Monday, May 30, 2011

50 Beautiful Website Designs for your Inspiration

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Written by: DzineBlog
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:33 pm

When you are creating a new website you may be inspired by seeing other sites that are beautifully designed, as a designer it’s a must to know the current trend, particularly in web designs there’s always new trends emerging quite often, we have seen a lots of trends passed us in couple of years like web2.0 style to grunge, hand drawn, big fonts, illustration designs etc.
Here http://dzineblog.com/2009/06/50-beautiful-website-designs-for-your-inspiration.html I’ve collected 50 Beautiful Website Designs that vary from and-drawn, grunge, big backgrounds, clean, corporate, etc.

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Website Design Tips 101- Megatips!

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Don©Michael Bluejay • Written 2001, Updated January 2011

http://websitehelpers.com/design/

1- Make sure each page in your website has something valuable to offer.
2- Don't distract your visitors with blinking or scrolling text, animated GIF's, or autoload sound.
3- Don't annoy your visitors with pop-up windows.
4- Don't use image backgrounds.
5- Put some thought into organization.
6- Minimize clicking.
7- Limit page length to 2 screenfuls, or 6-7 screenfuls for articles.
8- Include a way to get back to the home page, on every page.
9- Include a menu on every page.
10- Don't use frames.
11- Compress your image files.
12- Don't let flashy multimedia ruin your site.
13- No line of text should be more than about 600 pixels wide.
14- Don't make your page too wide.
15- Use contrasting colors or simple backgrounds to make your text easy to read.
16- Make the text large enough to read.
17- Increase the line spacing (leading) to improve visibility.
18- Don't type more than a few words in ALL CAPS.
19- Never use more than one exclamation point!
20- Use a spell checker.
21- Don't underline words if they're not links.
22- Make links blue or underlined, or both.
23-  Explain what you are linking to.
24- Don't open internal links in a new window.
25- Use descriptive link text.
26- Put your contact info, or a link to it, on top and/or bottom of every page.
27- Test your links.
28- Remove dead external links periodically.
29- Include a "Last Modified" date on top or bottom of your pages.
30- Don't steal content.
31- Don't hotlink to other site's images or MP3's.
32- Don't ask for "permission" to link to a site.
33- Don't ask to exchange links with other sites.

GOOD LUCK WITH YOU WEBQUESTS!!!

Monday, May 16, 2011

Top ten tips to a great web design

1. Know your audience, and keep them in mind when you write.
2. Keep you pages short.
3. Use tables of contents.
4. Keep images small.
5. Use web colors.
6. Avois lots of text.
7. Check your spelling.
8. Keep links current.
9. Annotate your links.
10. Put contact information on your pages.

By Jennifer Kyrnin, About.com Guide

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Be careful about copyrights

Refer to copyright laws handout from TESL565 class to  the when and hows of using copyrighted material in your website