Keeping Visitors Through 404 Errors
Avoid ugly error 404 pages that turn visitors away. Give them the option to stay on your site by giving them a custom error 404 page that looks and feels like your site. Having a broken or old link gives a very bad impression and can lose you a customer before you have had a chance to impress them ...
Type : Design Principles
Level : Experienced
Added : Oct 12, 2004
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Website Design Company Technology
If you feel like your website design company is speaking Greek, you’re not alone. We web designers use web design technologies day after day and we’ve developed our own little language that often leaves the real world completely clueless. After working with several clients that seem oblivious to wha...
Type : Design Principles
Level : Beginner
Added : Oct 06, 2004
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Design Your E-commerce Website Right
Remember that old television series “The Twilight Zone”? It featured sci-fi fantasies that metaphorically demonstrated people’s hopes, fears and despairs. The actors would be cruising along enjoying a somewhat normal life and then suddenly they entered “a new dimension” where everything was confusin...
Type : Design Principles
Level : Beginner
Added : Oct 06, 2004
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Is Digital Photography Art?
Is digital photography from Photoshop art? This variation of the hoary question "Is photography art?" is a debate gaining momentum.
Type : Design Principles
Level : Beginner
Added : Aug 21, 2004
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Speeding Up Your Digital Camera
A veteran Leica street shooter contacted me with complaints about her new digital camera. She's an established black and white shooter, using a Leica M6 with a wide angle lens to shoot people unaware of the camera in their natural surroundings. Excited by her new digital acquisition, she took to...
Type : Design Principles
Level : Beginner
Added : Aug 02, 2004
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The Do's and Don'ts of Web Site Design
I've received many emails on the first do's and don'ts article, people wanted more, so I thought a part two was is order. 1 Don't use background music on your web pages! So.....
Type : Design Principles
Level : Experienced
Added : Aug 02, 2004
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General Tips for New Web Designers
Web site designers today have plenty of options in terms of tools and technologies they can use to build their web pages. Many questions come up: should we use Flash, do we need database driven web pages, did we...
Type : Design Principles
Level : Beginner
Added : Aug 02, 2004
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Web Design Don'ts
In this webmaster tutorial I will show you some of the basic things that a LOT of webmasters do, that are just plain wrong!
Type : Design Principles
Level : Beginner
Added : Aug 02, 2004
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Design Tips
These tips are just a guideline, don't stick religiously to them. Some may apply to your site others may not. I know I don't bother with number 9, unless im making a commercial site! 1. Consistency Colour schemes, page layout, font type & size sho...
Type : Design Principles
Level : Beginner
Added : Aug 02, 2004
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Design Basics
Let's pretend. Let's pretend you asked me to design a Web site for you. Then we also need to pretend, of course, that I said yes, which I would almost never do because freelance clients are usually nuttier than an Almond Joy and about as smart as a bag of hair. I'm speaking generally, of course. ...
Type : Design Principles
Level : Experienced
Added : Aug 02, 2004
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