Design Top Tips

Explore quick tips and advice on design including branding and fonts to social media, book design, publishing and website design

What website builder should you use?

Your experience is critical. If you loath Wix, then you may not feel there’s any point to moving to another CMS (content management system) site like Squarespace. WordPress might be your thing. Or vice versa. If you loath your platform then the chances are, you’ll be worried about updating it or it simply drops to the end of your to do list.

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Website copyright lines

It’s that time of the year when social media reminds us that we must change our copyright lines on our website. Do you need to do it, and if so should be the current year?

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How do I know what fonts to use?

Fonts must be evaluated against the rest of your content and there are some easy questions to help you, the sort that I would ask you and, if you need support, detangle with you to get the perfect font for your brand, book, website or social media. Read on to get the secret ingredients!

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How to brief illustrations and photos

Many projects that I work on contain requests for photos or illustrations. Managing these is important from the start, as assets can easily stack up and it can be confusing. It’s not a post about gorgeous design but, like beautiful creations, it’s really useful!

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