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!
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 [...]
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 [...]
Logos, or logotypes, are the symbols that companies use to brand their products and allow the consumer to instantly link an emblem, set of words or even a colour scheme to merchandise. Successful marketing can create trust and brand loyalty, and good design work can attach iconic logos to these brands. This post brings together [...]
Learn how to create designs within the type to provide exceptional detail.
Looking around the web and can’t find an icon set that works with your website? I’ve seen a lot of “Ultimate list of free icons” posts, but what about the ones for simply making websites? I often find there are a lot of general computer icons, holiday themed icons, and not even icons at all [...]
It’s the raison d’être for any designer to make things look pretty—and web designers are no different. I started my design career as a web designer almost ten years ago—a long time in Internet years. Before I went freelance I had a number of jobs that exposed me to all the facets of producing websites: [...]