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- AmICoolNow, on 11/20/2008, -1/+9"Me, for example, can CSS galleries, look at photos, listens to music, glance to magazines, look at games and movies, and take long walks."
What? - TheKingInYellow, on 11/20/2008, -1/+9one good design habit would be to learn how to skew text with the proper perspective instead of just rotating it.
- chaosblade77, on 11/20/2008, -0/+5Great except the second one. I usually don't have an issue with colors unless they just don't work. Lots of yellow, lime green, bright pink, and things like that just don't work for the vast majority of the projects you'd work on.
I guess you could also cheat on the first one since you can get image-like effects using CSS and Javascript, but that defeats the purpose in the exercise. - Zomgondo, on 11/20/2008, -3/+76. Don't do Top X Y's / N ways to Z lists. Try coming up with a creative title for once.
- tomhancocks, on 11/20/2008, -0/+4If that client has something in mind, which is going on along with the rest of their brand, if you create something so wildly different from their brand they will likely not pay you, and go else where. Sometimes you have to bite the bullet and do what your client is paying you to do.
- Pushkin, on 11/20/2008, -0/+4Please make me a 3 column layout that can handle German and Finnish being resized two steps up without overlaying the other columns in a set of divs and you will win a prize - perhaps a dvd with ATWT
- Zomgondo, on 11/20/2008, -0/+3Agreed on the colors. There's a reason certain colors are used more than others, and that's because they're pleasing to the eye, and give visual cues that we all understand to the intended meaning of the image. You're better off figuring what color implies what than making a horrible magenta-on-black site with liberal use of the BLINK tag.
- milkmit, on 11/20/2008, -1/+4That advice has no practical value for anyone doing professional web work where the typical design decisions are informed by the client's intended goals (which is, um, roughly 100%).
- InfernoX, on 11/20/2008, -1/+4Oh good I'm not the only one that noticed that.
- MtheoryX, on 11/20/2008, -0/+3Vegans don't.
- Pushkin, on 11/20/2008, -0/+3And it was the use of tables that made the links not readable for screen readers???
- noknockers, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2only generally if you're incapable of coming up with anything exciting. What i find is if you come up with an idea above and beyond what the client has in mind, bam, suddenly the client gives you more room to move. Do this a couple of times and the design is yours. Seems to work most of the time.
- WhoDoneIt, on 11/20/2008, -2/+4Wonderful. A designer who doesn't have any clients. None of this advice works in the real world. Yes, I'll waste hours of my time designing without images and only using typography for my client looking for solutions. Time is money my friend.
The best thing to do.
"You're only as good as your reference". Yes, look at the mags, look at the internet and study what you like, what is effective and what top companies are doing to achieve their audience. Then take that, make a twist on it, put your creative spin on it and take it to the next level.
For the others that are going to say this to my post.. "But you are following design trends"... no. Actually a lot of great, original things get sparked from having a great resource(s)
/sarcasm - rossisdead, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2It's ok, no one else looked at the source for the page to notice it used mostly divs and even included its very own sarcasm tags.
- MtheoryX, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2@noknockers, you're treading the very fine line of working on spec with that idea.
- apetrie, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2I completely disagree. Challenging yourself can only lead to positive growth in your design. Not what the client wants? Don't do any of these things for a client, do it on your own time. In this industry you really need to flex your design muscles outside of the office to stay fresh, imo.
- GrooTheWanderer, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2I think making a purple 640×480 pixel website with monospace text and no graphics might just ensure that high traffic loads aren't such a problem.
- elstevo, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2oh, i'm sorry... i didn't realize i needed <sarcasm> tags for something so obviously tounge-in-cheek.
- tj111, on 11/20/2008, -1/+37. Ensure your server can handle high traffic loads.
- jophillips, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1haha!
- YodaJones, on 11/20/2008, -1/+2They forgot to suggest making a site out of bacon. Everybody likes bacon.
- rossisdead, on 11/20/2008, -1/+2That was the first thing I saw and I couldn't take the article seriously after that.
- Xazos, on 11/19/2008, -3/+4wow, some great things to consider when trying not to follow 'the norm'.
- reva, on 11/26/2008, -0/+1Not sure how it's possible not to notice that (at least as someone looking at design articles on Digg)
- weif, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1If your content is worth while, this [size and font] is a minimal to non-existent issue - and if the site is well marked up, you may still need to deal with bandwidth/server load issues. of course, by cutting down the overwhelming volume of flash, unnecessary AJAX-type foo calls, and overwhelming graphics, it will take a lot more traffic to start generating any significant server or network load...
- wildgoose852, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1great tips there, I need help with web design !
- reva, on 11/26/2008, -0/+16. Find clients that will let you get away with all of the above
- InfernoX, on 11/20/2008, -1/+1You just gave me an idea! A keyboard made out of bacon!!! The tactile feedback would be orgasmic.
- TheKingInYellow, on 11/20/2008, -1/+1he's swedish and a good habit for him is only going to work for him. designers are all different. what works for one will not work for the other.
- manniman, on 02/01/2009, -0/+0haha, reva, you are right!
http://www.svens-seo-consulting.de - inactive, on 11/20/2008, -1/+1mmm...bacon
- ajmunson, on 11/20/2008, -2/+2I recommend you give me your clients contact info so I can fix your ***** up non-SEO friendly coding. I can make a lot more money long term when your clients 13yo kid peeks at the HTML and immediately laughs hysterically. Seriously, you give designers/developers a bad name.
- MysticKatDaddy, on 11/20/2008, -1/+1A business can actually get sued for using tables to layout its website. Target just settled for 6 million this year because blind users could not access their site properly.
- foolfoolz, on 11/20/2008, -1/+1actually where I work they initially wanted me to use tables for the layouts because it works for all browsers in the easiest way. im using css and just havent told them yet, and they are looking at the code just the design so Im ok for now.
- BuenoCabra, on 11/20/2008, -4/+2*peek
- elstevo, on 11/20/2008, -9/+6I recommend http://giveupandusetables.com/
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