It’s really surprising to find out that many web designers know nothing about SEO. For those that don’t know, SEO stands for “search engine optimization.” Without it, sites easily get lost in the netherworld of the Net, resulting in few visitors and less business. As a designer, you’re on the front lines of web page [...]
So you are thinking of designing a website? Are you looking for something short and simple, but effective at the same time? Then the perfect choice for you will be non-other than single page websites. Single page design is a simple and authentic way to make a website truly stand out. If you’re working with [...]
There are many reasons to give your site a redesign. It could be that you need to add a content management system, or it could the site is using outmoded techniques, or has simply has an unfashionable appearance. If you want further proof that you need to update your site from time to time, why [...]
There are many elements to SEO, and the chances are that if you are not on the money with all of it there will be a gaping hole in the page rank. The part that tells Google whereabouts on the page to put you is determined by how many external links there are to your [...]
Search engine optimization is truly big business. The process of making websites search engine friendly, has undergone several changes over the years, and so it is important that if you are planning to optimize yours or a client’s website, that you are abreast of the changes. In 2006, Google, stopped using keyword density as the [...]
CSS is an amazing web tool, but it can easily get messy or sloppy. To get the best out of it, you must stay organised. So no more sloppy code, or unrecorded hacks. Your education in organising your CSS code is about to begin. Keep organized. Rather than dropping in classes and id’s at random, [...]
We all know that search engine optimization is crucial for business and organizations to get their sites on the first page of Google. Search engine optimization is a vast concept and many tools and applications have been written to help designers, copywriters, and webmasters get their heads around SEO. As there is no real key [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The virtual world is a testimony to the abundant creativity in web designers of all platforms, which is contrary to the belief that creativity is rare. Public relations are an indispensable part of an organisation. The necessity to create a market for your product through the publicity of the product is as important as the [...]
