How to Spot Quality within Web Design: Examples & Tips
Some great examples and tips on what makes a quality web or blog design
Quality is a word that a lot of people like to use when describing their web design services. But what is quality, how do you know if a design is quality or not. Well, I think that there’s quite a few ways to spot quality within web designs. Once you can see just what goes into making a quality web design, you can use the techniques to perfect your own style.
I’ve put together a few pointers, and collected some examples to explain just how I look for quality within a website design.
01. Spacing
One of the main things that I look for within a good website design is clever use of spacing with design elements. Paying close attention to how certain things are spaced out and lined up can really make a difference to the overall appearance and sense of quality of your design.
I think the key to getting your spacing right is to look at all of the elements within your design. Looking at the bigger picture really can help you get a good idea of how best to space your elements. Sometimes zooming out and taking a different look at your designs can be a great help.
Examples of Excellent Spacing
Great Spacing on the Good.is Website
As you can see here, there is a very clean and open feel to the content here. This is completely down to the designer allowing a good amount of space around the text & images.
A very well spaced out Digital Mash Website
Having well spaced out elements can make them a lot more attractive, and a lot more clickable. Digital Mash is a great example of a very welcoming website.
Creatica Daily has heaps of space
Again the great use of spacing here really helps let the content speak for itself. There isn’t a lot of content in each post, but they’ve not been afraid to give the content a lot of space. Just because you only have a few lines of text, doesn’t mean it can’t use a lot of space.
Lots of Space on the Postbox Site
Taking a close look at the Postbox website, you can really see how space there is around the edges. There’s actually a 60px padding here. It sounds like quite a lot, but when you see it in action it looks great.
Getting Spacing Wrong
The main mistake people make when it comes to spacing is having their content too close to the edges. No matter how well you’ve styled your content, if you cram too much in, it loses a lot of it’s style and quality.
Example of not using enough spacing
We showed in the previous section how good the spacing was on the PostBox website, but we’ve made the mock-up below to show how it would look with less spacing. And you can see just how much bad spacing can effect your design. It takes a lot away from the design and certainly removes the quality feel from it.
Tips on Effective Spacing
Deciding on how much spacing to use is something which will vary from time to time, you really need to train your eye to allow for the correct amount of spacing for each element, and use it effectively to fit the design. It’s touch but something you can pick up with practice.
• Design using a grid system
Using a grid certainly helps you to understand the importance of spacing
• Try & Try again
You can always use a method of trial and error until you find what looks right.
• White Space isn’t a wasted space
Just because you have an empty area, it doesn’t mean you have to fill it.• Less really is More
Rather than trying to fit more in an area, fit less, give it space and keep just the vital important information.
02. Pixel Perfect Detail
You can really tell when someone has put real effort into the finish of a web design. Sometimes it’s the subtle things that really make a difference, and a lot of people might not even notice. What I mean when I talk about Pixel Perfect Detail is the method of paying close attention to lines, edges and borders. Rather than just have a simple line, sometimes adding some small details, whether it be subtle gradients, or something as a simple 1px shadow or highlight can really make your work stand out. Some designers of note that are really good at this are: Collis Ta’eed, David Leggett and Wolfgang Bartelme.
Examples of Pixel Perfect Details
A close look at the detail on Envato
If you look in the examples I’ve cut out, you can see in Example 1, how the green bar has a 1 pixel lighter green line on the border. Example 2 uses a soft gradient shadow on the inside of the box and leaves a 1px clear white border at the top. Clever, using a shadow to give the impression of a highlight above it. The green area behind has a very soft subtle shadow which helps draw attention to the clean and crisp detail within the white box below. Although it doesn’t seem like much these thing really do help to make everything look that little bit more polished, they give a sense of 3D and realism, almost like the elements are placed onto the page, rather than just a flat and static layout.
The Details on Tutorial9.net
David Leggett has a great understanding of how to really make pixel’s pop. His recent redesign of tutorial9 is a great mix of so many pixel popping techniques. In Example 1 you can see how he’s made the tabs look that little bit slicker by adding a simple 1px highlight to the top. Example 2 see’s a variety of techniques. A Drop shadow on the camera icon, a shadow highlight on the white area, and a 1px highlight on the top of the navigation bar.
Pixel Perfect Buttons & Separators on RedBrick Health
This beautiful navigation, created by Ryan Scherf is another great example of using pixel perfect details to get that feel of quality in your design. The pink button has a 1px highlight, and the separating lines between the links have the same level of quality and detail, as you can see rather than just having a gray line separation, Ryan has included a 1 pixel highlight below it to prevent it looking flat and 2 dimensional.
Pixel Perfection Applies to Grunge too: AvalonStar
Here we have the beautiful AvalonStar: Distortion blog, which uses a great grunge style. But even with a dirty & grungy design using a 1px highlight can still make a big difference. If you look at Example 1 you can see how a shadow gradient has been used on the brown top area, the green box which lies below it has a 1px highlight at the top. The combination of the shadow above and the 1 pixel highlight really make the boxes look that little bit more polished.
Quick tips for Perfect Details
Practice makes perfect in this case, as you can see from the examples something as simple as a 1px highlight line can add some really cool depth to your designs, you don’t need to rely on really over the top bevels and gradients to give the impression of something with a bit of depth.
• Keep it Subtle
Small details that compliment the content are the key.
• Think in Pixels
Borders, gradients, lines and shadows etc don’t have to be huge to be effective.
• Before & After
Compare your results to how they looked before you applied the effects. Then you can see just how effective they are.
03. Well thought out Typography
Although the actual content of the website won’t be written by the designer, they play just as important role in the overall quality of the content. Their role is to make sure that the content is displayed in a way that is easy to follow and read through. There are many ways that you can ensure your type is readable and usable, and while I’m not going to list a set of rules and regulations on what, and what not to do, I will give you some examples of where clever typography really does make a difference.
Examples of Well Thought out Typography
Big & Beautiful on The Netsetter
Titles are important within web design, especially when you are designing for a blog. A recent trend in web design is to use big & bold fonts for titles. This works in a number of positive ways, not only does it tick all the right boxes from a usability point of view, but it helps to create space and define structure within a design. This example from Netsetter is a great illustration of these points, you can see how the title creates a lot of white space around it, and naturally it’s very easy to read.
