Ah, the benefits of Twirling Brides. Just throw a few of them into your designs and you’re sure to win accolades, increase return on investment, and become the most sought after designer in your industry. Well, maybe not, but it sure can’t hurt.
The question you’re probably asking yourself right now is, “What’s all this business […]
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Though there has been a great deal of talk about typography on web design blogs recently, one area that hasn’t really received much attention is the differences in anti-aliasing fonts across different systems.
What is anti-aliasing?
Because computer displays are based on pixels and fonts are forced into that square grid, on-screen type tends to naturally look […]
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If you’ve been following along with me so far, you know that content is more important than design and that the way you judge a website’s content is by its purpose. So now it’s time to start translating that purpose into great content. Here are a few questions to get you started.
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Last week I talked about how a website’s content is more important than its design. The point of a design is to support the website’s content. But how can you tell if the content itself is doing it’s job? You have to know what your website’s purpose is.
Now, you may […]
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One thing that I’ve noticed about web designers who care about good design is that we often tend to focus on a design as if it were the most important aspect of a web site. The problem is that it’s not. To adapt a phrase, “It’s the content, stupid!”
Exceptional content can overcome bad design
Steve Pavlina’s […]
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It is pretty common to hear web designers complain about clients’ not understanding good web design. Sometimes the complaints are justified. But many times the problem isn’t the client but the designer’s failure to educate them about what constitutes good web design.
And there are also times when, despite all odds, a web […]
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This past Saturday, I was killing a little time by watching Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer. It was predictably cheesy, with the main characters as barely-held-together comic book stereotypes. But what struck me most was the character of the Silver Surfer himself. He only speaks a couple of times […]
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Besides being a web designer, in my spare time I also work on writing novels. While they’re not Stephen King, actually going through the process has taught me a bit about what it takes to write a successful novel. What I realized the other day, though, is that writing a novel is […]
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Facebook is one of those sites that everyone seems to point to when demonstrating the transformative character of “Web 2.0″ and social networking. But I never quite understood why. I’ve used Facebook, but I came away hating it rather than loving its web 2.0 goodness. Here are three reasons why.
It tries to do too much
One […]
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Since my previous post on 6 Web Design Tips from Leonardo Da Vinci was so popular, I decided to follow it up with another one, this time from Michelangelo. I’m considering making these posts into a regular feature. Let me know what you think!
1. Start young and study hard
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