Using illustration in your website is a great way to help build your brand and set it apart in this competitive market. We’ve noticed that there isn’t a lot of use of illustration around the web, which is surprising since advertising, magazines, and other media have been using it extensively for years along with photography.
When you start working on the content for your website and thinking about what you want to put there, it’s easy to start by seeing what other people with similar sites are doing. If you have a small mostly informational site you might think, “Well, I need a home page, an about page, a services/products page, and a contact page and that should do it”. It’s that simple, right? Put the info up and they’ll find their way around? Well, not so much.
I bet that a lot of designers who run their own businesses, like me, don’t actually spend a lot of time designing. Most of my day gets divided up into tasks that are decidedly not very “creative”, like administrative tasks, communication, planning, marketing, small touch ups, coding, etc. etc.
Jul
27
2009
Koldo’s New Art and Illustration site
Well, just 7 months after the second redesign of Koldo’s site, we decided to redesign it again! After a few long talks, we decided that he needed a new design to fit with his new store and that the design wasn’t working for him as well as it could have been.
Jul
10
2009
Introducing BluePrint Balance.com
BluePrint Balance is now live, whoopee! BluePrint Balance is run by Laurie Gay, a writer, lawyer and coach who helps burnt-out corporate employees discover the energizing careers that they are meant for and express the best of themselves in work and in life.
Here are some questions you may from a web designer once you have established who you are interested in working with.
Finding a suitable designer for your business is important. Part of your business’s reputation depends on putting your business’s best face forward online. This includes having a good website.
In part one of this series, I outlined the information you need to gather before you contact a web designer. In this article, I will show you how to place that information you gathered into a RFP document.
