Web Design

Stage 2: Page Layout (Anatomy of a (Small) Web Design Project)

January 2, 2007

I’ve figured out the site organization, including how many pages we have and what goes on each page, now it’s time to start designing the actual pages. In this stage, I create the page layout in Photoshop (I’ll be putting up a post about the tools I use during this whole process later) and it’s [...]

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5 Things to Check Before you Launch a Web Site

October 5, 2006

I’m joining Instigator Blog for Blog About 5 Things Week. Since I’m finishing up a few web sites, thought I’d jot down 5 things we should all check before launching a site. 1. Spelling Always a pain, but necessary. Nothing turns me off more than a spelling error on a web site (even a blog, [...]

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Stage 1: Organization (Anatomy of a (Small) Web Design Project)

September 27, 2006

This stage is all about asking questions and gathering answers. We want to cast the net wide, get as much info as we can and then organize all that info into the web site. Here are the main questions I ask (I’ll go into more detail on each below): What goes on the site (and [...]

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Anatomy of a (Small) Web Design Project: Overview

September 10, 2006

I’m going to take you through the design of a small web site in 6 articles. I’ll start with an overview of the process. Why is the word ‘small’ in the title? Because that’s the kind of web sites I have experience with. My sites usually have between 5 – 25 pages. I don’t have [...]

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Navigation Questions: One of These Things Is Not Like the Others

September 5, 2006

I read Derek Pawazek’s article, Where Am I?, in A List Apart a few weeks ago and have been thinking about it ever since (another good ALA article, apparently). What I’ve been ruminating on are the three questions the article says all navigation should answer: Where Am I? Where Can I Go? Where Have I [...]

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Link Text

July 30, 2006

Everyone knows that underlined text is a link, right? Well, from my highly unscientific study of my clients, nope. I’ve run into quite a few people that don’t realize a link is a link until I point it out, not the best result when you’re going for usability. One solution is to make sure links [...]

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