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What Is UI/UX Design?

August 2, 2024

Whether you’re interested in becoming a web designer or are looking to have a new website built, you’ll no doubt hear a lot about UI (user interface) and UX (user experience) design. Together, UI and…

Using a Website Wireframe to Convert More Customers

June 7, 2024

Rumor has it you’re building a new website. That’s so exciting! You’ve likely already started imagining the finished product. How do your logo and brand colors look? Is it easier to use than your old…

a group of colorful stacked blocks illustrating the building process for wireframing a website

What Is a Wireframe?

June 4, 2024

A website wireframe is a visual representation of a website that shows its general layout, navigation, and pages with user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) components. It’s a blueprint that tells designers and design…

A person getting a custom boot made, symbolizing custom website design.

The Advantages of Custom Website Design

May 7, 2024

Building your website using custom website design is a cost-effective way to reach customers while differentiating yourself from competitors. From ecommerce businesses to B2B brands, bespoke web design is a way for companies of all…

Infusion + Twenty Twelve theme

September 20, 2013

Update: I’ve taken these themes down from Github. We’ve changed how we use Infusion, moving from a parent/child setup to strictly parent. It’s for the best. We are a web design shop that builds custom…

Custom built websites vs web templates

March 27, 2009

Here at Spigot Design, we plug ourselves as a ‘custom’ web design studio, with heavy emphasis on the custom (and design) parts. But occasionally we’ll build a site that is based on a template for…

New Spigot Design logo unveiled

October 31, 2008

While not a new logo per se, we’re proud to announce a cleaner, smoother version of our logo. The old version was drawn in one quick motion and was meant to be a playful representation…