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Crayons
Michael Babin
June 14th, 2020

Basics Behind Color Theory (for Web Designer)

As a collective digital artist, it is important to understand the fundamental science behind color theory. It’s a popular topic with a vast spread of information to retain and digest. Not only does this topic focus on arts and design, but it also involves gist of optics science. There is plenty to cover on this topic so we’ll be glossing over some of the key points to extract what should be emphasized. Each of these topics consists of examples on which pertain to color schemes and combinations. Expanding further knowledge on such a rich topic will flourish your creativity for future projects.

Zoom
Michael Babin
June 14th, 2020

The Best Free Zoom Backgrounds to Make Your Video Conferencing More Fun

f you’re a remote worker, you may have plenty of experience with video conferencing as a way to communicate with clients, team members, or other colleagues. But with millions of additional people working remotely right now, the use of video conferencing technology is at an all-time high. And aside from work and business-related communication, many people are using the same technology to stay connected to friends and family.

Zoom has emerged as the most popular tool for video conferencing and it has a fun feature for virtual backgrounds that you may want to try. Instead of showing your cluttered apartment or home office in the background, you can use a virtual background. Make it look like you’re at a tropical beach, at a famous landmark, or even on the set of your favorite TV show or movie. Zoom’s virtual background feature is supported on Windows, Mac, Linux, and iOS devices, but it is not supported on Android at this time. You can use one of the backgrounds provided by Zoom, use your own photo or video as a background, or make use of a growing collection of free backgrounds that are available. If you’ve never used a virtual background before, you can find some helpful tips and resources at the end of this page. But for now, let’s take a look at some of your options.

Team Work
Michael Babin
June 13th, 2020

Best Practice for Web Design [for 2020]

Web design best practices have come a long way in the last 20 years. When is the last time you saw an old-school HTML built website ranking highly in search engines? Or a website built using only Adobe Flash? Probably not often if we had to guess. Each passing year has brought new features, new standards, just about new everything to websites and their design. Because of this, websites have had to continuously change and evolve to stay current with the trends and demands of website visitors and search engines alike. If you want your website to be effective in today’s online world you need to ditch dated web design trends and give search engines what they want and users what they are looking for. Where do you start?

404
Michael Babin
June 12th, 2020

8 examples of clever, creative 404 pages

We’ve all been there. You’re clicking around a website and stumble upon a 404 error page that leaves you stranded. Your experience is instantly broken, leaving you confused and frustrated. But some 404 pages do the complete opposite. They surprise you, make you laugh, or continue to tell the brand’s story. Looking for some inspiration to make your website’s 404 page surprisingly delightful? We spent some time on Dribbble and gathered our favorite 404 page designs.

Responsive web design
Michael Babin
June 11th, 2020

10 Examples of powerful responsive web design [With Links]

Back in 2010, Ethan Marcotte urged designers and developers to practice “responsive web design” (RWD):

“Rather than tailoring disconnected designs to each of an ever-increasing number of web devices, we can treat them as facets of the same experience. We can [make our] designs […] more adaptive to the media that renders them.”

Designing with developers in mind: guides, grids, and frameworks By designing websites that adapt to any device, designers and developers could future-proof their work, he argued.

Hicks Law
Michael Babin
June 10th, 2020

Hick's Law in Webdesign : Less is always more

In simple(ish) terms, Hick and Hyman both found that, when people are presented with more choices, the increase in their response time is logarithmic. This just means that, as the number of choices increases, the response time increases at a decreasing rate. In the end, increasing the number of choices stops making much difference.

Wordpress vs HTML
Michael Babin
June 9th, 2020

Should You Create Your Website in WordPress or CSS & HTML?

If you’re looking to build a site for your business, then you’ll have to make many important decisions around the planning, design, and launch of the site. One of your first major choices will be deciding whether you want to build the site from scratch or use a website building platform. You will likely need to hire a developer to create a website from scratch. A developer will use HTML with a variety of markup and scripting languages, including CSS and Javascript, to create web pages. Although it may require more time and money to build from scratch, this option can result in a site that looks and functions exactly like you want.

