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 [...]
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 [...]
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!
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
How many times have you scratched your chin too hard when seeing a compelling blog article filled with a mysterious sense of insight hoping it would be on your own blog….but isn’t? Well now, scraping away the ideas that have been done before helps you stand out of the crowd. This is what I call [...]