In my past blog about Web design trends for 2010 I have covered the strong influence of print design techniques, keypress navigation, horizontal layouts, rich typography and aesthetically pleasing designs. Web design today is developing rapidly, breaking the limitations of conventional approaches and exploring the possibilites of upcoming technologies.
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Welcome to the new decade in web design! In the last decade we witnessed new emergences in the world wide web. This new emergence not only marked newer and more innovative applications of the internet and its contents, it also opened up a whole new galaxy of trendy, stylish and useful designs. And as the decade turns, I see the web design community predicting newer trends in the beginning of 'the teens'. I have assessed other opinions and am happy to present my predict
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It has long been said that it takes two to tango. Web development is exactly like that. Web design cannot do it alone without backend support. But to a majority of users, website design has a big space in their consciousness; for them it is dependent on whether a certain site will be a success or a failure. There is a sudden surge in demand for a beautifully made websites. Users don't want poor presentations anymore; they all like something else, something new to their eyes because they
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We have recently witnessed strong advancement in the field of website layout and design. Everything evolves. Flash movies, gigantic animations and other graphic media have become increasingly widespread over the years. However, in the effort to have the ‘coolest' website layout design, website owners tend to forget to whom they are creating their website for: their target audience.
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The web has evolved a lot since its boom in the late 90s. Especially web typography. Web typography deals with the font usage among websites. The clearer the font, the better. Web typography deals with the line-height, text-spacing and colour, which are all text properties. Font styles and usage will greatly affect the design of a website as a whole. It can be boring or exciting. There are still advancements in web typography, including using the image replacement technique. Us
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As web designers, I think we all have experienced the hard task of finding new ideas and inspiration. Read on to find out how my work habits and how the environment influence my design. Working at home kills your creativity. My work habits and environment have a big influence on my work. So I’m going to talk about my work environment first. Being a full-time designer, I get to work at the office and surf the web for the next big thing. Personally, I find it very
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CSS or Cascading Style Sheets is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to be used in HTML and XHTML respectively. It can also be used in XML.Uses CSS can be used to define colors, fonts, layout, and other aspects of document presentation in a web page. It is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation (written
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Every now and then, as a web or graphic designer, you hit a low point or slump in your creativity. A stage where you start to question yourself and sometimes question your skills. The slump can bring about frustration about a project, and now, with quite a number of years in the web design game, I thought I would share my experiences with slumps and techniques I use to overcome them.
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One of the hardest parts of graphic design whilst creating a website is the logo design. It is often very hard to create an image that truly represents a company, but if we keep certain factors in mind graphic designers can normally create a suitable design.
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1. Splash Page I’ve seen this mistake many times, where people put up a big banner image and a link "Click here to enter" on their homepage. The worst case — the "enter" link is embedded in the Flash object, which makes it impossible for the search engine spiders to follow the link. This is fine if you don’t care about what a search engine knows about your site; otherwise you’re making a BIG mistake. Your homepage is most likely your website’s high
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