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Learning Web Design: How to Get Started and Not Give Up - 0 views

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  • Why You Should Get Started with HTML and CSS
  • HTML is the structure
  • CSS is basically giving that structure a style.
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  • 2012 was a great year for the “online education” industry. There were a lot of new startups to really help you learn web design. Some of them are: Codecademy Udacity Mozilla Developer Network Udemy Of course, you always have 1stWebDesigner and some of its really amazing articles, such as: Basic Visual Web Design Mistakes Learn Web Design – Quit College (really good advice there, by the way) Call to Action – Web Design Usability
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      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      Resources to start learning HTML/CSS. All free, and all simple for those just starting out with coding.
  • Consistency is the key when getting started with web design. Are you learning everyday? Are you applying whatever new concepts you learn at least three times a week? Learning a little bit everyday is way better than covering a lot of material in just one day of the week.
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What Constitutes Good and Bad Web Design? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Bad design can be infuriating, inconvenient or damaging in any field.
  • a well-designed Web site needs to deliver the same things as most other examples of good design by fulfilling its intended function efficiently and engagingly.
  • A common mistake is to prioritize style over substance
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      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      An example of this is animation ; though it looks great it takes ages to upload, thus making the visitor furious
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  • principal problem with many Web sites is that their designers were neither rigorous nor imaginative enough in planning the way we will navigate them
  • If you find information swiftly and easily on a Web site, its designer has succeeded. But if you need to click on an inordinate number of buttons and links, or dither over what to do next, the designer has failed
  • Amazon’s site scores highly for navigational efficiency, but poorly in terms of the second criterion of good Web design, because it is far from engaging.
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      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      Great relevant example of what author is trying to prove. 
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    The good, the bad, and the worse of web design
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