web design
How to Incorporate Storytelling Into Your Web Design
We all love a good story. Have you ever considered incorporating one into your web design? No? Well, you should, because it’s become an incredible communications tool in addition to a core component of content marketing. We’d like you to…
11 WordPress Hacks and Blogging Tips for Newbies
Tools you can use today: In order to successfully navigate WordPress and reap its rewards, we all need to put the time in. After all, nothing compares to a little patience and perseverance when coming to understand this powerful CMS. But…
Meet Go Media Designer Sites
Go Media Designer Sites – The practical, affordable web solution with the Artist’s touch. Beauty made simple. This is the epic tale of Designer Sites, the agile, accurate, utterly gorgeous, and affordable new web solution from your friends at Cleveland…
How to Master the Art of Visual Web Design
The Aesthetics of Visual Web Design Gone are the days when websites were just for information. Yes, the “content” aspect still rules but the modern genre also counts in the “style” quotient today and this is where visual web design…
New Website Speed Tracker Gives Small Firms an Edge
Speed is a known killer on the highway. But on the “information superhighway,” if your website speed is lagging, you are killing your conversions. Google, notoriously tight-lipped about it’s page-ranking algorithm, has flat-out said that website speed is one critical factor. It’s estimated half of users…
Web Design Blunders That Could be Wrecking Your Conversions
For most small businesses, your website is your first impression. If your web design is cluttered or fails to deliver fast loading speed, simple navigation and ease of use among platforms, your conversion rate is almost certain to suffer. In case…
Photography: An Essential Element of Your New Website Design
Professional photography and brand imagery are among the best tools in the box when it comes to communicating a sense of purpose, place and personality on your website. Sure, layout is important. Typography is essential. But customers looking at your new website…
The Characteristics of Excellent Website Design: Experts Weigh In
The Characteristics of Excellent Web Design Options for building a website are plentiful, but finding a team to deliver a creative custom solution on time and on budget is not easy. Here at Cleveland based graphic and web design firm,…
Go Media’s 1st Annual Best of Cleveland Design Awards
Best of Cleveland Web and Graphic Awards Here at Go Media, we totally geek out about design. It’s all that we do and all that we dream about. We love not only getting our hands dirty every single day, but…
How to Hire a Web Design Firm: Ask These Questions Before You Invest
When hiring a web development firm, we here at Cleveland creative agency Go Media are firm believers in looking before you leap. Make the right decision and your financial investment will pay dividends for the long term. This is one serious decision! Knowing that, you’ve got some serious questions to ask to potential firms. Ask this list of exhaustive questions and you can feel confident about your decision.
And of course, all consulting for a new website is free when you come to Go Media, so feel free to start your new search with us!
15 Stunningly Beautiful Landing Page Designs
It’s particularly difficult to design and build landing pages because they often need to appeal to several different types of people, as well as fulfil several different goals. Often they need to inform visitors, get them excited and interested in a product and help to show off the product in the best light possible. Not everyone looks at a landing page in the same way – some are extremely visually oriented and will respond better to imagery and bold headings, while others want to get down to the nitty gritty and will study everything you have to say. An effective and well-designed landing page will be built in a way that appeals to everyone. Of course, that’s significantly easier said than done.
Happy Dog Illustration and Design Tutorial
Today’s tutorial comes from Weapons of Mass Creation 2013 designer and fellow Clevelander Lucy Williams. Lucy is a freelance illustrator and a recent graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art. Follow her process as she designs a poster for local Cleveland favorite hangout, Happy Dog.
40+ Beautifully Illustrated Websites
When Go Media got it’s start in 2003, we primarily did illustration work. As the times changed and the market made increasing demands for web and interactive work, we adapted and began creating websites to meet the clamoring of clients. We would never forget our roots, though, and we infuse our illustration sensibility into many of the websites we design.
Now for many of you out there, especially the UX and Front-End Designers of the world, the visible look of the website is important but not nearly as important as the functionality and interface design. The showcase you will see below features the intersection of illustration and web design and that is the focus of the sites we have featured. Keep scrolling to get inspiration for your next website design.
Quick Tips on Using Google Chrome’s Developer Tools
Here are some quick tips on using Google Chrome’s fantastic Developer Tools. Let’s get right to it. Bring up Developer Tools with Control + Shift + i (i for inspect), or just right click (almost) anything on a page and choose Inspect element.
How to design the best website user experience
Greetings & Salutations My name is Wilson Revehl, Co-founder, CTO, and Vice-President of Go Media. When William Beachy and I founded the firm in 2003, merging our respective freelance businesses, I would not have imagined we’d become a publisher. And…
Design a Sleek Website Interface in Photoshop
In this tutorial, we’re going to learn how to create a sleek & clean portfolio/blog Website interface design inside Adobe Photoshop. As we go through, we will deal with selections, layer styles, some basic typography, and so on…We’ll also use…
Full Color Rollovers in Flash
In this tutorial, we will create a Flash file with a simple, yet eye-catching effect — a black & white photo with full-color rollovers. We will initially edit the photo in Photoshop, then import and complete the file in Flash.…
Rule Seven: Composition: putting it all together.
Part Seven of Seven Easy Principles to Becoming a Master Designer. Ok Folks, This is it; part seven of seven. I’ve hopefully convinced you to limit your use of colors and fonts, taught you to provide sufficient contrast, suggested that…
Design An Elegant Featured Content Slider for WordPress
An Elegant Featured Content Slider for WordPress by John Sexton December 22nd, 2008. Introduction In this tutorial, we’ll create an elegant featured content slider for WordPress like the one featured on http://www.fuseboxtheatre.com. This featured content slider is based on “The…
WordPress Skinning
Something I enjoy doing and would like to be doing more of is creating custom WordPress themes. I wouldn’t consider myself an expert, but I have managed to create a few themes so far for a few people. The theme…
Create a Killer Band Site in Drupal – Part 6 – Additional Functionality and Resources
This tutorial is another special series written guest author Sean Hodge from aiburn.com and Connection Cube. He is an expert in Drupal, which I am totally not familiar with. He intrigued me when he told me that the majority of…
Create a Killer Band Site in Drupal – Part 5 – Drupal Admin
This tutorial is another special series written guest author Sean Hodge from aiburn.com and Connection Cube. He is an expert in Drupal, which I am totally not familiar with. He intrigued me when he told me that the majority of…
Create a Killer Band Site in Drupal – Part 4 – Theming Drupal
This tutorial is another special series written guest author Sean Hodge from aiburn.com and Connection Cube. He is an expert in Drupal, which I am totally not familar with. He intrigued me when he told me that the majority of…
Create a Killer Band Site in Drupal – Part 3 – XHTML
This tutorial is another special series written guest author Sean Hodge from aiburn.com and Connection Cube. He is an expert in Drupal, which I am totally not familiar with. He intrigued me when he told me that the majority of…