The author of this post is James King, a web designer from UK. He writes useful hints and tips on blogging, building traffic, and SEO. He plans to set up on his online business in the field of website promotion. James has bachelor of Arts in multimedia production

So you want to be a design superstar? Huh? If you want to be a design superstar you need to pay your dues and work hard to get to the top of design success. The road to being a design superstar is a long ambiguous journey where you will learn so much from: creativity; productivity; search engine optimisation; and if you’re up for it how to be finically free. The path to be a design superstar can be as intense as you wish. But design excellence goes hand in hand with: effort; discipline and determination. If you want to be a design superstar, you’ve come to the right place.

Web design competitors

One of the biggest competitors is business owners. Many business owners would rather use a piece of software that magically creates them a webpage and all of sudden business owners think the jobs done and they are over the moon with the results. The results at times are terrifying. It is important, that professional web designers are capable of providing services and results that these software packages may not offer. Continue to read this article »

There are few web designers today not familiar with the popular web browser, FireFox. Mozilla created this adaptable open source program and the first version was released in late 2004. Since that time, third-party developers have created over two-thousand add-ons. As of early 2008, it is the second most popular browser worldwide, quietly nipping at Internet Explorer’s heels. So just what is it that makes this nifty software a web designer’s best friend?

Primarily it is fast, lean, and extremely powerful. In addition, the vast number of useful add-ons (generally referred to as plug-ins or extensions by other programs) is a designer’s dream. Designers can modify Firefox code to allow it to do exactly what the designer needs it to do. Oh, and did I mention it is a totally free program?

Firefox renders web pages as meant to be. Designers don’t need to use tricks and band-aids to make their pages work. This is in large part because Firefox plays nicely on the web by adhering to the standards created for web pages. The Firefox browser is also quite secure so designers can be confident that their designs are not putting personal or sensitive online information at risk, as does the “other” popular web browser. Continue to read this article »