Archive for October, 2007

http://bokardo.com/archives/five-principles-to-design-by/
When reading the part about “Design is not Art”, I immediately thought back to the websites that were on “The 10 Worst Web Sites to Navigate in 2006″ (http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/10-worst-mystery-meat-navigation-sites-featured-on-web-pages-that-suck-in-2006.html). It seemed that some of those designers forgot that everyday people would be using their web site to obtain information quickly. This author talks about design being [...]


http://www.seomoz.org/blog/web-design-tactics
 I like this article because I get stuck and frustrated with things all the time, so advice when it comes to this is needed. The author makes a good point when he says that sometimes, when your working on a header with no body it’s like, “adjusting a tie in front of the mirror, but [...]



http://bcts-potomac.aacc.edu/128b/03/Week5/
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http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/10-worst-mystery-meat-navigation-sites-featured-on-web-pages-that-suck-in-2006.html
I felt that most of the websites that were shown on this countdown, pretty much, over did it. In the sense that they were maybe trying to be “futuristic” or “modern”, and in that attempt, totally lost the point of giving information and having a good website. I think it was helpful to look at these [...]


http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html
To be honest I thought most of the stuff in this article was commonsense. One thing that would be useful for me to remember is to change the Color of Visited Links.