Comments on: 6 Ways To Take Your Webdesign From Good To Great

By: Damian Smith

Damian Smith — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:05:35 +0000

I agree with everything on here. Its all well and good knowing everything you can do in photoshop such as shadows, gradients, textures and all the rest, but throwing them all into one design just because you want to use them can destroy any design.

They can all be used together quite successfully as OnWired have shown in their really well presented website. All these things usually work best when they don’t stand out, and just site nicely in the background whilst your eyes are drawn to the text… Which is why typography is key.

I never use more than 3 fonts per design, and they are usually helvetica, Georgia, sans serif and Gill sans. I use others but usually as graphics as a lot of them are not web safe unfortunately! :[

Some really nice examples here anyway. Always good to see inspiration whilst sat at work thinking about my next design!

By: Rotary Laser Level Expert Rich

Rotary Laser Level Expert Rich — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:16:58 +0000

Great post Andrew.
It’s this sort of attention to detail that sorts the great from the OK in terms of design.

Knowing this sort of info will at least move me a bit further up the ladder – but still a long way to go :)

By: Abhishek Kumar

Abhishek Kumar — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:29:54 +0000

This is a nice post…spaecially adding white space to website..

By: sriganesh

sriganesh — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:15:01 +0000

thanks for the tip and really useful tips

By: Andreas

Andreas — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:06:27 +0000

Thanks for the awesomeness, certainly gonna use this in my next design!

By: Faisal Shahzad

Faisal Shahzad — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:06:51 +0000

Nice post.. :)
keep it up dude..

By: web design suffolk

web design suffolk — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:31:22 +0000

Great tips to add that wow factor!

By: Marcus

Marcus — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:18:18 +0000

Good work and very useful tips for the techie (who haven’t practiced those creative design skills yet)!

By: Laurent Jouvin

Laurent Jouvin — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:00:50 +0000

White space… YES! Use more white space!
I am so tired of seeing those busy sites with too much information, all jam packed in a small area of the page. Surf the internet and get a pounding headache guarantied. Visual space is an important aspect of web design and it needs to be seriously considered in the overall layout of a page.

By: Market Harborough Magazine

Market Harborough Magazine — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:08:40 +0000

Thanks for the brilliant post