Starting a career in web design
So you want to be a web designer? Web Design is like any career path, there are several different routes into the industry and figuring out which path is best for you is essential before you make any...
View ArticleDesigning websites for friends and family
With the advent of blogging, social networking and micro-businesses your skills as a web designer will be increasingly desirable to the people around you. As a web designer you may find members of your...
View ArticleIs web design the career for you?
It’s an unfortunate myth that anybody can design a website. Of course anyone can put something together and get it online for the world to see if they take a little time to learn the basics of html....
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Single page website design showcase
Some really rather nice single page website designs… Single page websites have been knocking around for a while now, slowly gaining in popularity across the industry month on month. This innovative way...
View ArticleUsing Google web fonts in your website designs
Font-embedding is a great way of breaking out of the limits and constraints of the usual web-safe font families without having to resort to image based text and the subsequent loss of vital readable...
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Web design inspiration – Our favourite sources
As designers we’re inspired by the world around us, but it’s no secret that the old creativity receptors can occasionally fail you and the dreaded block can set in for the day. We all know how tough it...
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14 free icon sets for web design professionals
Every web design professional will at some point need to utilise iconography, whether it’s a graphical user interface for a front end user area or a mobile app where screen real estate is limited....
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Our favourite jQuery slider / carousel scripts
Sliders or carousels are an increasingly popular feature in modern website design, at Chalk and Pixel we’ll often use a slider to accentuate the elements of a website that a client may wish to be more...
View ArticleBackup your photos & close your Instagram account
Whilst the chances of your photos from the christmas party suddenly appearing in a perfume campaign in the new year are still pretty minimal, nobody could argue that the section below taken from the...
View ArticleTwitter accounts for web designers to follow
Everybody loves twitter, especially people who work with the internet at their fingertips day in and day out. Twitter is not just a tool for excessive procrastination, it’s also a fantastic way to...
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Creative inspiration – Our favourite photo blogs
As web design professionals we look for creative inspiration everywhere, and whilst there’s nothing as inspiring to a web designer as a beautifully crafted website – Other sources are equally...
View ArticleResponsive website design – What is it?
Welcome to the first in a series of three posts about one of our team’s favourite trends from web design over the last few years: Responsive layouts. We’ll be addressing three main points over the next...
View ArticleResponsive web design – Why use it?
Ok, so why would you want your website to be responsive? Last time we talked about what exactly responsive website design is, and with this post we elaborate on why you as a website owner, designer or...
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Your first responsive website design
Beginners guide to implementing responsive website design This is our final post (well for now anyway) in our three article series on the subject of responsive website design, in this short tutorial...
View ArticlePriorities and getting the balance right
The problem As with the majority of design agencies we put our clients first, and inevitably we prioritise our client work above any internal projects that may increase the profile of our business. It...
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Kebacor branding and website
The challenge Waste management… Not the most glamorous of subject matters – CHALK & PIXEL pride ourselves on our ability to learn our client’s business and produce high impact creative results. We...
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Wychwood website
A bespoke luxury designer kitchen company with an excellent reputation nationwide and throughout Europe. Wychwood asked us to create them a clean and concise new website with the ability to upload...
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Cortado Coffee House Website
Amazing food and probably the best Coffee in the East Midlands (you can hold us to that), Cortado is a boutique coffee house and eatery with a cult following. We were delighted when they approached us...
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Auto Trader online marketing
The petrol-heads in our team couldn’t hide their glee when we were approached by Auto Trader. We were asked to produce a range of dynamic HTML5 responsive web banners as well as conceptual and final...
View ArticleOur new responsive website
The moment has arrived, the moment you’ve all been waiting for, or at least the moment the Chalk & Pixel team has been waiting for. We’ve just launched our brand new responsive website! It wasn’t...
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