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What are some good sites that give good Web design tips and show the current design trends?
Question by Jamaal E: What are some good sites that give good Web design tips and show the current design trends?
I just submitted a client of mines site for review and the result wasn’t what I expected. I’d like to learn what are the most common design standards now and what’s your opinion about keeping individuality in your site design? With me, I dont want to make my sites like everyone else, but I don’t want my designs to fail to the viewer either. Here are a few samples:
Finished Client:
http://comeliveinpanama.com
WIP Personal Business Site (no main background yet):
http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=8946&stc=1&d=1179552419MainLayoutStep4.jpg
What I’m commonly seeing around the web:
http://yoyogames.com
Where might I learn these common web dev standards?
Best answer:
Answer by acb29
Most site’s today are moving away from graphics heavy / table heavy designs (like http://comeliveinpanama.com/ ) to lighter , graphically neat css based designs.
The trend is to move heavy (lots of slices and images) old style based table designs to cleaner modern standards CSS designs. CSS based designs are more efficient at using a modern browsers capabilites, they make it easier to modify the site look and feel, they download and render faster, and are much friendlier for site indexing by search engines. Most major sites have already changed all or large parts of their web sites to css based designs.. (cnn.com , microsoft.com/vista , slashdot.org etc)
Here are some site’s with graphics design ideas.
Gallery of modern CSS designs
http://www.cssbeauty.com/gallery/
Commercial Template Site
http://www.templatemonster.com
Free css-styled designs
http://www.freecsstemplates.org/
Graphics design is just that, it’s about being creative, having a polished clean feel. There’s some amount of inate talent needed but you can gleen most of what you need by mimicing other successfuly works.
Good luck!
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