Website Design
May. 16th
Kele Smith's picture
Kele Smith

10 Inspiring Responsive Websites

Responsive Design was listed by .net as #2 on their list of Top Web Design Trends for 2012. With a growing number of devices on the market, designing a version of one’s site for every mobile web device is not realistic. Better, is to create a site with a flexible grid, layout, images, and use of CSS media queries. Enter Responsive Design, a term coined by Ethan Marcotte in 2010.

Apr. 23rd
Luke Moldenhauer's picture
Luke Moldenhauer

Interactive Storyboards & Design and Planning an Effective User Experience

A storyboard is a series of illustrations used to visualize a sequence of events. With a background in motion graphics, I spent many hours drawing out one frame after another for animation sequences. Most people are familiar with storyboards similar to the one below.

Apr. 18th
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Aaron Bregg

Front End Techniques for Web Development: Part Three

Welcome to the third installment of my article on Front End Techniques for Web Development. In the last post we talked about different ways to be more efficient with your CSS code. In this post, we will talk about the under-used and often misunderstood world of using multiple classes on an element.

One of the first things you learn when you take up CSS is how to use selectors (IDs and classes). If you are just starting out here is a brief explanation:

Apr. 17th
Kele Smith's picture
Kele Smith

Facebook Brand Pages Primer: An Evolution from Ads to Stories

Marketing is now social. The great thing about facebook’s new brand page tools and options is that it paves the way for businesses to make lasting connections with clients. There is a new movement away from advertising to story-telling. What can you do to create a rich, reaching experience on your brand page? Let’s examine the anatomy of the brand page and find out how facebook’s new tools can help your business.

Mar. 20th
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Elise Henley

Capabilities of Designing for the Mobile Experience

In my last post we embraced the constraints of mobile website design. With the constraints of mobile comes an array of capabilities. In this article, we will continue our theme of designing for mobile first by touching on some capabilities available to us when designing for the mobile experience.

Mar. 8th
Kele Smith's picture
Kele Smith

10 Inspiring Examples of Texture in Web Design

Something that’s been intriguing me lately is the use of texture in web designs. Of course, I’m a fan of clean designs, and sometimes overly textured sites can seem gimmicky or date quickly. There is something very elegant about white space and minimalism. However, context appropriate, tasteful texture used in clean web design can really distinguish a site and be that that x-factor that pushes a design over the top.

Feb. 28th
Elise Henley's picture
Elise Henley

Embracing the Constraints of Mobile Website Design

In my last post we briefly reviewed the mobile browsing market, the surge in smartphone adoption and the difference between mobile web solutions and native applications. In this article we will continue our theme of designing for mobile first by learning about the inherent constraints of designing for the mobile experience.
 

Nov. 17th
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Jeannine Seidl

Navigation Report With a Bean

When working with a website, especially an ecommerce one, it’s important to know about the browsing habits of your visitors through a Navigation Summary. For the past two weeks I’ve been putting together a Navigation Summary for one of our biggest clients in light of their homepage redesign.

By completing this report, I get an inside look at the website’s most popular pages. But not only do I discover the most viewed but I find very valuable content about each page:

Oct. 13th
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Jacob Spare

Keep Your Code Up-to-Date for Search Engines and Browsers

Technology moves at a fast pace and keeping up can be hard these days, but it's crucial when you're trying to build your business on the Internet. Whether or not you know it, as the years go on, code changes and having the most up-to-date HTML or CSS can make some serious changes on your website.

Oct. 11th
Luke Moldenhauer's picture
Luke Moldenhauer

User Interface Design Part 2: Architecture Patterns

In the first part of this series, I went over the importance of designers utilizing design patterns and how it can impact the overall effectiveness of a website.  A website's structure is the first step in design planning and architecture patterns can organize this structure in a way that will make the most sense to a user, as well as achieving the business goals for the project.

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