Designing the homepage last fffunction blog. “If I were you, I’d leave the homepage design until last” fellow fffunctioneer Pete Coles once said. It puzzled me. I had always designed or wireframed the homepage before any other pages in every web project I had been involved in before I came to fffunction. I then realised there was a great potential in this way to proceed and I may have missed out on something. The homepage is constantly evolving throughout the project (even if you try to stick to your sketches, wireframes or prototype). At fffunction, we use component guides (or pattern library) instead of pixel perfect mockups made in Photoshop or other design software. For additional details about it, check out our article on Bristol Museum Labs about how we create a component guide. Although it require the designers to know HTML/CSS, component guides create a bridge towards a faster and more efficient back end development since most elements are already styled and coded.
Links Myth #17: The homepage is your most important page. The Business Of Web Design Podcast. April 16, 2014 by Joel_Hughes I’m very happy to announce the launch of The Business of Web Design Podcast. This is a fortnightly show where I talk to freelancers & web agency owners about how they run their web design business, lessons learnt along the way and all that stuff. In episode #1 I chat to Rob Calvert from Click in Shoreditch; a very interesting chap indeed who fuelled loads of great show notes. Tuning In If you’re on IOS, you’ll find the podcast in the iTunes store. Oh, and if there is anyone you’d like me to chat to on the show, please let me know. Joel p.s. thanks to Chris & Matt for their design/dev help; good work chaps :) Like this: Like Loading... What’s wrong with a cheap website? I read a great post today, “What A Free Website Says About Your Company“, and I was leaving such a lengthy comment that I thought I’d better turn it into a blog post instead.
My company’s websites start from a couple of £K upwards. I completely understand that that budget may put things out of the reach to a certain level of person or business. That’s ok – you can’t appeal to everybody. People who are starting out on a shoe string budget may simply not have the kind of money which a serious, thought out, marketing savvy website requires. I can understand that. And I can understand the logic behind people having a go themselves to try to save money. However, this can be a very dangerous false economy. Rabbit Holes & Time Vampires Website creation is still a non-trivial exercise. An anti-website A website is online 24 x 7. Worse still, a very poorly thought out website is harming your business 24 x 7. Price & Value are Relative So, what’s wrong with a cheap website? Like this: Like Loading... 10 Rock Solid Website Layout Examples.
Keeping It Simple Page layout is equal parts art and science. Creating something that’s visually attractive and unique takes an artist’s eye. However, there are several very easy to follow guidelines that you can use to create solid layouts that work for any number of cases. These principles include choosing and sticking to an alignment, structuring your whitespace properly and highlighting important elements through size, positioning, etc. Designers often stress out far too much about the layout process.
In this article we’re going to take a look at ten very common layouts that you can find on countless sites across the web. If you’re a web designer, bookmark this page and come back the next time you get stuck laying out a page. Three Boxes This is probably the most simple layout on the list. The three boxes layout features one main graphic area followed by two smaller boxes underneath. This design is ideal for a portfolio page or anything that needs to show off a few sample graphics. WebLog - bwired. How you can improve your main navigation bar. Details Make the Difference in Web Design. Details make a world of difference when distinguishing between ordinary and extraordinary.
A luxury car may have the same number of wheels, seats, windows and doors as a traditional vehicle, but what sets it apart from the competition is the time spent on the details. Heated leather seats, a push-to-start engine, keyless entry, automated parking and extensive digital consoles add value to an expensive, new car. The same principle holds true in web design. Web designers who take the time to dive into the details that make a difference will reap the rewards of designs that hold more value. The key word here is value. There is no guarantee of a direct correlation between the time invested into creating a website and the value that the result has.
Details That Add Value The type of details we want to spend extra time on improves our work beyond the aesthetic levels. Those are the details we want to invest time in. So how exactly does a design detail add value to a website? Looking Closer. Web Site Design Berkshire - Neatsite Web Design - Reading Berkshire. How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell.
CSS. Usability. HTML5. Resolution. Colour. South. More Rounded Corners with CSS - Schillmania.com. Tips: Building Wireframes for Web UI - Web User Interface Architect. The nature of UI development is so complex that fitting it into a set of rules is simply not possible. The only way to become a pro in this field is only through constant practice and efforts to better the results by learning more out of small mistakes. When one is working on a wireframing (also called as 'interactive mockups') assignment, the very first difficult thing is to plan your bits and pieces across HTML and CSS. Things keep changing all the time; so whatever you do, must be flexible enough.
This is not possible most of the time and that shouldn't de-motivate you from delivering quality. Do not hesitate to go back to completed wireframes as many times as required and revise them. I usually try to follow these tips (I expect readers of this article to be familiar with building HTML wireframes. Request for as many screen mockups (PSD or whatever your designers use) as possible before starting. Now think whether you can employ a common layout template. |---- index.html <title>....