Book Review: The Principles of Beautiful Web Design

I finally found the web design book for which I had been looking. No, not an HTML book, not a CSS book, nor a JavaScript book. Not Web 2.0. Not Ruby on Rails or Ajax, either… It’s actually a book to lead we non-artistically skilled web designers through a quick graphics and art education — [...]

Good Web Design Practices

Your business resides on your web site — it’s like the headquarters of an off-line company. Therefore, it is important to practice good design principles to make sure your site reaches out to the maximum number of visitors and sells to as many people as possible. Make sure you have clear directions on the navigation [...]

Reducing Page Load Time by Optimizing Images

Optimizing images on your web site will greatly benefit your visitors — and you. The faster your site loads, the more likely the visitor is to actually look at it. Impatient visitors, and I haven’t met many patient ones (including me), won’t wait for large images to finish loading – they’ll go somewhere else. Better [...]

Suggested Web Design Resources

I am often asked which resources (books, etc.) that I recommend for people who want to create web sites. Many web hosts, such as Powweb, provide basic templates for easy creation of a web site. These can be your base for your very first web site, or can function as a quick way to set [...]

11 Tips to avoid getting penalized by the search engines

The 14th Colony blog has a great list of tips for search engine optimization. In this case, it’s a list of 11 Tips to avoid getting penalized by the search engines. There couldn’t me much that’s more important, if you want visitors to your web site. Search engines are a great source of free traffic [...]