Web sites can contain hundreds of pages, even thousands. You have spent your time making a look and brand for your web site, using different font sizes, colours, margins etc all within each web page. Later on you decide that you want to change the background colour of the website, and then realise that you [...]
The Psychology of Color Are you using the best colors for your web site? Many web designers often overlook the issues of color in web design. When choosing colors for your web site there are three main areas that should be addressed. 1) The psychological effect of colors, 2) The effect on the readability of [...]
Colors are powerful, and create strong feelings. They can also make your web site look professional or look like a circus. Here are some powerful tips you should use every time you create a web site: 1 Use contrasting colors It is important to have contrast between the text and the background color, so that [...]
Never put form over function. Why? Because it’s crucial that visitors actually be able to USE your site. Everything you do must be designed to be as easy for the visitor to understand as possible. Everything should be functional first. If you put form before function, you sacrifice your visitor’s best interest for your own [...]
When you begin the design of your Web site, one of the first things you need to do is decide on a color scheme. Although choosing colors seems like a relatively easy proposition, it’s not easy at all. In fact, it’s hard. One of the pluses we have as Web designers is that millions of [...]
Weve all seen them. Poorly designed web sites that make you cringe as soon as they load. But how do you keep your website from becoming, well, ugh. You could hire a professional web designer, and thats expensive, or maybe you already hired a professional, or someone who claims to be professional, and you dont [...]
In part one of this series we focused on setting up a basic form on your website. We discussed the Form Element Attributes and began the Form Element Properties. In part two of this series, we continued with the Form Element Properties and moved on to some more advanced form options. In part three of [...]
If you have published something on the web, you are most likely familiar with the two basic areas that web publicity can be divided in: getting visitors to your site, and keeping them there (actually there is also a third one – making them come back, check back for a followup article on this important [...]
an article from User Written Resources 1. duplicate the styles already used for the particular module, adding a suffix to each style name. this will definitely include some of the following; 1. .module {} 2. div.moduletable {} 3. div.moduletable h3 {} 4. table.moduletable {}/li> 5. table.moduletable th 6. table.moduletable td and can include other styles [...]
Website design guidelines and tips – just common sense By Mary Magdalene Chia Here are some design guidelines and tips to help you build a user friendly websites. 1. First, figure out what you want to do and make a plan for it. This may involves some brain storming. Then, translate your ideas and plans [...]
