| The Evolution of Corporate Web Sites |
Hard to believe, but corporate Web sites have been around for over 10 years now. It’s fascinating to see how they have evolved over the years, from the early days of magazine-style brochureware to the most recent trends of two-way Web interfaces.
Corporate Web sites tend to re-invent themselves every 1-2 years and one reason is because Web design is constantly changing and adapting to technology in an evolutionary manner. Web design is a product of its environment, in particular of HTML and Browsers, but also secondary influences like Content Management Systems and the speed of computer processors. Web design is always pushing the boundaries of what current technology allows. Read More |
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| Improving Your Process: Web Branding Style Guide |
Brand guides are sometimes narrow in scope in that the only elements taken into consideration could be a company logo as well as the company name. There could be only a few rules regarding their use, but sometimes the details can be quite extensive.
Style sheets are, in their own way, a version of a brand guide. When you write CSS, you’re giving very specific rules as to how something will display visually. It could be helpful to take things a step further. When you’re putting a site together, sometimes it’s nice to have a comprehensive view of what is available to you.
To be more specific, it could be beneficial to put together a private document that is a cumulative display of your style sheet. Not only would it provide a look at the overall design of the website, it could incorporate each element as well. Headings, lists, links, and any other elements that will be used throughout the site can be put on display to let you know exactly what it is you’re working with. Read More |
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| The secret of liquid layouts |
Liquid layouts are easy to achieve if you follow some basic rules.
- work out a basic layout grid before you begin coding
- include gutters so that your columns will not spread too wide
- use percentage units for widths of all containers and gutters
- do not define containers that use the full width of a page - allow for browser
- rendering issues (such as percentage rounding)
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| 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without |
| CSS is important. And it is being used more and more often. Cascading Style Sheets offer many advantages you don’t have in table-layouts - and first of all a strict separation between layout, or design of the page, and the information, presented on the page. Thus the design of pages can be easily changed, just replacing a css-file with another one. Isn’t it great? Well, actualy, it is.
Over the last few years web-developers have written many articles about CSS and developed many useful techniques, which can save you a lot of time - of course, if you are able to find them in time. Below you’ll find a list of techniques we , as web-architects, really couldn’t live without. They are essential and they indeed make our life easier. Let’s take a look at 53 CSS-based techniques you should always have ready to hand if you develop web-sites. Read More |
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