Tag: Designing Web Sites
Web Page Templates – 5 Reasons Why You Should Use Them
Posted on Mar.27, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
If you’re just starting out in your career as a web designer,
you likely have a lot of work left to do before you have an
established portfolio. After all, it’s hard to convince
potential new customers that you have the talent and skills to
create a website if you have no portfolio to show them. You’re
caught between a rock and a hard place – you need clients to
build a portfolio, and you need a portfolio to gain new clients.
On the other end of [...]
Six and a Half Keys to Creating an Ugly Web Site
Posted on Mar.17, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
1. Use Too Many Colors
Lets put brown, purple and orange on the same site and see what
people think. I dont know who designed some sites, but they
must have never learned about complementary colors on the color
wheel. Or if a designer hasnt chosen non-complementary colors,
they choose to put too many colors on the page. Its almost as
if a rainbow had vomited on your computer screen. There are
colors everywhere. If you want an ugly web site, put as many
colors as you can [...]
Six and a Half Keys to Creating an Ugly Web Site
Posted on Mar.12, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
1. Use Too Many Colors
Lets put brown, purple and orange on the same site and see what people think. I dont know who designed some sites, but they must have never learned about complementary colors on the color wheel. Or if a designer hasnt chosen non-complementary colors, they choose to put too many colors on the page. Its almost as if a rainbow had vomited on your computer screen. There are colors everywhere. If you want an ugly web site, [...]
Has Your Design Firm Run Amuck With Your Web Site?
Posted on Feb.19, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
What’s happening to good web site design? Somehow we creative types at interactive and traditional ad agencies have run amuck – we’re building web sites that may dazzle the senses, but don’t really communicate much about our client’s business or products and services!
1. Somehow I don’t think anyone has a burning desire to spend 30-60 seconds on the Index page of a web site while another fancy Flash animation loads, complete with snazzy graphics, audio, and way cool cutting edge [...]
Web Page Templates – 5 Reasons Why You Should Use Them
Posted on Feb.13, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
If you’re just starting out in your career as a web designer, you likely have a lot of work left to do before you have an established portfolio. After all, it’s hard to convince potential new customers that you have the talent and skills to create a website if you have no portfolio to show them. You’re caught between a rock and a hard place – you need clients to build a portfolio, and you need a portfolio to gain [...]
Simple Mistakes That Could Cause Hours of Work!
Posted on Jan.25, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
What am I talking about? Well most novice web designers easily make the simplest mistake when creating their web site. And that is designing the whole site and then forgetting to add something to the navigation!
Im going to guide you through a step by step guide on what you should do when designing a site from scratch. If your new to designing web sites then this a must read cause I have wasted so much time designing sites to find [...]
Chicago Web Site Design Firms
Posted on Jan.24, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
With a large number of Web site design firms competing in the Chicago area, it really becomes a tough job for a client to choose between firms. The decision about which firm to choose is perhaps based on the customers perception of the firm or the nature of their work. Thus, firms today try to look and sound the most innovative and attractive to their customers.
Most of the Web site design firms are listed in the Chicago, Illinois Web Design [...]
Take Off Your Blindfold! Discovering your visitors’ thinking using your log files
Posted on Dec.04, 2008, under Web Design No Comments
After 2 years of designing Web Sites, I decided to take a peek
at one of my customer’s log files. My fear disappeared after
about 10 seconds of looking at it. In the midst of some weird
symbols and long lines of funny characters, was able to see
something familiar. It was the site’s web address! Of course!
That is what people see when they come to this site and that is
what the web server writes in the log file!
I got very excited because [...]
Take Off Your Blindfold! Discovering your visitors’ thinking using your log files
Posted on Nov.09, 2008, under Web Design No Comments
After 2 years of designing Web Sites, I decided to take a peek
at one of my customer’s log files. My fear disappeared after
about 10 seconds of looking at it. In the midst of some weird
symbols and long lines of funny characters, was able to see
something familiar. It was the site’s web address! Of course!
That is what people see when they come to this site and that is
what the web server writes in the log file!
I got very excited because [...]
