In entry 15, I rebuilt Julia’s site for speed making it 17K with a 50K background image = 67K. The Original (where we left off. Boring!) I decided to apply the “tradeshow booth” formula I described in entry 27. The simple elements are 1) color, 2) foliage, 3) lighting, and 4) legibility. ColorThe color theme…
Day: June 11, 2010
33: Helping The Client
A significant amount of my time is spent in educating, coaching, or hand-holding the client and gleaning web content from their “on-hand resources.” Building the site is the easy part. My focus is producing forms and shortcuts to help clients quickly assemble material (reduce the learning curve.) Of a 6-week website production period, about 2…
32: HTML Frames Strength– PRESENTATION
Molly Holzschlag’s book titled “250 HTML and Web Design Secrets.” She said: page 265 “Part of the problems with Frames is they go against the premise of markup –there job is presentational.” (Used $0.30 on Amazon. Save your money!) PRESENTATION TOOL While she was explaining why to “never use frames”, she inadvertently also explained one…
31: Quotation from Marty Neumeier about Simplification of Websites
AN INTERVIEW WITH MARTY NEUMEIER by Brian AlveyExcerpted from Meet the Makers, April 20, 2003http://www.meet-the-makers.com Alvey: How does online branding differ from offline branding? Neumeier: Online branding is still in its infancy, so practitioners are still groping for the answer to that question. Of course, the experience we have with a website will contribute to…
30: Web Images: How good is “good enough?”
“Image quality” isn’t even in the top 10 most important functions or features of a website. I see web design and stage set design as having a lot in common. It’s the view from the back-row theater seats that count –not the up-close details. Tools for image processing include: Adobe ImageReady –which comes with most…
29: Modifying Blogger Environmental Sections
I’ve been showing the incremental process of designing “The Virtual Repository” for environmental biophysics .org. Above are two Blogger sections out of four. Each section has a header now to tie back the “feeling” of the Landing page on the main site. I’ve pushed the headers pretty hard for file size reduction. They are 15K…
28: Designing portfolio websites
A portfolio website for photography or fine art works best if it contains the following seven sections: Landing Page Design [branding — theming] Image Gallery About Page [The Interview] The Testimonial The Blog The Process Page [how you work] The Call to Action [ contact page and location of Galleries] Example link.
