Importance of Emotional Design in Web Design
Oftentimes we are trying to create a great user experience. Usually this means smoothing out frustrations where we are actually ensuring good usability and not necessarily a good user experience.
How to Use Vertical Rhythm to Your Advantage?
Typography is a big part of any design, especially web or app design. Vertical rhythm is the alignment of lines of text in terms of text size and the spacing between the lines. It is often used to organize text…
What are CSS filters and How do They Work?
To be honest some properties out there are a little ridiculous, CSS filters are one of them. They have an amazing capacity to transform images and webpages as a whole. That’s intense when you come to think about it, as…
What are Media Queries and How Do They Work
CSS3 introduced a new concept, media queries, which revolutionized the web. Media queries allow the presentation of the content to be manipulated to a range of devices without actually changing the content itself.
What New and Helpful Things Have HTML5 Forms Brought Us?
Forms have never been that exciting if anything they have been tedious and difficult. But, with HTML5 in play for a while now we have been given amazing new input types and form attributes. Here is a quick post that…
The Basic Anatomy of a Brand Style Guide
Style guides were originally created for printed publications to establish a consistent usage of layout and language by a variety of contributors. Today, branding style guides have a similar purpose to establish consistency but of a company’s brand instead.
Creating a Simple and Effective 404 Page
Go ahead and take a look at the design of this 404 page; as you can see it is very clear. I have specifically chosen something so simple and clear so that we don’t get lost in the unnecessary bells…
How to Create a Simple HTML5 Contact Form
In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a very simple, to the point contact form that will be very easy for you to understand. Creating a form in HTML5 only differs slightly as HTML5 brings in a…
Key Elements to Help You Make Your Landing Page Successful
The purpose of all landing pages is to bring in as many visitors as possible and convert as many of those as well. There are many different things that can affect the success of a landing page; however, some basic…