Website Design Blog. Evoart

To some extent I think so, yes. There’s plenty of us out there who really struggle when it comes to selecting the colour palette for our next website concept, or logo design. With practice it gets a little easier, but even so it can be a real struggle for even the most experienced of us. After all a splash of red here, and a hint of black there can connote so many things and conjure up different feelings for different people, so its no wonder the world of colour can be so daunting! Read More »

This tutorial won’t take you longer than 10 minutes and you’ll find out how to create a really nice simple, sleek and stylish box, perfect for a content area on your next web layout. This technique works best on darker backgrounds and involves using a subtle gradient, a stroke and some feathering - thats all there is to it. Lets get started! Read More »

Some of you guys may have noticed that about a month ago I finally put the new version of my portfolio live! Designing your own website is a notoriously difficult task, but in my spell freelancing (December ‘07) I knew my old portfolio just wasn’t projecting the right message and it was definitely a time for a fresh coat of paint. So I braced myself & took the plunge… Read More »

If you haven’t already heard of del.icio.us, where oh where have you been?! I recall discovering it about 2 and a half years ago and ever since its been my homepage - thats just how valuable it is to me. In this article we’ll look at how designers can really benefit from using del.icio.us over Google, and hopefully you’ll all make it your homepage today. I promise it will be worth it. Read More »

Just a quick little post this week to get back into the swing of things. I’m not sure whether all of you will find this useful, but I hope you might do. This week at work I noticed that quite often when I’m building a site I’ll take little snippets of code from an array of previous sites that I have built. After racking my brains for 10 minutes as to the last website I used the ‘PNG Hack’ on, I thought I’d create a place on Evoart with all these useful bits of code stored! Read More »