As we all rush to complete after-Christmas sales and recover from the holidays, here’s a review of the web design posts I’ve done since early July 2011–taken together, this is the Winter 2011 edition of “Glassics”, or “Crooked Glasses Classics.” At a glance, you can see many of the older posts I’ve done; if you missed one, it’s linked here!
The reason I’m doing this is because I want to let people know about some of the older posts, as well as aggregate a lot of the content together for people to peruse more easily. (I’m also recovering from the holidays, but that’s another story. 😛 )
And don’t forget, if you’re interested in web design posts before July 2011, my first Glassics post covers those. 🙂
Graphically Speaking: Visual Web Design Posts
Since July, I’ve done articles on the importance of choosing the right color schemes, wondering where web animations got to, the web trend of using more visuals than text, and styling your links. I also compiled a list of my top 10 web design pet peeves, as much to remind myself not to offend my own style as anything. 😛
Other of my posts, covering the use of position: fixed and CSS shadows, have appeared here, as well, alongside a historical tutorial on 1×1 pixel transparent images, called “shims”. And as part of my “teaching by analogy” style of writing posts, I also did posts on dressing your page like you’re putting together an outfit and using music to inspire layout designs.
The “Backend”: Web Development
This time around, in terms of web development topics, I took time to discuss debugging your site, using RSS feeds, making sitemaps, and when to use WordPress Pages versus WordPress Posts. I also looked at how to organize one’s digital content on a larger website, and how to make web pages load faster.
Webmastering Tricks from the Trial-and-Error Brigade
Based on my own hard-won knowledge and interaction with the web design trade over the last several years, I came up with articles about why it’s the length, not number, of hits that really matter, link-hopping to find affiliates, and why it’s important to back up all your site files.
Other tricks I discussed: affiliating with other like sites to help get traffic to your site, and using web trends to help inform and inspire your own designs.
Creating Content to Make Your Site Worthwhile
For this Glassics review, I wrote about researching your articles and blog posts to make them worth reading, why a multi-topic blog can work, and how to write an informative and professional “About Me” page.
Read and Enjoy!
I hope you’ll take time to look through these older articles and enjoy them–maybe even gain a bit of knowledge about web design on the way, too. I’d be glad to hear from you about how these articles have helped, or if you have a suggestion to make these posts even better.