Grunge Effect Study

Out Web 2.0 style (style is all about glossy and shiny look) enter grungy styles!

For me grungy styles are more expressive and gives more theme feeling to a web design. Web technologies always evolve in a fast pace. For now...let's savor the current design trend as of this writing.

The Unplugged Book - New Development Metholody?

Things do not change, we do.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher

Being a web designer/developer it always comes to my mind what basically my prospective client's objective(s) besides creating a web presence of their store/business. Surely many are hopefuls to get their sites ranked at the top 10 list of Google search. But to my mind generally people visits your site(s) if they are USEFUL be whatever context it may seem but the first prerequisite is... the site should be nice and easy to navigate.

With this things in mind it always poses a challenge (for me) to create a nice looking site. In my case I want to design sites for my client with a touch of these...and a sprinkle of that. All taking place in my mind..putting it on paper prototypes, sketching on photoshop or any graphics editor that will capture the idea. Different layouts, colors, fonts, graphics..argh you name it.

Then you present it to your client and then boom! You're idea is now at the mercy of the final decision maker. Simplicity now gets complicated. Many clients don't want to be told they are wrong. And they can easily spot if you are messing with their heads of technical jargons that would confuse them otherwise.

Having read the first chapter of The Unplugged, the author accepts the reality of change is inevitable. And change affects many factors like cost and complexity. What novel to me is getting the right kind of change at the start of the endeavor. I guess it could be probing more details in the design brief, collaborating intently with the clients, or assessing the current skill set and resources and tools to meet the objectives...and yes as the author says...evaluating/changing your development process.

I can't wait no more to read the next few chapters.

Web Design: four-poster-beds.com

Visit site http://www.four-poster-beds.com

Design Info:

• Fixed-width CSS Layout
• XHMTL + CSS
• Flash Animation Intro
  
• Tested on Firefox, Google Chrome, IE 6/7, Safari
• Best viewed in 1024 x 768 screen resolution

Design Tools:
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Flash, Ajax, CSS Sprites, Firefox Firebug Addon, Firefox Web Developer Addon, Firefox YSlow Addon, Sony SoundForge

Flash converted to video

Thanks to Adobe Flash conversion facility, my flash animation is converted to AVI format and then with Sony Vegas Pro's ease of use I am able to convert the AVI format to a high definition video for youtube upload yey!

Web Design: periodfurniture-carved.co.uk

Visit site http://www.periodfurniture-carved.co.uk

Design Info:

• Fixed-width CSS Layout
• Flash Animation Intro
• XHMTL + CSS
• Tested on Firefox, Google Chrome, IE 6/7, Safari
• Best viewed in 1024 x 768 screen resolution

Design Tools:
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Flash, Ajax, CSS Sprites, Firefox Firebug Addon, Firefox Web Developer Addon, Firefox YSlow Addon, Sony SoundForge

Web Design: wallpanellingcorp.com

Visit site http://www.wallpanellingcorp.com

Design Info:

• Dynamic width CSS Layout
• Tested on Firefox, Google Chrome, IE 6/7, Safari
• Best viewed in 1024 x 768 screen resolution

Design Tools:
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Dreamweaver, Firefox Firebug Addon, Firefox Web Developer Addon