Web Design

Smashing Magazine's excellent competition for creating a resume (CV) for a fictional web designer. The result is a collection of beautifully presented CV's. Great inspiration for the next time you need to update your CV!

I have always been a fan of the BBC website. It is extremely effective at organising and presenting vast quantities of information. When I visited the BBC homepage last week, I thought I must have mis-typed the URL. It was not the usual BBC website that I know and love.

A photo speaks a thousand words

In a web world where content (text/words) is king, web masters often ignore photographs on web pages because all they are thinking about is content for search engines. And that means text and lots of it. The result is an Internet full of text heavy sites.

Developing a legal contract to bind the agreement between a web designer or developer and its clients can be a very expensive and time consuming exercise.

Thankfully the kind folk at Media Surgery have gone through the expense for you and put together a legal agreement that a freelance (or agency) web designer, developer or search engine optimiser can use.

I used to love this saying in business meetings. A bunch of us would be sitting around discussing something like a new sales process. With every contribution to the discussion, the process became ever more complex. And then someone would say "keep it simple stupid", or KISS for short. We would all suddenly realise that we were over complicating the process and that would lead to its downfall.

People who have never designed a website before normally have no idea what the process is. Even people who do design and develop sites for a hobby or living, do not know the best practices. I have been guilty of this myself. I get an idea in my head and jump straight into coding the site. There is no surprise that the site does not look or function correctly.