A Designer's Hint

By Author: Kristine Llabres
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Designing is as easy as following a rhythm of a, b, c. It is simple but of course like any other tasks persistence, hard work and interest are required to attain a goal of good quality work.

Designing is just like a cocktail of creative skills and technical prowess that many people just got hooked with it. Mere love for it may start as a hobby and avenue to boost out interest but later on you will just see that it can be a very good income generating skill that you will just love it even more.

Listed below are helpful tips that can go as a rule of thumb or may be taken with a pinch of salt but generally obliging.

Picture says it all. Many users would download pictures from time to time to be used badly or just leisurely. But as many people would use dial-up connection they find it hard to download images and illustrations that would enhance the things that they need. To speed up uploading photos just have its size in 30k, and do not forget to add an Alternate Text for each image that you use for navigation. Though modern browsers offer users a choice to turn off images this gives an idea of how troublesome ...
... the unwanted images could be.

Have you heard of Mystery Meat Navigation? That means that unless your mouse moves over an image you have no idea where that link might take you. Another important thing to be given attention with is that whenever your whole page is within a Table, you must split it up and let the one below while the other one is responsible for the display of the page and the link.

Avoid using browser-specific functions because if a certain feature is supported by one browser, it will not be supported by the other one. Where you must such these features, it should not hamper the display of the page in the other browser which does not support its functions.

Keep in mind that in creating a new browser window it should be open in the same window by default. However there can be more links that is very convenient to be opened and browsed.

Come on, think of it. Write for all browsers, all resolutions and all color-depths. If you would show people the recommended pages that look like with their own browser and their own resolution that makes them comfortable and with a better response. Copyright © 2005 Kristine Llabres

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