Over the last couple of months (or maybe already since the beginning of 2008) more on more upcoming design studios are having a "pricing" page of sorts on their website explaining their pricing structure, what they charge for, sometimes already with a PayPal button.


A lesson in history

Let's go back a bit more in time, when the first pricing tables appeared on web design / development based websites - the hosting companies. Here a pricing table is what...

Alex Rehm

Not so long ago I was asked by a client, if it was possible to change a couple of sections within their site as they just updated their product structure: the client was expanding their products to list two more categories. To make them stand out, their marketing team was thinking of using different colours throughout the main content area so that is looks much more consistent, which included changing all link colours and buttons to these new colours.

As a designer you have probably...

Alex Rehm

Cuil, the new search engine looking for relevancy rather than popularity has seen the light of day on Monday. Developed by former Google employees, it claims to be able to crawl through 120 billion pages (that is 3x more than Google and 10x more than Microsoft’s Live search). But what about its usability?


Let's start with the positives: Cuil uses a similar colour scheme to what we are used to - blue main links, black text and green URLs are giving us that familiar search engine...

Alex Rehm