Their page loaded slowly for me and I'm on broadband. Too many sliced graphics slow down page load. Personally I prefer Jac's stuff she's shown this list when asking for site checks to Newark's site. Theirs looks a bit dated to me.
As far as how I start. I don't do "high design" sites. Most of mine are informational where the content is the most important thing and graphics tend to be of secondary or lower importance unless they are charts or production/product images. When I use graphics they are generally client supplied and relate to the subject of the site for instance image of MTBE molecule on a site for MTBE remediation, company activity photos, product photos that sort of thing. If I want or need something not directly related such as an office worker or whatever I will use Humera's Photo Clip Art. Cheryl D. Wise Certified Professional Web Developer MS-MVP-FrontPage www.wiserways.com mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 713.353.0139 Office -----Original Message----- From: jmwcruiser I would like to bring this conversation back to the basic design process. How do you begin the design process? Regardless of technically how the page is laid out, you have to start putting the pieces (images, navigation, copy, etc) on the page. I am trying to get away from choppy look I see so often ( in my own site and in others) and go with a more fluid design. The best resource I have found is: http://www.newark1.com/index.htm I really like their designs and the site has a number of articles on good web design. So I am trying to think more like *newark.* When working with a small budget site, images are often hard to come by. Most of my customers are not design-focused so it doesn't make any difference to them-- but I would like to make my sites more artistic/elegant/not sure of the right word--but I know it when I see it! I was just looking for a book or other resource that had samples of well-designed/artistic (but very functional) sites to give me lots of ideas that would spur my own creativity. ____ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
