When you’re starting in web design, its hard to build up a portfolio of websites behind you to explore and develop your web design skills. Practicing and developing your web design skills is especially important when you’re aiming for a career in web design and you need to have those skills before you take on […]
Websites are a great way to go above and beyond for a school project. If you make a website, you take your assignment to a level, not like any other student. Thankfully for you, websites can be quite cheap and easy to set up if you’re willing to learn and put the time into it. […]
Websites can be expensive if you go with an agency to make it, and so you wonder if it would be feasible if you could create your own website! Would it be easy? How long would it take? Could it be good enough? Based on my 6+ years of experience in making websites, I can […]
There are many different factors to making an effective website like content, design, usability, and layout. The layout can be particularly important because it control alot of variables that you might not be able to see at a first glance. Let’s explore what the purpose of layouts are, why website layouts are important, and finally […]
Before any great website, a great plan is made. Wireframing a website is a great way to start planning your website visually and quickly. There are different ways you can go about making a wireframing like using software specifically designed for wireframing or just by good old hand-drawing it either on paper or a whiteboard. […]
What people consider to be the best and award-winning-worthy website design seems to be all over the place. On the one hand, you have some seriously beautiful and stunning websites out there like the ones found on awwwards.com that stand out from their competition. But on the other hand, you have websites like Amazon.ca and […]
Sliders, or as I like to call them, interactable ghost towns, are common in websites, especially ones built with WordPress because there so easy to add. But if they’re so modern and common, they have to be a good thing right? Well, to get to the point, sliders are shit and you shouldn’t be using […]
There are great websites out there winning awards for the “best web designs”. The most prominent leader in showcasing some of the “best web design” out there is Awwwards.com. Awwwards ranks the quality of these modern websites out of 10, giving out a lot of recognition and attention to the winners. But if web design […]
What is Repetition in Graphic Design? Repetition is a design principle in graphic design that essentially comes down to repeating elements on a page. These repeated elements can be used to add emphasis or consistency on certain areas, or even just to make the graphic look nicer. Repetition is mainly used to make your design […]
When a website ages it can quite quickly look offputting and not up-to-date with the latest design trends, even to the untrained eye. Modernizing a website is a practice that all web designers go through for a lot of businesses just getting around to updating their online presents. Some websites are just too outdated to […]
I'm The Website Architect, just another web developer in Toronto, Canada. I'm passionate about Web Design, WordPress, and anything to do with websites. My goal is to make the Internet a more beautiful and usable place, one design choice and website at a time.
