Category: Design

Why You Need Mobile Mock-Ups

With over 80% of internet users owning a smartphone and 50% of those owners grabbing it immediately upon waking up (according to both Smart Insights and Express Pigeon, respectively), it’s no wonder that more and more businesses are strengthening their marketing strategies...

Using Canva for Your Website Projects

When I worked as a freelancer, I loved creating new brands. However, I found it to be time-consuming after a while to maintain multiple brands and their requests for different flyers or social media ads. I stumbled upon Canva and it helped...

Oh, the WordPress Themes You’ll Do!

WordPress themes are very popular with users of this open-source platform primarily because the theme defines the look and feel of your website and the functions within the template carry your content forward to the eyes of your readers. In October 2012, WebDevStudios...

3 Tips for Proper Web Form Design

Recently, I advised a client on the best practices for designing a form on their company’s website. Originally, they were considering using a lightbox form, a JavaScript technique that allows for a window to pop up when a website visitor clicks on the...

Why Your Organization Needs a Style Guide

Style Guides can offer a lot of value to your organization’s digital presence and even reduce cost associated with design and development time. We’re going to talk about why you need one, but first we need to talk about what a Style...

Effectively Using Images to Tell Your Company’s Story

The trend in web design lately, among other things, is the use of large, high-quality, professionally-produced imagery. This is because images improve the visual appeal of your company’s website and can help effectively tell your company’s story. Uwishunu has done an excellent...

10 Questions You Should Ask Your Clients Before You Start a Redesign

The design process from start to finish is different for each designer, but it’s important to remember that you’re designing for the client and their users and not for design’s sake. Utilize current trends in web and app design in moderation, but...

Rebuilding the Feature 5 Grid to Create More Than a Comeback

WebDevStudios recently completed a challenging, yet very satisfying, WordPress project for The Comeback, a popular sports fan website. Among many duties, our team was tasked with rebuilding the Feature 5 grid functionality and extending it to support multiple grids, archive pages, and update styling. These...

Evolution of CSS: Becoming a CSS Composer

I have been coding CSS almost daily for over 10 years. I don’t say that to try and establish supremacy, but merely to give some context to the subsequent observations. There are quite a few days I still feel more like a...