5 Great Gifts Under $50 That Every Web Designer & Developer Wants
Have you been looking for that perfect Christmas gift for your favorite blue-eyed blonde haired developer? (That’s me!) Perhaps you’re a client who wants to reward their freelancer? Or maybe you’ve just been good all year and want to buy yourself something awesome. In spite of the very stressful week it has been (sorry for...
Read more…Web 2.0 Design is Dead…Just in Time for Templatey Design
Have you ever gone to a discount store that sold brand name knockoffs? The knockoffs, while inexpensive, were always poor in quality and design and never looked like the originals. The same goes for web design trends. When trends are started, they are started with original and new techniques that blow your mind. However, by...
Read more…Non-Designer Design Tutorial: Make Easy Shiny Buttons
I wanted to have this short tutorial on how to make buttons, because I can not tell you how many millions of times I’ve been stopped in the middle of my work by a programmer who needs a danged button. To a designer, this is 5 minutes of work or less: but not all of...
Read more…Business of the Web Part 2 : Why Should You Care About Design?
Why indeed? This is probably the hardest question I have come across. Why is design important? Many clients mistakenly think that because they have a great product or service to offer, their target audience will recognize this and come flocking to buy. Of course designers know this is hardly ever true, yet we struggle to...
Read more…