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Concept Design Tools
Does your creative process start with the same sketch of a web page every time? Or even the same Photoshop template? You could be missing out on the most innovative solutions by not putting enough thought into the concept, says Victor Lombardi. Here he outlines three methods for pulling apart a brief to tackle the underlying concept design.
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Understanding Disabilities when Designing a Website
It is easy to make accessibility a checklist item for your Web site launch, but Leona Tomlinson provides some insight into how users with different disabilities access websites and how simple changes can make a huge difference to their browsing experience.
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Cooking With Stock
Unless you’re a gifted photographer as well as a kick-ass coder, there will be times when you turn to other people’s photos to add emotion and depth to your designs. But how do you navigate the maze of clichéd stock? Designer and author, Jason Beaird, discusses how to choose the right stock picture for your site.
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Web Design by Designers
You’ll often be told that the gallery sites are one of the first places to turn to for inspiration—but, while they can reveal the current trends in blog design, they don’t tell the whole story. For true inspiration—and a touch of education—Kimberly Elam took a look instead at how the super-successful approach the design of their own websites.
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Getting The Most Out Of Your Library
Whether you’re embarking on the research phase of a new project, in need of some more design inspiration, or just looking for a quiet place to work, it is all too easy to overlook one enormous free resource. William Hicks wants you to know how to be a better designer by taking it offline—at your local library.
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How Environments, Real And Virtual, Influence Us
What sort of state is your desk in right now? Clutter on your website, just as in your environment, can have a negative effect on your visitors’ state of mind. Kyle Mueller takes a look at some of the common pitfalls and how to avoid them.
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Review: Web Form Design by Luke Wroblewski
2008 has been a quiet year for good web design and development books. The standout thus far is Luke Wroblewski’s “Web Form Design”, published by Rosenfeld Media, both in terms of content and design. Digital Web’s own Matthew Pennell reviews “Web Form Design” and finds LukeW’s design thinking far outshines focusing on the humble web form.
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eCRM: A Virtual Reality Check For Your Business
This week we take a step back from the web development rock-face to look at a more business-oriented topic. User-centered design is all very well, but how do you join the dots when it comes to managing your customer relationships long term? Entrepreneur Tej Kohli discusses the benefits to your business of investing in some Customer Relationship Mojo.
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Photoshop vs Fireworks
Web designers use Photoshop, right? Always have, always will. At least that’s what I thought—but speak to enough designers, and you start to notice that a little program called Fireworks has just as many adherents as Adobe’s flagship graphics app. So which is best? We gathered a handful of great designers, fans of both Photoshop and Fireworks, to slug it out in search of the definitive answer. Your referee tonight is Nathan Smith. Fight!
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Smart CSS Ain’t Always Sexy CSS
The web industry has never been short of zealots. Since the age of the spacer-gif, there have always been designers ready to fight for their preferred technique—and none more so than CSS nerds. If you’ve ever agonized over finding the perfect semantic class name, this is the article for you. Martin Ringlein tells us why being sexy is overrated.
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