Comments on: 5 vital design tips for your website or blog

By: David Airey

David Airey — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:00:10 +0000

Andre, as long as the image relates to the post content in some way, and is good to look at, it’s hard to go wrong. Like Craig says, don’t stress about it too much.

By: Craig Edmonds

Craig Edmonds — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:36:19 +0000

Andre, I often think about the issue of making web sites “more lively”, then I think of google.com’ design and dont stress too much about it.

By: Andre

Andre — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:16:03 +0000

I am having trouble finding the right generic images for me website, apart from the images in my graphic design portfolio. I am having a hard time deciding from lakes, to city to fruits… Any tips in deciding to make the website more lively?

By: Troy

Troy — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:28:47 +0000

Valid points… Also, if you use images for in-post headings, give them good alt tags ;-)

By: Dwayne Charrington

Dwayne Charrington — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:05:44 +0000

Simple is definitely better. The less cluttered the better and nice semantic XHTML is also a must.

Standards compliant XHTML & CSS is what the web should be, but it’s a shame it’s not.

- Dwayne Charrington.

By: David Airey

David Airey — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:32:51 +0000

Hi Steven,

I do a little web design, but not much. I prefer to create brand identities / logos etc.

Send me an email with what you had in mind and I can let you know, or refer you to a pro.

Cheers.

By: Steven

Steven — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:17:42 +0000

Do you actually do HTML/webdesign? I'm looking to get a business website re-done and am looking for good designers for quotes. Steven's last blog post..Official - Dundee is pure dead clever

By: David Airey

David Airey — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 20:26:07 +0000

Thanks Jermayn, Pinyo, Graham,

I fully agree about the importance of white space. It’s under-estimated by clients far too often, and should be a compulsory tutorial.

By: Graham Davies

Graham Davies — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:10:08 +0000

Great tips again David,
to add my two penneth ( 2 cents)::

WHITE SPACE IS VERY IMPORTANT

I know clients hate it but you can use space to isolate, highlight and balance the look and feel of a design,

but here I am preaching to the converted again!

By: Web Designer in Spain

Web Designer in Spain — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:58:09 +0000

I would say that there are 10,000 important tips, but these 5 sum them up nicely!

I myself am responsible for web sites that have small text and am rethinking now.