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Bad Web Design: Stop Drowning Your Visitors In Ads

If you can design a website that makes the visitor feel something… that’s a good thing. Unless that something is pure RAGE, then that’s called bad web design. Dear Ad Supported Websites, I get it. I really do. I know that providing free information on your website needs to have some sort of revenue generating…

Homepage Battle 2018: Which Homepage Do You Think Will Win?

Think you can predict the future? Let’s see how good you are… We just relaunched the Web Designers Academy with a greater focus on consistently producing more useful / interesting content, easier menu navigation and an overall more modern design. A large part of this new design effort is the design of the homepage and……

How to easily recreate the slick PayPal design (in about 10 minutes)

From their humble beginning helping eBay sellers unload rare Beanie Babies to spunky stay at home moms, PayPal has changed the way everyone buys and sells things online. Back in the nineties PayPal went against the common understanding that banks control your money. They gave normal people like you and me some serious buying (and selling) power.…

Homepages We Love: The Newton (by CloudMagic) Homepage

It makes me happy when I stumble upon a website that understands good design… and the CloudMagic people really get it. This post has nothing to do with the Newton email product itself, but it has everything to do with the design of its new homepage which can be found here). Before I tell you why I…

Web Designer Inspiration: Old Evernote Homepage VS NEW Evernote Homepage

I love Evernote. It’s amazing… and I don’t call many things amazing. However most recently it was the mouth-gasm inducing hybrid food I found called, the Sushi Burrito, yeah it’s a thing… ya gotta try it. This post isn’t going to try and convince you to use Evernote for keeping track of client meets, scanning business receipts and…

Web Design Inspiration: The (Updated) Learn Gravity Forms Homepage

Since late February the Learn Gravity Forms course has been teaching people how to do amazing things with Gravity Forms that they never thought possible. It’s really changing how people use the form plugin. Recently (as in last weekend) we completely changed the homepage design and we want to break it down for you here.…

The Lost Art of Footer Design – Some Inspiration To Make Great Footers

It’s hard to make every single element on a website “pop”. You know what, I really hate that word “pop”. Clients use that word all the time… Can you make my logo “pop” a little more? That banner needs a little more “pop”! That text needs to “pop” more. Really? WTF is POP anyway? From years…

Web Design Inspiration: The Happy DropBox Homepage

While this series of inspiration for web designers is all about the design of the website and NOT about the actual company/product… this one happens to be both. First off… the product. If you don’t use DropBox, stop reading this and go get it. That is NOT an affiliate link, it’s just a smart thing…

Web Design Inspiration: Get Inspired By Harvest Time Tracking

Get inspired by the web design of a simple time tracking service called Harvest. We’ve never used the Harvest time tracking service, but if the people that designed the website are the people that designed the Harvest interface… then it’s probably awesome. Here’s why we like it: Overall: Harvest is a great combination of eye-candy and…