No, Social Media is not a fad and it is here to say. I am sure most of you have realized how businesses and startups are leveraging various social media tools to promote, engage customers, build relationships, to generate leads, for customer service, PR issues and so on.

So we do understand the importance of social media, and incorporating it into a web design. It is important to get the viewers attention to social media links and for that you need a good strategy and phenomenal design. To design good call-to-action social media icons you need to think about style, size, positioning and approach etc. You need the attention of your viewers without distracting them from the actual website content. Your social media icons should be easily locatable and recognizable.

Feel free to get in touch with us for inspiring Web 2.0 design social media icons

Here are a few social media icons for inspiration; 

It is so true that it isn’t in the tool but in the hands which use those tools. A bad workman WILL blame his tools. So do not really think about the tools too much before really conquering the design and design standards naivety in you. No doubt, understanding the workflow of a design tool like Dreamweaver can work wonders and is required for authoring your website; criticisms mushroom if you do not pay heed to some points and avoid design mistakes.

Not only amateurs but experienced designers too can sometime make a few mistakes that can tarnish the usability and usefulness of a website. Let’s take a look at them.

1. PDF Files for Online Reading – Think from users’ perspective. Would you like to have your flow of surfing the website being broken? Not at all! Moreover, the standard browser commands don’t function the same way for PDF files as they do for an HTML page which makes the surfing more frustrating. Because the PDF file is not a web page, it does not show the navigation bars. This makes impossible for the user to directly hover to any other pages on the website. In short, PDF files are optimized for printing and are quite repulsive as far as reading and navigation are concerned.

2. Not Changing the Color of Visited Links – The implications of not implementing the minute details can be adverse. In case of sites with number of pages, users tend to identify their navigational pattern by recognizing the color of links. Read more…