Design Styles, Web Roles and How to Break the Box
Reading some articles this weekend, I came across some interesting articles.
LAYOUT CONVENTIONS
The first article Killing Some Bad Layout Conventions is an interesting article about poor layout design. Not sure I agree completely, but it’s good food for thought. As you are designing your interfaces, I suggest you reread my post about web 2.0 design styles.
WEB DESIGN TEAM ROLES
Cameron Moll, a very well known web design blogger is discussing web roles on his site. The question he’s asking Designer, Coder: Separate roles or one? Should designers just design or should they be doing the HTML and CSS too? This is a great discussion for beginning web design students to pay attention to and learn from others in the industry about what they think.
HOW TO BREAK THE BOX WITH CSS
Finally, one question I often get asked is “How do you create a design that isn’t boxy”? Jina Bolton has an excellent article on Sitepoint.com entitled “Breaking the Box“. It’s a great tutorial on how to create a clean, efficient CSS design that’s unique.
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Questions from the Velvet Forcefield Web Machine:
Is there an overall style that you are going for? (color schemes, geometic vs. organic shapes, etc.)
Do you have a visual identity (logo)?
Do you want to provide a means to purchase art or contact artists through your website?
Who is the Wescott contact for selling art?
Do you have any images of the buildings at Wescott Bay?
How is nature preservation integrated in to your business plan?
That’s all for now!