Web Design Articles

Beware Media Overload

Technology is a beautiful thing. It has brought with it a wealth of information to our fingertips in the form of the internet and has taken communication to an unprecedented …

Marketing in Web Design - The process of persuasion

You’ve heard it before:
Your website is your biggest marketing tool
But do you as web designers know enough about basic marketing principles which can be the difference between success and failure …

Future proofing your website

Good designers redesign…Great designers realign
This should also be the case with your website, as the years progress you should make lots of small tweaks rather than a complete overhaul.

Cloud Computing

A storm is brewing. Except the clouds in this storm are not full of rain and lightning. Instead they are full of all your files, software and data! The virtual …

Hand drawn sites

In the beginning there was art and more specifically drawing by hand. Hand drawing was my way into the world of web design yet is a principle now which often …

Use custom fonts on your website with @fontface

“99% of what we do on the Web, as designers, is typographic design”
Designers have been pushing for it for so long but now it is finally here in a form …

Progressive Disclosure

I still feel there is too much emphasis placed on getting lots of information on the homepage of your website.

How to cope with design by committee*

(*a person or group of persons elected or appointed to perform some service or function, as to investigate, report on, or act upon a particular matter.)

Piroto Case Study

Piroto labelling specialise in the design and manufacture of labels, tags and identification systems, for a wide variety of applications including variable information printers. The slogan of the company is …

Mood boards

A problem I have encountered in the past is a client sometimes can’t look beyond small details within a design and will inadvertently try to alter everything else within the …