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Layout, typography and visual decisions that hold up.
Web Design
White space is not emptiness waiting to be filled. It is the mechanism that tells the eye what belongs together, and it works before anyone reads a word.
Web Design
A style guide is not a design deliverable. It is the record of decisions already made, so page forty looks like page one without anyone having to remember why.
Web Design
Automated tools find about a third of accessibility problems. This is the rest — the manual checks that take an afternoon and catch what actually blocks people.
Web Design
Mobile first is not about phones. It is about deciding priority while the screen is too small to avoid deciding, then adding space rather than removing content.
Web Design
Hierarchy, contrast, proximity, consistency and restraint. Five ideas that decide whether a page works, none of which depend on what is currently fashionable.
Web Design
Navigation fails at the label far more often than at the layout. Fix the words first — a beautiful menu of vague nouns still leaves people guessing.
Web Design
A landing page has one job and everything on it either serves that job or competes with it. Most underperforming pages are not badly designed — they are trying to do three things.
Web Design
A wireframe exists to settle structure while changing it is still cheap. The moment it acquires colour and real photography it stops doing that job.
Web Design
Pick the layout from what the page has to do, not from a gallery. Most layouts fail the same way — they were designed around content that never arrived in that shape.
Web Design
Both frameworks work in a WordPress theme, and both collide with the block editor in their own way. The deciding question is who writes the markup — you, or the person editing the page.
Web Design
Looking at sites you admire is useful research and a terrible brief. The transferable part is never the visual style — it is the structure, the content types and the decisions you can see being made.
Web Design
There is no honest one-click path from a design file to a maintainable WordPress site. What there is, is a handoff that turns a design into a system — tokens, components and states — which a theme can then implement.