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Plums are Royalty, Stretching with Friends, Mysterious Design & More
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Take a look at these featured web designs I saw this month! This month’s collection includes: 5: Plums are Royalty This website’s design makes plum juice seem really fancy and upper-class. I’ve never had the urge to try plum juice, but maybe today is that day. I really like the color theme, using dark purples…
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Social Media Marketing For People Who Hate Doing It
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Confession time. I really don’t like doing social media marketing. It’s always at the bottom of my to-do list, and I often do every possible other task first before starting. However, a good chunk of my website traffic comes from social media referrals, so social media marketing really is necessary and helpful for my business.…
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Home Entertainment, Good & Bad Simplicity, Fun in Norway, and More.
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Take a look at my favorite web designs I saw this month! This month’s collection includes: Home Entertainment Bored and stuck at home? This site has the simple mission to give people great ideas of what to do when they are bored at home (or in quarantine). I love the colorful, cohesive design and how…
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How I host my WordPress website for free with Netlify
Did you know this website is static and hosted for free? I build this site locally with WordPress, and use a static site generator to push new versions of the site up to Netlify. Since I only charge my nonprofit/ministry clients for my overhead costs, I try to keep these costs as low as possible.…
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Interactive Graphs, Web Design Pet Peeve & Quiz-Style Sales
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Take a look at my favorite (and least favorite) web designs I saw this month! This month’s collection includes: An interactive graph I can’t stop sliding around Isn’t this graph animation and interaction cool? What a great way to show customers how much they could save with this product. Instead of showing static figures, graphs,…
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Blank Page Syndrome – How I Start a Design
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Design reminds me a little of writing papers when I was in school. I open a new Sketch/Illustrator/InDesign document, and stare at the blank white screen, thinking, “Well, now what?” It reminds me of when I open a blank Word document to start writing, and have no idea where to start. For me, design feels…
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Sparkling Smiles, Falling Shapes, Fun at Work
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Take a look at my favorite web designs I saw this month! This month’s collection includes: Sparkling Smiles Ever since seeing this sparkling water brand in the grocery store for the first time, I loved their conversational language and simple humor in their brand. Each flavor has a short version of “hello” on the can…
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How to be productive when you work from home
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I’ve worked from home for over 5 years now. At first, I didn’t think I needed any of these tips. I was so excited to work from home. No commute. No traffic. No distractions. No freezing cold office. Doesn’t that sound great? It was. Until it wasn’t. Working from home can be really hard. It…
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Future Food, Houseplant Killers, and Pop-up Books
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Take a look at my favorite web designs I saw this month! This month’s collection includes: Futuristic Food Art This site has such unique icons, combining food with a futuristic line-art design. This matches perfectly with their brand, as they are using technology to minimize food waste. I also love the animated apple at the…
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How to Write Website Content for Your Web Designer
Do you need to write content for your new website? Stressed and have no idea where to start? Many web designers (myself included) require their clients to write the content for their website. This can be a super-intimidating process, so I thought I’d write a guide to help you break this up into manageable chunks.…
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