Leading & Spacing with your Text
The Viget website really is a beautiful example of how important typography is within web design. The example we see below (taken from their portfolio showcase) shows once again how using a larger sized font helps to create and open space. Even with the thin, crisp font they have used you can see just how much space has been created in that area. The actual typeface itself is very slick, and is a great choice of font. The other thing that stands out here is their attention to detail with the line height (Leading), the spacing between each line of text has been increased from the default value to create a lot more space and make the text much more readable. A trick which you could try in your next design.
Web Design Ledger, Fonts to Fit your Mood
Finding the perfect font can be done through trial and error, or you can make your choices based upon the different moods certain fonts help bring to a design. The example here, Web Design Ledger, has a retro and worn look to it, while still having a very open and modern feel to it, so choosing fonts that help evoke a similar moods to these is essential to it’s success. Henry Jones (the designer) has chosen a popular transitional serif typeface: Georgia for the titles which compliment the retro & worn aspects of the design very well. The modern feel to the website comes from using a very different font to the titles, the main content body is written in Helvetica, a sans-serif typeface with a very rounded, open feel to it. The two choices of typeface in this example are very clever and really help to compliment and set the mood of the design.
Quick check list for Typography in Web Design
Spotting good typography within web design becomes a little easier when you’ve seen some great examples of typography (above) But when exactly is it that makes these examples so good, and what should you be looking out for when you come to design your next website?
• Is it Readable?
Don’t be scared of making your titles big and bold.• Have you thought about spacing?
Spacing can vastly improve readability.• Do your fonts fit the mood?
Make sure your fonts compliment the design.
There are probably a thousand more tips out there, but I don’t consider myself an expert in this area, I think I’ve just learnt to appreciate the impact of good typography. If you want to learn more about the things to look out for and see some better examples i strongly suggest you check out this post from Smashing Magazine.
04. Organization of Elements
Being a designer appeals to many because of it’s creative nature, and sure it can be a lot of fun. Now I know that Organizing doesn’t sound at all creative or fun, but once you get into a habit of good organization it doesn’t have to be as dull as it sounds. The way you organize the elements in a website is always going to be different, it depends on what type of site it is, and how important certain features are to the content of that website.
Although there’s always a variation in how and where you place things, there are some things you can do to make organizing your content very easy. The first thing you need to do is decide what you want your design to achieve. For example, are you designing to sell a product, are you designing for content, or are you designing for signups & referrals etc.
Designing to Sell: 37Signals
Taking a look at the massively popular 37 signals website it’s easy to see that it’s no coincidence they are selling their products so well. They’ve made it as easy as possible for you to see what’s for sale and help you to make the final decision to buy. Everything you want from a site designed to sell.
In the Example image you can see that the site has 4 key features that make it ideal to encourage you to buy. Attention is the first thing, they’ve made a very dark box with a quick summary & big bold titles. Next they generate your Interest by listing some benefits of each product with a lovely illustration. Desire is the next point, and this is archived by placing quotes & testimonials, and as in this point some videos of “What our Customers have to say.” The final feature to keep in mind is Action; on 37Signals there are various action points throughout the page, also nice to see that as the page is quite long they even have some action points in the footer.
Designing for Content (Blog): Well Medicated
When you’re designing for a blog it’s a completely different story. You don’t need to spend time convincing and re-assuring your users about your product, your “product” is already on display, your content is your product. Make it easy for your users to see your posts, explore them and connect with you & your blog.
Content should be (one of) the first thing(s) you see on a blog. In this example a nice bold pink title font really draws your eyes straight to the content. There’s a good sized preview image and a good 2/3 paragraphs of text followed by a “Continue Reading” link. There’s also the standard date & author information. For me this is one of the most perfect examples of what I would class as quality “Content Design.” Attention can be directed to anything of interest, here the nice big subscribe icons are the focus and help the users to stay connected with your content. Plus it without doubt will increase the amount of subscribers, so it works on two levels. Encouraging your users to Explore is quite simple, you can use anything from tabbed recent or popular content in the sidebar, to drop down menu’s or simple & effective lists. It’s easy to do, but very effective, especially on a blog. Blogs tend to be very personal things, so allowing your visitors to Connect with you in a variety of ways can be a big plus, and can help encourage people to get to know you, and visit
Tips to Help with Organizing your content.
Of course there’s always times where you’ll need to do things differently and break the norm. But there are some simple tips you can follow to keeping a well structured and well ordered design.
• What are you designing for?
As we’ve shown above, decide the goal of your design
• Design using a Grid
Grids allow you to make the most of your space.
• Test the Placement of Elements
Be the visitor, would you be able to use it.• Remove any unnecessary Elements
Anything that isn’t essential should be removed, or out of the way• Balance of Attention
Some things need to stay simple to allow others to shine
05. Restraint & Subtlety
Designers are always looking for ways to make an impact with a unique design or special effect within a design. But sometimes you can make a bigger impact by restraining yourself. There comes a point where something crosses from being good to being too much. A good designer can spot when the line has been crossed, and avoid putting too much into a design or special effect.
Examples of Subtle Effects within Web Design
Soft Gradients on “Things” Website
I’m always on the look out for subtle effects on all the websites I visit. Sort of sad maybe, but I can’t help but pick out all the little details for future inspiration. Gradients are often over used and really in your face, but used correctly gradients can add a element of reality and depth to a design. Most people might not even spot the gradients, and those for me are the best ones.
Drop Shadows on Icon Dock
Icon Dock is a smorgasbord of subtlety. Pixel highlights, gradients and drop shadows. But for the sake of this example we will focus on the drop shadow, it’s not very big, and it’s opacity has been reduced to just put the highlight on the content box and bring it forward very slightly. It’s a beautiful example.
Subtle Background Textures; Scouting for Girls
Having a textured background can make or break your design. A lot of times the background becomes too much of a distraction that it actually takes away from the quality of the design. So it’s often a good idea to keep your background textures subtle and soft. The Scouting for Girls website does a great job of using a texture to compliment the overall style & quality of the design.
