Thursday, July 31st |
The typography is so strong that they become THE main graphics.
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Tuesday, July 29th |
It's always good to be aware of the changing design culture.
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Friday, July 25th |
As I am in the process of redesigning my restaurant site, I am trying to get in contact with the owners as well as doing a bit of research as to what make sites good or bad. I did some surfing on the web and came across the blog entry linked below. A lot of the comments speak volumes about what to avoid and how to make an info-based site more useful and pleasing to the visitors/potential customers. The comments particularly tell it as it is and exposes the harsh reality of things. I also have gathered that while designers may heavily appreciate flash-based/entertaining websites, for most of our target audiences, it boils down to the usablity of the site. This idea is parallel with the concept of design being more than an art form. It's combining technology with art and creating something with function and purpose.
By the way, John suggested a little description of what my SUSTAINABILITY site be about: TA-DA! This goes in line with the blog entry.
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Thursday, July 24th |
This is an interesting site because of the huge variety of webdesign tutorials and ideas. The layout of the site is also pretty nice and has a unique structure to it. Rollovers bring great situational awareness and the type to go with it makes it even better.
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Tuesday, July 22nd |
The scrolling on this flash-based website is interesting because you don't necessarily need to see the scrollbar to scroll freely. It's very simple, clean and very functional.
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Thursday, July 17th |
Play with color schemes to get an idea of the mood the colors express through your site.
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Tuesday, July 15th |
I just completed my portal layout design. I'd have to say that I'm satisfied with the way it came out. I wanted it to appear to be a "work station" with the desktop, table and other stuff.
Anyway, the featured link is a neat tool lets you test your webdesign in different browsers! Very convenient because all you have to do here is type in your URL.
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Thursday, July 10th |
This is a useful tool for designers who want to save time and preview how type dresses up words.
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Tuesday, July 8th |
This site appears to be designed very simply. However, when you hover over some links, you get a very cool effect. Very eye catching, esp. to designers (click the link below, hover over some links and see why!).
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Thursday, July 3rd |
When surfing the internet, you may start to see websites out there with cool ribbon graphics at the corner of their pages. They're the new "buttons" that can represent some bigger things. Ever wonder how to easily create a cool ribbon? Click on.
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Tuesday, July 1st |
Being very new to CSS, the modern way of coding, I found this website that serves as a good reference site.
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Thursday, June 26th |
Hello world! This is my second day of Design 117. So far, we've covered file management and have been introduced to XHTML. A featured website I'd like to start with is 26 Things. It is about the webdesign community getting together and photographing 26 different things that are based on a given theme. What's amazing is the fact that people ultimately cover a broad range of perspectives of common objects, etc. This project is worth doing once in a while because it's nice to look back on it and compare it with other projects.
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