Wednesday, March 06, 2013

The Five Worst UX Mistakes Websites Make

The user experience of websites has improved by leaps and bounds over the years, but we still run into sites that make us ask, “What were they thinking?!” By UX Magazine

Monday, February 25, 2013

100 Best Web Design Blogs

Over the past 10 years there have been hundreds and possibly thousands of new web design blogs launching online. A small handful of these blogs are still online today, and an even smaller number are still publishing great content. Moving into 2013 it seems like a good idea to dig into the design industry and collect some of the best resources for helpful information. By DesignMag

Friday, February 22, 2013

Yahoo! redesigns

New Yahoo!

When Marissa Mayer jumped ship at Google to take over the reigns at the web’s second biggest name in search, no one doubted she had a job on her hands. By Web Designer Depot

There’s More to Drupal Than a Steep Learning Curve



Drupal has always been given the position of a CMS that’s best for big, complex websites – one that can only be used by highly technical people. But all that’s changing rapidly. By Pixel Crayons

Responsive Web Design for Magento Store and Its Significance

Magento, with its swashbuckling features and unique nature, is proved to be the backbone of most ecommerce websites nowadays. While most believe it is the outstanding performance of the Magento which speculates it from other platforms, many fail to take into account the designing factor. By Desizn Tech

Usability Vs. Aesthetics: The Right Mix

Beautiful Web Design

Website usability is as important as its aesthetics. These two concepts should complement each other, but sometimes web designers just focus on the looks and the appeal of the website without considering its usability. By Desizn Tech

16 Tips for a Better Website

Want a better website and don’t know where to start? Or, do you think your website changes are out of your control? By WDL

How Behavioral Targeting Works with eCommerce



Behavioral targeting should sound familiar if you have been an avid eCommerce trend follower for some time. But, What exactly it is? By Andy Sowards

Designing an Accessible Site Without Losing Your Mind

Most designers think of creating accessible content as something that will take weeks of exaggerated tagging, designing tab-browsing and hot keys for every minute function of a site, and writing over-descriptive metadata, so most people just give up and don’t even bother. By Just Creative

Web Design + Psychology = Satisfied Users?

What’s one word people associate with web design? Some may say creativity. Creativity is often described as “making something that has value”. That’s one definition. Another one is “recognizing ideas and concepts and using them in solving a particular problem.” By Just Creative

9 Of The Best Ways To Present A Website To A Client

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The design phase of creating a website is fairly standard for most web designers however when it comes to presenting the mock up to a client before slicing / coding the design, some problems do arise so I went out and asked the community about how they present a web site design to a client. By Just Creative

How To Make Your Next Website Design Pop

Web design is one of those areas that when done right, you know it. It looks polished, refined and generally, just well done – it pops! By Just Creative

7 Facts and Myths of HTML5

HTML5 Gloves

As Opera evangelist Bruce Lawson puts it, “Everyone’s talking about HTML5”. It’s perhaps the most hyped technology since people started putting rounded corners & gradients on everything. In fact, a lot of what people call HTML5 is actually just old-fashioned DHTML or AJAX. Mixed in with all the information is a lot of misinformation. By Just Creative

Web Design Tips & Advice from A to Z

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A nice list of tips when designing your web site. By Just Creative

10 SEO Rules for Designers

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is a vital component of any website. As a web designer or blogger, it’s important you understand how SEO works. Here are ten easy rules that will immediately improve the SEO on all of your web sites. By Just Creative

9 SEO Tips You’ve Probably Forgot About

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SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) has, as most of you probably know by now, become one of the most important elements when setting up a website. By Just Creative

Eight ways to avoid common website mistakes

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Everyone has a website these days, but not every website is equal. As the online environment becomes ever more crowded, you don’t just need to have a website, you need to have an outstanding website. In pursuit of the perfect page, here are some of the top web design mistakes to avoid. By Just Creative

How to Effectively Pitch Your Website Idea to Designers & Developers

The following post will take you, step-by-step, through the creative process. And once you go through it, you’ll hand your prospective designers everything they need to get started. By Just Creative

Agile Development + Content Strategy: An Opportunity or Headache?

Agile is not the latest marketing craze or trendy buzzword. Its origins date back to the 1970s, in the field of software development. Thousands of successful titles have been built with agile methodologies. By Experience Matters

Create Favicons Online With These 5 Useful Tools

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Favicons are to websites what bread and water is to human beings: essential. They’ve been around long-since and will still be when we all have perished. By Noupe