A hint of Wear & Tear: Viget Advance
I don’t think you can ever be too subtle, any amount of detail no matter how subtle will be noticeable, and whether people are aware of it or not it does have an impact. This example from the Viget Advance blog shows some hints of wear & tear, just a very small amount of wear, but without it the paper would look flat and dull. It’s the small imperfections that make it more believable and real.
Watercolours on WebDesignerWall
When using watercolours it’s always nice to make sure you mix the colours and keep the colours very soft, faded, and well… Watery. Using watercolours can benefit your design in many ways, it allows you to inject some subtle colours and bring in some texture, which is why it’s become quite a popular choice for many designers to include.
Subtle Floral Elements; Dara’s Garden
This is a brilliant example of subtle floral detail within a design. There are some more vivid floral illustrations that are also quite stunning, but in this example we are focusing on the lighter & softer details in the background. This really shows the importance of subtlety, the soft colour and worn look to the pattern means that your eye is aware of the detail, but it isn’t the main focus.
Tips for Subtlety in your Design
For me, subtle details in a design can really push a design from being good, to being amazing. If you’re looking for a way to inject something special into your design, subtle details really are the way to go. Here are some tips to keep in mind when including subtle details in your design.
• Build up your layers
Never just use one brush or texture, build your details up.
• Experiment with opacity & Colour
Sometimes even 3% opacity can have a positive impact.
• Don’t worry, Be Brave
Done be afraid to be too subtle, or too faded.
06. Using Colour to it’s Full Potential
People often judge colours on their personal taste, which is a huge mistake. If you’re ever in a situation where you need to decide upon what colours look good in a design your mind should always be on the brand, and building a theme and mood using a colour scheme.
Brilliant uses of Colour In Web Design
Real Estate can be Real Colourful: Oypro
The thing I like about the Oypro website is that it proves that a “boring” subject doesn’t have to have a boring design. All too often corporate sites have a reluctance to allow designers to really put across some creative flair in their designs. There seems to be a need to keep things simple, flat, and gray. But this design proves that you can still have a corporate looking website, without the need to hold back.
Keeping your Colours Relevant: Tennessee Summertime
Summertime in Tennessee is a vibrant, bright and very warm website. Everything you’d want to associate with a site that is promoting summer activities. There are a lot of different colours in play here, but all of them are relevant. Good quality designs have a colour scheme that is relevant to the service or product that they are designing for. Sometimes it’s the obvious colour choices that make for the better design, a good example of my point is Hell Design - it wouldn’t make sense being any colour than a firey red.
Variety in your Backgrounds: Saturized Studio
It’s not enough just to have colour in your background and expect that to make it interesting. Some of the best backgrounds are those that have a bit of variety, in this example we see that the beautiful orange/red colour is subject to all sorts of lighting effects and gradients. It gives an extra something to the background, and prevents it from looking stale and flat. Important to note here too that the contrast between the dark & deep orange works really nice set behind the much lighter content area.
Tips for using colour in design
Colour is always a good area for exploration and trying different possibilities and variations, but it’s always important to keep a few things in mind when choosing colours and a colour scheme.
• Experiment
A boring topic doesn’t have to have a boring colour scheme.
• Variety
Try using gradients, patterns, brushes on your colourful backgrounds. Colour alone doesn’t make something look good.
• Stick to a Theme
Make sure your colours are relevant to your product/service.
07. Doing something Nobody else has done
Some of the best websites around are those that are out of the ordinary, strange and somewhat bizzare. But those that challenge the norm may end up changing what the norm is. But being truly original and creating something nobody else has done before is the toughest thing to do in design.
You could end up making something of amazing brilliance, or you could end up with a design that’s worthy of nothing but criticism. It’s a very thin line between success and failure; I mean there are reasons something’s never been done before, and it’s usually because it’s a shit idea. You’ve got to be brave to step away from what people know and love, and here are a few examples of that point:
Unique Navigation on MB Dragan
Not exactly your average site navigation, but would the website look as good if it just had a standard navigation. I’d say it was a bit of a risk having the navigation in such an unusual way, but it does fit in with the site, it is relevant, and it’s done to such a standard that it’s hard not to appreciate how well it works with the overall design.
Visualbox & their very Visual Navigation
Visualbox have one goal in mind, showing you their brilliant work. So they’ve got very little text, on first look all you see is their Name and a selection of their work. The preview box changes when you hover over it to reveal details of that project, so it’s actually a very effective and functional solution, and much more appealing then just having a list of links.
Straight to the point with Nikola Mircic
So you’re a interface designer, you want people to see your work, and hire you. Nikola Mircic shows us how getting straight to it makes for a really impressive site. You are greeted with a wide variety of his work, his name & what he does at the top, and a contact link. There’s no mass of text or fancy words to convince you to use his services, he literally lets his work talk for itself. Of course you can click on the images to see more & get some text, but the layout if very unique and I love how it works.
Tips for trying something new
The examples above are not meant to be “inspiration” for unique ideas, just simply a couple of sites that I found that I’d deem to be quite unique. The fact is you can’t really search around for inspiration on new ideas, as it kind of spoils the point of it. So really you can just ignore this whole section if you are trying to think up something new!
• Keep it Relevant
If you’re going to do something very new and unique, ask yourself “does it make sense” and “does it fit with the branding?” if so then go do it!
• Ignore everything you know!
Okay maybe not everything, basic principles may stay the same, but there’s no point looking for inspiration on new ideas, you’ll just be heading in the wrong direction.
• Keep a level of quality
I think generally if your new idea looks good, and works well it’s much easier for you to justify.
What Do you look for in a Quality Design?
There are so many things that can make a design stand out as quality, I’d say I’ve just covered a few of the base points. So I’d love to see your ideas and thoughts about what you look for when you decide whether a design is good or not.
Written by liam on April 13, 2009
Dave said:
Great Post, thanks…
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Benn said:
Great article, except for mentioning Visualbox. Mystery meat navigation is horrible, and this is just a really good looking version of it.
It may look ‘nice’, but it functions terribly, and compared with the rest of your tips they do not alter the functionality.
Matin said:
Great Post :X
Bim said:
Great post!
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Han said:
I love the examples in this post. Thank you!
samin said:
Great and very relevant list for any designer.
One thing tho - the example #3 about typographic details and Netsetter screencap does show a nice & friendly header but also in this case, a typographic orphan which is a minor mistake by itself.
