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Designing a Usable Table of Contents for Your Website: Trends & Examples

Designing a Usable Table of Contents for Your Website: Trends & Examples

With super large pages or complex websites it helps to add a table of contents. But a ToC on the web operates differently than in a book or magazine. The goal is to link the table sections internally to pages in your website or inside a single post. This way visitors can jump around quickly…

Tooltips In Web Design: Trends, Examples & Free Plugins

Tooltips In Web Design: Trends, Examples & Free Plugins

There’s no better way to show extra info than with a tooltip. These little text boxes are incredibly simple to create and don’t take up much space on the page. With modern CSS/JS you can restyle tooltips any way you like and get them to perfectly match your layout. But there are many different reasons…

Hero Images: Trends & Examples For Web Designers

Hero Images: Trends & Examples For Web Designers

Hero images are the large background photos you see in website headers. They’re prominent on ecommerce sites but have branched out to every major type of website. These large hero images are a staple of modern web design but they all come with their own techniques. In this post I’ll showcase a bunch of hero…

Mobile vs. Desktop UX Techniques For Web Designers

Mobile vs. Desktop UX Techniques For Web Designers

Designing a website used to be just creating for fixed resolutions. But in our modern mobile world things have changed. How you style your site should vary based on target devices. Mobile users browse the web differently than desktop users and you’ll need to design for these differences. I’d like to share my go-to strategies…