web design

Web color, space, shape, and type. Concept and reality, organic or not.

Please enjoy the following articles on visual design for the web.

True Colors.
Web Techniques Magazine—May, 2001

Are you practicing safe color? Do you care? While the challenge of interoperable color has been somewhat ameliorated by the spread of better color-management systems, achieving consistent color across computers, platforms, and browsers is still very difficult, if not downright impossible. Go >>

Scalable Vector Graphics.
Web Techniques Magazine—April, 2001

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a perfect example of technology and design meeting on a level playing field. Via XML markup, you can create and implement graphic images, animations, and interactive graphic designs for Web viewing. Go >>

Type Fundamentals for Nondesigners.
Web Techniques Magazine—January, 2001

Fully understanding typography requires careful study of terminology and techniques. Go >>

Design Nightmares.
C|NET / Builder.com—October, 2000

Halloween spoof of a Web designer's nightmare. Go >>

Roll Over with LiveMotion.
Macworld—October, 2000

How to Create rollovers using Adobe LiveMotion. Go >>

Color My World.
Web Techniques Magazine—September, 2000

The way color is used in a worldwide context is a profound issue that's often misunderstood or overlooked by Web designers. How it's used on the screen is made more challenging by the fact that the perception of color depends not only upon our ability to see that color, but also on our ability to interpret it within the context of our emotional and cultural realities. Go >>

Give Me My Web Space.
Web Techniques Magazine—August, 2000

If you have a tiny room with no windows, how do you make it look bigger? One thing you can do is paint it white, or another light color. You can also remove all the stuff and furnish it sparsely, simply. Here's how to give your Web pages some space. Go >>

Automotion.
Adobe Magazine—May / June, 2000

How to create a library of Web animation using Adobe LiveMotion. Go >>

In Search of the Elusive Interface.
Web Techniques Magazine—February, 2000

There simply is no good excuse for bad visual design. Go >>

Satisfying Customers With Color, Shape, and Type.
Web Techniques Magazine—November, 1999

Here's how to match the demographics and content of your Web site to specifically chosen colors, shapes, and type styles. Go >>

Hands on Help with Molly: Mastering Digital Images.
ThirdAge—June, 1999

Learn to work with Web graphics. Go >>