This weeks design critique is by Mike Jolley and is a re-design of our joint venture; Theme Slice. The angular, traditional, paged design a throw back to web 1.0, but with elegance and style. Smooth Scroll has been put to good effect to create a website that’s fun to navigate. Lets Discuss.
You’ve spent hours, days, perhaps even weeks slaving over a project. At long last your content is locked down. You breathe a sigh of relief as peace and harmony descend upon your person.
Could this be the happiest day of your life?
Wordpress 3.0 release will bring with it something I feel has been missing from the great publishing system – we will finally have a great navigation system. It looks to work similar to the widgets menu system and allow multiple menu control from one screen. The ability to add and order menu links by drag and drop and great control over the menu links themselves; you can add any existing page, a category of posts, a sub category of posts and external hyperlinks. Wordpress 3.0 is shaping up to be a great release.
Start your website marketing efforts by laying good foundations – a properly ordered HTML structure should have the main content at the top of the web page, followed by your secondary content like your sidebars.
This will give greater emphasis to the information most relevant to the web page. Google knows that the content at the top of a web page is more likely to represent the page as a whole and its a good idea to make Googles life easier.
It’s official, Shopify rocks! if you’ve used it you already know that, but now its official as the new Foo Fighters shop is built on Shopify, the shop is a typical Shopify design easy to use, minimal layout and a user friendly checkout system. Check it out.
James Bond – now that’s a guy with a great tailor. Unfortunately, we don’t all look as good in a tux as Britain’s number one secret agent. But in the same way Bond fits into his suit like bread in a toaster, web copy must be honed to fit the reader.
