The Unusable and Superficial World of Beer and Alcohol Websites - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement I was pretty excited when I came up with the idea of examining and showcasing some of the most famous beer and alcohol-related websites from a number of countries around the world. After all, who doesn’t like the odd drink now and again? (Well, besides me — I can’t stand alcohol in any form.) Surely this would make for an interesting article that would elicit quite a few comments. Well, if that’s the result, it wouldn’t be for the reasons I suspected when beginning to research this piece. Instead, I’ve concluded — due to problems related to typography, accessibility, and usability — that the apparent “beauty” present on many of the websites related to this industry is merely “skin deep”. To put it quite bluntly, the designers and developers people responsible for decision-making in the beer and alcohol website industry should be ashamed of themselves for creating such horrendous user experiences.
But I won’t just focus on the negative. The Painful “Age Verification” Screen. The Death Of The Blog Post - Smashing Magazine. The Case Against Vertical Navigation - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement In a recent article about unusable and superficial beer and alcohol websites, I made the claim that using left-hand vertical navigation is an out-of-date method in modern web design.
In the comments, a few people wondered why I said this. I was surprised that it got any attention at all, because it was a brief comment in the article, and didn’t constitute a substantial part of the argument I had put forth. Nonetheless, I decided to write an article describing what I feel is a solid case against using vertical navigation in modern web design. Naturally there are exceptions to every rule, and I’ll discuss those briefly at the end. It should be noted here that when I refer to “vertical navigation”, I’m talking about the top-level, primary means of navigating a website. It Discourages Information Architecture Thora Industrial Plastics Believe it or not, I designed the Thora website in the spring of 2001. Design Should be Based on Careful Content Analysis Dan Conaway WebDesignGuys. Sortfolio : Find a great web designer by style, budget, and location. 40 Killer Minimalist Blog Designs | Spyre Studios. Regular readers of SpyreStudios will recognize that the love of minimalism runs pretty deep around here (judging by the minimalism articles we’ve published before: here, here and here).
So today we’re going to explore the excellent use of minimalism in blog design. The designers of these blogs knew what was important and made sure that the website focused on those pieces, and for that – we appreciate them. Share Some Candy ↓ Brand New ↓ Information Architects ↓ The Designed ↓ Heartworker ↓ Beyond the Pixels ↓ Jaboo ↓ Jonathan Snook ↓ Kim Ellefsens Blog ↓ Human Resources ↓ Burstoid ↓ Max Voltar ↓ Stefan Persson ↓ Triimpuls ↓ andread.it ↓ The Old Fashioned ↓ Novak ↓ Nathan Borror ↓ The Post Family ↓ Inkcover ↓ Aphichat Panjamanee ↓ Design View ↓ This Made My Day ↓ Posh CSS ↓ daus.trala.la ↓ Arbol Textual ↓ Cynosura ↓ Reachably ↓ Quality Peoples ↓ Huwshimi ↓ Blanketrash ↓ It’s Nice That ↓ Do it for the fame ↓ Minima ↓ Stuart Hobday ↓ Spinz ↓ Daring Fireball ↓ I Love Typography ↓ In conclusion.
70+ Ultimate Round-Up of Free PSD Website Templates | Showcases. Throughout history, great designers always found new ways to show their creativity to express themselves and create new trends and techniques to remark their work apart from the rest of the crowd. The definition of design is more critical in modern terms as now design is a way of communication; and, more specifically, Web design is a well define platform for showcasing your skills. There is no "Good" and "Bad" in design. It always define as "Different". You can find numerous amount of free design stuff online. Finding free PSD website template also not very difficult but it’s very hard to find the template which reflects fusion between creativity and design trends.
This is not the traditional long list with all the available PSD web layouts on the internet but it’s an refined collection of best handpicked website layouts which was created with the online professional in mind as we also know that personal designs reflects the identity of each of us on the Internet. 01. 02. 03. 04. 05. 80 Large Background Websites. As the monitor resolution and internet speed is advancing, it seems like more and more designers use over-sized photo or illustrated image as the website's background.
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Web Design Dashboard. How Simple Web Design Helps Your Business | How-To. Advertisement Many e-commerce sites these days tend to be loaded down with too much information on their landing pages. The reasoning for cluttered e-commerce sites is simple: the more information you can cram on the page, the more the user will buy. Unfortunately, web buyers are a finicky bunch. Jacob Nielsen reports that web users are becoming much more impatient1 while shopping and browsing online. Instead of spending their time going to a site’s homepage and finding the content by categories or other product recommendations, most shopping is done by quick Google searches.
If the user can’t find what she’s looking for right away, she’s gone. It’s crucial to have simple web designs to allow the user to quickly find the information they need, especially if you are selling a product. However, it’s become a common practice to do just the opposite. e-commerce sites have taken this “scatter shot” approach of trying to slap the potential buyer with as many options as possible. It's done. Find an Undervalued Asset. Fix It Up. Flip It. (Now It’s Web Sites, Not Houses) Web Layouts | Cool Layouts | Website Layouts.