How to make a website’s logo pop
Branding is the key to a fruitful, long-term relationship with clients and customers whether your selling hot dogs or Harley’s. Here we’ll show you how to tap into the power of a website’s logo and make it standout with proper placement and contrast. We’ve included screenshots and links to some of the best (and worst) logo layouts so you’ll know how to do it right.
Style different sections of a website the easy way
Patricia’s Petal Emporium wants you to bring their business to the web, but there’s a catch. You need to use unique style rules for pages depending on the type of flowers they showcase. Not to worry though. We’ll walk you through the options (with example XHTML and CSS markup) and show you how to use class attributes and the body tag to your advantage.
How to jump start the website design process
Every new website is another chance to wrestle with an empty canvas and put your imagination to the test. But sometimes the creative juices just don’t want to flow, and even the most seasoned web design guru can run into an artistic block on occasion. We’ll show you a simple four-step process you can use to squeeze some inspiration out of competitors’ websites and set your mind in motion.
Tableless web design pros and cons
At Five Finger Coding, we love both the advantages and challenges of building tableless layouts for websites. This time around we’ll share with you some of the realizations we’ve reached through our journey into web development, including the benefits we’ve reaped through tableless web designs and the reasons this can be a difficult but worthwhile art to master.
The five design elements every website needs
If you’ve never seen an episode of the original Japanese version of Iron Chef, you’re missing out on some valuable lessons in web design. Here we’ll cover the five main ingredients every website has to have in order to please a visitor’s palette, and we’ll offer some tips and tricks you can use to make sure visitors keep coming back for more.
