Checking Your Site For Visual Hierarchy
When a user visits your website, you have 5 seconds to grab their attention. Okay, maybe that’s not always true but none the less you want to make sure there’s…
10 Websites Every Web Designer Should Know About
There are a number of websites that you, as a web designer, will use on a daily basis making life easier and making you more efficient. Here is a list…
Book Review: Handcrafted CSS
Handcrafted CSS is by one of the web design industries’ most established authors, Dan Cederholm. He is the man behind Bulletproof Web Design, Web Standards Solutions, Simple Bits and most…
How To Design A Sexy Button Using CSS
Last week I launched a holding page for Ecliptic Labs, an iPhone development company based in Belfast (keep an eye on them, there’s going to be some great stuff from…
Associating Colour With Interaction
Different colours mean different things to us and by using colour we can associate feelings and actions to certain situations.
Are you a webmaster?
There are a lot of different titles associated with being a web designer. Lately I’ve been thinking about what exactly my job title is, so when someone asks me “What…
Book Review: The Smashing Book
Starting off with my first book review of the year. I was very excited to hear about a Smashing Magazine (SM) book, entitled ‘The Smashing Book’. SM is undoubtedly the…
New Years Resolutions For 2010
Every year I take a look back at the past 12 months and set some goals for the year ahead. It’s good to get it down on paper (or screen)…
Perfecting User Experience Design with A/B Testing
As a web designer it’s hard to get the user experience design right first time, you never know how users are going to use the site or how big a…
5 Essential Document Templates for Freelance Designers
As a freelance web designer it makes sense to have a number of documents prepared as you tend to use the same ones over and over again. I thought I…