A web site’s header is the first thing a visitor sees upon their arrival. That is the biggest reason your header is important. It’s right there at the top of the page, where everyone can see it. The header may be the most important part of a design.
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Header Design
Jun 24, 2007 by Matt | Posted in Design No CommentsLogo Design, Yeah It’s That Important
Jun 22Your logo represents your site. You should spend a fair bit of time on your logo, perfecting it. You won’t make a very good first impression if you just have plain text at the top of your site reading “MySite.com”. Look at all the…
How Many Columns Should You Have?
Jun 20If you’re designing a layout for your website, somewhere along the line you’ll have to decide how many columns you’re going to have. What do I mean by Columns? Take a look at the diagram below:
Design Spotlight: June 17, 2007 (Ars Technica)
Jun 17Welcome to Design Spotlight. What’s Design Spotlight? I’ve decided to highlight sites with cool designs once in a while. Inspire yourself. Today we have Ars Technica. Ars Technica is one of the biggest Tech News sites on the web. If one of their posts…
Tables Aren’t Dead Yet
Jun 16Rarely does a day go by without someone bashing table-based design. Not long after the HTML <table> element was introduced, people started using it to lay-out their web pages. Before the days of CSS, people used tables so they could have sidebars and such.…
Apple’s New Layout
Jun 12FeedIcons.com
Jun 11Back in the early days of RSS, webmasters used to link to their feeds using little rectangular orange buttons labeled “RSS” or “XML”. Then along came Mozilla Firefox, the web browser that re-started the Browser Wars. Since Firefox had RSS support built-in, the developers…
Technorati’s New Design: Good or Bad?
Jun 10This is old news by now, but Technorati‘s got a new layout. A couple of weeks ago, I was surprised when I headed over to Technorati to search for something. I was shocked to see a new design. I immediately checked out Digg, and…
Screenalicious Design Gallery
Jun 10Need some design inspiration? Take a look at Screenalicious. They have, as of this writing, over 8800 screenshots of websites with interesting designs. There are some really good designs there. If you’re a designer, take a look at this site for a quick bit…
Web Design From Scratch
Jun 7Web Design from Scratch is a site that calls itself “Your complete guide to web design”. They cober a wide range of stuff from HTML/CSS to Graphic Design. There’s plenty to check out. I like their Opinions page, where they have articles on topics…
