The speed of a web page is a strong determinant of your website’s success. The faster your page loads – the happier your viewers are. Well, that may not entirely be true (happy viewers result from good content) – but what good is good content if it takes too long to load? As we all

One of the challenging parts of web design is to provide exactly what your client needs. Some of them look to advertise a product. Others offer some kind of service, while the rest want a website for general information about their organization. Recently, I had to design for a local restaurant. Restaurant owners are quite

Now we have come to part 2 of this series on how to create a single page portfolio from scratch. This part focuses on the HTML and CSS mark up to convert our .psd file to a living web page. The tools we need for this is of course – Photoshop, an HTML editor (in

I’m a big fan of Woothemes. It seems that each time they come out with a theme – they push the boundaries of web design. Take a look at their latest creation: Therapy – I can’t help but fall in love with the fine background gradients, smooth and seamless transparencies and nice rounded edges. But

Another one to give away to my fellow designers looking for a quick way to mock up a website. In this case – an elementary school. This is one of those contest that ooooh, came sooo close to winning. The contest I refer to are the ones similar to crowdspring and 99designs. Its an entire

I have decided to give away my mock ups for clients that didn’t work out. Since I have a grip of them just taking up space in my hard drive – I’ve decided to let the public have it. They are complete layered Photoshop files. The layers are organized into groups, vectors etc. Icons and