Design Consideration: Monitor Resolutions

July 5, 2007

While putting this site together, my son and I engaged in an argument about the ideal width of web pages. Based upon the standard advice I give my web design students I argued for a 760 pixel width which, even with scroll bars, can easily be accommodated on an 800 by 600 pixel monitor. He, [...]

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50 Common Web Design Mistakes

June 26, 2007

This started out as a “Top Ten Newbie Web Mistakes” for my beginning web design students but it quickly became obvious that I couldn’t limit it to only ten. I was finally able to edit it down to 50. But I suspect, as soon as the comments start, it will begin growing again. And, yes, [...]

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My favorite Google Search

June 8, 2007

“Untitled Document” is the default page title for web pages created in Dreamweaver and a variety of other web page editors. According to Google “about 32,900,000″ with that title now populate the web. And, if you’re interested (which apparently few people are), according to Yahoo! the number is “about 44,700,000.”

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WTF is Experience Design?

June 7, 2007

I’m a bit behind in my design jargon, so I have to admit that this “experience design” thing kind of crept up on me. I probably would have blissfully ignored the whole phenomenon if I hadn’t discovered that the local AIGA design awards offered eight categories for ink on paper and grouped everything else – [...]

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You Might be a Designosaur if…

June 5, 2007

DesignosaurA designosaur is a designer who traces his roots back to the pre-digital era, the days of T-squares, stat cameras and dry-transfer lettering. Sure a lot of Designosaurs have fossilized but some of us have, like T-Rex becoming a chicken, evolved to thrive in the digital age.

You might be a Designosaur if…

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Adobe CS3 Palettes

May 29, 2007

From time to time we’ll recognize significant accomplishments in bad design with nominations to our Bad Design Hall of fame…

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Dreamweaver CS3 First Impressions

May 29, 2007

This is Adobe’s first update of DW since purchasing Macromedia. In spite of worries about Adobe’s near monopolistic lock on the graphics market, I’ve been looking forward to the update since the buyout was announced…

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Open Letter to Design Students

May 28, 2007

Most of you won’t be going on to an exciting career in graphic design (of course I’m not talking about you)…

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