Category Archives: Web Design & Layout

Top 5 Common Website Design Mistakes - Part II

In this article we’ll finish off the Top 5 Common Website Design Mistakes. In addition, we’ll discuss what things you can do to improve your website design.

The Wall of Text
This mistake could also be named, “What, no graphics?” Websites are becoming more sophisticated in design everyday.
Multimedia, flash animations, interactive menus, and a host of other [...]

Top 5 Common Website Design Mistakes - Part I

Websites and Pitfalls
There are literally thousands of things that you can do to make your website better. But there are just a handful of things that can kill a website and its associated traffic.
We’ve all seen examples of these designing mistakes while surfing the web. In this series we’ll not only point [...]

Web Layouts: Examples of Effective Design

Design or Mistakes?
Last week we covered websites that were extreme in their design. We asked the question, “Are they good, bad, ugly or just different?” These websites broke virtually every web design rule in the book. But there was one thing that could probably be agreed on by most of us — they jolted [...]

Web Designs: Good, Bad, Ugly or Just Different?

Whether you are formally trained or self-taught as a web designer, there are rules, concepts and basic parameters for creating a functional and visually appealing website.
But there are always exceptions to the rules. The following examples definitely do not follow the rule book. In fact, it seems that the rule book was torn, pulverized, shredded [...]

Quick and Easy Website Templates and Resources

Free Is Good…Sometimes
There is a saying that goes, “You get what you pay for.” These words of wisdom carry a somewhat negative tone and basically says don’t expect much if you didn’t pay for it.
But in the case of free web design templates, this saying just may be a little on the wrong side.
Some of [...]