Top Seven Tips For Great Blog Design

1. Content: Great blogs have great content. Ensure that the blogs overall design and theme coincide with the content. Make any navigation through the content simple by utilizing simple terms and easy to read fonts. Keep your content easily readable by ensuring good contrast between the background and the foreground. Typically white background with black font will have the most contrast and therefore be easiest to read. Whatever colors you choose, be sure to use a very light color with a very dark... Read More

What we can learn from some UGLY sites!

First up, http://noodle-house.blogspot.com/ Much like getting dressed in the morning, putting black and navy blue together is not always a wise choice. The various blocks seem to sit uncomfortably on the blue background and seem unintentional. The goldenrod borders around everything, including boxes within boxes, stare at the reader like a bad blind date.  Thankfully, the fonts are white on black background, so I have an opportunity to read the content. Let us not forget the Sylvester the cat graphic... Read More

Let the world be your Oyster.com

Have you ever checked into a hotel, looked around at the lack of amenities and view, and said to yourself: Man, this is nothing like the brochure. Yeah, many of those pictures that you see from a hotel’s web site are taken to make the finest impression on a potential guest, and some of them are probably airbrushed. These are the pictures that end up on hotels.com and other online reservation sites, and the few paragraphs of description they give on the hotel or resort is too good to be true. Don’t... Read More

Jolicloud, A Fantastic OS For Your Netbook

During the early 2000′s, netbooks originally emerged as low cost laptops with a heavy emphasis on web browsing and wireless internet – it was initially aimed at needy children in developing countries. It came bundled with an adequate enough OS to run the most basic of software (email, word processor, the odd mp3 player, etc) the focus was to keep the computer connected to the Internet so that the information the child received was always up to date. However, word spread of the low... Read More

Social Marketing is Intelligent Design

In today’s highly connected, media-driven world, it has become very apparent that creative thinking and design matter immensely in marketing strategies. Most important in these campaigns is the ability of marketing talent to correctly gauge consumer interest based upon quantitative data generated from market research. The true debate begins in the data vs. creative aspect of social marketing. Anyone can read data, but it takes a true critical thinker to read that data and correctly anticipate... Read More

45+ Beautiful Red Websites for Design Inspiration

Most people judge a site on its quality of design. Colors can play an important role in any web design layout and one of the key factors in a good website design is choosing an attractive and friendly website color. Talking about colors on a web design layout, here are some examples of beautiful red websites to help you enhance your design ideas. In the list below are some very inspiring sites using red colors. Revolution driving tuition Boxing for fitness Web designer depot Pizza-venetia Acko Nuevo-aurich Whoorayrecords Domholmestattoo Nitrocircus Zipless Opendoorsuk Northern-classics Hear... Read More

8 Well-Designed Sites and What You Can Learn From Them

Making a website is a process that requires a good amount of technical expertise, but there’s one thing web designers should never forget: that it is the visitor’s experience that counts the most. For that reason, it’s sometimes good to look at web design from a perspective other than the technical standpoint, and take a look at what generally makes a website enjoyable for someone to visit. The websites we’re about to look at it aren’t necessarily supposed to be examples... Read More

Why I Design Fixed-Width Websites

It has to be said.  The role of a website designer is intrinsically that of an employee.  Every design is heavily influenced by others’ opinions, whether these opinions belong to a specific client or to the general public.  Essentially, it is for the whim of others that a designer works.  Despite this, every good web master (or mistress) skillfully imposes their own personal style on their work.  Designers develop individual  preferences and predilections based on their experiences both... Read More

How iLife ’09 will change Web Design

Since iLife 2009 has now hit the market, it promises to make a lot of things easier for users with iPhoto ’09, iMovie ’09, Garage Band ’09, and iWeb ’09. This year’s iWeb ’09 has some website design applications that promise web design for the rest of us. A user can create a site using some good themes. It is as easy as choosing a theme with coordinated fonts, backgrounds, and colors to give a consistent look on the site. No more unorganized sites. Once the... Read More

Pulling the Trigger on a Career in Filmmaking

Are there any Spielberg’s, Scorsese’s or Quentin Tarantino’s out there? Are you a would-be filmmaker craving a shot at the big timeif someone would just allow you to score that first big break? Jumping into the film industry is a daunting task, particularly if you lack financial backing. NYU and the New York Film Academy are excellent filmmaking schools providing hands-on directorial and editing know-how, but for many, the hefty tuition and fees at these institutions can be prohibitive. The... Read More

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