Due to the fact that people often ask me for advice "on how to improve site design," I wrote 10 rules to follow which even not a designer can make his site more pleasant to visit.
1. In theory, the site does not need a logo. But we live in a world of conventions, the logo is cool and in the design hannover it should exist. Naturally, that even web-designer does not draw a good logo for fun (it's a completely different specificity), so here is the rule: if nobody can draw a good logo - write (and compose) a logo in a plain text.
2. Don’t sidebar the headlines. Not only that the tags (labels) are not a complete navigation tool, in addition to all you entitled the block. Even in the worst nightmare you cannot imagine a site where the "Menu" block will be entitled: "Site Menu".
3. Underline all the links, all of them, always, everywhere, no exception. Rare exceptions are allowed only if you have 100 working sites with the underlined link before. And yes, the links in the design hannover should always be underlined. It's a strange fashion to remove underline from links when pointing. It contradicts the logic: if the text – is a reference, then we make it different from the rest of the text, but when you point, it ceases to be a reference?
4. You better forget about Justify in Web. If you have to learn a paper layout for five years from the masters to be able to use it and spend 2 minutes on each line, then to do it in Web is prohibited at all.
6. The entire text should be Arial 14 (it’s a Photoshop metric), and do spacing ~ 1.4 points.
7. To pick up the colors in design hannover is surprisingly easy. To make the menu of some of your "brand" color, specify any color. The main thing, it should be contrasting enough and be not too bright or flashy. Needs to be done in black (and white background, of course), and references should be blue (# 369 / # 069) – it is familiar to people and stands out the link.
8. If you have any input or text area on your site, do not apply styles to them. Leave them by default, then on different systems, they will look natural for the user, and not as "the designer thought it would be nice"
9. Speak the truth and follow the literate language: Who needs a main menu heading "Articles Tagged with" HTML "». Write simple and very essence: «HTML». Yes, this is design also (in fact, this – is design).
10. If there is a calculation of some quantity (number of comments, for example), then do not specify what is not: if there is no comment for now, there is no need to write "no comment", it will be better, not to write anything at all.
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And yes, the links in the design hannover should always be underlined.
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