CSS (cascading style sheets) is one of the latest markup languages used to create web pages, typically to style regular HTML and XHTML pages. The language however is not unique to HTML and can be used with XML, SVG and XUL. CSS allows designers and developers to modify colors, fonts and layouts and helps separate the content from the styling.
“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” Albert Einstein
Almost all web designers have used elements of a web page from other great web designers. The simple truth is that those great designers already have their craft well formed. We learn best by imitating the people who are already experts, the end result being creativity and ingenuity. The problem appears when people cross the line from using material for inspiration to flat out stealing it. Plagiarism is a serious crime and an insult to most professional designers. However there are always going to be a few bad apples. It’s surprising how small the internet is. People flagrantly rip off designs, leave footprints everywhere and expect no one to notice. Well these days it’s a very small world and you can be easily found making plagiarism risky business.
Branding is the single most important part of business. And because it is such an integral of web design and online operations its important that you as a web designer recognize and practice some of the correct methods of branding. A brand is typically recognized as a name, slogan or logo that is associated with a particular product or service. Branding is done to create an emotional response from a customer and to help the customer remember that particular brand. By doing this your product will be the first one a person thinks of when they think of your type of product. If done properly your business will be properly aligned and will bring in all kinds of new business.
$1,000 for a page of content? If you don’t have a lot of money to hire a copywriter there are some quick and easy ways you can write quality content for you new web design. Don’t be fooled as web designers you’re going to have to write some content every once in awhile.
You’ve already learned how to make a favicon and an animated favicon for your web design, well here is one more way you can make your favicon that comes in very handy. Transparent favicon are becoming increasingly important, especially when you have a design that isn’t limited to a 16×16 box. Look at the picture below. Notice the favicon highlighted in blue has no white border while the favicon in red does. This is why you want a transparent favicon.
Let’s face it; many web designers out there that still don’t understand internet marketing or SEO in the least. Sometimes changes occur that everyone embraces but others fail to make the grade. For some reason SEO isn’t being embraced by designers, perhaps because it takes away from some of the artistic and creative values designers hold so dear. There is a fundamental dilemma between search engine optimization and human optimization, which is what designers do. However, there are things designers can do to optimize their designs for search engines. Read the rest of this entry »
5-10 seconds, that’s how long you have to capture a readers attention.
The internet gives us so many choices that if something isn’t particularly interesting it takes less effort to leave and find something new than it would to actually read through. This is why we need to seize every advantage we can. In web design much emphasis is placed on styles and imagery but Read the rest of this entry »
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04 8th, 2008| 
