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Design Styles, Web Roles and How to Break the Box

dtstanley — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:31:13 +0000

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.

Redesign #2: Cat Prin

Tarah — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:58:20 +0000

Here’s a link to the original Cat Prin website.

My redesign:

Websites from Tuesday’s lecture

Don — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:11:35 +0000

Below is a listing of the sites I shared in class on Tuesday, with some additions. One of the best is the Web Design from Scratch site. It’s an excellent resource for aspiring web communicators. It’s definitely a resource to use again and again.

Remember the one of the key points from our discussion on Tuesday was to understand how web design style and convention has evolve to this point (e.g. the Web 2.0 style). And notice too how how these sites use CRAP and content to make key information/key messages prominent.

Visual Design – Web 2.0 Design Style

Don — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:50:50 +0000

With the advent of “Web 2.0” new design styles have emerged. Just as I showed with the case study on Tuesday (garyengbergoutdoors.com old and new), design styles are becoming more sophisticated. Ben Hunt from Web Design from Scratch shares his perspective with a Web 2.0 Style Guide and he outlines some basic principles to consider.