PixelHaze Creative Director Ken Rees shares the Pixelhaze design process for creating a website through an isometric poster design.

So the once-maligned QR codes are back with a vengeance in Britain post-lockdown, widely used for venue check-ins via the NHS Covid-19 track and trace app, allowing customers to quickly sign-in upon entry to a venue. It is both fast and efficient.

PixelHaze Creative Director Ken Rees shares the top design trends leading into 2021 and how these trends can be implemented effectively into your Squarespace site.

The MarkUp Chrome Extension is now available which should make things just a little easier when sharing notes during the design process of your Squarespace website.

By Ken Rees: The beginning of our crash course series. Using illustrator we pay homage to the retro 8bit styling of 80's video games through our own Pixelhaze branding.

If you live or work in a bilingual Country, or if you are looking towards international markets for your product or service; it is very likely that you will need a multilingualizer to add one or more additional languages to your Squarespace website.

By Ken Rees: When considering the virtues of a Video banner, especially an animated one, can be a welcome addition to any Squarespace site, the use of a video banner will often encourage a viewer to stay on a site for far longer and increase engagement, but, is a video banner right for your site?

Recently, we had a project that focused heavily on the photography on the site; we loved the aesthetic that the transparent navigation gave as it didn’t detract from the beauty of the images.

By Ken Rees: Wordpress sights can be a nightmare for beginners who are new to web design. There is a lot to digest and take in straight from the start, and without a decent knowledge of web design or coding, it can often be difficult for start up businesses to create a bespoke website which best fits their business.

I spend a lot of my time with code (cool, I know) and I’m always looking to add a distinct flourish to websites with CSS, so sometimes I need to drill the styles section by section so that what I’m adding doesn’t get applied to the whole page, or even the whole site (heaven forbid).

By Ken Rees: Pixelhaze has developed vastly over the years from its foundation in 2015 to present day. Not only has it evolved as a business with the addition of the Pixelhaze Academy, but also as a brand. Looking at how the branding has changed over a 5 year period it’s clear that Pixelhaze’s philosophy has stayed true in its development.

By Ken Rees: Icons are often used within websites to help navigate the user with simplistic designs intended to explain the meaning of sections in a minimal way. Used correctly, icons can be a create addition to a site.
Although icons are a create way to break up your content, they can be improved upon further to add an extra layer of depth to your site. Eye candy used to engage your viewer. Depending on the websites branding, using animation in the right way can be a welcome addition to your website.

By Andy Fairclough, Managing Director at I-Commercial Finance: Despite the current short term turmoil surrounding us all, there is help and there are ways to successfully navigate your way through choppy seas and reach calm waters.

By Ken Rees: Nearing the end of my University at the Atrium in Cardiff, I’ve been reflecting on my graphics degree as a whole wondering what I would’ve done differently and how I could’ve approached Graphic Communications with the knowledge I have now. That’s why I’ve compiled Ken’s Top 5 Tips for Undergraduate Designers. These are things I’d wished I knew at the start of my degree to give me a proper head start in a career of design.

If you need to tighten your belt over the next few months and already subscribe to Adobe Creative Cloud, I have some good news for you.

On the back of the coronavirus outbreak, We have been thinking of ways that we can utilise the resources we already have in place to do our bit for our community (online and off-line).

Video conferencing tools, live chat, cloud storage and screen recorders are not new options available to us, the technology has been around for many years. However, only recently has our networking and internet infrastructure caught up to ensure that we can now get as close to a seamless integration like never before.

For our latest Q&A session, Elwyn caught up with Sam Cook, the founder of CAA registered drone company Tremio to discuss some of the latest developments in the commercial drone industry. It has never been easier to integrate video footage into Squarespace.

With the release of our brand new range of Squarespace plugins, I thought it would be beneficial to write an article on some helpful tips and tricks that go into individualising websites with CSS.

We are very excited to announce that we are launching a new course that will perfectly complement our more formal Squarespace web design programs.