Web Design

GUI design for the World Wide Web

It does not matter much in most (functional-value-delivering) cases. There are plenty of successful Ugly Website-s out there. And just using BootStrap to achieve non-Ugly is almost always Good Enough.

see also CSS

• Steve Champeon on Progressive Enhancement and the Future of Web Design (2003!) - good for Mobile world?

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Enhancement

  • more recently: Responsive Web

• pop-up code http://www.alistapart.com/articles/popuplinks/

Need some references for decent-looking WebLog-s, to tweak the template for WikiLog usage. Need:

• focus on content, not shmutz

• design that looks good for long single-story pages, as well as listing page

• when looking at example, need to bump up font size to where I like it.

Examples from ~2005:

• http://www.zeldman.com/essentials/ (palette, fine lines)

• http://www.it.rit.edu/~ell/mamamusings/ (basic gray bg for section, may use for transcluded items on Front Page)

• http://www.playgroundblues.com/ recommended by Jeffrey Zeldman

• http://www.bryanbell.com/radioThemes/

• http://www.bryanbell.com/myThemes

• http://themes.weblogger.com/

• nice icons http://www.webiconsets.com/

• Sept'2010 Twitter Golden Ratio layout