Today the Web Design Directory received it’s 100th link! Meaning that there are now 100 quality links to web sites covering all different aspects of web design. Don’t forget to add your own link if you haven’t already!
… I can’t really think of a more descriptive title than that, so it will have to do! Any way… moving on. This is a technique that I use on 95% of web sites that I build, indeed any that have a logo which will be appearing in the header
A client has recently asked me to create, as part of a new web site a navigation system whereby when the user hovers over one of the links, some descriptive text about that link pops up to the right thus giving the user some more insight as to what that link actually does/where it actually goes. “No problem” I thought…
The last two blog posts I’ve made have been a list of links… Useful links as they are, they are but a drop in the ocean of blog post after blog post, linking to useful web sites etc…
Plugins are one of the things which make WordPress such a fantastic blogging web site building platform. They allow it to do things which it cannot do out of the box and can help to take your site to the next level. Below is a list of the plugins I am currently using, plus a link to read more about them and download them.
This list of links is a collection of useful tidbits, be they icons, fonts or online applications which make my life as a web site designer a whole lot easier. These are links which every web designer should be aware of.
This post is based upon my findings from entering quite some many logo design contests over the last month or so…
Like many, I occasionaly enjoy entering a logo or web site design contest on sites such as SitePoint (now 99designs for contests). Mostly I participate for practice, or just to ease that creative itch that we all get now and again.
These contests are run in a simple format;
Any body who has visited my web site recently will have noticed that I stripped all interactivity from it, and created a very plain, sterile environment in which to showcase my work. The reasoning was simple - I rarely updated my blog and the design was fairly bandwidth intense, so it was gutted and re-done. What surprised me most after this redesign however, was the amount of emails I received saying they missed the old site, and rarely updated blog! How shocked I was. Which is what brings me onto this further redesign which is now about the 7th incarnation of Six Shooter Media… How time flies…
Designing a timeless, memorable identity for something or someone is a subtle art often unappreciated. To create one single graphic which represents everything a company does, in a fashion which sticks in the mind for the future is no simple task. Sadly, today, general consensus strays away from logo design and is geared more towards getting your web site up and running - think about the logo later, or heck, dont even think about a logo at all. And while that might work for some projects, it is generally not a good idea. Of course, picking a designer to create your logo is no easy task either, but this is one particular of your business that you do not want to forgo or be stingy with.