demonhale — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 01:06:33 +0000

Yeah a good one too, the other one was about that good web sites sucks or something...

Megan — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:40:03 +0000

I do that with the CSS zen garden. I'll just make a list of URLs I like for that project and note what might work for me - could be just the way they did the headings, or the navigation or some little detail like that.

Cameron Moll had a good article once about how good designers don't just borrow - they steal. I think this is part of what design is about. Just borrowing little pieces from other designs (doesn't even have to be web designs either), and combining them into your own creation. No need to reinvent the wheel every time.

Here's that article:
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/copy-great-designers-steal
(the second-best thing Sitepoint has ever published )

timjpriebe — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:21:34 +0000

If I'm experiencing designer's block, I'll go to a site like http://www.coolhomepages.com/ or http://www.templatemonster.com/ and write down different aspects of designs there that I'd like to incorporate in my design.

I try to not draw anything or bookmark any of the sites, so that I don't end up copying them.

Megan — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 16:37:51 +0000

popinsiteads wrote: you all look for the easy options. Code it yourself! Its better because you get to know how the language works

That's another good tip, especially for beginners! I find, though, that now that I know the mark-up intimately, coding everything by hand isn't the best use of my time. I prefer to spend my coding time working on complex CSS and things like that. Dreamweaver can do the simple things just as well as I can.

Does anyone else have any good design tips? I could probably come up with a slew of them if I had a chance to think about it All in due time

The Webmistress — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 15:59:46 +0000

LOL - it was you that kicked off the Frontpage debate as you said

Quote: Design your site on paper, and then design it on the computer using Image software, frontpage etc

popinsiteads — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 08:49:08 +0000

you all look for the easy options. Code it yourself! Its better because you get to know how the language works

The Webmistress — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 07:58:32 +0000

Any WYSIWYG editor is ok as long as you can hand code in order to clean the coding up at the end!

demonhale — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 03:25:05 +0000

Yeah and it comes with the best Office Suite too! LOL!

Busy — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 22:38:09 +0000

and html, css, javascript ... other than that, yeah frontpage is great

popinsiteads — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 16:06:34 +0000

frontpage is not that bad! except for the support for PHP etc)