Posts Tagged ‘Web design’

Working smarter: Building expandable, modular websites

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

From experience, clients who commission DigiKev to build a small website solution, perhaps even just a mini site with a handful of pages, at some point in the future may require additional pages or sections to be added. Larger websites with a multitude of information and complex structures will more than likely require expansion or remodelling of the configuration to accommodate a new campaign style or to work more efficiently for search engine optimisation after studying the analytics.

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Working smarter: Learning a programming language

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

From my experience, web designers fall into three distinct camps. The first is the graphic designer turned web designer. They have the fundamentals of page layout, an eye for detail and a strong grasp of design consistency and typographical techniques. The graphical web designer will more than likely be able to build a website in HTML, will have an intermediate knowledge of Flash animation and will get around this format using the timeline and visual tweening. Some will have a clear grasp of using style sheets and producing HTML markup which is both semantic and standards compliant. This is the camp I grew up in.

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What makes a website user friendly?

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Flash movies, subtle gradients, iconography. All just dressing up right? The small things. It is all about the small things that make a website stand out from the rest and usually it is these items that get overlooked by the web visitor, taken for granted even. Without them they would soon leave in a frustrated state never to return again. So what are these small things?

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Tags: Usability, User Experience, Web design
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