Web design is much more than layout and effects. There are so many areas and things every web designer should know. The profession itself requires a fundamental understanding of business, the craft itself, and technology. Employment in this profession requires skills in areas other than design. Many a creative web designer has come to realize that web design isn’t just about the latest visual effects and a creative design.
Those that are willing to learn the other skills involved in web design will find themselves with a long and successful career.…
I spoke last week about how Unique Blog Designs are getting better and better. Well, yesterday they went up in my estimations again as they released a gorgeous free wordpress theme called UBD Money Maker.
The theme has been designed for those who are not great with coding as has an options page which allows you to add your Feedburner and MyBlogLog information. The theme features
- Fully Widget Compatible (drag and drop your preferred selection of sidebar elements
- Built-in UBD Block Ad Plugin (manage and automatically rotate your 125×125 banner ads)
- Additional ad management for…
Forms can be a bit of a pain to style, in the old days tables were the method of choice to align everything just right, but this is the future; CSS OR DIE! P.Diddy will come to your home and kill you if you use tables for presentational markup. So in order to prevent a Diddy disaster here is some helpful information, I accept thanks for saving your lives in cash and gifts off my Amazon wish list.
Unique Blogging Designs exploded onto the blogging scene last Summer with the redesign of popular bloggers John Chow and Jeremy Schoemaker’s blog. They built on this success and did designs for the likes of Zac Johnson, EntreCard and Fat Man Unleashed.
I do like all of these designs however there is no denying that for the first few months most Unique Blog Designs looked very similar. In particular, the header and footer of these blog designs were pretty much the same. There were a few blogs that I came across which I instantly knew had…
I’ve talked about using grids in designing websites previously, aligning your elements to a formula to create consistency and harmony. This isn’t hard to integrate into your design process, but issues can pop up in putting the layout to code; one such problem is columns dropping off.
