Archive for the ‘Best Practices’ Category
·This week’s super nice website – David Fooks
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
I’m always on the lookout for well designed websites. I love seeing the innovation that talented web designers bring to their projects. It’s both inspiring and motivating. Every week, I’ll be posting an article that features a favorite site that I’ve discovered. I’ll breakdown what I like about it and why. I hope that these articles will inspire you.
This weeks pick: David Fooks
David Fooks has done well with his little portfolio site. He keeps it minimal, but maintains interest throughout the site.
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Tags: Inspiration, Web Design
Posted in Best Practices, Graphic Design, Web Design · 1 Comment »
A case for Photoshop
Friday, April 16th, 2010
I’ve been seeing a lot of articles being published these days on whether or not to use a graphics program, like Photoshop or Fireworks, to design mockup of a website. The new trend seems to be going towards designing in browser using mostly markup and skipping Photoshop all together. There have been lots of great articles written by some really good designers who subscribe to this technique (This one is especially good). (more…)
Tags: Photoshop, Web Design
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Don’t Abandon Your Site.
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
There’s a saying that goes a little something like this: “A website is never complete, only abandoned”. This statement is becoming more true as time goes on. Back in the early days of the web it was quite normal to put up your table based website with a bunch of info on your business or endeavor, and call it done. Much like a print brochure. These days, that is a poor strategy in many ways.
With the arrival of the blog and many different content management systems, it is quite easy for a website owner to add valuable content to their site regularly. Valuable, fresh content is what the internet is all about. Users are searching for fresh information in your area of expertise every day. It would be a shame not to take advantage of the many options that you have when you own a website. (more…)
Tags: Business, Content, Web promotion
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Great examples of vertical navigation
Sunday, January 10th, 2010
These days it’s quite normal to find the navigation of a website located across the top of the page horizontally. But, sometimes an additional vertical navigation is needed to draw attention to specific areas of the site. Other times a vertical navigational system may be the best solution for a given design.
In researching vertical navigation for a particular project, I ran across some amazing examples. Listed below are some of the best that I found.
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Tags: Design, Navigation, Vertical Navigation, Web Design
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