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When you try to please everyone, everyone goes home unhappy

When I do Web work–whether solo or in collaboration with a Web designer–I’m always mindful that we need to keep things simple. Sometimes keeping things simple forces us to compromise more than we would like or generalize in the interest of time and money (for us and the client’s). Ironically, when you tend to over simplify, that’s when many situations tend to get really messy. Most Web sites are tailored to a specific audience–business or consumer. How to structure... 

Prepare for Your Pages to Be Less Sticky and More Bouncy

Sales of laptop computers, especially the ultra-portables from Asus, Dell, HP and several other companies, are super hot these days and that has repercussions for Web writers and designers alike. According to International Data Group, the sales of portable notebooks in the US–driven by several new companies in that segment of the business-outsold desktop computers for the first time in the history of computers in the third quarter of this year. IDG says notebook computers accounted for 55 percent... 

Image Mapping with CSS

Image Mapping - This tutorial will show you the benefits of image mapping and why you should implement it when building websites. I will take you through the how and why, plus show you image mapping in action. This image mapping tutorial is aimed at beginners and will only require you to know the basics of HTML and CSS.  Read More →

One or multi paged portfolios

When an artist starts to make a personal portfolio, they always make at least 2 different kinds of portfolio templates ( well, I made 5 ). and then they have to consider many styles, single page, multi, flash and so on… I’m going to make your life just a little bit easier explaining the pros and cons of one-page versus multi-paged portfolios.  Read More →

8 Well Designed Websites of Famous People

Jeff Bridges The whole site is done in a handwritten style with tons of white space. Very unique and interesting. VISIT SITE  Read More →

Wide Web 2.0 Style

For purposes of this blog post I am going to be calling this style of site “Wide Web 2.0″, I know web 2.0 isn’t a design style nor should it be, but these style of sites starting appearing on web apps and web 2.0 sites. They basically consist of vertical areas which stretch 100% of the screen with a fixed width center that houses the content. Other characteristics are gradients, gloss effects and large footer areas containing more content. Lets take a look at some examples …  Read More →

10 Websites with Wood

Natural elements lend themselves well to websites, they bring something that we can all relate to to our screens and soften what can otherwise be a sterile and lifeless environment. Wood is one natural element that has been used frequently, today we’re going to look at some of the best examples in recent web design …  Read More →

10 Websites with Curves

We are going to be taking a look at different design styles in addition to color schemes. Today we select 10 websites that use curves and rounded corners to great effect …  Read More →