In the web environment, text has enormous strengths. In many situations, using text delivers far better results than graphics. Web designers should be daring and use text wherever possible...

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...

Be clear on your purpose. Building a website can be a long and arduous procedure if you are not sure what you are doing. However, if you have a clear focus as to what you expect your website to do for your business/organization, things will flow much more smoothly...

Choosing the right typeface for your website copy is important, since it will affect the way your readers perceive your page (serious and formal, or friendly and casual). Aside from this, there are also important usability concerns...

am a firm advocate of good design but most of the time people tend to interpret design as amazing graphics and astounding visuals they tend to forget that design is the culmination of every aspect of good and effective presentation into one (visit Vincent Flander's WebPagesThatSuck.com). We all....

Sooner or later every small or medium business owner realizes that he needs a web site for his business. And almost everybody wants to have great web site for affordable price because usually web site design budget is quite limited...

Editor's Pick in Design Principles, June 2005
Know a little bit about computers and the Internet, but know nothing about building a web site, or web design? Get started with Microsoft FrontPage, says Austin Culley.

Editor's Pick in Design Principles, April 2005
Even if you're not an accomplished webmaster you can still have a professional looking website. You may be like I was five years ago - you're teaching yourself web design and you're starting to catch on to that HTML stuff...

I'm sure you've seen examples of great websites on the internet - and also examples of really "Bad" websites. First impressions are extremely important - you have about 20 seconds to make that first impression a good one. If you want your visitor to come back you've got to do a lot to impress t...

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I assume that it may be too early to talk about how the Web will look like when we switch to Semantic Web; but on the other hand, we should consider the fact that the web design industry (though it’s hard to give this industry a clear and strict definition) is one o...