Archive for April, 2009:

New series starting next week: introduction to css for designers

{ Posted on Apr 15 2009 by pawel }
Categories : introduction to css
In my last post I talked about outsourcing front-end development and how I believe this is a brilliant solution for many designers. Nonetheless I also know that many of you may want to give css coding a try. For those ...Read More »

About a trap that you don’t want to fall into

{ Posted on Apr 13 2009 by pawel }
Let's imagine a simple scenario. What if you could draw a site just in a same way as you normally would with any other project and make it work straight away, with just a click of a button? Without having ...Read More »

Why it is important to design well but communicate first

{ Posted on Apr 10 2009 by pawel }
Categories : design tips, web usability
As many of us I love browsing the web and in most cases I wouldn't be randomly jumping from site to site but rather looking for a specific information. And as I generally won't get satisfied with Google's first three ...Read More »

5 questions you should ask to find out if a website is successful

{ Posted on Apr 08 2009 by pawel }
Categories : web usability
I guess there's nothing easier for a web designer than to isolate himself from a visitor. To drown in the design process and forget that the site will be viewed by number of people who will judge it not in ...Read More »

What makes designing for the web different to designing for print

{ Posted on Apr 06 2009 by pawel }
Categories : general web design
In my previous post I wrote about 3 differences between web and print media and to continue with the topic let's look at what makes the actual designing for web different. For us creatives design is a very natural thing, all ...Read More »