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Digging Deeper into Search-Friendly Design – Interview with Shari Thurow
Here are Shari’s 5 Basic Rules of Web Design:
1. Your Web site should be easy to read
2. Your Web site should be easy to navigate
3. Your Web site should be easy to find
4. Your Web page layout and design should be consistent throughout the site
5. Your Web site should be quick to download.
Creating A Quality Web Site Design!
In this article, I will attempt to cover the basics of creating a great quality web design template for your site. Now it’s a known fact that the layout or “eye candy” as I put it will determine whether your visitors will stay more than 15 seconds or they will just become another statistic.
Site Design For New Business Owners
Back when people first started creating web pages, sites comprised little more than text, basic tables and an occasional graphic. Design involved writing your content and going back through it adding the appropriate HTML tags to achieve the desired layout. It was very much a manual process.
Design for Community: An Interview with Derek M. Powazek
Derek has worked on community features for Netscape, Nike, and Sony, along with creating the community sites, {fray}, Kvetch!, and SF Stories. Christine Perfetti, a consultant at User Interface Engineering, recently talked with Derek about his experience. Here is what he had to say about creating effective online communities:
Five Common Web Site Design Mistakes That You Must Avoid
You know how important it is to drive high traffic to your web site. What’s even more important though, is designing a web site that makes them stay… a web site that sells!
Introduction to Design Patterns Using PHP
What are Design Patterns
Design Patterns are simply defined solutions to common problems. Design patterns are not created by someone who sits in a room and decides to make a design pattern instead design patterns are proven solutions that are implemented over and over again through different projects. This re-use of the solution itself becomes a pattern. Don’t be intimidated by the fancy names given to design patterns, such as faade, singleton or observer, they are exactly that just fancy names given to repeatable solutions.
Websites Require Flexible Not Fixed Design
A website needs to be flexible. It needs to be able to change as the organization changes. The more change within the organization the more flexible the website needs to be. Too many websites are still being designed from a print perspective; as if they were some once-off brochure.
A Rainy Day Of Rainbows: Colors And Website Design
There’s more to websites than just images and text. A website is a marketing tool, representing the company, owner, employees and products. Beyond that, it is a personality. A website is a personality? Yes. It portrays a positive or negative symbolism and/or emotion.
50 Surefire Web Design Tips
Tips to brand your website
Include your logo in all pages. Position it at the top left or each page.