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Sunrise over a wide mountain range
From the blog · Dec 17, 2025
How the slideshow on your home page loads its images

Several designs open with a full-width slideshow. It is a good look for an actor, because it lets you lead with an image rather than with text.

A hand stopping a falling row of dominoes
From the blog · Dec 10, 2025
How Your Design's Features Depend on Each Other

Here is a pattern worth recognizing, on any website and not only yours. The menu will not open. The gallery does not enlarge. The counter that should animate sits at zero.

A musician holding a guitar in warm light
From the blog · Dec 3, 2025
Why your skills are a list, not a percentage

Web design has a habit of expressing a skill as a proportion. A bar filled four fifths of the way, a circular dial reading seventy, a row of stars with three lit.

A single red pencil on dark wood
From the blog · Nov 26, 2025
What a Clean Page Looks Like

Most of what a browser receives is never seen by the person reading the page. It is instructions: what the page is about, how it should behave, what a search engine should make of it.

Staggered slate roof tiles
From the blog · Nov 12, 2025
How the blog page on your website lays itself out

A tiled blog layout, where posts sit in columns of uneven height and pack together instead of lining up in rigid rows, needs a layout library to do the packing.

A fan of muted paint swatches
From the blog · Nov 5, 2025
Backgrounds, grayscale, and choosing nothing at all

Interfaces are usually good at letting you pick something and bad at letting you go back to nothing. Picking a background was one click.