Tim Wright said:
Great list, thanks for the examples!
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kyle steed said:
Killer post man. What a great resource.
There is such an abundance of information here that will help me as I gear up for a redesign on my site.
Thanks.
Santiago said:
Really Great post!
Some sites maybe have 2 or 3 years, but reaaly is nice list!
Scott S. said:
This is one of the best blog posts that I’ve possibly ever read. It’s like a well-written paper. Your topic is relevant, you’ve broken the topics down logically, given specific examples of both good and bad. … Extremely informative and motivating post. I’ll be taking another look at my own site, http://www.type81.com, based on what you’ve written.
Great work. Thanks.
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Mario Lat said:
That was a very informative write up. Thank you very much for sharing them with us.
Matt said:
Amazing post, love it!
Todd said:
Great post! These are important things to keep in mind, it’s often easy to forget about the simple things when you get consumed by a project.
Marko said:
Great article. You said it almost all
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Wow, what a nice post - thanks for the great times and examples!
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myows said:
This is the best article I’ve read in ages.
I love the time you’ve spent writing it and finding pictures to illustrate your points.
I’ve recommended to all my designer friends to have a look at it.
I think one of the most crucial points to a quality design is when it doesn’t look like anything else out there… nowdays it’s too easy to get a free template and customize it, so i am truly impressed when a website is so original it looks nothing like what is out there. ( the new obox-design.com website recently did that on me )
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Sascha said:
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AdrianMG said:
AWESOME POST. GREAT JOB!
pab said:
excellent read. thanks for posting this
Gavin said:
One of the best blog posts I’ve read in a long time.
Awesome.
Gavin
Ryan Scherf said:
Indeed a great blog post (and not because one of my sites was listed here). The attention to detail just for this post is just as impressive as all of the sites detail above. Great work, and a brilliant read.
Matthew Heidenreich said:
great post! Very useful.
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Alex said:
It’s usually the little things that get unnoticed. If those little things aren’t put just right, the whole site will have an odd feeling to it.
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Frederik Van Zande said:
Typography is the art of making text more readable & understandable.
Headline readability drops enormous (+60%) if it the headline takes more then 1 line.
So the 2-line headline examples you describe as “excellent” actually are examples of bad typography.
They show the font in detail, because of their huge font-size, which makes them beautiful. But the font-size makes them span over two lines, which drops their readability significantly = bad typography.
Never let the looks of something get more important then the goals. (readability vs looking good).
on a bright side, I really dig your example presentations.
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Beautiful post!
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liam said:
@Frederik Van Zande - While I don’t doubt that the logic behind your post is true, and where possible I’m sure we’d all like to keep our titles down to one line. But the fact is it’s not always possible, especially with blogs. So as valid as your point is, I think it’s an unavoidable necessity to allow more than one line in your design.
Thanks for the brilliant comments though (everyone)
Grant said:
This was a really well done article.
I’d like to add one more thing. One of my biggest pet peeves is bad line breaks in paragraphs on the web. Just like in print you can control where line breaks happen. But most web designers choose to flow in the copy and never go back to see how it flows viduslly.
I found terrible widows and orphans all over the web. Not to mention really bad line breaks within paragraphs that destoy readability.
While I know this is time consuming, especially if you post a blog that continuously updates, but it is frustrating to read text with terrible line breaks. And it tells me that the designer’s skill in typography is lacking.
abdusfauzi said:
great post! love it! now, i need to redesign my website and coming projects. hehe.
Mini0n said:
AWESOME ARTICLE!
Keep up the good work. =)
nio said:
Very useful list, thnx a lot!
Chris said:
Another Smashing Magazine?… nooo!!!
Melik Yuksel said:
Amazing post, thanks!
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Frederik Van Zande said:
Liam,
it is always possible.
If you design after the content –> smaller font-size.
If you write blog post after the design is in place –> less text in the headline.
Headlines shouldn’t be too detailed, they are just there to make the visitor curious what’s written beneath it. The usage of headlines is to manipulate the scanning/skimming pattern. So just to draw the viewers eye. Long headlines don’t work well btw, research has shown that the best headlines are max 8 words long.
@ Grant.
welcome to the web, where you can’t control everything.
The technique you describe shouldn’t be done on the web because you never have 100% control of what font-type, font-size & font anti aliasing is used on the visitors browser.
- some users with visual disabilities overwrite the font-size.
- we use font stacks like this “Arial, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif” –> you can’t control what font is installed by the visitor, all fonts differ in width
- safari, firefox, IE, … all use different font-anti-aliasing, resulting in different width of font.
If you use the technique you describe, you’ll have a lot of visitors that have text looking like this:
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Sarah Hudson said:
This is the most useful article I’ve read all year. GREAT stuff, thank you!!!!
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I’m seriously tired of seeing these ‘inspiration’ sites spitting out this garbage. Humans..
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Andrew Houle said:
Wow, excellent article and fantastic examples, Liam! You hit on a lot of great points here, this will be a resource I can come back to often.
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very good images and examples. but, all the secret stay in promovation.
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Matt said:
This is a really good post. It really gets to the heart of good design not only for the web, but often for print as well.
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Zak Weiland said:
Really good post. I’ve seen a lot of articles like this, but this one had some great newer examples and a great set of writing skills. The simplest rules line-height and the pixel perfect separation are must haves.
Great job!
Star Army Space Roleplay said:
“06. Using Colour to it’s Full Potential”
Correct grammar is also an important element of creating a web page.
troubl3shootr said:
nice post. I think Nikola Mircic is he (male) not she…
Jason said:
Great post!
I’ve used Photoshop for over 10 years but have recently given the design task to others. I’m more in tune with the HTML/CSS coding. But this article is a great inspiration for me to start some designs again.
Thanks!
Jason
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Chris said:
I agree with Frederik. You can’t transform the web into a printed medium.
niceOne said:
great article, but you might want to correct the part about nikola mircic, as i’m pretty sure it’s a he you’re talking about there, not a she. based on the surname he’s of similar origins as nikola tesla and by mentioning tesla i guess i made it pretty obvious nikola is a male name over there.
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michael soriano said:
Love this article.
