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...
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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...
Read More Why Your Organization Needs a Style GuideEffectively 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...
Read More Effectively Using Images to Tell Your Company’s Story10 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...
Read More 10 Questions You Should Ask Your Clients Before You Start a RedesignRebuilding 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...
Read More Rebuilding the Feature 5 Grid to Create More Than a ComebackEvolution 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...
Read More Evolution of CSS: Becoming a CSS ComposerOur Redesign for The Sports Geek Is a Sure Bet
WebDevStudios is thrilled to announce the launch of the new and improved TheSportsGeek.com! Working with Kevin McClelland, editor of The Sports Geek, was exciting. The challenge that he presented included the requests for a fresh redesign, a logo refresh, and a full-site-rebuild on WordPress. The original website...
Read More Our Redesign for The Sports Geek Is a Sure BetAnimations for the Web
There is no shortage of animations on the webernetz™ these days, and libraries to support them. Some web animations are good, and some gratuitous. Recently, I was fortunate to work on a few projects that required animations; therefore, I got a refresher...
Read More Animations for the WebForm vs Function in WordPress
In the mid-20th Century, the concept Form Follows Function came out of the architecture industry. The basic idea is that the outside of the building should reflect the functional interior. This means designing the interior structure before designing the outward appearance of the...
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