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What should we strive for?

I wanted to getting a rough look for sites in particular you guys imagine show absolute excellence in web page design. Personally, I keep an eye on 10 or so sites in my bookmarks that we think exhibit what I would really like to become, and frequently I keep finding their way back to this a single: Fish Marketing To my advice, this site is probably the best site I’ve ever seen as far as all around should go. If I were searching for advertising of in which scale, and We were judging on sites, they’d get this business guarenteed Maybe I’m jaded, cynical, plus a *BLEEP* *BLEEP* *BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP*… yet I hate sites like Fish Marketing. They really don’t offer much of real content, it may not be really SEO text, and it’s far too " cute". It breaks Vincent Flander’s Don’t Confuse Web site design With Sex Guideline, and that will be one most meant never to be broken. Speaking which, I’ve always felt that this best sites available adhere to Knight in shining armor Vince’s philosophies. Get clear, don’t use annoying " mystery meat navigation" and be certain there’s some WEBSITE POSITIONING copy in there. The issue with … Continue reading

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Learning the art of "graphic design"

Hi, I consider myself for being more of a web site developer. I’m not very great by using colours and layouts. If given a new design I’m extremely proficient at turning it suitable css/html layout. Therefore the question is: how likely could it be that somebody by using little artistic aptitude be capable to pick up a few design essentials I’ll get get around in photoshop plus graphic programs I simply have trouble identifying ideas. Is there some sort of book or any resource you’ll recommend to assist over come this kind of obstacle Thanks for virtually any input! Welcome to our world. Very few people (including myself) have become good at BOTH EQUALLY design and growth. That is why I have the graphic designer that provides me the layouts, graphics, and PDF rendering of the sites… and I do the very " coding"… making suitable XHTML/CSS site. Whatever the designer wants your website to look similar to, I make it render a similar in all browsers. WHEN I don’t do Illustrator, Flash, or Layouts… but I know the way they work. WHEN I leave the artistic creativity into the artist that appreciates nothing about XHTML, CSS or PHP. Thought … Continue reading

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