Great web design requires more than great aesthetics. After all, unless users can find your site, who will be able to admire its beauty?

When designing websites, you can use external CSS with semantic markup and update the look of an entire site at once. Unfortunately, email browsers haven’t advanced as much as web browsers. Most email programs require tables and font tags (which haven’t been recommended for web design in years) to make sure your email looks how [...]

Everyone’s talking about how bad the economy is. Nearly every type of business is cutting back. And forget about looking for a job! Several friends have already been laid off–and that’s likely just the beginning.
Veteran designer Michael Bierut offers advice on how to cope in Design Through the Recession. Much of his advice is common [...]

For years, people have been talking about “Web 2.0″ with its rounded corners, glossy buttons and gradients–designs that weren’t possible until browsers had better image support. What I’m calling “Web 3.0″ is less of a design aesthetic and more of new functionality.
Everyone wants a website; most organizations need a website. But they also need a [...]

Keeping in mind some of the constraints facing web designers, the CSS Zen Garden shows the importance of CSS in styling pages. Every design on the site has the same basic html structure. A separate CSS file completely changes the look of the content. The rules are simple: no changing the html but nearly anything [...]

I have an irrational hatred for Comic Sans. Luckily, I’m not the only one.
Comic Sans is misused more than nearly any other font. People (particularly non-designers) use it to make their message seem “friendly.” It just says childish to me. I wonder when I see a beer or cocktail menu set in Comic Sans if [...]

Graphic designers often feel that the visual appearance is of utmost importance. Writers may often feel the content is most important.