Web design

Back in 2016, global color authorities at Pantone chose two colors for their Color of the Year: baby pink and blue. For 2021, they’ve chosen two colors again: Ultimate Gray and Illuminating, a bright lemon yellow.  This is an interesting pair of colors. Gray isn’t even a color, just a shade, but certainly a basic…

We’ve just sent a mockup for a new website to a client. Some of the content is complete, but some is still being worked on. Since our designer didn’t have content for all parts of the homepage, he filled in with placeholder text. The traditional text for this purpose is called “lorem ipsum.” It’s the…

We already said RIP to Flash, an outdated technology that was once pretty cool, back when browsers generally stopped supporting it. 2020 is the year that Adobe, the owner of Flash, will stop distributing and supporting the software. The final end of life date for Flash will be December 31, 2020. Google will stop indexing…

Each year Pantone, the international color experts, name a Color of the Year. We always enjoy showing websites using that color and speculating about the ways designers might use Radiant Orchid or Tangerine. 2020’s color is Classic Blue — we might call it Basic Blue. This is the background color for the web, the most…