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Ever Wonder Why Looks Are So Important?

If you have ever wondered why looks are so important, look no further! In this post I will go over three of the main ways to improve the credibility of your site.

Have an About Page

Having an about page is useful because, it can tell visitors to your site about your company, and you personally. It allows for the visitor to feel safer, as they know more about you and your company’s intentions.

Update your content regularly or hide dates

If you update your content regularly, more people will visit more frequently, especially if it is quality content. If you update regularly, visitors will see that you care about your content, and therefore probably them.

Watch spelling, grammar, and typos no matter how insignificant they may seem

Even if it is something as insignificant as spelling insignificant as insingificant, or even There vs. Their. This can make you seem like you don’t worry about small things, which could end up being big things in the end.

I got my information from Prove It: What Makes You Trust a Website? – Lorelle VanFossen.

I recommend you check out this article for more information on how to make your website look and feel more trustworthy.

5 Things about creating a predictable and harmonious spacing system

Predictable and Harmonious spacing is useful because it not only makes everything look better, but it also is used to deliberately for improved readability and consistency in product.

2 practical steps to create a predictable and harmonious spacing system.

  1. Baseline grid – Determine line-height of your body text and know your baseline grid number.
  2. Geometric progression – Pick a limited number of values from the geometric progression of your baseline grid number’s factors and multiples.

Rule of 3Cs

  1. Rule for containers – Apply uniform inset spacing inside all containers in your UI.
  2. Rule for content – Content is stacked vertically. Tackle the header stack first, by trying to get to a margin value that works consistently across all headers.  Solve the leaf -node stack next, by addressing spacing needs for paragraphs, lists, form, tables.
  3. Rule for components – Apply uniform inline spacing for all adjacent components in your UI. Make exception with smaller spacing only for components that are associated together.

When positioning elements vertically, the designer has to make decisions that never should be left to chance or be random. Too often, designers rely on vertical increments made possible in Photoshop by holding shift and arrows keys: “I use 5 or 10px, it depends.” This approach is acceptable horizontally, as columns are multiples of 10, but it doesn’t conform to any typographic reality.

— Robert Bringhurst (Author of “The Elements of Typographic Style”)

 

All of the information I gathered here, has come from Priyanka Godbole and prototypr.io

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Meaningful CSS: Style Like You Mean It (Discussion 10/02 – 10/04)

Meaningful CSS

Jeffrey Zeldman said “In a site afflicted by classitis, every blessed tag breaks out in its own swollen, blotchy class. Classitis is the measles of markup, obscuring meaning as it adds needless weight to every page.”

Semantic Coding

Semantic Coding is defined as “a specific type of encoding in which the meaning of something (a word, phrase, picture, event, whatever) is encoded as opposed to the sound or vision of it. Research suggests that we have better memory for things we associate meaning to and store using semantic encoding.“

ARIA

ARIA is a technical specification published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that specifies how to increase the accessibility of web pages, in particular, dynamic content and user interface components developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript and related technologies. On 20 March 2014 WAI-ARIA 1.0 became a completed W3C Recommendation. The Author mentions it because it, along with other additional platforms, are included in the new age of coding.

Microformats

Microformats are HTML for marking up people, organizations, events,locations, blog posts, products, reviews, resumes, recipes etc. Sites use microformats to publish a standard API that is consumed and used by search engines, browsers, and other web sites. See what-are-microformats for more.

While looking around on the site this article was originally published, I found a good article about Graphic Design. If you are like me, then you are talented in some fields of web design, but you struggle in the graphic designing department. This article helps you understand what to do and how you can make it easier on you and a designer to work together.

Just remember, if you are bogged down with too much stress, take a break, relax, and keep an open mind.

Never Heard of It (Discussion 9/11 – 9/13)

Lyza Danger Gardner, the Author, points out that it is alright to admit you don’t know something, to seek help if you need it, and even though it may take some time, you can do what you want with enough practice/learning.

My viewpoints on this

I believe that I need to admit not knowing certain things. Many times I have been in situations where people expect me to know something, so I accidently lie about it. I am also a strong supporter of getting help. If you don’t no something, ask around. If need be, use Google or another Search Engine, and find out what you are looking for. Plus if you don’t practice or learn from your mistakes, what good are you doing yourself?

While surfing the web, I found a website that is specifically made to help make websites. This website is very useful, because it has courses on how to build a website, plus many videos about things like games from a coders perspective. I feel that if a person is having difficulties and cannot find help from a person, this a good website to use as a backup.