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agilius said:
Great article, I must say I never read something that summed it up so well. Something like this should be read once in a while, to remind us of some essential concepts of webdesign.
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One of the best posts I’ve read so far. Things mentioned along with the examples are great. It’s an excellent guide for beginners as well as professionals.
Thanks for the post.
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Will said:
Excellent article. The part about colors was interesting. But I think you have to treat color schemes on a case-by-case scenario. As suggested, there are lots of examples where colors could be made more vibrant with contrasting backgrounds or bright titles to brighten things up.
But if you are working with online portfolio’s and showcases, it is likely that you would want to minimise the use of colors to put emphasis on the content.
liam said:
@niceOne - Oh yeah, good point. After a little research I’ve found a picture of Nikola Mircic and it’s true to say I assumed the wrong gender. *Making changes now.
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Mike T said:
Great article! I plan on using more whitespace on my various websites I maintain.
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Chris McCorkle said:
You made a few good observations, however, I don’t quite know what a “gird” system is! Spell check!
John said:
And most importantly: Good visual design doesn’t imply good code. Having good code is even more important than having a good visual design.
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Jaswinder said:
Well done Liam another excellent post. consider yourself digged
Kyk Phon said:
Gorgeous photos, good advice, and terrible writing. Learn how to spell.
Glenn Hilton said:
Great post. One of the best I’ve read in a while.
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Al said:
Thanks for the great tips — being totally untrained I forget subtlety and simplicity on a regular basis.
While beyond the scope of the article it would be nice to see something on the under-the-hood aspects of quality design for the web. Accessibility, sending the correct headers, portability and validation considerations are certainly, at least to me, as important as the presentation of a site.
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sam hayne said:
Hey here’s another idea: hire an editor you moron. Affect is a verb. Effect is a noun. Plus this entire post is riddled with typos. Did you even proofread it?
Natalie said:
No snobbery intended here, but I have to mention that all credibility goes out the window when typos and misspellings are present on a website, regardless of the design. Particularly one that is expounding the virtues of quality web design. I’ve only made it about 1/3 through the article before I felt compelled to comment on it.
Lee Munroe said:
This is a great post Liam! Pixel perfect design is what stands out for me. Shows the designer has took the time and takes pride in their work.
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Kyle Bailey said:
An excellent post and one that I will most certainly share with everyone. At E-Cubed we are fanatical about small details and while we cannot always police what happens to our designs once we let our clients get their hands on them we’ve found that providing them links such as this get them back on track if they have wandered off the path.
Aysha said:
Thanks for the post. It’s a great reference.
Aysha said:
Thanks for the post. It’s a great reference.
Joshua said:
This was one of the best graphic design related articles I have came across and I genuinely look forward to more INFORMATIVE articles like this.
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This is one of the best comprehensive posts on web design details I’ve seen. Great work and a great article - I already passed it on to all of my design friends.
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Mike said:
Love this article as well. Our chicago web design studio works hard to accomplish these things mentioned in the article. Great how you highlighted the examples as well.
macias said:
huge / useful article…. thx
matt Harvey said:
That’s strange, I don’t see the section titled “layout your site using obnoxiously narrow columns, two of which contains ads and mostly useless buttons, so that on any realistic resolution your site has about 25% of its width being content and the rest being wasted.”
Comprende, wefunction.com?
your header is pretty ugly too, lots of wasted space
Anton said:
Ironically, the Good.is site actually “breaks” in Firefox 3.0.8 when to many tags are applied. A ‘perfect’ site would take care of that.. But you can’t get it all.
Screenshot: http://pollax.se/files/good_is.jpg
Other than that, I agree with previous comments; thank you for a very good post.
Chris said:
@Matt Harvey, I actually prefer reading text in a narrow column than super wide columns (on the web).
Ben Peck said:
Thank you for taking the time to post this. These are excellent examples of what good web design is and the subtle things that we as designers think about and put effort into that make all the difference.
Martin Leblanc said:
Great article, Liam.
aravind said:
Brilliant post!
Trust me, I was about to post a similar article in my blog.
Recently I did a research on the trends and quality in web designing before redesigning my website.
I noticed the white space factor, pixel magic of envato and the texture backgrounds. I tried to implement all those in my design as well.
I wanted to share all those which I noticed and experimented with some tutorials.
Anyway, Great post again indeed. kudos
Gabriel Svennerberg said:
Thanks for a really good and well written article. Great tips and examples!
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Oggy said:
This was an excellent article, thankyou! I’m currently working on a new website design and I’m trying to improve it in any way I can, I’ve changed the cellpadding and put a few pixel highlights and shadows in and a few other things, and I am really impressed, a vast improvment. Thankyou so much! Now to read some of the related articles!
Joe Clark said:
You’ve got the wrong “its.”
Alberto Villalobos Solano said:
Super Article, this a great comeback of this site, actualy there are more factors that make a quality web design, but its already a very complete post,
Cortland said:
Awesome thank you! This is going to really help me out!
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Craig B said:
Great post will be trying to use some of these techniques on some projects im working on at the moment. =)
stevo32 said:
I disagree with the tip on spacing. The “incorrect” example looks far better.
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Very long article but worthy to read every single information. This should help everyone who wants to ensure the quality of their website.
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Mike said:
I nominate http://www.truthalyzer.com/ as an example of a well-designed website.
Sean Baker said:
This is by far your 9th Symphony, Liam bro. You know it’s a great article when even our developers here in the office are showing me this link. Lucky for me, I get to ride home about you to them all the time. Great, excellent, prime stuff.
Keep up the great fight across the pond, my man!
john smith said:
lol what a load of shit, all you did was describe what a crappy content management system is, this is stupid
liam said:
@Sean - Fantastic compliment, appreciate it mate! Really surprised how well this has gone down, it’s something I’ve been wanting to write (and putting together) for a while. But the format of how I got my point across was hard to decide.
I wanted to do a big rant, but held back as I think people don’t really take to rants very well. I think this was probably a much more effective way of doing it
Nice to hear from you again man. Same to you!
liam said:
@john smith - Erm… Really, did you read Anything?!
MidGe said:
One of the best indication of poor quality is the use of fixed layouts rather than fluid layouts. It displays a lackadaisical approach towards the user and is unacceptable nowadays. Let the user choose the amount of screen real estate given to the browser and let the site blend in to what is given.
