Beautifully crafted & user focused web design by lee munroe

Every so often I will receive an email that asks the following:

How can I learn how to build websites?

There are two approaches you can take to learning how to build websites.

1. Learn how to build websites
2. Learn how to build websites the right way, aka the Web Standardistas’ way

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I’ve always found it interesting reading the design process of others (David Airey, Contrast, Brian Hoff). It’s good to have an insight into others work, to see if I can learn anything from their process but also for curiosity. So I’ve put together a break down of my design process, using a recent project as a real life example, Newsgroup Direct.

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Guest post written by Mary Ward

Keeping an eye out for your career’s future is important for everyone.
However, for web designers, looking forward may be even more important than for many other professions. Many web designers are freelancers, or work for more than one company at a given time. Jobs can be short or long term contracts, so looking for the next job is often not too far out into your future.

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This is a creative trend catching on. It’s very simple to do but adds an extra element of character and uniqueness to a design.

Take a look at how to implement this ‘out of the box’ technique and a list of creative websites that are using it.

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I’ve seen a lot of designs lately experimenting with large type, and with the right choice of font, contrast and whitespace they look great.

Check out this inspirational list of typographic based designs that I’ve put together.

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Arguably this trend was made popular after the release of Apple Leopard OSX and it’s groovy auroral/starry branding. Adding this simple effect to your background or header can make a very plain dark web design come to life.

Check out this list of 20 websites using these effects plus a few helpful tutorials.

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