Tag: tips

Designing a Website: The Steps Before Effectively Create The Layout

Many people consider that building a website is a very demanding task and only the most talented designers can create one. It’s partially true because nowadays almost everyone may launch a website! Much more, a nice website may be created and added online in just a half an hour! WordPress and Blogger are two amazing platforms for launching websites and the maintenance of these is…

How To Get More Clients as a Web Design Freelancer

A freelance web designer with no clients is not a web designer! Crafting websites is an awesome activity and any endeavours or sleepless nights of a designer are forgotten when the users are delighted with the final product. The designers like pro bono works or personal projects, but the income is determined by works made for clients, therefore any customer is extremely important! The clients…

Starting the Web Designer Career – How to Stay Merely Updated

Nowadays, everyone is talking about applications and websites and it seems that this situation won’t change in the near future. And this is normal since the technology evolved and the online environment is part of our life. In this context, the web design is starting to gain a pivotal role in the society and as a result many people are interested in becoming website creators!…

The Must Have Qualities of A Web Designer

I bet that a significant part of our readers enjoys the posts using a smartphone or a tablet. In the last two-three years, technology evolved amazingly fast but we instantly adapted to this situation and everything seems normal. Fortunately, the revolution of handheld devices influenced a profound shift regarding the mentality of Internet users about web design and web designers. Let’s be honest, until few…

Seven Basic Principles of Beautiful Web Design

The specialists didn’t reach a consensus about the Internet birth date, but anyway, 30 years ago, Internet was just a term used by a very limited number of people. It developed so fast and in such a manner that I hardly believe that someone really believed in its exponential success. Ten years ago, making websites was still in its infancy but the Internet was a…

What Should You Know About Flat Design

Undoubtedly, 2012 was the year of responsiveness in web design; each designer, more or less, was involved in this issue and the result is obvious: nowadays we have websites that are perfectly rendered no matter the device or its operating system. Well, 2013 seems to be year of flat design…it’s true, we are in the middle of the year, but it’s hard to believe that…

6 Amazing Tips to Retouch Your Photos

Off-topic: I think that it is somehow unfair to promote so actively Adobe products in the web design blogosphere, but the “cruel reality” is that, in the most cases, Adobe created some software that simply don’t have rivals. In conclusion, you may use other software to enhance your pictures but definitely, Adobe Photoshop is the best tool. At least, in my humble opinion… Retouching photos…

Quick Tips: Create Pixel Pattern in Photoshop

Patterns are a great way to make your web background more beautiful. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to create some pixel patterns using Photoshop with the estimation time 5 – 10 minutes. Let’s get started! STEP 1: Start with prepare canvas. The canvas can be any size but not less than 10×10 pixels, because our pattern size are not less than 10×10 pixels….

Five Magical Tips to Better Handle the Typography in Adobe Photoshop

It’s impossible for a web designer not to hear about the new style adopted by Microsoft called Metro. Surely, it wasn’t invented by Bill Gates company but undoubtedly, they are the ones that brought again this current into the light. Personally, I like this idea and even if we like or not, Metro will be here for some years. There is no bad or good…