Posts Tagged ‘design’

Design first

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

I’m working on building an elaborate marketing and e-commerce system. I just don’t feel like anyone has done it right, so I’m taking a stab at it.
Here’s why I think the other software vendors have done such a poor job: lack of design in their process. I intend to make a system that’s pleasant and [...]

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Come up with your own color palette

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Now you can provide your graphic designer with your own color palette, using Adobe Labs’s Kuler. Kuler makes creating a color palette easier than you can imagine. Hell, you may even find yourself having fun with it!

Technorati Tags: adobe, color, design, flash, kuler, palette, tool

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Creating a logo

Monday, December 31st, 2007

I complained earlier that I had no branding on my blog, which is still true. But the big hold-up was in my getting off my ass and choosing a logo. Guess what… it’s finally done!

I spent a lot of time deciding on which of my doodlings to use for a logo. Let me explain how [...]

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Liquid vs. fixed-width layouts

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

As a website owner, you will eventually have to make an important decision about your site’s layout. Do you want for the layout to be liquid, so that it stretches to take up the entire width of the window? Or do you want for the layout to always be the same width, no matter how [...]

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