I have ever since I read Murphy’s laws on programming wondered if there are something similar for web design. I made some of my own and it is my hope that you will find these laws funny.
It's a tug-of-war as old as web design. Designers need to control text size and the vertical grid; readers need to be able to resize text. A better best practice for sizing type and controlling line-height is needed; and in this article, Richard Rut
There are few things that make me really angry. Almost nothing. There are however a lot of things that causes me disappointment, irritation and an urge to send people furious emails. I am tired of websites not tested with the most common browsers.
There wasn’t, there isn’t and there will not be a perfect website design, ever! On the hand, reaching an almost perfect website design is certainly possible. In order to reach a good design, you might want to avoid some “obstacles� on the way.
Here's a cool website navigation bar for free, but with a nice sliding selector, giving a "flash" effect to your selection. All done CSS and easy to update!
There is nothing like arriving at a hard core 404 error page. The beauty of the default Apache non-existent page error is just amazing. However, people could find that one frightening so let's learn how to do a friendlier 404.
To illustrate your strengths and maximise your chances of getting through to interview and to put factual information, such as dates, places, names together in a presentable and readable form.