Category Archives: Web Design

Posts and information related to web design and development

Great Typography Formula for Web Design

“The measure in a paragraph should be easy for the visitor to read.” Robert Bringhurst had a great formula which can give you a good starting point for determining font-size for typography in your web design. Especially important for Smarphone and Tablet UX.

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Web Design Mistakes

So you are finally ready to create that web site for your small business.  You have spent countless hours pouring over hundreds of web sites to get some ideas and now you have a good picture in your mind of what you want your site to do and how you want it to look.

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Web design basics: Make an impression

Your web site has only seconds to make an impression on the visitor. Today, people want instant results. Few people even wait to see the entire web design before making their decision. If it does not quickly grab their attention, they will hit the BACK button and Search Engines keep track of that too. If too many of your visitors are quickly returning to the search engine, the traffic it sends to your site will slow to a trickle and could even stop completely. Why would it keep sending visitors to your site if your site isn’t giving them what they want?

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Manipulate Google Results

Every SEO out there would love to be able to control Google’s SERPs. Can you imagine being able to move your site above your competitors or even being able to delete them completely? Oh, the power! Well, you can do just that – sort of. Our web design blog posted about the Google Ranking Experiment […]

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New Project Completed

We are proud to announce that we have put the finishing touches on the new web site for the Carteret County Chamber of Commerce. This was one of the larger projects that we have undertaken and we are pretty proud of it. When they approached us, their main goal was to have a site that […]

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Web Design Articles

We have compiled a list of our web design articles and posted them on the corporate web site. If you are in the market for a web site, you might benefit from the article “Choosing a Professional Web Design Company” or if you are going to try your hand at designing your own site, check […]

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The Best Free Web Development Software

Everyone loves FREE. So, here is a list of some of the best free software we have found with regards to web design and development. We personally use or have used the software listed here and none of these software makers paid us to get listed here. We did it because we are just so […]

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South Carolina License Plates Feature Web Site

After 10 years of the “Smiling Faces, Beautiful Places” slogan, South Carolina is changing up their license plate design. I know, I know. License plates are not exactly “technology news”. But I am mentioning North Carolina’s neighbor to the, er, south because their new license plate is going to feature South Carolina’s tourism website: TRAVEL2SC.COM. […]

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Web Development Quick Reference Guides

Cameron Chapman over at Mashable has compiled a flaming-hot list of web development resources. The very first one on his list is the one that I keyed in on. It is a list of cheat sheets and quick reference guides found over at Tech Cheat Sheets. It should be of particular interest to anyone programming […]

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Professional Web Design

In the past, a business could get by without a web site. Then, only the large businesses invested the time and money in creating a web presence. Now, even small businesses have web sites. In addition, there are millions of web design companies out there ready to get you online and that can lead to […]

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