Website Design Blog. Evoart

Designing a website. Anyone could do that right? Wrong. Creating a decent website concept takes a lot of time, thought and effort. It isn’t just a case of choosing a complementary colour palette, opening up Photoshop and slapping in a logo along with a few boxes for content. Theres much more too it than that. In this concise article Ive put together a list of 10 essential things to consider when your designing. (more…)

Until last week user testing was something completely new to me. Of course I knew what it was, but I had never been involved in the process, or had any idea how it worked. I guess it leads on from last weeks article about accessible text. You have to remember that a website isn’t for us the designers, its for the end user. So with that in mind its a good idea to let people test your site and give you feedback, which as I realised can be very valuable indeed. (more…)

I get the feeling that the average person’s appreciation of accessibility as an ideal to design by is at about the level that mine was when I first started designing for the web. No more than a fraction of my audience could have disabilities, right? So, why should I waste my creative zeal to appeal to a marginal minority? To answer this question reasonably, a designer must realize the purpose of what they are doing… (more…)