Archive for the ‘Design’ Category

Good Design Practices

Thursday, September 1st, 2011
Your website is where your business resides — it’s like the headquarter of an offline company. Hence, it is important to practise good design principles to make sure your site reaches out to the maximum number of visitors and sells to as many people as possible.

Make sure you have clear directions on the navigation of your website. The navigation menu should be uncluttered and concise so that visitors know how to navigate around your website without confusion.
Reduce the number of images on your website. They make your site load very slowly and more often than not they are very unnecessary. If you think any image is essential on your site, make sure you optimize them using image editing programs so that they have a minimum file size. (more…)

5 Important Rules in Website Design

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
When it comes to your website, extra attention should be paid to every minute detail to make sure it performs optimally to serve its purpose. Here are seven important rules of thumb to observe to make sure your website performs well.

1) Do not use splash pages

Splash pages are the first pages you see when you arrive at a website. They normally have a very beautiful image with words like “welcome” or “click here to enter”. In fact, they are just that — pretty vases with no real purpose. Do not let your visitors have a reason to click on the “back” button! Give them the value of your site up front without the splash page. (more…)

WEB DESIGN ELEMENTS YOU SHOULD AVOID

Friday, February 18th, 2011

As a web designer, you should design your websites to give your visitors the greatest ease of use, the best impression and most important of all a welcoming experience. It doesn’t matter if you had the greatest product in the whole world — if your website is poorly done you won’t be able to sell even one copy of it because visitors will be driven off your website by the lousy design.

When I’m talking about a “good design”, I’m not only talking about a good graphical design. A professional web designer will be able to point out that there are many components which contribute to a good website design — accessibility design, interface or layout design, user experience design and of course the most straightforward, which is graphic design.

Hence, I have highlighted some features of the worst web designs I’ve come across. Hopefully, you will be able to compare that against your own site as a checklist and if anything on your site fits the criteria, you should know it’s high time to take serious action!
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FREE BANNERS AND BADGES FOR YOUR WEBSITE

Monday, September 27th, 2010

FREE BANNERS AND BADGES FOR YOUR WEBSITE

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FREE SET OF SHINY BUTTONS FOR YOUR DESIGN

Monday, August 9th, 2010


Set of free shiny buttons for your design

Download the set of free stylish buttons for your design in .psd format

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A BIT OF FRIDAY TYPOGRAPHY

Friday, August 6th, 2010

Typography is a part of the design, especially for web design it is extremely important. It is the technique of presenting the text as a state of art. To reach the result of a good typography you need to spend many hours analyzing the way people read.

Typography comes from the Greek words τύπος typos “mark, figure” and γράφω grapho “I write”.

I suppose it would not be a surprise if I tell you that people are not reading each word in the text, people are just scanning the “form” of the word. That is why text which is ALL CAPS is harder to read that the standard way, however ALL CAPS means “attention” and “important” to people, so you can use it for headings and short sentences, but it is not a good idea to use it for text.

Another thing that I would like to mention to prove the theory of reading as scanning is that if you cut a word through the middle and give the bottom part to one person and the top part to another, the one that has the top will read it easier for sure. That just the way people’s head work.

There are two main font type that are used and they are called Serifs and Sans-Serifs. What is the difference? See the image below.

The difference between Serif and Sans Serif fonts (more…)

10 WEBSITES WITH FANTASTIC BACKGROUNDS

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

CSS Nature

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1MD + Creative Bureau

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WEB VS PRINT DESIGN: 10 MAJOR DIFFERENCES

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
The design of media for printing is much more different than designing internet solution media.
To get more familiar with these two types of design we would compare their features below:

The design of media for printing is much more different than designing internet solution media.To get more familiar with these two types of design we would compare their features below:

1. Size & Resolution

WEB
The size of the images is 1:1, with resolution 72 dpi (dots per inch)

PRINT
The size of the images is 1:1, with resolution 300 dpi (dots per inch)

2. Colors

WEB
All colors are in RGB (Red, Green и Blue) mode.
Design for web

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CREATE YOUR WEBSITE FOR THE PEOPLE, NOT FOR YOURSELF

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

Anytime you start creating a website, no matter if you are web developer, or broker or even a shopkeeper you should think how to build the website for your visitors – not just for you.

The website may become a powerful marketing tool with tons of benefits for your business and you really need to build it for the people. If you have participated in the creation of a website you may know that the following situations happen in practice:-

  • But I don’t like to color these guys are using for my website?

It doesn’t matter if you do not like the color. Think about what color will like your target group.

  • I don’t want to provide much information about me and my company. I feel insecure.

Your visitors want to know who you are. If they are well informed, they will feel more comfortable to contact you and believe me, most of them will goggle your company name for feedbacks from your clients on the web, so keep your customers well informed and happy. (more…)