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 | I had a revelation this weekend. Web pages are ugly. You are probably thinking "where has she been and what rock does she browse from beneath?" but seriously, I thought that there would be a lot more focus on design principles and aesthetically pleasing Web pages on the Internet in general. But when I took a look at 10 completely random pages, I only found 2 that were even okay, the rest were, in a word, ugly. | |
Why Are Web Pages So Ugly?
Is it because most Web designers are not trained in actual design principles? Or is it because we spend so much time on SEO that we forget about aesthetics? Or maybe it's that advertisers have learned too well from direct mail campaigns that the uglier and more annoying the ads are the more successful they'll be? Or is it just that I didn't find the pretty pages? In this article, I looked at 10 completely random Web pages to see if I could find a nice looking one at random on the Internet. The results are not pretty, in fact, they're downright ugly.
| Legal Pages Can Protect Your Business
Legal pages on websites are things like privacy policies, copyright notices and T&C documents. In most countries they are not required, but it is a good idea to include a couple of them, especially if your site accepts user submitted content like blog comments, forums, or chats.
| What Makes a Good Form Page?
Voting has been slow in this category for the Reader's Choice Awards 2010. Which I find too bad. Is it because forms are hard to do well online? Or is it that people don't expect Web forms to look nice?
| Poll: With the coming of the iPad, are you going to focus mo
There is a lot of hoopla going around the announcement of the Apple iPad. I am wondering how the iPad will affect my work as a designer. If you had asked me last December what I thought was going to change in 2010, I would have said that Flash was going to get a lot bigger as more sites started using it for games and features. But then the iPad came out and Apple is beginning to make it fairly clear that Adobe Flash is not going to be present on their devices.
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