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Webdesign: let your website communicate the right way
If you’re just starting out as a web designer, you might still think -erroneously- that creating a site is simply putting good graphics into code, uploading everything to a host, and voilà. Done. Nothing more, nothing less.
The truth is, creating a website is a combination of numerous, complicated steps, each one linked to the next, and behind everything there’s a careful analysis of even more factors. What’s your target? The message to communicate? The competition? The client’s needs? What are the current aesthetic trends? The best colors to choose? They style to use? And so forth, until you have a clear idea of the work to be done.
The basic concept is: the website, once it’s online and at the mercy of your clients, communicates. And therefore it’s essential to keep working until the messages – more or less subconscious – perceived by your visitors are clear, positive, effective.
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Plagiarism and web design: prevention and reaction
It’s a situation that many web designers may face during their carrier: finding out that someone, somewhere on the web has shamelessly copied your work, passing it off as their own, is without doubt a really unpleasant experience. And frustrating....
Trends: the new retrò web design and the “CSS3 style”
On the web the CSS3 and the HTML5 mania go crazy and this is nothing new. Web designers from around the world indulge themselves with animations –of doubtful utility but, we have to admit, certainly creative- they experiment shades and...
The tools for a remote life
In this article I want to discuss with you all, trying to create a list o f all those applications and tools that are essential for a remote life. For remote life I intend the passage of all the documents,...
How to present the draft to the client: tips and examples
Here, we go, we finally got it: inspiration finally paid off and the graphic draft of the site we’re working on is finally finished. A last revision at the details et voilà , it’s ready to be presented to the...
Web Design and copyright: when creating a website with our name is an utopia
Some time ago a YIW reader aroused our interest with a question, asked to us privately, concerning the copyright in web design. The doubts expressed on that occasion are the same that- as I had way to understand recently- many...
Adobe VS Apple: with the arrival of the Ipad the Flash player problem becomes serious
With the single presence of the Iphone, the "war" between Adobe and Apple regarding the Flash player was mostly political, and however directed at the sector of games/apps development. The current situation envisages the developing of an ad hoc version...
Work and Web: between incertainty and new opportunities
It’s almost two years that the “crisis” is blasting over the world: it hasn’t spared nobody neither our sector and generally the ICT one. Although studies affirm that this area is the only one in net recovery and can be...
Creative sites? Yes, but maybe unusable
It’s a hotly debated issue on several forums and blogs of the sector and that often divides the mass of web designers in two different and opposing factions: I’m talking about the aesthetic aspect of a site and on how...
September: the staff’s favourites
September was definitely a month full of initiatives, interesting resources and readings that we just couldn’t leave you in the dark. We’re beginning November in the best way with the usual roundup of materials that the YIW staff put in...
Obstacles of design: the client’s objections and perplexities
There are rumors that the worst client of a designer is oneself: self-criticism, a taste that changes frequently, routine, boredom, the craving for something new. A statement born from being aware of the fact that designing a layout/logo/business card to...
WordPress and non-conventional uses: the point of view of a web designer
Introduction: In this article I’ll treat an argument that crosses some programming activities that are far from my background; I’m not only talking about the knowledge of WordPress but also the implementation of small scripts (in my case asp) that...
Who still needs a web designer?
The title is strong and provocative, but in this article we’ll talk about how one of the web professions mostly misunderstood is evolving. A premise is required: I love WordPress and Drupal ( I prefer WordPress). The maturity of these...
Trends in web design: what kind of wedding would it be without a website?
The people of Your Inspiration Web are always ready and open for confrontations and for debates, today I want to take the advantage of this to share with you another opinion article. I’m curious to hear your opinion and know ...
Freelancer’s errors: a few tips to work better
To choose to work as a freelancer involves, obviously, a series of advantages and disadvantages with which each of us have to deal with. On one side, the long yearned professional freedom and the desire to self-manage one’s own professionalism,...
YIW gifts: Psd pack + A Complete Web Design eBook for free
Today we officially launch a new service offered by YIW: the newsletter. By signing up for our newsletter you will directly receive every month in your inbox: articles, notifications, utilities, funny anecdotes on the world of web design. Besides you...
The new look of YIW in the name of Order and Readability
If you thought that the YIW team was passing it’s time on the beach far away from the community, you have to change your mind now: in these last days we finally finished the graphic restyling of the blog and...
We’re going on holiday, see you on september!
Your Inspiration's team is very tired, after one years of hard work. So, we're going on holiday for the month of August and we came back (with many news and with a new logo & layout design!) on the first...
Be inspired or copy: what is the difference? Let’s find it out together
On our italian forums a few weeks ago, the user Giavara posted to the users of Your Inspiration Web an intriguing question: "do you think is correct "take inspiration" from the work you see around?" or: in short, you can really talk...
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In the portfolio only shows 10 thumbnails, and published 14 ... how do I... »
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