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Web Design For Dummies Cheat Sheet. Cheat Sheet Web design can be technically demanding, but don't underestimate the importance of the visual aspects.

Web Design For Dummies Cheat Sheet

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! Web Dev Handbook Directory: CSS, Layouts, Access, etc

Aesthetic Foundations: Principles Of Art & Color. The Secret Law Of Page Harmony. “A method to produce the perfect book.”

The Secret Law Of Page Harmony

The perfect book. This is how designer-genius Jan Tschichold described this system. Not the ok book, nor the pretty good book, but the perfect book. This method existed long before the computer, the printing press and even a defined measuring unit. No picas or points, no inches or millimeters. And you can still use it. The Secret Canon & Page Harmony Books were once a luxury only the richest could afford and would take months of work to be brought to fruition.

And they were harmoniously beautiful. The bookmakers knew the secret to the perfect book. So elegant is this method of producing harmony that a few designers saw to rediscover it. They found the way to design a harmonious page. Design Theory - Tuts+ Web Design Category. Top 10 Mistakes In Web Design. Design Archives. “Type Design Is Not Only About Drawing Letters” Having started his career studying under some of the best typographic minds in the world, Khajag Apelian not only is a talented type and graphic designer, unsurprisingly, but also counts Disney as a client, as well as a number of local and not-for-profit organizations throughout the Middle East.

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Even more impressive is Khajag’s willingness to take on work that most people would find too challenging. Designing a quality typeface is a daunting task when it’s only in the Latin alphabet. Khajag goes deeper still, having designed a Latin-Armenian dual-script typeface in four weights, named "Arek", as well as an Arabic adaptation of Typotheque’s Fedra Display. Read more... Sitepoint: Learn Web Design & Photoshop. In-Depth Tutorials & Articles On Web Design: Webdesigntuts+ A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites. Bad Web Design - Articles & Features To Teach You Better. Bad web design is like pornography—you know it when you see it.

Bad Web Design - Articles & Features To Teach You Better

Unless the bad design is on your web site. The Top 10 Ways To NOT Win Website Awards. How to NOT win awards for your website Back in the early days of the web, there were many people giving out awards you could post on your site.

The Top 10 Ways To NOT Win Website Awards

Most of them were silly, and it was always ego-massage, but the process of making your site award-able was very useful in also making it search-engine friendly. So I wrote up this page on how to win awards -- or rather, how to not win them! Here are the Top 10 reasons why websites don't get awards (and annoy their visitors): 10 Broken images and links. And the #1 way to annoy a reviewer 1 Music. And finally, some of my personal pet peeves (as gleaned from the vetting I do every day for you people) Macintosh / Wintel Font Size problems. If you want to sum up my advice about writing a good website, it would be this: look at every element on your site, and ask yourself "Does this absolutely, positively, HAVE to be on the site?

" Consider this site, for example. WebsiteTips.com Web Design Tips, Web Page Design Tutorials CSS HTML Tutorials Website Design Tips - Web Site Resources. All About Trends In Web Design. As long as the web has been around there have been certain design trends which have popped up from time to time.

All About Trends In Web Design

Some of these trends have stuck around and, over time, some have disappeared. Think back to the time of Geocities, to the time of ‘Web 2.0’ designs and closer to home, with the “flat design” trend that’s popular now. Now, in 2013, the web industry is changing as rapidly as ever. New techniques, or ways of working, pop up every month, if not every week. A trend can be described as: a general direction in which something is developing or changing. This is completely true for trends in web design, for it’s often a particular design movement or idea that takes place, gathers some traction and then many other websites either adopt that design or steer clear of it.

Advantages of Trends There are a few advantages to trends in the design industry. Some trends aren’t necessarily to do with the design side of things though. Disadvantages of Trends Examples of Current Trends. 30 Free Video Tutorials For Learning Web Design. Getting started in web design can be quite difficult.

30 Free Video Tutorials For Learning Web Design

For readers, there are tons of great free tutorials online. However, some people find visual instruction to be more effective for their learning style. Instructional videos are an incredibly rich learning tool and could be just what you need to finally learn web development properly. 70 Photoshop Tutorials To Design A Website. This article features a huge amount of Photoshop web design tutorials, which will teach you simple effects which can be combined together in order to create a great website design.

70 Photoshop Tutorials To Design A Website

Theses tutorials are perfect for first time Photoshop users because there short and sweet. I hope you enjoy the article and feel free to leave a comment below. ! Web Dev Handbook Directory: CSS, Layouts, Access, etc.