WordPress offers a nice Categories widget for sidebars and footers right out-of-the-box. However, while this widget is simple and light-weight, it provides little customization options. Fortunately, a simple, light-weight coding…
Client education is an important skill of any service job, but it seems especially so of designers. Graphic design, web design, digital design…all these can feel like abstract creative services…
Have you ever received the improvement “Optimize your images” from Google’s PageSpeed Insights website speed test? Unless you’re uploading huge, lossless quality images to your website, you’re probably already optimizing…
One of the most fun parts of any visual identity and branding design project is choosing the fonts. That’s why it’s so great that HTML emails have expanded support to…
Traditionally, web designers and web developers prefer working with hexadecimal colors, or HEX codes, in web design. HEX short codes are easy to write and scan. However, extended RGB gamuts…
Support is growing web fonts accessible even in HTML emails. So, what’s now showing in a computer near you? Web fonts in emails!
Understanding the differences between designing for digital vs. print is key to creating the strongest, most effective designs for each medium. Although most designers nowadays work with both digital and…
Hero images are a hot web design element these days. Yet, are hero images becoming cliché? While hero images are efficient, they are pervasive. As a result, some web designers…
Do you never tell your clients “no”? Do you say “yes” to every request? While pleasing the client is always a goal, it’s not the only goal. In fact, accepting…
Design Thinking entails a lot of problem solving. Behind every great design is art theory, color theory, informative architecture, experience design, content strategy, technical strategy, creative strategy...the list goes on!…