The differences between good landing pages and great landing pages are often very subtle. Small changes in layout, colors, and imagery can often make large differences in terms of how persuasive these pages are. When it comes to these careful aesthetic choices, a…
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It seems like half of the sites on the web are using webfont services these days. While font services are hugely popular (thanks mainly to the widespread support of the @font-face CSS property), it’s often difficult to choose a font, a font…
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Have you ever met someone with an ugly baby? I have. The one ugly baby I’m thinking about had a huge head, funky ears, and it always looked like it was scowling at everybody. It was simply an ugly baby, but you…
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This may come as a surprise coming from a designer, but I am done with mobile websites. It’s time we get away from creating two entirely separate designs — one for desktop browsers and one for mobile sites. If we really want a web…
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Editing and processing your images can definitely be a chore when you have a lot of them. Photoshop is clearly the flagship program for editing images, but what if you want a more focused way of polishing your images? If you want…
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Photoshop is surely the most popular software for designers, but its lesser-known cousin Illustrator has merits of its own. Every designer should learn Illustrator, especially if you already have it as part of your Adobe Creative Suite. Adobe recently added some impressive…
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Web design projects usually start in one of two ways. Clients will either have a very specific understanding of what they’re looking for (they might even point you towards existing branding materials or templates), or they’ll have no idea at all, save…
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Almost anything can be made with Photoshop. All it takes is the right combination of tools to get the job done. Type is no exception, and in Photoshop, you can make your type stand out with a variety of eye-catching techniques. The…
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Icons can be a pain when it comes to web design. Designers who haven’t been in the game for long might not have picked up the basic illustration skills that more experienced designers use to create their own icons suited to a…
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All of Adobe’s flagship programs have undergone upgrades, and Illustrator is no exception. Illustrator CS6 has gone above and beyond its previous versions with a many major features that long-time Illustrator users have been requesting for a years. While there have been…
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