Web Page Design
Tips on making your site attractive, functional and SEO optimized
There are so many decisions we web developers need to make when working with web page design. When we design templates we have to worry about web 2.0 styling as well as the customer experience and SEO. I started this Web Development Blog to share web programming tutorials and suggestions on proper web page design including tutorials on CSS, Flash and graphic design.
Publish your new website the right way
Publishing or installing a website is for many webmaster a routine job and smaller sites are often online within minutes. That's the theory, but there are a lot of mistakes you can do. Sure many of them...
How-to build successful website!
If you're a webmaster or a website owner, this article is for you: These 10 tips can help you to build better and more successful websites. We suggest to hire a web developer if you can't write the HTML...
How-to optmize JPEG images for websites
While Internet connections becoming faster and faster, it's more important to keep your website as fast as possible. One of the "slow" parts of your website are the images. In this article we show several...
Website layout dimensions today
I remember me very well the last website project meetings with customers: Why is my website so small? There is so much space to right and the left, why is this? Most of the people I know having laptops...
Get your Flash website high ranked at Google
Often people doesn't like to use Flash websites because Google can't "read" the text inside a flash movie. In the past people used a mirror HTML version to get in the SERP's of Google and other search...
CSS navigation bar with stylish web2.0 elements
Marino from TechSymptom is great web-designer and started a series of Fireworks tutorials on web 2.0 styled navigation bars. The last one inspired me to create this small CSS tutorial. UPDATE:...
Free Web Design and Template Resources
There are a lot of free tools, graphics and web templates available on the Internet. We use this selection of resources from time to time.
- Stock.XCHNG, the leading FREE stock photo site! They offer thousands of photo's from any subject, without watermarks and most of them are in high resoltion. Unlike on most other photo sites, it's allowed to use many of them for free even on commercial sites.
- Brands of the World, download vector logos and logotypes. It happend that you work on a project and you need a logo from some (bigger) brand for website or artwork. The image file you got is from bad quality and there is no one you can ask for a better version. Sounds familiar? Most of the times I found a vector version on Brands of the World and I was able to finish my work. Note, BotW is a free clipart gallery, you need to ask the brand owner for permission before you can use a logo in your design.
- freeCSStemplates.org offers a lot of web templates from great quality. Using one of them can help to jumpstart a website project. They don't offer a .psd file for the images.
If you search Google for web design resources, you will find a lot of content, graphics and tools. Some of them are free others are not, I'm sure that other designers are glad if they have inspired you. Don't copy and paste someone else's work because "it's online", this is illegal. Ask yourself how would you feel if some has copied your work without permission!
