Feb
132012
brochure-design

Want to Promote Your Products? Then Get Your Brochure Design Right

Brochures are powerful promotional tools that help in the sale of products and services. A professional graphic designer gets the design right to make a brochure sell. Designers should use limited colors, apt fonts and relevant images for making it pop. Size and paper quality equally matters. Brochures are still considered one of the most [...]

Continue Reading

Posted Under: Design, Graphic Design by cstevens
Jan
32012
Read Article

Your old content is collecting dust… add to it!

It’s common for old blog posts (and even on pages of corporate sites) for content to sit there collecting dust and not be updated. Well, updating content older than a year or more will actually help you from a search engine perspective! Many people ask the question: Why update old content when I can write [...]

Continue Reading

Posted Under: SEO by Robin
Dec
202011
ProBlogDesign Homepage

Killer Websites: Homepage analysis of Problogdesign.com

The homepage is your number one most important resource you have for your site to meet its goals. What are good things to have on your homepage? What is the user looking for? These are questions you need to ask. It all comes down to prioritizing what’s important. The goal of your site should be [...]

Continue Reading

Posted Under: Design, Site Reviews, Videos, Web Design by Robin
Aug
192011
pattern-sample-150x150

6 LUSCIOUS seamless patterns for your web design needs

Looking for that perfect seamless background pattern online? Here’s a few that may help. Use them for your web design, mockup, typography, etc. Whatever you can think of – they’re free!

Continue Reading

Posted Under: Design, Freebies, Web Design by Robin
Aug
92011
logo-image-feature

New logo, design, and features for Ocular Harmony

Ocular Harmony has come a long way – countless overhauls, not-so consistent blog updates, and an interesting clover-looking logo. It’s taken a long time to get things together and very little time to focus on the development of what Ocular Harmony is. Lately, I’ve been able to put more focus on where to take this [...]

Continue Reading

Posted Under: News by Robin
Jul
282010
2-freelancing

25 Best Examples of Negative Space Typography in Web Design

As any web designer will tell you, the most important design aspect of a website is its typography. When it’s done right, you hardly notice it at all, but when it’s done wrong, it screams of amateurishness and low budgets. We’re all sick of seeing the same old tried and tested fonts online, but very [...]

Continue Reading

Posted Under: Design, Typography, Web Design by tomwalker
Mar
262010
spare-time

What do you do when you’re not designing?

The online design community has one obvious similar trait between all of us: we all love to design design. So we talk about design, freelancing, business, etc. How about something different for a change? This post is a discussion thread for what you do when you’re not designing. Design can be a very computer-oriented task, [...]

Continue Reading

Posted Under: Design by Robin
Mar
152010
Read Article

Why you should (or shouldn’t) have your website redesigned

As a strong advocate of the addiction called “redesignitis”, the Ocular Harmony blog main page has been updated to a fresher, more unique look (go check it out!). In fact, the entire site has changed layouts in the past two weeks. Expect these post pages to get the overhaul soon too. This gets on the [...]

Continue Reading

Posted Under: Design by Robin
Mar
82010
Read Article

Why too much SEO / marketing is a waste of time

Working with different business owners and entrepreneurs, many of us see the web like they do: “the more exposure…the better”. Besides, the point of having a website to get exposure…right? Online marketing and SEO has come a long way. There are so many different activities you can do now to promote yours or your client’s [...]

Continue Reading

Posted Under: SEO by Robin
Mar
32010
Read Article

15 Typographic Designs from Behance

Behance is a social network that’s getting more and more popular for creative professionals. The amount of portfolio content on that site is remarkable and they have even launched Typography Served, a website showcasing many of the great typographic pieces. If you dig into Behance, you will notice a lot of overlooked projects. Here’s what [...]

Continue Reading

Posted Under: Artists, Typography by Robin

Latest Tweets

  • RT @cindyvriend: 16 Must-Read Tutorials for New HTML5/CSS3 Techniques http://t.co/ql4MsoLS RT @designmagtweets #design #inspiration #tip ... 08:45 PM
  • RT @DChetty: Life is too short to remove a USB device safely! 08:45 PM
  • 6:40am? Sounds like bedtime to me #all-nighter #designer #freelance 08:45 PM
See More Tweets

Contact Ocular Harmony

Security Question: 17 - 2=