11 Web Design Fails You Shouldn't Ignore

You need a website, where do you start? Should you build your website with an easy page builder like Wix, Weebly, or Squarespace? If you are dead set on doing it yourself, and you're not a not a web developer, you should definitely consider it. These days there are a number of very solid website easy builders that are very easy to use and can create very nice looking web sites in a short period of time. In the old days, the builders were cumbersome, buggy and normally the content they created looked pretty awful. If you had a business, it was almost imperative that you hire a real live person, a web designer or developer.

There are so many things you can do with Illustrator and every year with the new releases form Adobe, the number of features grow, and so the number of creative techniques you can use also grows. It can be hard to keep up on using all the features but these tutorials will give you a good head start. And they might even give you an edge over your colleagues and certainly over your competition.

Photoshop is a big, deep program - no doubt about that. There's a lot to learn and there are slow ways and fast ways to do almost everything in Photoshop. In short, there is always room for improving your workflow, speeding your design process.

This is part of a great post from our friends at inspiredm.com -- they got the CSS Awards team to create a gallery from last weeks submissions that we think you'll really enjoy.

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The Art Of The Single Page Website Design...

When is a single page web design better than a multipage design?

I guess that's a question the site owner has to answer, but when you want to give your user a scrolling experience which is often faster than a page re-loading experience, the single page design fits the bill. Take a look for yourself...

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You don't always want to shout for attention and scream at the user with your colors. The more muted palettes shown below send a message of class and understated elegance - subliminally even - to the user. What are the considerations of using a muted palette?