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DeployCMS
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Quite useful grunge style web design of a Deploy CMS that can help you build a better website, every time.
Category: Internet |
Compik
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Trendy minimalist web design of a Magento theme created by the outstanding web templates provider.
Category: Online Store/Shop |
Poll: What’s your favorite layout method?
Choosing a layout method is often very personal. One person might prefer absolute positioning while another only uses floats with relative sized blocks. An elastic layout is often considered the most flexible, because it sets a specific size for major text blocks while leaving the rest of the layout to stretch to fit the available space. But fixed width layouts give the designer more control over how the page will look. And others prefer a completely liquid layout because the page stays consistent no matter how big or small the browser is. And of course, some people still prefer tables for layout despite the many reasons to use CSS instead. What layout style is your preference?
Designers shouldn’t have to bother with learning HTML or CSS
I received a submission today from a web designer who is, in his words “sick of code”. He would like the web programmers and web developers out there to know a little secret “the future of web design is design” and that coders should stick to writing code that he can slide into his designs “without knowing all about tags or code”. My interpretation from this rant is that Polomo does not want to have to learn HTML or CSS. He’s a designer, and knowing those things just hinders his creative process.
What do you think? Does learning the back end of web design (HTML and CSS) hinder a designer’s creative process? Or does it help? Do you find developers as annoying as Polomo does? And what about the developers out there? Do you agree? Should you be focused only on the code and making sure it slides into a designer’s vision with no hiccups? Or do you find web designers just as annoying?
Thanks, Polomo, for taking the time to post your feelings. It should make for interesting debate.
DON’T WRITE HEADLINES IN ALL CAPS
Many people were taught to use all capital letters to emphasize text or make it stand out more. But with all the different typographic options we have for decorating headlines all caps just becomes difficult to read. Find out why you should never use all caps for headlines on your web pages.
Decorate Your Headlines in Other Ways
Web Design Software Pick of the Week: Favicon from Pics
Creating a site favicon doesn’t require that you invest in an icon editor. This site will take any picture you upload and convert it into a favicon for you to upload to your website. There is even a readme file that tells you how to get your favicon to display in the browser. If you’ve wanted a custom favicon, but didn’t want to create one yourself, this is a great tool. You can also use it to convert your site logo into a favicon.
Poll: Do you modify the meta description on every one of your pages?
The meta description tag is an important tag for SEO because nearly every search engine uses this as the description of the page in their search results. But many people don’t have time to create a description for every page that they put up. Do you change your meta descriptions or do you have a default one that you use for most or all pages on a site?
10 Spelling (and Grammar) Errors that Drive Web Readers Crazy
We’re all human, and make mistakes in our spelling and grammar at times. But there are some errors that jump out at your readers often with disastrous results. You wouldn’t think a missing apostrophe would be bad, but if you regularly write its instead of it’s for “it is” some people will stop reading your site and tell others to stop reading it too. Also, some typos can result in broken links and even broken pages. By checking for these common spelling errors and grammar errors, you raise your site’s credibility and keep your readers happy.
Good Web Writing
Think Brownstone
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Absolutely refined web design that perfectly represents Think Brownstone team. You will also like their blog.
Category: Communications |
