You’ll see by performing a simple search for “website design” in your favourite search engine that there are a lot of web design “companies” out there.
In my opinion, there are a certain set of factors you should look for when you are looking to hire for your next website project.
Client Testimonials
Every company providing a service, [...]

Website design companies sometimes have to write a website design proposal. This can be for a client that has put a request in to more than one web design company. To stand more of a chance of getting the work, your website design proposal needs to be well written.
What should be included in your website [...]

It would be great if we all had photographic memories, but sadly, not a lot of us do. With that in mind, I find myself looking back at past projects or quickly searching the internet when I have forgotten a certain function in ASP, or CSS code or whatever.
This is where cheatsheets come to the [...]

When it comes to building websites in PHP, I’ll have to admit I know next to nothing about it. All my web designing career has been using classic ASP.
So, I though it was about time I started to learn the web’s most common programming language, but where to start?
Can anyone suggest a decent book that [...]

We all need nice icons and buttons for our web designs, but here’s a nice resource to look through to save you from creating your own.
There are various icon sets including:

Brushes
“Web 2.0″ icons (I hate that phrase!)
Vector buttons
Badges
Micro-formats

Have a look, there’s bound to be something you can use, or at least get inspiration from!

In late 2004, sIFR, the Flash-powered text image replacement technique was introduced. This technique allowed you to be able to have flash based headings on your website to move away from standard heading tags.
Well its just had an update to version 3. Check out all the new features on this Sitepoint post.

Has anyone come across this before:
I have developed a website. This website has a form with two text fields so the user can login. On a windows pc using Firefox, everything is fine but on a Mac using Firefox, the form fields are far too long and break the design.
Here’s a screenshot taken from the [...]

You’ve all seen websites using diagonal stripes for a while now. You only have to look at designmeltdown to see he has 3 pages dedicated to this style, and that’s only the tip of the iceberg. Looking at the many more CSS design galleries, you will come across this over and over again.
How long will [...]

I came across this site today that is a collection of free css based website templates. Looking through the available designs there are some real nice ones.
Obviously there are some not so good ones but that’s what you’d expect.
These types of sites are great for beginners and experienced designers alike. A nice place to get [...]

How is your blog layout compared to the Technorati top 10? Healthbolt has put together a nice composite map of the layout of top 10 blogs in Technorati “above the fold”. (via Problogger)

See if you can work out which colours relate to these categories:

Advertising
Search
Email / RSS subscriptions
Header / Logo etc
Content
Internal links / navigation

Checkout how you [...]