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Veille. Projet. Droit. Agence. Best of the Web: January - NETTUTS. In the Woods - The Importance of Color in Web Design. All too often, I see a great design concept with a poor choice of colors. Part of what makes a great web design “great” is layout, typography and color. When each of these aspects work to compliment each other, great design is born. RGB vs CMYK If you’re an experienced designer, but are new to web design, you’re most likely a print designer.

When I made the move from print into web design, I was fortunate that I was such a web geek and already new what I needed to know in terms of RGB vs CMYK. Unfortunately, I know far too many print designers who have troubles. This section is for you! Red Green Blue (RGB) When you look at your computer monitor you’re looking at colors generated using red, green and blue light. Note that the key word here is light. 100% red light, 100% green light and 100% blue light added together will create white on your monitor. So how do we express RGB colors on the web? So for example the color red expressed in a three-byte hexadecimal value would be FF0000. Navigation Menus: Trends and Examples | Design Showcase | Smashi.

Advertisement Navigation is the most significant element in web design. Since web-layouts don’t have any physical representation a user can stick to, consistent navigation menu is one of the few design elements which provide users with some sense of orientation and guide them through the site. Users should be able to rely on it which is why designers shouldn’t mess around with it. That’s why in most cases it’s where simple, intuitive and conventional solutions are usually the best option. This article presents recent trends, examples and innovative solutions for design of modern navigation menus. 1. The most significant task a navigation menu has to fulfill is to unambiguously guide the visitors through the different sections of the site. This navigation scheme can be used not only for the horizontal navigation; it can can be applied to vertical navigation as well. 2. In any case over the last months a number of web-sites integrated Mac-styled-navigation in their web-sites. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Morceaux choisis : Emirates, The Resumator, Kontain, SpeakerRate. Une nouvelle formule pour cette édition de Morceaux Choisis, la série d’articles qui s’intéresse au génie et au design de certaines parties d’un site Internet. Il y aura dorénavant plus de sites présentés dans cette rubrique, ainsi que plus de place donnée aux captures d’écrans.

Je vous invite toutefois à prendre le temps de visiter chacun de ces sites pour les découvrir grandeur nature et en profiter pleinement. Sharkey Media Une entête très claire et bien proportionnée : 365 Days of Astronomy Ici c’est l’image de fond de type aurore boréale qui prédomine : Emirates Un découpage habile de l’image principale : Articulate Un travail tout en dégradé. Marketcircle Une utilisation de blocs graphiques imposants et très colorés : Billings 3 Un design à la Apple très agréable : Icon Resource Le schéma de couleur est original et là encore très Mac : The Resumator La partie haute de la page est une véritable réussite : RedBrick Health J’aime beaucoup le travail sur les ombres et la transparence : Kontain Box.net.

50 Beautiful And User-Friendly Navigation Menus | Design Showcas. Advertisement Usability is an essential goal of any website, and usable navigation is something every website needs. It determines where users are led and how they interact with the website. Without usable navigation, content becomes all but useless. Menus need to be simple enough for the user to understand, but also contain the elements necessary to guide the user through the website — with some creativity and good design thrown in.

Below we present over 50 excellent navigation menus — we feature CSS-based design solutions, CSS+JavaScript-based menus and Flash-designs. However, they all have something in common: they are user-friendly yet creative and perfectly fit to the style of their respective websites. Please also consider our previous articles: CSS-Based Navigation Menus: Modern Solutions1, which lists modern solutions for CSS-based navigation.Navigation Menus: Trends and Examples2 is an inspirational collection of navigation menus. 1.

Artgeex27Vivid typography in use. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.