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Web design critique #9: Wallpapa | Design Shack
Every week Design Shack takes a look at a new website and analyzes the design. They point out both the areas that are done well as well as those that could use some work. This week’s site is Wallpapa, a site offering free desktop wallpaper downloads.
website archives design: good practices and examples | Smashing Magazine
The archive is one of those often-overlooked parts of a website that doesn’t get the attention it deserves. Too often it’s thrown on a page that’s no different from any other page on the website, or it’s ignored altogether. The archive offers a lot of room for creativity, though…
Website Archives Design: Good Practices and Examples
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10 great tips for improving your web typography | Spyre Studios
Once a specialist occupation, the digital age has opened typography to computer users and web designers. When creating pages and laying out text with other content there are several guiding principles that designers should bear in mind. Typography is a huge field of study, but this post brings together a handful of hints to help web designers improve their pages.
10 great tips for improving your web typography
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principles of minimalist web design, with examples | Smashing Magazine
Minimalism is achieved by reducing a design to only the most essential elements. Expressions of minimalism span multiple disciplines, as well as other art forms such as music and literature. For website designers, though, minimalism can be intimidating and difficult to master.
principles of minimalist web design, with examples
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Shopping Carts Gallery: Examples and Good Practices
If you think a simple link for your shopping cart is enough. wrong!
Have a read through this great article of Smashing Magazine:
How to Write Great Copy for the Web
In How to Write Great Copy for the Web, author Donna Spencer will help you start writing content for the web that works! Learn about how writing web copy differs from other forms of writing, and how writing useful, functional and concise copy can both help persuade your readers, and also help with search engine optimization!
Whether it’s for your own site, or for somebody else, How to Write Great Copy for the Web will quickly bring you up to speed with some clever strategies that will make you popular with your site’s visitors, or with your clients!
PDF eBook only $15, paperback only $19
15 Great Design Tips for E-Commerce Websites
The brothers over at Smashing Magazine have made a great list of the most common mistakes in E-Commerce website design and how to fix them. A must read for your next E-Commerce project.
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