• Copyright Free Images: 20+ Resources You Need to Know

    Looking to find copyright free images to use in your blogs, websites or social media posts? The following sites are the best on the internet. Do you frequently share images online? If so, it’s essential to have a virtual Rolodex of go-to websites to quickly find images. It’s also important that you have websites in…

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  • How to: Typography for Visual Content That Doesn’t Suck

    Choosing the right typography (or fonts) for your visual content can be difficult if you’re not a seasoned designer, but it doesn’t have to be. The good news is that all you need are a handful of helpful tips to start improving your visual content typography today! In this post, I cover some basic principals…

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  • How to Create Optimized Social Media Images Like A Boss

    Everyone is doing visual content these days. Follow these image creation tips and leave them in the dust. Smart bloggers, social media stars and marketers alike have caught on to the visual content trend. Have you? It’s clear that visual content allows you to grab more eyeballs, yields more engagement and performs better long-term for…

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  • Method to My Madness: Redesign 2016

    Method to My Madness: Redesign 2016

    Instead of an all-out redesign, this year I decided to spend time refining. The results are delightful. Every year since the inception of this blog I’ve done a complete redesign, generally launched at the beginning of the year. Until this year. This year, instead of doing a complete overhaul I’ve decided to think big… about…

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  • Method to My Madness: Redesign 2015

    Method to My Madness: Redesign 2015

    Web design is more than making things look good. It’s a series of thoughtful choices that yield a beautiful and functional end result. This is the start of the 4th year that this blog has been in existence. Every year I have done a redesign and every year I grow because of it. This year…

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  • How to Make Visual Content That Doesn’t Suck: 3 Easy Principles

    Three basic design principles to help you create stunning visual content. So you want to create awesome images that get attention and, more importantly, get shared? You’re not a designer though? Is that right? Well strap in, because you’re going to get a crash course in visual design without any fluff. Plain, simple, practical design…

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  • The Best Tools to Create Amazing Visual Content

    Creating visual content that grabs people by the eyeballs doesn’t require a degree in design as long as you have the right tools. You need to create great visuals in order to hook your audience by their eyeballs and draw them into your content. Their brains will connect with your image 60,000 times faster than your…

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  • 7 of the Best Mobile Apps to Create Visual Content

    Creating visual content on mobile can be fast and easy with the right apps. Visual content is a powerful way to share a message that catches people’s eye. But you don’t always have access to a desktop computer when inspiration strikes. Whether you just want to share a great quote you just heard, or you…

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  • Method to My Madness: Blog Redesign 2013

    Method to My Madness: Blog Redesign 2013

    There’s more to web design than just making things look pretty. There’s a method to the madness and in this post I want to share some of my redesign madness with you. It’s been one full month now since I released my new blog design into the wild. By the grace of God, I have…

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  • Social Media And Blog Design

    Social Media And Blog Design

    Have you ever thought about social media as being a key part in your blog design? If not, then let me be the first to tell you, it’s an essential piece of your blog design. There are some experts who will tell you that making your social media links prominent in your web design is…

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