Design Tools

When I first started out in the world of web design, I was a devout Windows user.  I had dabbled with Ubuntu, however due to it’s limitations and lack of a lot of third party software (the entire adobe creative suite), I finally decided that Windows was more stable, albeit a lot more clunky.  For […]

Design Inspiration

Typography is communication in the form of art. Type exists in design to relay a message or provide information. There are many ways type is used in web design that go beyond the body copy. Many sites will use bold, highly legible fonts to create a call to action right as the user hits the […]

Graphic Design Tutorials

There are many elements that make up a successful design, but the one that stands out as the most important is a good, solid color scheme. You can have a beautiful crisp design that looks great in its black & white wire frame form, but if your color scheme is weak it could ruin the […]

Web Tools

As a freelance web designer, you can quickly find yourself buried under mountains of work with no visible end point in site. If you’re like me, then you look for every online tool available to help you lessen the stress. I’ve rounded up 7 different web based tools that are guaranteed to streamline and simplify […]

Web Tools

If you own your own website, and you aren’t using live chat software, you probably should be (especially if you’re selling a good or service). Live chat software provides your clients with an easy to use chat system with which to get in touch with you. You’ll have a panel that you can log in […]

Design Inspiration

Minimalism is great, but getting a bit too common, don’t you think? As a designer, it’s my duty to stay ahead of the game and challenge the norm. [Insert hipster artist joke here] Graphics say a lot and can tell consumers about your product before they even read into it. Don’t get me wrong, minimalism […]

Search Engine Optimization

Without a doubt, if you’ve ever made a design that’s up to snuff as far as UX is concerned, you’ve implemented a Javascript dropdown menu. Surely, you immediately noticed the detriment that dropdown menus bring to a design in terms of SEO. There exists a common misconception that search engine crawlers will not process javascript, […]

Search Engine Optimization

There exists a common misconception in the web design world that GoogleBot (Google’s lovable pet spider) doesn’t process JavaScript, and that any good designer should avoid hiding content with JavaScript to avoid the negative impact on SEO. This led to all sorts of fun workarounds, like using JavaScript to hide elements on page load instead […]

Web Design Tutorials

Face it, we’ve all been there. You’ve just finished coding a beautiful site, and as you hold your breath and open it in Internet Explorer (or for that matter, any browser but the one you developed in), it turns to a slimy mess on the floor. You spend the next 3-4 days cleaning up the […]

Graphic Design Tutorials

As a graphic designer, Adobe Illustrator has become the most frequently used program on my laptop next to Google Chrome (because it’s perfectly normal to spend the majority of your day on the internet, right?). Despite this, I must admit that Ai and I didn’t always get along; we started out as mortal enemies, so […]