How to create a website that increases the awareness of your brand
If you want your website to become successful, just a good design will not be enough: it must first reflect the personality of your brand. When developing a design, you need to consider that the colors, texts, images, structure of the site – all this should be aimed at emphasizing the uniqueness of your company.
Think of the style of your brand as a combination of qualities and ideas that you want people to associate with your company. Design should help you bring these ideas to your audience. For example, Google uses in its design minimalism, which suggests the simplicity and at the same time technicality of their products. While Ben & Jerry’s have created a light, fun style for themselves through the use of bright colors, funny icons and custom texts. Continue reading
How to choose the best illustrations for your site
I somehow had a publication about the best free photobanks and photo stocks in which the question was raised where to look for images for the site. Today I want to touch on the topic of how best to do it. The more focused on the development of the site and its design. This post was written with the support of the Wix service for creating websites (or rather, the translation of an article from their blog), so the text will often mention this platform for developing websites. By the way, on the pages of Design Mania you could already read a detailed review of the Wix service. Continue reading
Tips for using images on websites and blogs
Of course, the image is the epicenter of any web site, because people are by nature visual. When creating a website or blog, we pay special attention to content, design and SEO. And with these three components, the use of images is inherently connected.
Did you know that messages containing images reveal 47% more, and that readers devote them 51% more time than those with no illustrations?
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That is why today we offer some tips to intelligently use the images on your site. From now on, there will be no “white spots” for you! Continue reading
Tips for creating a beautiful one-page portfolio site
Many global web design trends can be applied to one-page pages, but they also have their own unique features. Such projects are quite specific, so it is useful to read something on the topic before creating your own, for example, an article on the design process of the landing page, which will improve the conversion, or see general tips for single-page sites.
In addition, it would be nice to find the best of existing solutions in order to fully inspire them. This can be easily done in the OnePageLove and Land Book services, plus adding impressions with a selection of cool portfolio sites, since this is a question of this particular niche. Continue reading
Clients in web design to be avoided
After you have finally become a web designer and started to struggle for success in the real world, you may find yourself in a rather difficult situation. The teachers probably warned (or you heard) that different problems could arise with future clients. However, reality often turns out to be even more cruel than it seems to us at first.
Accounts are beginning to accumulate, the payment term for an apartment is getting closer and in such conditions a dubious customer who wants you to design a logo and site design for $ 100- $ 150 does not look like such a bad option. We all know how hard it is to adhere to our principles, and to look for a good job that allows careers and skills to grow, and not get bogged down in a routine, but in difficult moments it’s not really possible to think about it. Continue reading
