Website Design

There are a two schools of thought around web design and the ability to craft works of art for a client.  Some feel that the time, effort, talent and inspired genius that goes into creating a website are rarely recognised as being worthy of the title of 'Art'.

I however believe that a 'real' web designer can never be an artist, here is what I mean...

An effective way of adding special offer information, or basic pricing is often the use of a splash banner, usually a diagonal stripe with the message or call to action.  By creating a more three dimensional version this can dramatically improve the appearance of the banner - with minimal additional design effort.

For the sake of simplicity, this article assumes you are using an already created image for your icon.  Please note that forclarity the image you select for your favicon should be a square.  Remember it will be reduced to 16 x 16 pixels and non square images will become distorted.

We all have pet peeves when using a website, here we have gathered together our personal hit list of site usability problems. This list should give you and your web designer something to keep in mind when developing or enhancing your site.