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When designing there is a constant battle of creating and editing the design, the conflict can often times get out of control and I have to admit that many times I will judge how much the editor and creator will fight each other based on how much money the project is bringing to the studio.

For the most part I do aim to design “better” with each new design. I love the saying from the advertising industry that says that you are only as good as your last ad. But, I have seen another reason why I think bad work exists, and that is from the client in the final approval stage.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at 8:40 am and is filed under Design Process, Design Resources, Design Tips For Clients. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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Here is a great littl etutorial on how to make that form look slick!

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/design-a-prettier-web-form-with-css-3

I came across a great blog today that showcases how to validate forms for your website.

http://sixrevisions.com/user-interface/best-practices-for-hints-and-validation-in-web-forms

This entry was posted on Thursday, February 25th, 2010 at 8:30 am and is filed under Design Resources, Inspirada, Website Design. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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Here are some things to consider when starting a website design project.

1) You are experts in your company, and you will be responsible for delivering great content and how well the designs will speak to the target audience. Great design starts with great content, if you have limited resources on being able to generate this great content then consider hiring a professional writer

2) The more planning and preparing the flow of your website the better the design of your website will be. The content you provide from the start the smoother the process. Try and think through the entire web process will help the design phase.

This entry was posted on Saturday, February 20th, 2010 at 8:33 am and is filed under Design Process, Design Resources, Design Tips For Clients, Website Design. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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In this day and age with wordpress being so popular and “stable” and solutions like jquery, designers can appear to be a lot stronger than they really are.

A few years ago so much of the back-end programming that is so easy to get today was not in existence. Most anything you wanted to achieve you had to do from scratch, nowadays that ain’t so.

With all this functionality so easy to get ahold of, it makes me wonder if designers are benefiting from the accessibility?

This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 at 10:00 am and is filed under Design Resources, Design Tips For Clients, Website Design. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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Here is some great tips on how to create a persona for your next project.

Where you can try and define who is coming to your site, and help get in the heads of these personas, and try and deliver content that matters to them…

http://blog.publishedandprofitable.com/2010/02/7-essentials-of-online-marketing-success-for-authors-part-6-personas/

This entry was posted on Thursday, February 11th, 2010 at 8:35 am and is filed under Copywriting, Design Process, Design Resources. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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