A great blog from Paul Boag
Being a good designer is not always enough to survive hard economic times. You need to be efficient too.
I don’t want this to be another ‘recession’ post. Sure, being more efficient in the way we work as web designers, makes us more competitive and keeps us employed. However, that is not the only reason we should endeavour to ‘work smarter’.
User-friendly icon sets are always nice to look at and useful to have ready to hand. We’ve recently been creating a database of Icons for use with our own clients and just for fun and we decided we should start sharing these with the world. In this set we present you with some fresh high-quality free icons which you can use for your desktop. Based around new media this showcase is also available as PNG’s and vector graphics that you might want to use in your web design. Contact us if you want to get a hold of these.
Every now and again we all need new fonts to wow clients, and they always want a “fresh” high-quality free font to save them money. The choice is enormous, and the time you need to find them run’s into the project time line. So we’ve had a little dig and found a few for those designers out there. We’ve even used the majority of them on our current projects have a poke around in the portfolio to see how we’ve used them.
All to often we find ourselves talking to a client who loves the BBC’s website, and why wouldn’t they? The BBC have done a lovely job on it, it looks great, has many amazing functions and obviously works extremely well for them. The problem is that the people asking for their site to be “like the BBC’s” are not the BBC.
WOW this is a great article from a well read author of web design and we felt the need to publish his thoughts on our own blog. Much respecto Steven. Find him here at Vandelay Design
By Steven Snell
Communication is one of the foundational elements of a good website. It is essential for a positive user experience and for a successful website that truly benefits its owners. All types of websites are affected by the need for good communication in one way or another. Regardless of whether the website in question is an e-commerce website, a blog, a portfolio website, an information website for a service company, a government website or any other type of website, there is a significant need to communicate effectively with visitors.
Because of the significance of communication with visitors, it is an essential consideration for every designer and website owner and the responsibility of both. Unfortunately, communication is sometimes overlooked and takes a backseat to the visual attractiveness of a website. Ideally, the design and other elements that do the communicating work together to create a clear, unified message to visitors.
