Learning from bad designs.

After this course we may know how to make a good web design.
But you may know the worst designs now. Know it than avoids it.

Here is a cool collection of worst web designs.
http://www.jimwestergren.com/worst-web-design-ever/

For the above link I found some basic bad design techniques. There some commonly techniques.
Blinking image is everywhere or using blinking background.
Links is everywhere but too many and only link.
All text and link are in same style.

Useful tool for web developer

As long as designing a web page, you may encounter the problem that wasting too much time on evaluating the layouts, colors, cookies, CSS, JavaScript, etc. Hence, an add-on for Firefox called “Web Developer” is recommended for both web designers as well as web developers to save time of trying and evaluating. You can try, modify and preview styles on the browser dynamically. Also, it contains some useful function and amazing function, that let you see the changes of the web page.

This web site introduced some functions of Web developer.
http://searchengineland.com/080417-111400.php

10 Things You May Not Know About the Web Developer Toolbar
http://www.smileycat.com/miaow/archives/000692.php

download & install to Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/zh-TW/firefox/addon/60
Official website: http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/

An interesting website...

Last few months, I went to The Museum. And it introduce an interesting website that built by an artist. Why did I say it is interesting? Because I don’t think that anyone has searched any context of the website before. This website is almost completely built by Flash. You can see that the content of the HTML is only a “swf” file. Can anyone tell me is it a good design? Even though the layout is clearly, the color is attractive, the content is rich. But the traffic rank is still not very high (ref:http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/db-db.com).

I don’t know the purpose of the website founder. Maybe he wants the web unsearchable and makes it private. But nowadays, It is maybe may be not beneficial.

Here’s the website you can try, http://www.db-db.com.

If you guys found something new or interesting please share with me and leave me a message.