When you think of apple, probably one of the first things you think of is their wonderful product design. The iPhone, Macbook Pro and iPod are all beautiful products to say the least. Heck, even their website is pretty beautiful, but has Apple always been a connoisseur in the field of Product Design?

I’ve been blogging for a good amount of time now, and I’ve learned a good bit of information from others and how they operate, in order to improve the way that I blog. The fact is when I came into this business I had no knowledge of blogging, and I was pretty new to the whole concept.

Now I’m not saying I have all the answers to make your blog super successful and I honestly don’t think anyone does, but hopefully with these tips you won’t have to start from scratch like I did, and you’ll be able to learn how to make your new blog even better.

Recently, while following the hype that the iPad produced, Steve Jobs made a comment which stood out for me over the iPad and the fact that it didn’t support Adobe Flash. He said that Adobe were “lazy” and lack of Flash wouldn’t be a problem for the iPad since everyone will be moving onto HTML5, but is HTML5 really going to replace Flash?

Usability is a term used to denote the ease with which people can employ a particular tool or other human-made object in order to achieve a particular goal. (via Wikipedia)

When it comes to web design, usability, in essence, is how easy your users can get around your site. It all comes down to you making your users think about what they have to do as little as possible. When the user has to think about something as basic as getting around a site, it can become tedious and can turn your user off your site.

I watched Avatar the other day and I’ll admit, my first reaction wasn’t “Gosh, this’ll make an awesome article”. However while thinking about the movie one day I somehow managed to relate it to web design, and I thought it’d be a fun way to explain something I was already thinking of writing. There might be a few spoilers in here, so if you haven’t seen the movie you mightn’t want to read this (or you might, I don’t know).

In Avatar the main protagonist, Jake is brought to the mysterious world of Pandora, where he faces a lot of challenges that force him to make quick decisions on what to do. A lot of the stuff Jake goes through can be related back to web design, and below I’ll explain how.

Color is one of the most important parts of both web design, and design in general. Color helps to make things stand out, to give something purpose and to create an atmosphere. Color can define a brand, and it can be used to warn or to welcome.

10 Things is a Series of posts outlining 10 short and sweet points (sometimes more) to help you as a web developer

Getting exposure as a blogger when you start out can be hard. Today there’s so much competition from other bloggers, and grabbing an audience’s attention or standing out from the crowd can be hard when you’re just beginning. Below are 10 things to help you stand out from the crowd and get more exposure.

Over the past 10 years design has came on leaps and bounds from what it was originally thought out to be on the web. This has spread into various other parts of our lives such as TV user interfaces, posters and much more. The impact the web has had over the past 10 years has been enormous, from the dot com bubble burst right up to this very day.

Usability is key to any website; using websites is what people come to them for, so clearly how easily they can use it is incredibly important. Below are a few ways you can increase the usability of your website. Some of them are pretty straight forward to implement, and will definitely benefit your users.

The layout of your code can really affect how fast your project happens, and whether or not you meet deadlines. On top of that it can also determine how easy it is to read and edit later on, when you’re making alterations to it. That’s why it’s important to follow some of these best practices on how to successfully code a neat website.