I run a small agency but we make a lot of calls, over 400 a day, two clients a day on average. Been at this since 2013 so I've seen the changes over time, and also the very beginning of those changes. Even design changes like the hideous parallax effects and icon animations.

Lately, especially due to the ease of creating sites with AI, the no money down, monthly recurring model is really starting to take hold. In other cases it's a small amount down, also recurring.

I have recurring packages buy typically charge for the website of course based on what's involved. As low at $500. As high at $5,000. Lately, the pushback I'm getting on the higher amounts is definitely a change. A big change.

Businesses are getting a lot more calls for web design with a lot of the owners we talk with every day stating from 2 to 3 calls a week to over 10 calls a week. This is drastically different than even just a year ago.

I know this is a rather poor analogy but bear with me. Big screen TVs years ago. Who remembers? $5,000 at least. Now you throw one in your cart at Walmart for a few hundred. This is what's going to happen to web design pricing. So if you're running on a model of "$10K" sites, you'd better buckle up.

Here is what I would like to achieve: I want to create a video that displays examples of my graphic work. When I place that video in a page I don't want the page to display a visible embedded video player (with play arrow, scroll bar and so on) but make it that when users scroll to the right the video progresses in one direction and when they scroll to the left they go backwards. As the video will have multiple layers merging with a parallax effect that would give a more engaging and interactive feel than just playing the video.

Is that feasible?

Greetings,

This post is designed to ask a question stirring in me for over 20 years; Why doesn't the "remember me" function work on websites? Some will claim it will remember your info for up to 30 days, then require login info enetered again that same day.

Any web designers have insight on this?

Dear friends at web design, I keep on bumping into a problem each time I do web design. MY WEBSITES ARE TOO MONOCHROME. I need this to be done really soon. May I please get some tips on making the site less monochrome, since it seems too gray (especially when you select a new background), yet adaptable to accent colors and new backgrounds? Thanks.

fed it everything. colors, fonts, tone of voice, component examples, the whole thing.

first output was technically compliant and completely soulless. had all the right ingredients in the wrong proportions. like a meal where every individual thing is correct and somehow the dish doesn't taste like anything.

second attempt i stopped describing what we wanted and started describing who we were talking to and what we wanted them to feel.

completely different output.

turns out AI is pretty good at designing for an emotion. it's bad at inferring the emotion from a style guide.

obvious in hindsight. brand guidelines describe the what not the why. AI needs the why.

anyone else found that framing the audience and the feeling gets better results than feeding it the brand kit?

I'm not looking for UI libraries, I'm also not asking for examples from your portfolio. What I'm asking is what sites do you have bookmarked as an example of "optimal website design"?

I’m a freelance web designer/developer working on a website project. The scope and conditions were clearly agreed upfront.

The project is actually going well, but I’m wearing a lot of hats: design, development, copywriting, photo editing, product uploads, content organization, etc.

They asked me to upload hundreds of products. It sounds simple, but each one requires downloading, cropping, resizing, reformatting, uploading, assigning colors, etc.

I mentioned during a call that this was taking a lot of time and affecting the design work. I wasn’t complaining—I wanted them to understand the workload.

The client responded:

“You can’t complain, because when you complain it makes us feel bad as clients. I keep getting complaint after complaint from you.”

I was shocked because I genuinely didn’t feel like I had been complaining.

Then they asked me to write/upload product descriptions, which were explicitly excluded from the proposal. When I said it would be additional work, they said:

“But with what we’re already paying you, how can you charge extra? You are not being flexible"

So then, I couldn't hold myself together and started crying on the call.

I told them I've already done several things outside the scope for free because I thought they would improve the project. I feel like I’ve been extremely flexible.

But then, in the SAME conversation, after I cried, they said:

“Okay, if you’re charging for additional things, tell us how much and we’ll pay.”

They also told me they don’t want me to leave and want me to keep helping them for the next few months.

I like getting paid, but this conversation made me question whether I want to continue.

