Web Design Basics

Your design looked flawless on screen. Then the print shop sent it back: low resolution, needs 300 DPI. That rejection trips up a lot…

Design a bright blue logo on your screen, send it to print, and watch it come back looking flat. That gap is where CMYK…

Send a beautiful photo to a printer and get back a blurry mess. The culprit is almost always a mix-up in the DPI vs…

Ask a designer how many pixels in an inch, and you won’t get one number back. You’ll get a question in return: on a…

Your photo looks razor sharp on your phone, then prints blurry and pixelated. The gap between those two moments has a name. Understanding PPI…

Every screen you look at has a shape, and that shape has a name. If you have ever cropped a photo for Instagram or…

Two CSS units. One letter of difference. A surprising amount of confusion. The em vs rem question trips up developers daily, because both are…

You set an element to 100vh, it looks perfect on your laptop, then a phone chops the bottom off. Welcome to CSS viewport units.…

You’ve typed it a hundred times. font-size: 16px, margin: 8px, width: 320px. But stop for a second: what does px stand for, and why…

You measure something in inches, then the spec sheet in front of you is written in millimeters. Now what? The short answer: one inch…

Two screens can carry the exact same specs on paper and look nothing alike in person. The reason usually comes down to one number.…

You design something bright and clean on screen. It prints, and the greens look muddy, the blues fall flat. That gap is the whole…

Print a photo and it looks blurry. Set your gaming mouse and the cursor flies off screen. Same three letters, two totally different headaches.…

Pick the wrong CSS unit and your text stays frozen while a low-vision reader begs their browser to make it bigger. That single choice…

That frosted glass look on Apple’s macOS Big Sur menus and Microsoft’s Windows 11 panels? It has a name. Glassmorphism is a UI design…

In 2019, a single Dribbble post by Alexander Plyuto changed how thousands of designers thought about depth in digital interfaces. The concept blew up…

Most websites have too much going on. Too many buttons, too many colors, too many things fighting for attention at the same time. Minimal…

Not every site needs to stretch and squish to fit every screen. Sometimes the smarter move is building separate layouts, each one made for…

Every website you visit has a layout system holding it together. Most of the time, that system is a grid layout. A grid layout…

A 13px margin here, a 15px gap there, a 20px padding somewhere else. That is how most interfaces end up looking inconsistent, and nobody…

Most people center everything. And most compositions end up looking flat because of it. Understanding what is the rule of thirds in design changes…

Ever wonder why some layouts feel instantly clear while others make you squint and guess? The answer is usually spacing. Understanding what is proximity…

Every design team hits the same wall eventually. The product grows, screens multiply, and suddenly buttons look different on every page. That is the…

Most teams confuse these two. They use “style guide” when they mean “design system,” then wonder why their product looks inconsistent across three platforms.…

UX design shapes how people interact with products. It’s not just about making things look good. It’s about making them work. The term comes…

Every app you’ve ever rage-quit had a UI problem. Every app you love probably nailed it. So what is UI design, and why does…

Most people use the terms interchangeably. They’re not the same thing, and confusing them costs time, money, and sometimes an entire project. Web design…

Most people think web designers just pick colors and make things look pretty. The actual job is way more involved than that. So what…

Most people use web designer vs web developer like they mean the same thing. They don’t. One builds how a website looks. The other…

Every website you visit was designed by someone who made deliberate choices about layout, color, typography, and how content is organized on screen. Understanding…