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Preview-image. Embracing Negative Space in Your Designs: White Space Tips to Consider and Examples to Admire. Designers often view negative space (or “white space”) as a sign of an incomplete design, or space that needs to be filled with… something. Your simple design work can look stellar already, but if you notice a substantial amount of empty space left, you may be compelled to put in peripheral embellishments that don’t really enhance the design. While the end result may seem like a more complete or thorough job, the reality is that those last-minute additions to the design are often purely there to take up space. Although negative space is inherently empty, it can strengthen a sense of simplicity in your design, and it even afford the opportunity for some creative, clever design ideas (we’ll get to some of those later in the article).

Believe it or not, a design that has a large amount of “white space” can be a favorite for clients and a source of pride for a designer. Planning When mapping out your placement, try to arrange the design elements in a cohesive manner. Simplicity Separate Size. Web Graphic Design Trends in 2012. Design trends for this year are bold and aim to grab audience attention. The focus is still on aesthetics but functionality is also crucial. Web style is the procedure of preparing and developing a website. Textual content, pictures, electronic marketing and entertaining components are used by web developers to generate the website seen on the web technique.

Web developers use markup terminology, such as HTML for framework and CSS for demonstration as well as JavaScript to add communication to create websites that can be study by web surfers. As a whole, the procedure of web style can involve conceptualization, preparing, generating, post-production, analysis, and marketing. The website is sailed by using back links, which are generally pink and underlined but can be made to look like anything the developer needs. The graphics should get through to the web users and grab their attention. 1. Bright hues of red, pink and green are being used on the web instead of neutrals. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. How to Learn to Code for Free. In days gone by, all you needed to make a website was a Geocities account and some basic knowledge of HTML. Maybe you’d throw in a bit of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) if you wanted to get fancy. Times have changed, though, and now people build websites using at least one advanced coding language. Programming is a noble pursuit, but if you want to build apps and services for the Web, you need to learn one of these popular languages.

Unfortunately there's no lingua franca when it comes to coding, so beginners can find it difficult to choose their first language. Here's what you need to know to select a coding language that’s right for you and take your first steps in writing code. Choosing a Language The first step in learning to code is selecting a language to code in. Front-end coding relates to the appearance of your website. Back-end coding focuses on the work that happens behind the scenes.

For aspiring front-end coders, I suggest JavaScript. Where to Start What’s Next. Design weblog for designers » Free Social Media Icon Sets – Best Of. HTML KickStart - 99Lime.com. Responsive Web Design: 5 Handy Tips | Having Fun with Web Design & Blogging. Facebook Fan Page Design | Having Fun with Web Design & Blogging.

HTML Source: HTML Tutorials. jQuery for Absolute Beginners: The Complete Series. A List Apart: Articles: A Preview of HTML 5 | Having Fun with Web Design & Blogging. Comics of the week #100. Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers.

These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world today. So for a few moments, take a break from your daily routine, have a laugh and enjoy these funny cartoons. Feel free to leave your comments and suggestions below as well as any related stories of your own… Casual Friday Basic social networking The nervous designer Can you relate to these situations? The Worst Thing to Put on Your Company Website | BNET. Last Updated Oct 5, 2011 12:42 PM EDT Turns out Satan is a Web programmer. Who else would have invented the captcha code -- the often illegible hieroglyphics used to prove you're a human being and not a spammer or other malicious "bot"? Whether you're placing an online order or just completing a simple contact form, this Devil's work now appears on more and more sites. I recently went to the website of a tiny (like two-person) company and just wanted to send an email, and it shot a captcha code at me.

I have 20/15 vision but couldn't get it right. So I asked for another... and another. Finally got a readable one on the third or fourth try. I question how many small businesses are at such huge risk of robot attack that they really need these in the first place. The most offensive, unfriendly, infuriating captcha of all is the classic "wacky word" characters, often buried within a web of random lines and other such obfuscation: But it doesn't have to be this way. CLICK for #4 >>

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WIREFRAMES. WEB ELEMENTS. The Successful Web Designer. JAVASCRIPT / JQUERY. Inspire Magazine: September 2011 - A new web motion and interaction design tool. Shawn Leslie. WORDPRESS / PHP. CSS/HTML.