It's important to keep the branding and design of your social media channels consistent with that of your website. Each network has its own specs for the background 'cover image' used on profiles. Below are some resources for templates that will help you ...
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Official Social Media Logos
Over the past few years, Facebook, Twitter and Google+ have gone through some fairly dramatic logo updates. In some cases, the updates happen often enough that it's hard for designers to keep track of what the proper usage rules are for their branding. ...
Responsive and Adaptive Design
The difference between adaptive and responsive design The difference between adaptive design and responsive design is that adaptive design adjusts to predefined specifications (or “break points”) and serves up an experience based on whichever specs...
Optimizing for a Touch UI
Make links easy to touch Traditional websites have text links that are easy for a mouse to hover over and click. But on a touchscreen, the same links seem smaller, and can be difficult to pinpoint with your finger – regardless of how slender it is. ...
Mobile Apps
The history Mobile apps really need no introduction. If you’ve ever used a smartphone, you know what a mobile app is and have probably already used one. What started as micro-versions of desktop apps that allowed you to accomplish routine tasks on t...
Measuring Success
How will your client determine whether its new website is delivering on its investment? Metrics give you the ability to analyze visitor numbers and visitor behaviour on the site. What do visitors experience and how do they react? Measuring these fa...
The Live Site
So the big day has finally come. You have sign-off and the site is ready to launch. Congratulations – but your work isn’t done yet. Aside from post-launch site monitoring, closing gaps that may have been postponed in the interest of expedien...
Picking the Right Colours
Though there aren't any rules about the colours that should and shouldn't be paired together, there are tools that can help you pick the best colours for the web and provide you with an easy way to match them with their corresponding hex codes (your devel...
Implementation
Once the site map, wireframes, and design are nailed down, it’s time to hand off to the development team. Don’t forget that the architecture and design can be handed off first, and content can follow later. Hand-off of design If...
The Importance of Mobile-Friendly Websites
This is all you need to know: Check out the full presentation here: Mobile is Eating the World...
Understanding Web Fonts
At long last it's finally practical to use more than the traditional "web-safe" fonts on the websites you design. Sure, there were options going back several years, but we're emphasizing “practical". One of the complexities that still remains with we...
Screen Resolutions and the Fold Line
What you need to know How do I organize my content so that it gets maximum exposure on the largest number of devices? The history “The fold” was established in the early days of newspaper printing, and refers to showing the most import...