Oh! you are using a fixed layout on your site. It says it all!
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liam said:
@MidGe - I really don’t think that’s that big an issue. Of nearly a year online you are the first person to even mention that. So while I’m sure in certain cases it’s a big plus to have a fluid width design, I don’t think it’s an issue for most people. And in either case, it doesn’t really follow the point’s I was trying to get across that’s a whole other issue for a different time.
Jach said:
I believe that proper spelling and grammar go with design. I noticed two just skimming this article (improper use of “it’s” (know the difference between “it’s” and “its”!), and “gird”), and those stand out much more to me than a few pixels of spacing.
Also I’m not too keen on pixel-perfect design, because different people have different resolutions. The laptop I’m using right now has a 1400×1050 display, and most of the sites I visit (including the form of this one) look like crap because they aren’t using proportions. A common problem is centered three-column layouts that define the width of the middle column in pixels, leaving HUGE empty space on the side.
I did enjoy the article though, and a lot of it is good advice.
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Mikey said:
@ Benn: “Great article, except for mentioning Visualbox. Mystery meat navigation is horrible, and this is just a really good looking version of it.”
Ditto. Nice looking, but unusable. If you’re still doing mystery meat navigation, you’re doing it wrong.
Sandeep said:
Really Nice Article!
choen said:
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Edward.H said:
great article with up to 12 samples! that will inspire us on web design ,thanks! I’v submitted a link of this great article into webmasterclip.com so that I can share it with our members.
thanks your good work again.
OpenSourceHunter said:
I must say this is one of the better articles that i have seen! Keep up the good work!!
greetz
Paul Anthony said:
Excellent post Liam, the devil really is in the detail, and its no surprise that the best designers are really fussy over small pixel details. Bookmarked.
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Mahbub said:
Wow, nice compilation. Better than smashing magazine !!
liam said:
@Mikey - I see what you and Benn are trying to say, and normally I would have to agree with you. There’s no mystery about it, you can clearly see what it is you are about to click on, if anything it’s far more effective than having text only.
Keep in mind it’s a site about showcasing their visual work, it works amazingly well. Any of the other links (contact etc) they have made text and put at the top.
@Jach - Spelling has nothing to do with Web Design mate, I’m a Designer not a writer. I’m going to make some spelling mistakes, I’m going to mess up my grammar and I’m going to write some things sometimes that make absolutely no sense. It’s not to say I don’t care about it, or won’t fix any problems I think need fixing, it’s just not an issue that has anything to do with the topic of the post.
Glad you found some use in the article though.
MyRule said:
Great post Liam! I love how you have broken down the post in certain topics. Great examples aswell
Mikey said:
@laim - Hey matey. I think you’re confused about what mystery meat navigation is. It’s when you have to hover over something to reveal it’s function. Every one of those rectangles does it. It’s an ugly throwback to navigation design typically done in the 90’s (most abused in Flash). It doesn’t fly these days. It hasn’t for a while.
Take the yellow pic with the bike for example. How on earth and I supposed to know that’s actually ‘Ultra Magazine’? And if I come back to the site, how am I supposed to remember what each of the rectangle images are? I have to pass my mouse over every one of them until I find what I want. If you are forcing your users to remember a specific set of rules just to get around your web site, as opposed to - you know - them clearly seeing what their options are, you’re doing it wrong.
It’s pretty there’s no doubt, but usability beats bling any day of the week in my opinion - even on design showcases. There’s no reason why they couldn’t have had the names of the items overlayed or below each of the rectangles. It would still look good but more importantly, be usable.
It’s still a great post BTW.
Sage Media said:
Great skim-through. I couldn’t begin to put a number on the times I’ve preached the message of subtlety and white space to our clients. Content is king, but an obese king sprawled over a mess of clutter and confinement isn’t going to do anyone any good.
A lot of time and effort is obviously put into your articles. Don’t you people work?
Janko said:
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Dave said:
It’s been a while since I read a truly excellent blog post. Not only well written but relevant. Congratulations.
Now I’m off to visit my own site and see how I can make it better.
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Fred said:
Fantastic read Liam, thanks for taking the time to blog on it!
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Thanks for the post. It’s a great reference.
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Ade said:
You omitted a very important indicator of quality:
08. Typographical and grammatical errors (the avoidance of).
Its omission is ironic because this otherwise useful article is marred by quite a few such errors.
liam said:
@Ade - Nope, the Irony is you took time to read my mistakes, but didn’t read the title. Quality within Web Design. Not Quality within Writing about stuff.
As stated previously, I’m a designer sharing my thoughts & ideas. I’m not a writer, and while I try my best not to make mistakes with spelling & grammar it’s not my number one priority.
Matt said:
Great list of examples.
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Great article, keep em’ coming!
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Maybe I should show this post to my boss and start appreciate me much, much more
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“Better than smashing magazine !!” I agree.
Steph said:
So maybe I’m the 1,000th person to post here — but I must say, great post! Haven’t had a good post like this in awhile, needless to say haven’t commented on many articles until now.
Very, very good job — I love detail just as much as you and you just inspired me to open up Photoshop and try some new things!
liam said:
@Steph - Thanks for your comment, glad you enjoyed it and it’s inspired you. Cheers.
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Alex said:
Great article Liam. One question - what program did you use to produce the magnifying/zoom glass effect and the labels? Just Photoshop? Or is there an excellent screen capture program that you are using?
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Shadeodz said:
what a great lesson u gave!
great job!
im going to be a web designer, so this post is perfectly usefull for me!
and others ofcourse!
thx for share your knowledge!
Dan said:
Fantastic post. Thanks.
Amy W said:
Great Post Liam…
I agree with you that we are just designers and not writers. I guess if you can spot all the mistakes maybe you are in the wrong business and should not be designing but copy writing. Thanks for all the great examples. I need to learn how to leave more white space and not fill it up.
Thanks!
liam said:
@Amy W - Nice to see someone understands
Although I do aim to improve on things like spelling & grammar, I just think most people can read it fine. Glad it’s helped you think, and hopefully helped you design your next project.
Appreciate the comment.
