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Creating circles and rounded corners with CSS3
All the so called modern browsers support now at least most of CSS3. This gives you lots of freedom with web design without excessive use of images. Previously when you wanted to have rounded corners or make round elements you needed to use images or other of trickery. Now you have border-radius and it's so easy. There are multiple online generators for creating border-radius and other CSS3 effects, so you don't even have to remember all the details. I use this property for many things, including creating round images and nicely rounded input buttons. In this post you can find a few ideas of...
Characteristics of highly shareable blog articles
One way to gain more traffic to your blog is to get other people to share your posts. There are many ways to try and accomplish this. You can add social media buttons to your blog posts and you can yourself share your content and hope for reshares. When you take a look at the blog articles that are being shared you can determine some basic attributes which apply to most of the content shared. These attributes are based on the different types of posts people are sharing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest and elsewhere. While the different platforms give their own spin to which s...
How you are doing everything wrong
Have you seen that joke women's magazine cover which was making rounds on Facebook? The cover features multiple fake headlines, such as You look so old and Women richer than you wearing things. One of the phoney headlines took my attention. The headline was How you are doing everything wrong with a subtitle And other ways we are trying to control how you think. I don't myself read that much of these magazines, but I found it very familiar. These types of articles are all over the web. Every day you can go about and read about your mistakes in using social media and how living a lif...
How 8 years of freelancing has worked for me
LinkedIn told me just a couple of days about my "work anniversary", as I had been freelancing for 8 years. First I thought this was a mistake, it cannot possibly have been such a long time. Then I realised this is true and it's 2015 now. Time flies when you are a freelancer. I did my first freelancing while I was still studying. Back then it was just a side project, something to fill my portfolio and to pay my bread. Later on, after I graduated, it became my first and only source of income, the butter on my bread. I'm not fond of sitting in an office and doing the same thing day after day. I d...
Creating a website from content to structure to design
Most website projects are very design-heavy. This is due to many reasons, one of them the rise of visual web. Website projects are design oriented also because of the over enhanced position of the designers. Unfortunately many of designers have only understanding of the aesthetics, but no knowledge of the technical aspects or even how people use websites. Additionally website projects usually don't include people with that sort of overall understanding of web and people using websites, and the technical understanding is included in projects as the last part of it. This is why design often co...
Do make me think!
15 years ago a book called Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug became THE book about web usability and human-computer interaction. Its idea was to simply explain how good programs and websites are direct and easy to use. It was in the mandatory reading for all the web designers, from beginners to advanced ones as well as it was sold as the book to give to your boss for reading. The book became incredibly popular and the second, updated edition was published 2005, which I happen to own myself. The third edition seems to have been published last year. Krug is a usability professional and the b...
Speed up your website
Speed is amongst the most important issues of a website. The performance of a site is especially important when using web with mobile devices outside full speed Wi-Fi connections is getting more common. Faster websites are much more user friendly and speeding up your site is one of the easy ways to improve its search engine visibility. Begin your process by testing your site with Google's PageSpeed Insights. It will give you two scores, one for mobile and one for desktop, between 0 and 100. If it happens that your score is above 85 it means your site is performing very well and anything ab...
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