Web Design Index

What is Web Design?

In a nutshell, Web Design is the practice and focus spent towards layout, presentation and interaction with a web page or web site.

Web Design / Interaction Design

• Page Description Diagram
• 'Hanging Punctuation' ! I never knew it existed
• Thoughts on Hanging Bullets

Other Resources

• How I Design
• What's Wrong With Web Design
• Design and Strategy for Large Organizations: The Homepage
• Focus on your customers first, not the design
• Designers, Engage Your Brain
• http://webdesign.meetup.com/
• Web Design — from Wikipedia
• Whitespace — Mark Boulton at A List Apart discusses good use of Whitespace in design
• Resolution vs. browser size vs. fixed or adaptive width
• Avoid Edge Cases by Designing Up Front

Layouts

• Switchy McLayout: An Adaptive Layout Technique

Fonts

• http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/silk
• Three Wrong Ideas From Computer Science — Joel Spolsky chimes in on the misconception that 'Anti-aliased text looks better'.
  • http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.388485.36

Tricks

• Creating Elastic Layouts with the em Unit
• Equal height excerpts with ems
• Cross Browser Transparency
• Text & Image Zoom

Footers

• Bye-bye to boring page footers