Every business can benefit from a website. From a simple static online brochure to those that are completely reliant on their online presence for their day to day operations. Each website (and client) has its own unique challenges. Whether you’re going to build a website yourself or hire a web…
Here are a few handy online website design tools that we’ve found to be useful in our web design work. WhatTheFont – https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/An industry love affair has been going on with WhatTheFont since it’s creation. Don’t know what fot your company uses in it’s logo and marketing material – but you need…
When finding stock images for your website you need to be aware of image licences. Image licensing has a number of facets, you have licenses for specific uses, usually from photographers, you have royalty free licenses which are basically “do what you want” from many stock photo websites, and you…
The most impactful way to customise your shiny new WordPress theme so that it looks like you or your business, rather than the demo content, is to change the photographs used. Many themes integrate images for large image headers, header and content sliders, and parallax “in between” sections and backgrounds…
Here is a designer’s tip, give your stock photos a theme and download a range of 10 similar images from your photo stock websites. that work together in a set. Close up and selective focus shots with simple subjects and are best for website sliders, headers and backgrounds where text…
This probably the most important step, as the WordPress theme you pick now affects how easy things will be to customise and often defines the core function of the website – be that a regular business website, a magazine or blog site, or a specialist theme with functionality aimed at…
Sit down at your computer and try to use your website as if you were a customer. Visit pages that a typical customer will visit, read it through and think about how it comes across to that customer.Check links. This is common courtesy for every website owner. Links that don’t…
Utilising current theme design trends in website design are an easy way for you to make your website stand out, even if your site content is boring or is “just another directory”, or for an industry that is usually not overly technical it can make a very positive impression and…
Using great eye-catching images on your website is highly important, and since not everyone is a photographer you’ll likely need to start finding stock images to use in your website design. Many users just scan pages as opposed to reading them fully. Images are the aspect of an article that…