Web design salary
Michael Babin
June 8th, 2020

Web Designer Salary [in 2020]

As web-based careers continue to grow around the world, there is one career that continues to amp up: Web designers and developers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates a 4% growth in the web design field from 2016 to 2026, which while slower than other career paths, is still on an incline. If you know web designers, you already know they’re a creative bunch. They see web design as utility first, ensuring each piece they create has a stable function for end users while still meeting the needs of the organization or brand they’re helping to design. However, they also see web design for aesthetics: The placement of shapes, buttons, navigation; the colors and contrasts used that should be easy to read across all devices.

Google Index
Michael Babin
June 7th, 2020

How to get indexed by google [Fast]

With the number of website reaching close to two billions, we can say that Google spider’s is an increasingly busy bee. We found out that indexation time are now reaching up to a month. Reaching to Google might help make the process faster. This is why it is important to act fast. The problem is if Google doesn’t index your website, then you’re pretty much invisible. You won’t show up for any search queries, and you won’t get any organic traffic whatsoever.

Web design trends
Michael Babin
June 6th, 2020

2020 Web Design Trends [With link to 24 awesome website]

Wondering what web design trends 2020 will be like? In this article, we throw some light on the subject. Web design trends 2020 are an absolute mixture of the visual side of graphic design and the high-tech side of evolving technology. We can’t hide that once we started researching, we’ve been absolutely impressed with the modern web design. Web designers are getting incredibly creative while keeping the sites functional and clean of clutter. Still, they manage to create pieces that absolutely stand out. Let’s not linger any more and dig right into web design trends 2020.

learn web design
Michael Babin
June 5th, 2020

5 Tools to Help you Learn Web Design (With a Bonus)

The good news is that you don’t need to go to school for four years in order to start low and climb your way up as time goes by. With the resources available online (for free and paid) and determination, you can easily learn the craft of building websites from scratch.

Not to mention that, due to the growing popularity of mobile devices, apps, and e-commerce sites, the demand for web developers is expected to increase by 15% by 2022! Just take a minute to look online. You will find a lot of job opportunities without searching too much. So, if you are interested in becoming a web developer, we listed five of the most popular online resources that can help you start.

A stellar design is''t merely focused on how pretty the visual interface looks. It goes on to combine a well-thought-out strategy with the design and development process to fulfill the purpose it is being built for. Here is the list of steps that your web design process needs to include in order for you to create winning websites.

Stairs
Michael Babin
June 4th, 2020

5-Step Web Design Process to Create (Winning) Websites

Every website design and development project consists of a series of steps that need to be undertaken on a repeated basis. While each project and its requirements are unique, the series of tasks that need to be performed to get a business website up and running are consistent. A clearly defined website design process involves outlining of the steps that need to be taken to complete design and development. Following a well-defined and documented web design process cuts down on the time to complete the project, improves the efficiency and ensures that none of the crucial steps are missed.

A stellar design is''t merely focused on how pretty the visual interface looks. It goes on to combine a well-thought-out strategy with the design and development process to fulfill the purpose it is being built for. Here is the list of steps that your web design process needs to include in order for you to create winning websites.

Questionnaire
Michael Babin
June 3rd, 2020

Easy to use Web Design Questionnaire (with PDF Template)

A website design questionnaire is a survey that you pass to your website design clients to learn exactly what they want out of their new site. The questionnaire will help you understand your client’s expectations and preferences when it comes to website design. At the same time, the questionnaire will also give you a better picture of your client’s budget, timeline, and other important factors that you need to keep in mind. Looking for a website design questionnaire to use? You’re in the right place. In this blog post, we share our ultimate web design questionnaire, plus a PDF template that’s free for you to download and use.