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ilana enoukov

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

www.1stwebdesigner.com/...learning-web-design-30-days

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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
    • ilana enoukov
      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.
ilana enoukov

What Constitutes Good and Bad Web Design? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...s-good-and-bad-web-design.html

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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
    • ilana enoukov
      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.
    • ilana enoukov
      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
ilana enoukov

The Keys to Making Fresh, Forwardly Aesthetic Web Designs - noupe - 0 views

www.noupe.com/...dly-aesthetic-web-designs.html

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shared by ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Great graphics. Beautiful typography. Clean design. These are all things designers typically think of when creating stunning websites
  • In terms of development and coding there are details as well as tricks that can be used that really take a website from 0 to 60 in seconds
    • ilana enoukov
      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      Negative space, layout, cleanliness, attention to detail
  • he most important thing you must do as a designer is figure out your target audience and figure out what the purpose of the website is (I,e., is it to sell or is it to inform?)
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  • The trick though, is to not get SO outside the box that the website fails to make sense or lose sight of it’s purpose.
  • challenge yourself to be bold and forward thinking when it comes to design.
  • Always be on the lookout for fresh new ideas and see what people are doing
    • ilana enoukov
      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      Everything is a remix of something else. Observing other people's work will improve your own creativity
Elaine Leung

18 pivotal web design trends for 2014 - 0 views

econsultancy.com/...tal-web-design-trends-for-2014

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  • Elaine Leung on 08 Apr 14
     
    Web design is like fashion. One must understand the upcoming trends to be able to produce beautiful designs. This like shows some up-and-coming design trends for 2014. Recurring themes are HTML5 and 'less-is-more'.
Claudia Yung

Designspiration - Design Inspiration - 1 views

designspiration.net

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    • Claudia Yung
      Claudia Yung on 10 Mar 14
       
      Below are links of various categories people can find inspiration in on this website
  • Claudia Yung on 10 Mar 14
     
    A website all about inspiring people through sharing designs of architecture, typography, illustrations, etc. It is a community in which members are encouraged to pin and post their favourite designs and share them with other members. The photos on this website can help inspire ideas for people creating their own websites.
Claudia Yung

Spur - A fun and easy way to critique a webpage. - 0 views

www.spurapp.com

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  • Claudia Yung on 10 Mar 14
     
    A site that allows people to critique their website through various tools provided in the app. There are seven tools. For example; One is Grayscale, which makes your webpage black and white to see if the design still works. This helps a person to evaluate their website's design effectiveness.
Elaine Leung

Best HTML5 website examples of designs with HTML5 - 0 views

www.awwwards.com/html5

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  • Elaine Leung on 08 Apr 14
     
    With the overdue update to HTML5, many designers have already opted to use the newest version of the markup language. Awwwards is a website that collects the best web designs from web designers, developers, and agencies in the world through an evaluation system. This link shows some of the best uses of HTML5 in web design, to date.
Nicole Orlans

10 Tips for Awesome Tumblr Theme Design - 0 views

designshack.net/...or-awesome-tumblr-theme-design

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  • Nicole Orlans on 25 Mar 14
     
    10 of essentially the worst possible tips for customizing your blog. The examples used are the most basic and tacky of tumblrs default themes, and each tip offers suggestions to make them even tackier, uglier and more difficult to navigate. Should be titled "10 things not to do when designing a tumblr theme."
Claudia Yung

vlog.it - 0 views

www.vlog.it

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      Claudia Yung on 10 Mar 14
       
      People can simply click on any of the rotating images and videos of the author's work will show up. It's an interesting way of allowing people to get to know the artist. It's different than youtube where people just look up videos and watch them
    • Claudia Yung
      Claudia Yung on 10 Mar 14
       
      A share link allows people to share their favourite videos or the website with others. 
  • Claudia Yung on 10 Mar 14
     
    Great example of an interesting and unique website design! It's extremely interactive and eye-catching.
Michael Tran

6 Tips on Choosing a Proper Template for Your Website - 0 views

www.motocms.com/...choose-proper-website-template

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  • Each kind of a website has its own peculiarities. A common mistake in web design community is to ignore the specificity of a website.
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      Michael Tran on 11 Mar 14
       
      A lot of people pick a template because of how it looks but certain templates don't work for certain kinds of sites. An online shop for example shouldn't have a template that was originally designed for a fashion blog for example.
  • In order to help people that want to create their own website at any cost, the designers came with a great solution: website templates. A template is a structure that needs small customizations, especially for personalizing it, and after finishing these it may be uploaded.
  • Tip #2: Choose the template you need but not the one you just visually like
Tracy Ta

Awwwards - 0 views

www.awwwards.com

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  • Tracy Ta on 08 Apr 14
     
    This website showcases the best designed and developed websites in the world.They aim to discover, recognize, and promote the talent and effort of web designers, developers, and agencies who create unique digital experiences that are useful, innovative, intuitive, and beautiful.
Claudia Yung

A Collection of Page Transitions - 0 views

tympanus.net/...PageTransitions

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  • Claudia Yung on 10 Mar 14
     
    A website showcasing various transitions people can use to make their website interesting when transitioning between pages. The animations may be applied to "pages" for creating interesting navigation effects when revealing a new page.
avalonrae

Learn the Basics of Photoshop - 0 views

lifehacker.com/...f-photoshop-the-complete-guide

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  • avalonrae on 11 Mar 14
     
    Learn the basics of Photoshop in 25 minutes, or more specific tools and aspects of the program. With videos and text description.
florencekong

Aywas: Collectible Creatures Online - 0 views

www.aywas.com

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  • florencekong on 08 Apr 14
     
    Let's just reveal everything about my regular online life, lol. I play a lot of 'virtual pet' sites, where you collect little creatures, but Aywas is one that stands out a lot. In the spirit of participatory media, it's a very different kind of participation from the usual kind of pet site. Aywas encourages users to create their own pets by colouring them in with sophisticated art programs (such as Photoshop) and submitting them. In turn, these pets are then eligible to be 'bred' with pets other users have made, and a site artist will mix and match the designs on both parent pets to create a new one. It's a very interesting concept and heavily user dependent for participation. If you're interested, shoot me a message at user ID #6429 and I can get you started!
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