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We hear the words "user experience" get thrown around all the time when it comes to web design, but what does it really mean? If you define the phrase in a broader sense, it means everything that includes a person's emotions, attitudes and behaviors concerning using a certain product (read: a website), system or even service.
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Chances are that you've seen infinite scrolling on various websites with greater frequency. This scrolling technique is characterized by the dynamic addition of web content at the bottom of a webpage, each time a user scrolls down to the bottom of said webpage and nears what would be the end of the content. While it's been around for a few years, it's only been picking up steam as a design trend as of late.
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Of all the design choices you can possibly run into when designing, picking the most suitable icons is one of those that you just take for granted. That's not the right attitude to take, though, as icons are one of the most fundamental ways that site visitors interact with any given website. Therefore, it behooves you to spend a fair amount of time in thinking about your choice of icons during the design phase.
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Being a web designer is about so much more than just being a very skilled designer who stays on top of the latest coding and technical details. Since being a web designer means, for the most part, a whole lot of freelance work, you have to essentially be a good businessman or woman to succeed. If you can't do something as basic as writing gripping and persuasive copy on your web-design portfolio, then you will not have much success at snagging clients.
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Website builders are a quick alternative for creating a site. While it's best if you have coding and design skills because in this case you can make the site look and work exactly to your liking. That said, most website builders can actually be used by anybody, even if he or she has absolutely no coding/design skills. Here are the most popular website builders - they all allow to build a basic site but many of them have advanced functionality, such as a shopping cart, promotion tools, or various...
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Every web designer has been there at least one time in his career (and possibly many more): Your client is an overbearing and ultra - difficult person who stubbornly insists on what he wants even though it's unreasonable, and you as the designer know better. So what do you do? Pull your hair out, gnash your teeth and scream? If it makes you feel better, go ahead, but once you calm down, you'll understand that there's a way to bring difficult clients in line.
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Freelancing could be the best choice ever, if it weren't for income instability. However, if you know how to avoid drastic income fluctuations and build a solid income base, freelancing will work for you like a charm. Here are some simple tips how to deal with the financial ups and downs of freelancing.
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Storytelling in web design is becoming a trend that's catching fire more and more. Partly ushered in by various parallax-scrolling sites that use the angle like nobody's business, storytelling in web design can be a creative and effective way of engrossing your site visitors while telling them about your products and services.
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Though typography is the most important part of web design, scrolling is an element that is quite important, too, which is putting it lightly. Especially with the increasing popularity of parallax-scrolling sites, scrolling is something that designers may want to put a renewed focus on. When you want to explore any given site's different webpages...you'll inevitably have to scroll down the page to see what's up.
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What makes bad web design? Things like abysmal navigation, poor scrolling, dreadful typography, embarrassing graphics or illustrations, an absence of responsiveness and no attention to the user experience are all contributing factors. If you're a designer, the last thing you want is to be associated with a miserable site design!
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