Web Designers – Charge What You’re Worth

Posted by Justin in UncategorizedJan 22nd, 2010 | 2 Comments After being a web designer for almost 10 years now I feel I need to give back a useful piece of advice which may help other web designers out there with a problem that comes with the territory of the industry. That problem is knowing what to charge and more importantly knowing how to charge what your worth. Web design is like any other industry or product and there is one golden rule that applies … you pay for what you get. However there is the problem of inexperienced web designers charging too much for there skills and the unfortunate talented web designers that unknowingly are charging...

A Google interface design glitch

Posted by Justin in UncategorizedDec 12th, 2008 | No Comments Anybody who uses the internet in any shape of form knows that Google are the internet gods. They are the masters of web searching, Google Earth, G-Mail, Adwords, AdSence and many other wonderful inventions that have shaped the Web to be what it is today. There is one very minuscule details that has bugged me for quite some time about the Google search results interface. Being a search engine optimiser and web designer I tend to look further into the search results that most people and also analyse the interface usability of the sites I visit. When im searching through pages and pages of results...

Do Websites Have Personality?

Posted by Justin in Uncategorized, web designAug 11th, 2008 | No Comments Everybody who uses the internet has come across hundreds if not thousands of websites, all with their own unique design, functionality and essentially an individual personality. Each one of those websites have been designed to reflect a certain image and generate an initial feeling when a user visits. The website could be bright and friendly, dark and moody or clean and trendy. Personality can be defined as a dynamic and organized set of characteristics possessed by a person that uniquely influences his or her cognitions, motivations, and behaviors in various situations (Ryckman, 2004). The word...