Andrew said:
What a wingy bunch some are… bitching about lack of fluid layouts, spelling mistakes etc… love the look of this page / blog and article looks damn schweet (no, not a spelling mistake - intentional) too! I will go through more in-depth soon! From what I have seen, the examples provided look good, the attention to pixels a very valid point (it’s the subtle touches that make a site) and I’m sure there’s more to come. Thanks for your time and contribution!
Arjen said:
Amazing post, you’ve mentioned some good point which I will pay attention to while designing.
Thanks a lot!
Ade said:
Liam. Yes, I read the title. I think that you are mistaken to think that good quality writing is not an integral part of quality website design. It certainly is. And not only integral but fundamental. Prettiness only goes so far. It is also a shame to see you dismiss it as “not my number one priority” in the context of writing an article and then react negatively to criticism of it.
Michael said:
You’ve featured some really great websites and have pointed out some great characteristics of them. I can only hope to achieve them myself.
Joel P said:
Liam, I understand you’re a designer, not a writer, but if you want to write, you owe it to your readers to proofread your work. If you still insist you’re a designer, not a writer, then find a writer to do it for you. I’m a developer, not a designer, so my solution is to hire designers for design, not to put out terrible design and stand on my developer credentials.
Honestly, quality isn’t about pixels or colors or shading. It’s about caring about the entire finished product and the entire user experience. You really undermine your case by putting something out that looks like a first draft. I found the narrow columns, very tight spacing, and constant CONSTANT *CONSTANT* typos to be so distracting that I could not finish this very long article. I hope it was good.
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liam said:
Ade - I think you’re missing my point. Criticism of the writing of the article is fine, I’ll be the first to admit it’s not perfect. What I’m defending is the fact that people are connecting making a good website Design, to publishing a good piece of writing.
I’m just trying to point out that they are two different skills, usually for two different people to take care of. Which is why I’m failing to see why people are connecting the two.
By all means I’m not saying that people aren’t allowed to criticism or have an opinion, I just want to make clear where I’m coming from at the same time.
liam said:
@Joel P - Yeah, again I can’t argue with the fact that it’s not a perfect article. I don’t think I’m ever going to write anything that’s perfect, or near to perfect. So I’ve put something out which I thought people could enjoy, and I’ve had some great feedback and it seems to have inspired a lot of people. That’s the goal of the article.
It’s strange how none of my readers (maybe one or two) have brought up too much of an issue with my spelling before, and I know for a fact I’ve made countless errors and mistakes in the past.
My guess is for many of you this is your first visit to the site, and if I’ve failed to interest you then, apologies. But I’m sure that most people found value in what I wrote and it’s for them people who I’ll Improve my writing for, and website for in the future.
Ade said:
No, I understand and appreciate your point. But based on my own experience, I have to disagree that the two are not fundamentally part of one and the same thing. If I didn’t write copy (or edit it if the client provides it, which is rare), I would have unfinished sites. Of course, for people who work with a team around them, it may well be someone else’s job, and that’s fine for them.
Jesse Skeens said:
Great article Liam. I didn’t even notice the mistakes until people pointed them out. Sure it would have been better to proof read a bit more but no need to be attacked over it in the way some of these people have reacted.
Will be bookmarking this for future use, thanks.
Joel P said:
Liam, I never complained that your article wasn’t perfect. You won’t ever write a perfect article, and neither will I. I’m also not arguing whether or not your content is accurate or useful, because I’m not a designer. It does seem to have inspired a lot of designers to make their sites look better, so if they do, I thank you for that without qualification.
But, my point is that by putting out this post you are a) choosing to write, and b) choosing to write about quality. Failing to proofread the article greatly undermines the message to those of us who care about content quality. There are plenty of ugly sites that could use much greater attention to design quality. But my concern is the exponentially greater number of sites where peopl dont spend 5 secnds to see if there grammer or spelling is rite. [Please trolls, don't reply. I know that last sentence was all wrong. I'm making a point.]
I’m all for quality, and I commend you for trying to raise the bar. All I ask is that you recognize that you don’t compartmentalize quality. Every website eventually gets redesigned, but nobody ever goes back and rewrites the old articles. In my opinion, the quality of your content is far more important than the quality of your design, because the content lives forever.
Dobes Vandermeer said:
Little typo: http://screencast.com/t/p95Kt2ib0th
Andrew said:
Thank you for this post. I fail to see why anyone is raising minor quibbles and overlooking the awesome advice you have given. I understand quality is across the board, but I don’t come to this site to be taught grammar…I am here to benefit from your web design skills and expertise. I am a beginner and really grateful.
Please, don’t be discouraged and keep up the good work!
liam said:
@Joel P - Okay, well I don’t want to go on about this too much. But I take what you are saying, and agree with the most part. I just don’t agree with the part where you say I wrote about Quality. Because I didn’t. I was very careful to pick out Quality within Web Design.
If I’d chosen Quality websites as a whole, then maybe your points would be valid about my spelling etc. But I’m not talking about the quality of the content, or website. I’m looking at the examples purely for design. In other words, how the text looks, not whether it’s written correctly.
Also, (this point isn’t directed at you) but I didn’t include myself in this list, and never claimed to have a quality website design, so not sure why people have decided to make this about my site.
Craig miller said:
Cool advises about spacing, when I developed one of my first sites it was awful in terms of waste of space. Hope this gets read by everybody whom willing to design websites.
Craig Miller
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Daniel said:
I cannot see how using ‘thrashed’ design trends indicate a websites quality? Amateur Photoshop trickery (gradients, drop shadows, ‘2.0′ icons… ZZZzzzzz) and floral stock art will not mean your website is of high quality. Try something different, I often look to print for some great examples of beautiful graphic design. I still cringe when I hear somebody call me a ‘web designer’ and this article is an example of why. It should be renamed ‘How to pretend your a designer in 10 easy steps’.
In saying that I am sure that all of the ‘part time web designers’ who charge nothing for their ‘work’ and reduce the value of our profession will love it. So great article in that sense.
liam said:
@Daniel - I think if anything you just back up my points. The whole reason behind it was to encourage people to hold back on the effect. Use them by all means, just keep them subtle and clean.
