One of the best ways to enhance the polish and professionalism of your website’s design is to choose great fonts. The process of choosing a font, or a combination of fonts, is often dismissed as an easy task. But the truth of the matter is—when editing a WordPress theme or trying to roll-your-own web design—deciding on typography is actually much more than a process. It’s an art, in and of itself, and there is a lot more to it than meets the eye. Designers who went to art school, and font foundries filled with people talking about things like “ascenders,” […]
A Case for Doing Things Right
For as long as I can remember, I’ve had an obsession with doing things the “right” way. I don’t like cutting corners because I believe—at my core—that doing things correctly the first time is so much more efficient than a more improvisational, trial and error technique. I’m pretty sure this proclivity is why my skill set led me to a jack-of-all-trades style generalist end. If I don’t know how to do something I need to do, I learn not only the method to accomplish that task, but also the reasons behind the methodology. One might say that I am thorough. […]
It Seems the World is Flat
Start a conversation with any web designer today and you will no doubt find yourself entering, at least for a short time, an over-excited echo room extolling the virtues of flat design. And if you were to do a web search today of the term “flat design” you’ll see a lot more of the same. What was last year’s new hotness has essentially become this year’s de facto standard design trend for websites and mobile apps. But it’s not new. It’s not even that cool. Flat design is essentially taking design elements down to their most basic nature. It is […]
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