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I haven't been blogging here lately but I have been busy. I'm excited to announce my new WordPress theme business.
Read More »Visuals are an important component of the internet and popular websites are often those that are heavily photo-based. Websites like Buzzfeed and Reddit get an amazing amount of hits because of their photo-content.
Read More »Landing your first design job is always the hardest. Here are a few pieces of advice for students and people looking to get into the field for the first time.
Read More »Many web designers come to the realization that they need to be able to build more than just static web pages. Some may look for a web developer partner, others look to become developers themselves, but most turn to a…
Read More »As a designer you must posses this skill, and yes, it is a skill. It can be one of the hardest things to do if you are not a very assertive person. Yet it is a vital part of becoming…
Read More »How do you learn to write for the web? It certainly isn’t a major taught is school. You would think it a simple task. After all, many of us write in some form every day. Yet of the proficient writers out there, maybe only a handful of those are capable web copy writers. Of the other however many people out there burdened with writing web copy—how is it possible that they do such a butcher of a job? And knowing it is so bad, why do we web designer do nothing about it?
Read More »More and more people are beginning to believe that design is a commodity. It is a small problem now, but will continue to grow as time goes on. Cheap, good looking websites are becoming easier and easier to make and with far lower learning curves. Creating a website for some people is the same thing as buying a car, you pick out the one you like and take it home, and we as designers are largely to blame.
Read More »When it comes to good design, it can be the most basic elements that make it happen. Shadow and gradiation of colors can be used to both create perspective and depth, as well as contrast in web design. For a while now we’ve only been able to create these in Photoshop but now we have some tools available in CSS as well.
Read More »When it comes to awesome looking websites, conferences and festivals tend to be some of the best. They are ment to be fun or informative events so designers are able to have fun with the design. Often experimenting with new techniques, playing with wild colors, strange type, and crazy imagery.
Read More »If you do any kind of freelance work you’ve probably been contacted by someone wanting to start an online business or who has a small business and they want to move it to the web. Unfortunately, most of these people are very unaware of what it takes to be successful online. They don’t understand how it works, how much it costs and how much work it actually can take.
Read More »The new site is up and almost finished. Still a few bugs, a lot of tweaking to do and a few old pages still hanging around. I've also has a few posts published at other blogs around the web, so I've put together a little list of those.
Read More »The lastest version of Firefox, which is 10, has some fancy new features for web designers and developers. For the first time Firefox has built-in inspect element functionality for html and css. It isn’t revolutionary, but the design and functionality is pretty slick. That, and this is just the first iteration. It sounds like they have more to come with each release.
Read More »Since the age of dinosaurs (1990’s) when the web was new, web typography has lagged way behind print. From the fonts used, to ligatures and special characters, setting up columns and grids, kerning, leading, tracking and pretty much all other aspects of type design, web typography just couldn’t compete.
Read More »Couchable is a web design blog created by Tyler Herman. Not really updated anymore because I'm busy doing freelance design work and busy launching my little WordPress theme shop Real Theme Co. You can read a little more about my at my personal site Tylerherman.com