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Simplicity or Complexity

Author : Josia

Josiah discusses the the question that irritates webmasters everywhere and could be the key to your site's success. Indeed society today demands everything be bigger, faster, brighter and just plain "spiffy". But what does a consumer want? Do they want clean, us...

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Type : Website Usability
Level : Beginner
Added : Aug 02, 2004
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Font Choice

Webmaster Tutorial - Choose youre font!In this webmaster tutorial I will give my opinion on which fonts are best for the web, and why that is.The OptionsThere are two possible types of font to use are serif fonts, and sans-serif. The diff...

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Type : Website Usability
Level : Beginner
Added : Aug 02, 2004
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Homepage Real Estate Allocation

Author : Jakob Nielsen

Summary: On average, sample sites evenly distributed valuable screen space between content, navigation, fluff, blank areas, and system overhead. Areas of user interest.....

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Type : Website Usability
Level : Beginner
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The Ten Most Violated Homepage Design Guidelines

Author : Jakob Nielsen

Summary: There are ten usability mistakes that about two-thirds of corporate websites make. The prevalence of these errors alone warrants attention, e.....

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Type : Website Usability
Level : Experienced
Added : Aug 02, 2004
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How to Pick Your Colors

As designers our job is to make others look good, whether our final piece is a logo or a packaging design for a breakfast cereal. No matte...

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Type : Color Theory
Level : Beginner
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Color Theory

Author : liquisoft.com

For a long time, now, there has been a problem that fledgling designers have run into on a constant basis. This problem seems insignificant to most, but in actuality it is quite possibly the most important factor in a design or piece of artwork. Yes, you guessed it...I'm talking about the issue of ...

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Type : Color Theory
Level : Beginner
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Color Theory 101

Author : Josh Spivey

So we have been talking about color right? Big deal, who cares? Well you do, if you want to present effective graphics. After looking at the above image, do you feel hungry? Do you feel happy or sad or anything? Actually, in this context, you probably don't feel anything. Let me ask you this;...

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Type : Color Theory
Level : Beginner
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Color Theory 101

Author : Josh Spivey

You may never think about color when you design. You may just think what looks good is what is good. Well think again, because it goes much deeper than that. This week I want to begin talking about color theory. Before I do, I want to stress that some of this is hard and true "Color Theory" as i...

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Type : Color Theory
Level : Beginner
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Color Theory 101

Author : Josh Spivey

Ok, so we have now talked about colors that are similar. Now let's talk about colors that are disimilar. To do so, let's take another look at the color wheel. Look at the image above and notice that the arrows point in opposing directions. This is demonstrating the concept of complimentary co...

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Type : Color Theory
Level : Beginner
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Color Theory 101

Author : Josh Spivey

Last week we began talking about color theory and we discussed analogous color. Let's talk about this more. Last week, we mentioned the beginning stages of what analogous color is. I mentioned that we can have several colors that are similar to one another, but yet different. That's almost right,...

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Type : Color Theory
Level : Beginner
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