One of the biggest challenges facing blog owners is keeping their site looking fresh without losing their appeal. Currently, there are thousands of free themes out there that can be used by anyone, but there are few designs that are not already in use. For blog owners that want to stand out from the crowd, these templates usually will not work. Unless they have the capability to do their own special designs, this often means hiring a professional. Anyone, that has followed my blog over the last 1.5 years knows that I lack a certain… Je ne sais quoi… artistic flair. I have been considering hiring a design firm to help…
Stylish Web Design offers some very unique services for websites as well as blogs. They specialize in assisting site owners with completely new looks for their blog designs, as well as logo design and search engine optimization. Since there are many entrants in this particular field, this is a competitive industry. Does Stylish Web Design and their design blog have what it takes to stand out from the crowd? Let’s take a look.
We liked the fact that they are very open about their past clients. This shows two major things. First, they are proud of their completed designs and second, their clients are happy with the finished results and more than pleased to allow the finished results to be seen. In looking through Stylish Web Design’s profile we also noted something that was quite interesting.
Often, when you are designing multiple web sites, it is all too easy to fall back on the same overall design. The colors may be different, but we have found in the past that many design firms simply turn out the same old look, time after time. Stylish Web Design’s portfolio was quite varied and each site they listed looked remarkably different. The layouts used for text were new and visually exciting and we appreciated their attention to little design details that really make a site stand out.
We also appreciated the fact that they do offer a custom web design free quote. This is very helpful for website and blog owners that aren’t quite sure if they are ready to switch to a new design and offers them an opportunity to see what a third party would do if given the freedom to overhaul their site. This is an important part of the design process and can only benefit site owners. (I have requested just such a quote for redesigning this blog… as soon as I have a response I will add that to this post.)
Overall, we found that Stylish Web Design provided a nice, broad range of services for custom web design and blog design. They are up to date with all of the latest techniques, which can only benefit a site owner in the end. Their own site was a very good billboard for their service, and showed that they do know how to do complex layouts very well, and still make sure that they display correctly in numerous different browsers.
If you’ve been thinking about changing up your blog design, we highly recommend taking advantage of their free quote service and reading their web design blog . This may get you started on the road to a completely fresh and new web design that will keep your readers engaged with your content.
So what do you think? Without guidance as to my budget or to the costs of Stylish Web Design. Do you think Rate Ladder could benefit from a design over haul? Please leave a comment…
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If you used the Safari web browser, you would not be touching their services. Check out the portfolio page using Safai. It is not even possible to read.
Thanks for the info… I tend to stick to FF and IE, but that is worth looking into…
Also, their pages are made by nesting tables inside one another. Below is a code sample (I did a find and replace on the greater than and less than symbols with curly braces to prevent messing up your page.)
See: 13 reasons why css is better than tables
Code sample from http://www.stylishwebdesign.us — straight out of 1997:
{table}
{tr}
…..
{table style=”height:428px”}
{tr}
{td style=”width:40%” class=”indent”}
{p}{img src=”images/t1_1.gif” alt=”"}{br}
{br style=”line-height:22px”}
{strong}CUSTOM WEB DESIGN {/strong}{br} …..
Thanks again plp… Seems like you are saving me from a mistake… Anybody you would recommend?
What kind of website are you needing? I might be able to ask around for a few recommendations, but the ones that I can think of off the top of my head that customers have been really happy with are very expensive.
If you are wanting a theme for this site, I would not worry about changing it. This one looks fine. Also, wordpress does a great job out of the box of meeting web standards, but is not perfect. I use it for most of my websites because it does give great results for the cost and effort.
By the way, I should not be so harsh on that site because the design is very nice looking. It is probably a graphic design person who is great at usability and design but just is not great at coding it into current web standards. There is a company that will help convert your site it XHTML with CSS if you have a nice layout like that in an old HTML file or you have something designed in Photoshop.
Also, screen shot sent as requested.
I do often wonder whether giving my site a facelift with confuse my current readers and make them wonder if they are on the right site. However, I am sure that if I paid a professional designer to do the job, the results would be well worth it. I am just not sure whether it is worth the investment.
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