Every web designer needs a bit of inspiration sometimes, or that missing snippet of code, or a cool new script to power their brand new website. Many web design sites have published their lists, but today we are publishing the ultimate list of web design resources, the only one you will ever need.
Tag: design
How to Choose a Web Designer
In today’s world having a website is crucial to the success of your business. Your website acts as an information source for current customers and also as an advertising mechanism to attract new customers to your business. That is why choosing the right web designer is important for your business.
Web Templates vs. Custom Design
When building a new website – whether you do it yourself or hire a professional website designer, there are a lot of considerations to be made. One of the most important decisions is how the website should be designed – and whether to cough up the money for a custom layout or purchase a web template.
How Much Should I Charge for Website Design?
by Mike McKeown
Many new website designers, and even some more experienced ones struggle with pricing out website design. Designers don’t want to charge too little and not make enough money, or charge too much and not get enough business.
Luckily on Pearsonified there is a great guide to learn how to price out websites. You can view the article “How Much Should a Web Design Cost” by clicking this little link. I am not even going to try to re-write it… this guide is all you need. The comments are also worth checking out.
The 10 Types of Bad Web Design Clients
by Mike McKeown
Web designers jump at the opportunity to get new business, but there are certain types of clients that will cause your business more harm than good. Here are a few examples of clients to watch out for.
Reasons to Learn and Use Web Standards
by Mike McKeown
Any qualified web designer has heard about web standards and has been told that they should use them, but the question is why? Below are some good reasons to build all of your websites using web standards and valid code:
Build Me A Website for Free
Every web designer has had the client that expects a website for free, and that it will benefit us so greatly. Think of all the exposure we will get. Some people even advertise it as an “internship,” which a lot of times can translate into we do not want to pay you for the website you build us.
My advice… pass these jobs up. They almost never lead to the referrals promised, and it undermines the value of what you do. If you do a good job, you can get clients and still turn a profit
Table vs. Tableless Design
By Mike McKeown
Anyone making even the slightest attempt to follow the world of web design has seen the debate over table versus tableless design. It seems the large majority of web designers are in favor of tableless design using XHTML and CSS, although some coders still prefer tabled design.
There are several advantages to using tableless design:
- W3C Standards favor the use of tableless design, and they set the standards for the entire web design and development community.
- Almost all web browsers today support CSS based designs, so compatibility is no longer an issue.If the coding is properly done, modifications to the design become easier.
- It is easier to make websites accessible to those with handicaps or text-based browsers using tableless design.
- Less code is used on the webpage, which search engines like. Search engines prefer a high content to code ratio, meaning the more text there is relative to the amount of code, the better.
- Better search engine ranking.