There is always been a reason to develop a web site and you may have to define your reason to a particular segment of audience. So, both reason and audience are interwoven with each other, which you see even in web designing. Until and unless there is a purpose, creating a web site is not [...]

Just stumbled upon this listing of 15 Unconventional Uses of WordPress in Action. WordPress really has grown to fill a larger pair of shoes then we originally thought! The examples link to demonstrations of WordPress in use for everything from a Twitter page to a Wiki to an e-commerce store. And while we’re on the [...]

Web designing is a complex subject and there is always an ongoing conflict between creating a web page for beauty and one for function. In fact, there should be no conflict between the two because with intelligent designing it is possible to create web sites that are both functional and possess high appeal.

Web designers, please brace yourself. You are about to click a link, which will hit you where it hurts. Be prepared to see a very unflattering version of your work when you visit If It Looks Corporate, Change It, Jeff Atwood’s latest hilarious rant about corporate website design culture. Worth the price of admission alone [...]

A web layout plays a crucial role in a website design, and is a guide that helps you to come up with text, graphics, and designs in a particular manner. Web layout is the basic draft of what your website will appear like at the final stage. Therefore, you need to pay equal attention to [...]

Loved this post at 37Signals asking “Do Americans have bad taste?” What, was that a question? Let us consider the things that America made popular: McDonalds – True, we all have our gross fast-food stands, but they started it. Walmart – Biggest retailer in the country, richest family in the world, cheapest, tackiest China-import junk [...]

There’s a joke that goes: “I want to learn web design. How long will it take?” “A year or two.” “Great! That’s much less time than it took me to learn print!” “Oh, you used to be a print designer? In that case, it’ll take five to seven years.” We’re crazy about this post about [...]

This may come as an astonishing shock to some people, but Adobe Photoshop is not the only application in the world! Perhaps we could bring some fresh viewpoints to our design process, if we tried another tool just once… Illustrator – Scalable Vector Graphics, for instance. That’s actually closer to what the final product looks [...]