Web design

  • The Work in Progress Website

    The Work in Progress Website

    You need a website. You have a business or an organization that is doing things and needs to communicate with people, so a website is a must. You should get your domain as soon as possible, because a .com or .org is still the most valuable, and they’re going fast. The value of your domain…

  • Pantone’s Color of the Year 2024: Peach Fuzz

    Pantone’s Color of the Year 2024: Peach Fuzz

    Pantone, the international color experts, have announced their Color of the Year for 2024: Peach Fuzz. This is a nice shade of peach. Peach is essentially a very pale orange, so it has a sense of warmth, energy, and friendliness. Peach is less aggressive than orange, though, and may be considered more upscale. Pantone is…

  • Masculine Websites

    Masculine Websites

    What makes a website masculine? If you try and picture a masculine website, it probably looks like it was either designed back in 1950, or it just wandered out of the desert looking for a cold sarsaparilla. This sort of back in time style is pretty popular with websites trying to capture a male audience,…

  • Marketing Like Pepsi

    Marketing Like Pepsi

    When Pepsi (or Coca-Cola — I don’t care) make a marketing plan, they are secure in the knowledge that the great majority of their visitors know these two things: what they offer how to get it Practically everyone is aware that Pepsi is a soft drink. They know how to go to a store and…

  • Pink Websites

    Pink Websites

    While leafing through my review copy of  The Web Designer’s Idea Book: The Ultimate Guide To Themes, Trends & Styles In Website Design , I realized that pink, like orange and yellow, is an unpopular color on the web. In fact, the safest generalization you can make about pink websites is that the owner of…

  • Are Stock Photos a Problem?

    Are Stock Photos a Problem?

    I have a love-hate relationship with stock images. On the one hand, I know they don’t look authentic. I used to be very adamant about not using stock iphotos on this site, and you will certainly never see a stock image pretending to be our team or any member of our team. On the other…