Suppose you look up inspiration in the dictionary. What do you find? It describes inspiration as: ‘stimulation of the mind or emotions to a high level of feeling or activity’. This is exactly correct when discussing how we are influenced to create something in a world of design. Being stimulated and influenced to a high [...]

CSS (cascading style sheets) is one of the latest markup languages used to create web pages, typically to style regular HTML and XHTML pages. The language however is not unique to HTML and can be used with XML, SVG and XUL. CSS allows designers and developers to modify colors, fonts and layouts and helps separate [...]

Designing and automating your blog can be hard especially if you are not a designer of programmer. But thanks to the hard work of others you can have a beautiful and professional looking blog. Since the most popular blogging platforms are open source there are a myriad of add-ons, plug-ins and new themes that you [...]

“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” Albert Einstein Almost all web designers have used elements of a web page from other great web designers. The simple truth is that those great designers already have their craft well formed. We learn best by imitating the people who are already experts, the [...]

Color is a very important aspect of human psychology. Every color represents a different aspect of human emotion and by understanding this we can influence our web visitors. Color psychology must be recognized in web design.Take for example fast food, almost every fast food logo uses red and yellow. Why? Because these are warm colors [...]

The Second part of the Web 2.0 how-to. Learn how to incorporate web 2.0 styling into your web design. 3. Go Big One of the most noticeable features a modern web 2.0 website is the boldness of it. Logo, Icons and even text stand out proudly, boasting appealing graphics and cutting simplicity make them great websites. [...]

Keeping up with design trends is one of the most important parts of sustaining a successful website. If you want to succeed in the minds of your customers you’re going to have to be hip. While trends of the mob are fickle it is important to keep up with them, at least in part. Web [...]

Branding is the single most important part of business. And because it is such an integral of web design and online operations its important that you as a web designer recognize and practice some of the correct methods of branding. A brand is typically recognized as a name, slogan or logo that is associated with [...]

In web design photos and graphics are essential to creating a beautiful web design form scratch. Whether you need a whole photo or just want a part of it, photos and vectors are instrumental to creating quality web pages. You have several options when looking for graphics or images to use including: stock photo sites [...]

Something big is affecting the way we perform web design. During the popular JavaOne developers conference in San Francisco a new programming language was announced that will threaten Ajax. JavaFX by Sun Microsystems is poised to challenge the hottest programming language Ajax but more importantly other new programming languages by Microsoft and Adobe. This is [...]