Forum: Design

Now that's subtle. The FedEx logo has a hidden arrow in it. I wonder if, subliminally, it's made them money?

It has just been drawn to my attention that another website out there looks a little like one of my own. Take a look at my CADTutor website and then...

Another of my pet hates is poor spelling, grammar and style. A well-designed site can lose all its credibility if the actual text is littered with...

Surely if you need to tell people where to click, you've already failed the first test. www.ntfs.ac.uk/ What on Earth were they thinking?

Typography is one of those areas of design that people either don't care/know about at all or are completely evangelistic about. To be honest, once...

As I never tire of telling you :P , I'm currently engaged in the mammoth task of completely updating the CADTutor website. Before I start reworking...

Pretty good MSDN article on designing icons, something that I'd love to be good at, but don't have the patience!

Sorry if this has been asked before, but how do u change the icon of a website. For example the websitearchitecture site has a little 'W' icon...

Is it just my imagination or is there a growing tendancy among the CSS geek fraternity to use a text background colour change on a:hover rather than...

Microsoft have redesigned their home page. Apparently the code is much better (I haven't looked yet), but what of the design? Personally, I think...

I'm seeing this more in books and on websites (read the comments) - even the (dreaded?) Neilsen seems to be against the form reset button. Initially...

Interesting article on the ODEON's website and some accessibility issues it has. As sites go, unless it's changed in the last few months, it is...

They say that you can't teach an old dog new tricks and just recently I'm beginning to appreciate the veracity of that particular saying. Now, I'm...

I had another of those warm moments from the web today. I received this email: Hi David I'm a Multimedia/Web Developer and am also very much...

I came across this superb colour generator while doing some background work on Mambo. It's designed to build Mambo templates but you can just use it...

Interesting article from boxes and arrows on selecting colour schemes from nature. Could come in useful, and also take some of the pain out of...

This month's PCPro just dropped through my letterbox and there is an excellent feature on Website design, mainly talking about aesthetics. The...

Hi A friend has asked me to build him a website for his small internal communications business. He hopes the site will be found by search...

Essential reading on this week's ALA: Web accessibility and UK law: telling it like it is. Don't forget to read the article discussion section as...

First one to mention "I am smashed out of my face at Christmas party, hear me ROAR" gets a talking to... This is a good article (I think) on...