In part 1 of our tips for laying out content in web design, we showed you four ways to display content in a web design.  Though these tips are very useful in their own right, we have another four that we wish to bring to your attention, and we are going to start with a [...]

Content is King in web design, a fact we all know.  As more and more websites of all natures, require more innovative ways to present content, your role as a web designer, is to come up with as many ingenious ways to present content that is meaningful, fashionable, and aesthetically pleasing as possible. These tips [...]

The development of web 2.0, or at least the use of the term begs the question what will be developed for web 3.0?  What developments are hidden round the corner, and what will you need to know as a web designer to incorporate what web 3.0 will be about. As web 3.0 is at the [...]

In part 2 of our web design tips for designing a good checkout system, we will look at some more useful tips to get the checkout system of your e-commerce site, on the money.  The benefits of doing so, cannot be overstated, as this is the area of the site that clinches the deal. Always [...]

As a web designer, you have no doubt come across some aspects of e-commerce in your career. The process of checking out is without question the most important part of any e-commerce site, as this is where the deal is clinched. A badly designed checkout system, can and does lose customers, and therefore it is [...]

In our last two articles that focused on the dilemmas of freelance web designers, we looked at general tips, http://www.dreamtemplate.com/blog/web-design-tips/tips-for-new-freelance-web-designers/, and tips for effective project planning, http://www.dreamtemplate.com/blog/web-design-tips/freelance-web-design-and-project-planning/. This article looks at why bad planning is so common, or more accurately why underestimating the amount of time a project will take is so common.  Hopefully, once [...]

In our first brush with freelance web design tips, we looked at client focused needs and how to fulfil them.  These were good general tips and well worth a look at.  You can find them here.  http://www.dreamtemplate.com/blog/web-design-tips/tips-for-new-freelance-web-designers/ Becoming a freelance web designer is most web designers dream, and if you are one, or run a [...]

In our last two guides we looked at several concepts that all promote better user interfaces for users.  These tips can also be incorporated into other types of web designs, so it is worth studying them, even if you are not directly involved in social networking web design. The last set of tips in our [...]

User interface design tips for social networking sites, part 2 In this articles predecessor imaginatively entitled “User interface design tips for social networking sites, part 1”, we looked at how personalisation, engagement and real time updates were key elements to the many types of user interfaces, social networking sites need. This article looks at other [...]

As web designers, it is a testament to your skill if the user interface is smoother than Sean Connery.  This is the ultimate goal of user interface design, and it gets that much harder on sites that have a large number of users, or have a lot of features to choose from. There are many [...]