Catagory: Web Design tips and tricks
How important is Facebook marketing for your business?
Every business today is looking for an ideal means to market their products and services efficiently. But not every one of them have succeeded this goal successfully. Many of them tend to be small businesses and wouldn’t have much of a budget set aside for advertising and marketing. However, Facebook has become one of the […]
Read More...Why You need a Web Site
Trying to get your business information and/or product out to the public, around Greensboro NC or any large city, has always been a task and headache. That is why we have the internet. It helps you easily reach millions of people and possibly potential clients that are located right here in Greensboro NC or through out the United States! The internet is an affordable way of communicating to your audience. If you don’t want to lose business to your competitors, You have to advertise to them.
Read More...Scalable Icons for your web site – Font Awesome
Technology is getting more and more advanced as the days tick by. As technology grows so does the devices and screens that the users views the technology on. Screens are getting more and more advanced and ultra high definition, which brings me to this point. More advanced the screens are becoming the more our images and icons become blurry. That is unless you design for those type of screens.
Read More...Setting up your design for Retina images
The technology is getting better and more and more people are using high-resolution and Retina ready screens. Designing for this can be tricky but I have come up with a pretty good method to preparing my files for the retina and high-resolution screens. This was a challenge for me and took me a while to figure out the best method of setting up my files.
Read More...Create a triangle with CSS ONLY!
You can create a triangle using CSS border property. The trick is when you use different color borders they come together as a point. Below is an example of the four different color borders. As you can see it gives the point as the borders come together.
Read More...Fonts look blurry in FireFox
Have you ever noticed fonts in FireFox are hard to read or blurry. The culprit to this issue is Helvetica Neue fonts. I keep this in mind when I’m designing for the web.
Read More...Usability Rules and Principles for Web Design
Here are a few usability rules that I read in smashing magazine and found interesting and helpful. This is great information for concentrating on designing for the user.
Read More...Fixing iPhone orientation for mobile web sites
I am creating a mobile website for my current employer. I wanted to post a few tips to help get started. A colleague and I was having issues with iPhone expanding (zooming in) on the web page when the orientation changed to landscape.
Read More...Proper line-height for paragraphs
I found this very interesting and useful. I first read this in a book by smashing magazine. I always wondered what a proper line-height was for the font and font size I was using. Read this article to find out what a proper line-height should be for your content.
Read More...CSS3 Box Shadow
CSS3 allows designers to easily create a drop shadow effect strictly using CSS. This allows for less images cutting down on load time and helping with SEO rankings.
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