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While many companies are getting ready to do the budget for next year, few of them are putting anything towards design. Marketing is important but what about putting a new face on your marketing?

Looking around at other sites and with all the new technologies that spring up every day, your website has to stay on somewhat of an edge if you expect to look like a legitimate business…especially in website design.

UPDATE: Show Me Wild and Crazy

After getting a client request for a wild and crazy design, I racked my brain thinking about what the client had and hadn’t potentially seen before. I probably started and stopped on this particular design five different times.

Adding to the problem was the fact that this client was fairly familiar with my previous clients and design work.

HOW Alibi Gets Inspiration

I just got back from the HOW Design Conference in Atlanta and all I can say is WOW. This was my first time at HOW and I was extremely impressed with all the speakers and the amount of useful information that each session provided. I’ll write up a more detailed summary, but I’m going to post it on my design blog, so go check it out.

Website Design Solutions for your Small Business

The website design for your small business can be the life or death of your company. Since design is subjective, anyone can instantly be turned off by the design of a website. Nothing says "small time" faster than an outdated and unloved website, but there are solutions for small businesses that don't require large budgets to throw at the website design and development.

Ugly Websites That Work

I've seen a lot of articles lately about why ugly sites are getting so much traffic. Some of these sites include Craig’s List and Plenty of Fish. These sites aren't attractive, but they are getting traffic, why is that?

Sites like Craig’s list are not design heavy at all. In fact it looks like they took the design budget and threw it out the window.