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 [...]