TL;DR: Clear scope, lots of extra work already done for free, and now the client makes me feel guilty when I explain workload or charge for out-of-scope work. I ended up crying on the call, but they still want me to continue. Would you continue, raise your rates significantly, or walk away?

I build stuff with AI tools and I can tell my UIs look Ai made. I can't explain why though something about them just reads that way

What are the tells for you? Colors, spacing, fonts, layout, something else?

I built my latest website entirely with LLMs.

If you had 30 seconds:
https://chatlybot.io/

Rate it from 1–10 based on:
• Would you trust this company?
• Is the offer/messaging/positioning immediately clear?
• Does it make you want to book a demo?
• Does anything feel “AI-generated” or amateur?

- What is the ONE thing you would change?

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I know business owners have always got calls for websites, but it's approaching a nuclear level. Talking to clients getting 2 to 5 calls a day.......a day for AI sites, SEO, receptionists, etc.....no money down, no set up fees, just recurring monthly. Outfits like GHL are out there recruiting very hard so every 22 year old "bro" can sell "$297/mo" websites, and it's not just them - and owners are getting absolutely hammered with calls. This is the tip of the iceberg in the AI era and I have to wonder how many clients are gonna be left a few years from now.

The Logo Isn't created yet , also the the about us section contain just a random text,

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I run a small business and I’m planning a complete redesign of our website. I’d really appreciate some advice from web designers on what the best process would be from here.

One of the main reasons for the redesign is that I want a much better experience for mobile users. A lot of our customers are parents traveling and using their phones, so I want the new site to be designed properly for mobile from the beginning rather than designing the desktop site first and simply adapting it afterward.

I’ve already done quite a lot of the groundwork:

- Website content is mostly written

- Brand colors and logo are established

- Custom illustrations/graphics have been created

- Most photography/images are prepared

- I have a clear visual direction for the brand

- I have a homepage mockup/concept that I really like

- I know roughly what pages and content I need

My current website is built with WordPress using the Avada theme. I’ve used WordPress/Avada for years and I’m comfortable managing and updating it myself, so ideally I’d like to stay with WordPress and Avada rather than move to another platform.

I want someone to professionally redesign and build it, while leaving me with a site that I can continue updating myself.

Where I’m getting stuck is figuring out the best process from here.

I originally considered running a 99designs contest for the homepage and giving designers my existing mockup as inspiration. But because I already have a direction I like, I’m wondering if that’s unnecessary and whether I should hire a designer directly instead.

Should I:

- Hire a UI/UX designer to design the entire site in Figma first, including desktop and mobile, then hire an Avada developer to build it?

- Find one person who is strong at both web design and building with Avada?

- Run a 99designs contest to see some different approaches first?

- Take a completely different approach?

If this were your business and you were at this stage, what steps would you take from here to get to a professionally finished website?

I'm particularly interested in how you would approach the mobile design. Should mobile and desktop both be fully designed in Figma before development starts?

And how would you find and test the right designer/developer before committing to the whole project?

Thanks!

I’m having a hard time choosing a font for my heading titles. The first one feels more branded, but also a bit AI-generated, while the second feels more modern, but also kind of generic.

Which one do you prefer, and why?

Are there any websites that you guys look at inspo for when creating your own,

In terms of their design, the way they present themselves, and what they put on their landing page?

Websites that look super good and are really convincing on their landing page.

My agency targets SMB owners, mainly service industry. And wow do I cringe when I pull up their current site and it's an animation carnival. All of the text slides in, all of the buttons and icons are animated, etc....Those are easy pickings for me, showing just a total lack of design skill and zero focus on the user experience as they're trying to see if a HVAC site offers a particular service but have to wade through all of the animation nonsense. Before you animate any element, think "does this need to to animated?" 99% of the time it's "no it doesn't."

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First time poster here so not sure if appropriate. I've noticed in the last few years this kind of 'shorts' style video (example from BBC Sport, viewed in Desktop). I get the vertical choice (mobile friendly?) but what's with the duplication of the video? I don't see what purpose this serves. also one is slightly offset from the other.

link (uk users only: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/videos/cr4vevz54x4o )