COLOR
It’s quite possibility the first thing any visitor will see when they visit your site.
And I’ll go so far as telling you that the colors you choose will make or break the deal for capturing a first time visitor as a repeat visitor. And of course, we want visitors to come back.
So, how [...]

This is a guest post by Dan from WPCandy. I’d like to thank Brian for allowing me to guest author on this blog.
WordPress has arguably a larger community built around it than any other CMS out there. Its free, open-source platform allows hundreds of thousands of people to download, install, and run their websites with [...]

One sure fire way to lose any respect as a designer is to copy or steal from another site. With so many Web Galleries around these days its easier to find good looking sites to help fuel your inspiration, but unfortunately there are too many people who are using these galleries to steal images, code and layouts from people who spent time creating something unique. It’s one thing to take inspiration from a design, or have similar elements, but these are just too much in my opinion. I don’t want to say too much as I think the examples below speak for themselves.

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Web designers, illustrators, graphic designers or and other creatives have one thing in common these days. They all have a personal portfolio site where they showcase their work. Creatives always love working on their portfolio site since it’s the moment they can be client, designer and art director at the same time.

I want to thank Brian for inviting me to guest post on Elite By Design; I was quite flattered. Only thing is - all of a sudden I had an inspiration / writers block, so I decided to go with it - thus the theme of this post. Now I know some of these suggestions are obvious but they are so simple they are easy to forget. Grab a cup of coffee, read through the post and feel free to add what you do to relieve your block or get things done - maybe it will help others!