Any freelancing career sounds very good to pursue.  Plenty of jobs on the take, the lack of a boss, your own flexible time and pace to work in, the pleasure of working in the comfort of your own home and not having to commute daily through the terrible traffic jams: But then real life is [...]

You have created a good website that is becoming popular, but then you notice a fall in traffic after a while for seemingly no reason at all. The content is great, links provided are useful. What could be the reason? The most likely one is that users are unable to access their accounts or have [...]

The word copyright actually comes from the phrase ‘the right to copy’.  From old times, it has been a common thing to copy or ‘lift’ something created by someone else. Copied books, copied films and copied music are a rampant occurrence. Copying is so much easier than slogging to produce original, high quality work. However, [...]

Usability testing is an essential phase in web design and development, and this task is usually to another party and not the designer. This is not because the web designer does not know how to carry out these tests; it is simply because he or she is too experienced in the design field to notice [...]

Other problems that concern users are plug-ins. Some websites need plug-ins for people to view them, but keep in mind a few essential about what you are asking your users to do. No user will be bothered to download a plug-in just to browse through your website, however fantastic this may be. You can use [...]

Social networks are so popular at the moment and will probably be going strong for some time. If you are a professional web designer you are probably already aware that marketing strategies focused on social networks can make a huge difference on your audience levels. However, they are also a great source of inspiration for [...]

As a web designer you are no doubt aware of the importance of fonts and typefaces, and these come in all sizes and shapes for you to adapt and select according to the audience of your website. You should use fonts and typefaces to stir particular emotions in readers, as well as giving a well-defined [...]

If you are a web designer eager to improve the quality and efficiency of your projects, you should consider using Adobe Air as a platform, for it offers a wide range of benefits for web designers and users, providing enhanced efficiency and functionality. The Adobe Integrated Runtime environment uses multiple platforms and will help web [...]

Open source frameworks are becoming popular nowadays and are gaining terrain over traditional software that is purchased and installed directly in the computer’s hard disk.  Flex is one of these frameworks and helps web designers to develop and create desktop, mobile and web applications that are user-friendly, attractive, engaging and highly efficient. This framework offers [...]

Nowadays creating a website for mobile devices, making it as user-friendly as possible will guarantee sure success for any business. If you go browsing through the latest trends on the market, what stands out will definitely be how much the public is relying on mobile devices for Internet browsing. This means that businesses should be [...]