|
|
|
Can Your Web Site Win The Tour De France?
It's over. After three grueling weeks of racing, Lance Armstrong has won what some call the world's most difficult sporting event, the Tour De France. The US newspapers gave the event a cursory notation the Monday after the finish and showed a...
How to set up a professional website on your own using web templates
To create professional websites is not an easy task by any means. There are many things that you got to take into consideration like easy navigation, strategic links, clean coding, professional layout, easy downloading, scanability, usability and...
Making the most of your webserver
When a company has a site they wish to host somewhere, especially small businesses with limited funds, they normally take advantage of special rates available from a hosting provider. There is nothing wrong with that, but it can cause some problems...
Showing and Hiding HTML elements using Layers
A long time back I visited a site that had a very fancy, animated navigation bar. Now, as a professional web developer, I'm not in favor of DHTML-supported, fancy navigation bars, but it was very fascinating. What they had done was, whenever you...
The History and Development of Web Design
When the World Wide Web was originally invented, it was unique in its ability to link pages together using hyperlinks. It uses a markup language known as HTML, or HyperText Markup Language. New technologies continue to change the way the web...
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Design Principles and Elements
Design Principles and Elements
A truly shocking number of web designers are unfamiliar with the
basic principles and elements of design. Having never been
through any formal design education, many just go with what they
think 'looks good', with very mixed results. If you're going to
design a website, you'll do much better if you have some idea of
what you're doing when it comes to graphic design. Here, then,
is a crash course in the principles and elements most useful to
web designers.
Of all the style and beauty in the world, it seems not enough
has met the web. We can all do our parts to add to the stylistic
content of this new-age phenomenon, and in an attempt to assist
you in reaching that goal, I give you a set of guidelines to
help you along your way.
Balance.
It is important for things to be balanced. That doesn't
necessarily mean symmetry, making one side exactly the same as
the other, but it does mean that you can't make one side
'strong' and not balance that on the other side. For example, if
you use a dark colour, you should balance it with a larger area
of a lighter colour. What balance allows you to do is to lead
the viewer's eye to certain parts of the page without making the
page look ridiculous.
Emphasis.
If you want to make part of the page stand out from all the
rest, you can give it emphasis using a variety of techniques.
Grouping everything together and then moving one thing a
significant distance away from them will make it a focal point,
as will making it a different shape from the others, or a
different colour.
Line.
The directions of your lines will give a mood to your design: as
a rule, horizontal lines are calmer, vertical lines are
moderately active, and jagged or diagonal lines are very active.
If you were designing an austere financial news site, then,
you'd use horizontal lines, while a fun site for kids would be
full of lines going in all sorts of directions.
Shape.
One thing that lots of people don't realise is that there are
two kinds of shapes - positive and negative - and every design
has
Obama: Israel Undecided On Iran Attack
In an interview with NBC, the president sought to assure allies and foes alike that the United States was working in lockstep with Israel to solve the crisis, "hopefully diplomatically." He also said he deserved "a second term" as president, though he acknowledged the economy still needed work.
Fewer Autopsies Mean Crucial Info Goes To The Grave
Autopsies are conducted on just 5 percent of patients who die in hospitals, and experts say that is a troubling trend that has broad implications for public health in America: Death certificates aren't as accurate as they could be, and that information drives research dollars and public health spending.
Support, Protest And Hiccups During The Nev. Caucus
Mitt Romney was the big winner in Saturday's Nevada caucus, leaving runner-up Newt Gingrich in the dust. Organizers said tens of thousands of people participated in the West's first presidential contest of the year, and some of them were still taking part late into the night. NPR's Carrie Kahn reports.
both kinds of shapes. The positive ones are the ones you,
the designer, actively placed on the page, while the negative
shapes are the spaces created around the positive ones. Many web
designers simply ignore this, leaving their negative shapes as a
mess - this leads to the 'boxy' look that many amateur pages
have.
Colour.
Colour is a big subject. As soon as you add more than one colour
to a page, you make the other colours look different. Some
colours are complementary, and some just look terrible together.
On the web, though, you should usually avoid using too many
colours on one page - even if they are complementary, it will
look garish.
For the web, hue is more important: the best way to create a
colour scheme is to use black, white, and various shades of one
colour. You have to consider the brightness and intensity of
your colours, to make sure you're not overdoing things. One of
the easiest mistakes to make is to use the built-in CSS colour
words (background-color: red, for example) instead of creating
colour codes - the colour words should generally be avoided,
because they're just too intense.
Space.
You can create all sorts of illusions with the amount of space
you put between your objects, and where you put it: design is
often as much knowing where to put something as it is knowing
what to put there. If you make things overlap, or example, the
covered things appear to be at the 'back' while the uncovered
ones are at the 'front'.
Lots More.
This is the briefest of brief overviews, because graphic design
is a surprisingly large subject, and one that's changing all the
time. If you want to get properly up to speed, it's worth buying
a book, or even taking an evening course at your local college -
you won't regret it.
About the author:
Original Source: Articles-Galore.com
Information supplied and written by Lee Asher of Eclipse Domain
Services
Domain Names, Hosting, Traffic and Email Solutions.
|
|
|
|
|
|