Daniel said:
@Liam - Fair point. The subtle use of these Photoshop effects does separate the ugly from the elegant. But don’t you think these design trends have been with us long enough now? It reminds me of the late 90’s when everything had to look futuristic and like it was lifted from a rave flyer lol.
I mean seriously, floral patterns? I have always liked this rule for anyone who might be reading: If you remove an element from your design and it does not REALLY make a difference, then simply remove it. An example is right here on this page design (which looks very nice by the way). If you removed the floral pattern at the bottom and top of the page it would make no difference to the overall effect whatsoever, in fact I think i would improve the design, it simply does not need it. I hope that makes sense, or maybe I am just a hopeless minimalist?
liam said:
@Daniel - Yeah, definitely these effects have been with us since forever, but it doesn’t mean we don’t have to use them. I think it’s just about using them in a way that works, and that does mean restricting usage, and softening your gradients etc. But I don’t think we an ignore them at all.
As for the floral point you make. I’m not suggesting you must include floral patterns to make a design look good at all. The main section title, where I included the floral example is “Restraint & Subtlety” - The one use of floral patterns there is one example of Restraint & Subtlety done well.
As for the floral elements on my design, I think they are more a way of setting the theme / mood of the site rather than being a focus point, they’re not really meant to be noticed. And while I agree with your view that (in a lot of cases) if you remove an element without any major difference then you might as well remove it all together, I do think though that if the style fits your design you can have a bit of decoration, especially if it’s kept subtle.
Pradeep CD said:
I agree with all the points…
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Martin Leblanc said:
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Just adding one more +1 to those praising the post
Great work writing this up Liam. Little details like this are what makes the difference and you’ve done a great job going through all of them with detailed examples. Looking forward to reading more!
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lily said:
It’s a great list of what’s going on now in web design. I’ve seen these elements used countless of times, it’s definitely an outline of what’s emerged in the web 2.0 design age. I find the elements boring and overused, but the point that details make the site really stands out to me regardless of whether/not I’m going to use or even like subtle gradients and 1.0px lines and (gulp/gag) drop shadow. I agree, though, these examples use both elements very nicely. Clients usually want what’s “now” so… Well written.
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Thanks so much! I really took the spacing thing to heart and increased the spacing at blulob.com before I even finished reading the article. But it did read it all, with pleasure. I also liked your comments on pixel-width details making a difference. I’m going to keep that in mind for future projects.
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Quality is a word that a lot of people like to use when describing their web design services. But what is quality, how do you know if a design is quality or not. Well, I think that there’s quite a few ways to spot quality within web designs. Once you can see just what goes into making a quality web design, you can use the techniques yourself.
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Jimmy Yeoh said:
Some perfectionists may not realize what niche expertise are best use for.
There are many CEOs in large corporations who do a damn good job in maximizing profits, but may not be that technical to run their business, so they rely on many competent managers to achieve the bigger vision. They are still instrumental in putting various skills together to deliver above the rest.
Here we have someone who’s working hard to attain competent design work, and we have some minority group of don’t-see-the-big-picture critics who simply fail to appreciate this niche area that Liam possesses.
C’mon people, give him a break. Do you expect a scientist who won a noble prize in some bio-tech fields to also have the ability to market it to a billion-dollar empire? People from diverse backgrounds thrive in their very own environments to achieve greater heights with other talents, lets try to be more objective here.
Good work Liam..
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even if the info is relevant .- it really becomes like a big pile of mess..
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Angela Hill | INCITRIO said:
Wonderful post. I would add to the Pixel Perfect section: alignment of graphical elements (not just typography to headers and logos), but also the critical importance of having a strategy for the space around, between and in relation to alignment of boxes or other elements.
Lack of attention to detail, even just one pixel off, can have disastrous consequences in terms of conversion and site stickiness…even worse if it’s so minimal that they can’t tell why they get such an uncomfortable feeling looking at your site!
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I’m all about eye movement in a website. If your design can carry someone from one point of interest to another then I believe you have accomplished web gold!
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I agree with all the open space. I think sites with a lot of white space and images/graphics spread out and clean font make for a much better site. We have started implementing these design practices in our designs and have noticed a difference in our clients reactions. Good stuff keep it coming i come here and read often.
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I’m sorry to be crude, but this article and your website make me want to take my pants off… straight off, like tear-away pants kind of “off”. It’s just that good.
I enjoyed your comments on spacing and pixel-perfect details. I’m really obsessive about details so I’m with you on the importance of subtlety and detail.
I’m quite peeved at the ridiculous attacks on your grammar and typos, as I feel they were definitely missing the point. If you’re going to argue about the quality of the copy in a way that is at all relevant to the points you’re making here, then you’d better be talking about the actual rendering of the letters and how that rendering interacts with the visual design. In my opinion, the meanings of the words mean very little when you’re in the design process (Lorem ipsum, anybody?). As long as the forms fit the design, the letters might as well be considered more shapes. Copy writing and design are different categories. Besides, I still knew what you were intending throughout your article. In the end I guess the writers say the copy is most important, the programmers say the code is the most important, and the designers say… well, all the right things.
I guess I only have one additional point (lucky you). Something that you brushed on repeatedly in your article but never quite said outright is that everything in design, art, and even music, is relative. A color is is only dark if the color next to it is lighter and vice-versa, the same goes for sizing and spacing. If you space everything out a lot, it still becomes blurry and indistinguishable. It’s the variations that grab people’s attention, and being able to get the viewer accustomed to a particular style just enough to surprise them when it changes is the real trick to making a strong, leading design.
If I haven’t made it clear enough already, I really love your article (and your site, too). Agree or disagree, this article provides great food for thought and an excellent guideline for novices and experts. Thanks for the tangents you sent me on with all the links to examples, those tangents were just as valuable as the article and I’m grateful that you provided that depth of stimulus. Cheers!
Patrick Carroll said:
A great post with some excellent points raised. I think its all about finding the compromise between design, copy and ensuring that the website is achieving the goals that you want it to.
The strapline of this site is ‘designing a website that works’ which is very similar to my philosophy. Design can’t trample on that, but I think that you have given some very good hints and tips which suggest ways of reaching the compromise.
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This is great. I especially like the subtle pixel popping techniques. I’ve been using them lately and they make a HUGE impact on the final feel of the site.
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