Share As website designers , we know all to well how difficult it can be to competitively price your work; we compiled the following list of resources to help us in our endeavors. 1) Design Talkboard: ‘How much to charge for Graphic Design’ in reality, freelance designers will need to research carefully and develop a [...]
10 Tutorials and Resources to Teach You CSS
In my quest to learn how to design using CSS to style my web designs in my development of my web skills, I compiled a list of 10 resources and tutorials that I have found invaluable in learning the basics and some intermediate tips and tricks in CSS. Hope you all find them useful in helping you to learn CSS.
10 Great Free SEO Tools and Resources
Share Great basic to intermediate SEO Tools Hi all. In my efforts to search engine optimise websites for myself and various clients i’ve compiled a little list of free SEO analysing tools that I use. Hope you find them useful. 1) SEOmoz | SEO Cheat Sheet This wonderful PDF courtesy of Danny Dover contains every [...]
Interview with Young Web Designer Jamie Billingham
Share A great gem for you today; we managed to catch up with Jamie Billingham, a 14 year old young and aspiring Web Designer. We managed to catch up with him and ask him about his interests, challenges and opinions about Web Design!
Jun 29, 2010 | Categories: Commentary, Inspiration, Web Design | Tags: Commentary, interview, Web Design | 10 Comments »