As a web designer, developer or business-owner (or all 3-in-one!), finding time to attend a tech event can be tough. You probably think that it is an unproductive way to spend a business day. However, we’d like to show you 6 reasons why you should attend events such as WordCamps, Developer Summits, Design conferences and other tech conferences and conventions. 1. Self-appraise – Evaluate your business and brand! Events like these often see your competition showcase…
Attention, Web Designers! Once you have launched your web design career, most of your decisions are driven by your right-brain thinking because you are obviously a very creative person and your expression manifests itself in artistic and aesthetic beauty. You have become a web designer to create great sites and give form to great ideas but for your business to continue to grow, you have to ensure that certain left-brain centered activities such as paying…
Responsive is definitely the new way forward but with every new device comes challenges like resolutions, layouts, screens. And while we’re fairly sure you’ve found the tools that enable you to build these, we believe Google’s latest is a fantastic pre-building testing tool that you absolutely need! For all you web designers & developers, going responsive just got a whole lot easier. What is Resizer? Resizer is a superbly useful, highly intuitive & efficient tool…
We understand that as a designer, you hate to be told what to do or to be given guidelines to follow. While we don’t want to stop the creative juices, there are just a few things designers can keep in mind for the benefit of the website, more specifically, from an SEO point of view. We pen down for you some common issues with designing a website that can hinder SEO. Here’s what to avoid:…
Bright colours, flashing buttons, multiple fonts are all elements that were iconic of the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. Today, these websites look cluttered, ancient & lack taste. A major reason for high bounce rates on websites today are poor web designs. Let’s face it – our website designs are cluttered with too many colours, way too many fonts & navigation that’s the furthest thing from simple. In this blog post, we’ll give you a…
Web Developers are much needed in almost every industry. The need for and the scope of web developers are rapidly growing as we become more and more digital dependent. We’ve got a few good tips for you if you’re inclined to the profession. The basics of coding and coding languages like HTML, CSS, Java, JavaScript, PHP, jQuery and the like, are most important and if you’d like to brush up on it, there are a…
Web Designing is a tough job. We understand the tight deadlines, the multiple iterations, the late nights so we’ve put together some best practices & some design hacks to help you work smart & deliverer nothing short of excellent. Here’s how: Before You Start 1) Have a Plan: Before you get to work on your project, it’s a good idea to draw out what you’re about to execute – the layout, the design, the images,…
2018 saw some fierce & bold, subtle and classic web designing styles, playing with space, fonts, colours, animations & more. As we step into the new year, we’d like to highlight the web design trends that blew us away in 2018 and are here to stay for 2019. 1) Minimalist Homepage Minimalism is the single most important principle of web designing. Although this may be difficult to accept that the homepage contains little or no content,…
A well-versed web developer/designer such as you already knows that WordPress is one of the most frequently used free content management systems(CMS). From simple websites to blogs, applications and enterprise websites, WordPress can handle them all with much ease. Thus, it’s not much of a surprise that WordPress powers more than 24% of the web. Wordpress: A Developer’s Paradise Why, you ask? Firstly it is an open source CMS which comprises of a huge community…