Usage rights are complicated, and I am not a lawyer, but I recently had a client who wanted to use a simple font for their logo. They had not purchased the font, but gotten it with their Microsoft Word software. Could they legally use the font to create their logo? Unfortunately, this is not a…
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No Text on the Home Page and SEO
Recently, image only home pages have been a big trend in website design. Yes, they are very pretty. But, if no one finds that pretty page, what use is it? I recently had a designer come to me with a website design where the home page (and most of the other pages) were image only….
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Font Inspriation
In my new venture to learn more about web design (as opposed to development), I’ve recently been looking into typography and came across this excellent article full of real life inspiration. http://designinstruct.com/inspiration-web-design/google-fonts-examples/ The article features only free Google Fonts, which I love. The article not only shows you design examples but also gives you the…
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Going Responsive: To Customize Your Current Template or Use a New Theme?
Recently Google has given me a brand new job. And by that, I don’t mean I actually got a job at Google. (I wish, right?) I mean Google’s new algorithm is keeping me busy converting old WordPress themes to a responsive design. On April 21, 2015, Google started giving preference in mobile results to those…
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Your Logo is Too Big
Although I am a WordPress developer now, I studied marketing and design in college. Honestly, I love them both. And when clients come to me a with a bad design, it really makes me cringe. Sometimes I wonder, is it my place to say something about a client’s bad design? A bad design is going…
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