A professional web designer is a person who manages to ignore his personal likes and dislikes and creates the layout that satisfies and attracts the audience of the future site. Web design principles are generally accepted, but eventually changing recommendations on how to create comfortable and user friendly website interface. While some of them may work for some project others may do no good. Your project’s niche and goals are the factors that all your work should be based on, so don’t disregard some basic concepts of marketing, psychology, art and search engine optimization. Our team keeps this collection of guidelines up-to-date as technology and viewers’ preferences keep on evolving.
Play to the brain's strengths
Editor's Pick in Design Principles, June 2005
One way to think about designing for web users is to consider what the brain is good at, in order to utilize its strengths.
Type : Design Principles
Level : All levels
Added : Jun 07, 2005
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Is Your Site Too Slow? Why Image Optimization Is Critical When You Create A Web Site
Graphics are fun, but if you put in too many bells and whistles when you create your web site, you may lose a potential audience whose Internet connection can’t handle lots of graphics, and that means you’ll be losing potential customers...
Type : Design Principles
Level : Beginner
Added : Jun 16, 2005
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Business Website Building Do's and Don'ts
When it comes to building your own website for business, there are many things to consider when you build your home page to make it look professional, fast loading and easy to navigate. There are many ways and tools to make your site look good, entertaining and fun to watch...
Type : Design Principles
Level : All levels
Added : Jun 21, 2005
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Bring to Life your Ideal Web Pages
Planning to create and design your own web page? What can we say but - welcome to the web design world!
Type : Design Principles
Level : Beginner
Added : Jun 16, 2005
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How people use web pages
Web designers naturally have a distorted view of web pages. The way we look at pages as we design them is very different from how they're used in the real world. To create designs that work in the real world, we must appreciate the way they'll really be used...
Type : Design Principles
Level : Beginner
Added : Jun 07, 2005
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Logical Order
There is a natural flow to many visual interactions - the flow of a visual dialogue between page your features and your user's private mental commentary. When laying out forms and other screen elements, read the layout like a conversation, working from the page origin...
Type : Design Principles
Level : Beginner
Added : May 25, 2005
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The Attention Map
Attention mapping is a tool to help you start to plan a visual layout around realistic communication between user and site. It can also be a helpful analysis tool, helping you work out what's wrong about a layout...
Type : Design Principles
Level : All levels
Added : May 23, 2005
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Towards Next Generation URLs
For many years we have heard about the impending death of URLs that are difficult to type, remember and preserve. The use of URLs has actually improved little thus far, but changes are afoot in both development practices and Web server technology that should help advance URLs to the next generati...
Type : Design Principles
Level : Professional
Added : Nov 10, 2004
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Writing Right for Your Website
Back to basics. Forget funky design, good writing is the key to a clear and intuitive website. Are you losing business because of your website? More and more customers are logging on to the Web to decide where to spend their money because it is quick and convenient, and they can jump from site to ...
Type : Design Principles
Level : Beginner
Added : Nov 09, 2004
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Can Visitors Figure Our What Your Product Is?
In the past few weeks, I've become increasingly aware of a major problem among websites: It's very difficult to figure out what the site is actually selling. I've encountered this problem numerous times recently due to emails from people asking for advice on their websites. Unfortunately, when...
Type : Design Principles
Level : Beginner
Added : Oct 28, 2004
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