Reading This links you to Better Design

If you are a begining web designer looking for tips on web design or you are interested in new perspectives on how web design is most effective, you may be interested in Jeffrey Veen's well researched perspective detailed here:

The Foundations of Web Design

Jeffrey Veen is a founder of a consultant group named Active Path. They research the web from the perspective of the user. Their information is detailed in different mediums including a printed version Hotwired Style: Principals for Building Smart Web Sites, as well as on the web.

The link above will take you to an easy-to-read page giving you, the user, clear concise information absorb while deciding how to present your information on the web. He touches on topics like:

Approaches. There are two major approaches that designers fall under when designing for the web. Structuralists, who are concerned with content, and Presentationalists, who are concerened with the way the page looks.

This brings about a battle among which is more important. Do we, as web designers, want to focus on getting graphics to the standards of other media graphics or do we want to focus on evolving the use of CSS, dynamic HTML, embedded fonts and XML?

A common mistake of many designers is to over do design. I mean we want it to look pretty don't we. Jeffrey Veen gives us tips on how to make our sites appealing as well as how to not over design. He points out:

Know how to use degradable web pages. These are pages that look good in any browser on any computer.

Do not forget that words, pictures and codes are inseperable. You can not fail on one aspect and succeed with the others.

If you like the snippets that I have given you here, click the link. He clearly communicates to me. Let him clearly communicate to you, too.

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