Adam Posted August 1, 2003 Posted August 1, 2003 I love looking through this forum at all the great sites that people put together. I wonder if anyone would like to contribute their top tips for site design or functionality from a user perspective. It might make an interesting thread, and depending on the quality of posts could be a useful resource. As a minor consideration I can't stand negativity, personally I like to focus on positive contributions we can all do without negativity, sarcasm and rudeness. /* Intellectual property: are you for or against the human race? */ if ( you want exclusive ownership of an idea ) { keep your idea to yourself; // you greedy bastard }
Adam Posted August 1, 2003 Author Posted August 1, 2003 I'll start the ball rolling with a favourite of mine. I always make the product background colour white. The majority of images and artwork from suppliers and manufacturers tends to show the product against a white back drop. If your background is white then the display looks professional. If your background is cream, or pastel green, then it looks pretty until you see a product shot with the white backround and then it looks downright amateurish. That's not to say that good use of colour can't be made throughout the site, just not the backrounds for the products. Keep it simple, keep it white! /* Intellectual property: are you for or against the human race? */ if ( you want exclusive ownership of an idea ) { keep your idea to yourself; // you greedy bastard }
Guest Posted August 1, 2003 Posted August 1, 2003 [Moved] to more proper General chit chat Regards The_Bear
Hunkah Posted August 2, 2003 Posted August 2, 2003 Make sure text doesn't clash with your background. Make sure your background doesn't clash with anything!
Adam Posted August 2, 2003 Author Posted August 2, 2003 I appreciate the reasons for moving the post, it's a shame though as the idea was to help all the store owners who post asking design related questions. Does anyone say anything sensible in chit chat? /* Intellectual property: are you for or against the human race? */ if ( you want exclusive ownership of an idea ) { keep your idea to yourself; // you greedy bastard }
xxGeek Posted August 3, 2003 Posted August 3, 2003 well i would say My Store is the place to post, but than again how would i know. On second thought i would like to share my knowlage, but i don't know how, so if you have tips for me please let me know, i'm not a tech writer but a person that has many ideas that work for me, and i'm willing to share but can't spend the time to write manuals about it. BTW take a look at those. www.mdwdirect.com http://warren.kandgdesign.com http://deeann.kandgdesign.com http://demo.kandgdesign.com This is the kind of stuff i madeup learning this php mysql stuff i've never had anything to do with this before, just graphics, no html or anything. if i can do it so could anyone else, i would love to share, but than again i don't know how. any thoughts are welcomed. :wink: The more you do, the more you learn
Adam Posted August 3, 2003 Author Posted August 3, 2003 I did originally post in My Store. Anyway nice sites Greg. As for posting post away, the idea was for people to post a favourite design or layout tip. /* Intellectual property: are you for or against the human race? */ if ( you want exclusive ownership of an idea ) { keep your idea to yourself; // you greedy bastard }
Guest Posted August 7, 2003 Posted August 7, 2003 well i would say My Store is the place to post, but than again how would i know. On second thought i would like to share my knowlage, but i don't know how, so if you have tips for me please let me know, i'm not a tech writer but a person that has many ideas that work for me, and i'm willing to share but can't spend the time to write manuals about it. BTW take a look at those. www.mdwdirect.com http://warren.kandgdesign.com http://deeann.kandgdesign.com http://demo.kandgdesign.com This is the kind of stuff i madeup learning this php mysql stuff i've never had anything to do with this before, just graphics, no html or anything. if i can do it so could anyone else, i would love to share, but than again i don't know how. any thoughts are welcomed. :wink: http://warren.kandgdesign.com/default.php - are you allowed to use that icon in the logo? don't think so man.
Guest Posted August 14, 2003 Posted August 14, 2003 Keep it simple overall. Lots of pretty graphics may look nice at first, but will wear down on the user very fast. Keep it simple and fast. Sometimes simple looks best anyway.
Farrukh Posted August 14, 2003 Posted August 14, 2003 Keep it simple overall. Lots of pretty graphics may look nice at first, but will wear down on the user very fast. Keep it simple and fast. Sometimes simple looks best anyway. i agree with knobby. Simple is the best
azer Posted August 18, 2003 Posted August 18, 2003 xxGeek ur shop is very attractive .. is there a chance that u make a little tutorial ... if u dont have the patience ... and u wanna send me the files required i ca, write one 8) MS2
burt Posted August 19, 2003 Posted August 19, 2003 Get rid of all the extraneous clutter (like most of the infoboxes). The only one you should use (in my opinion!!) is: categories + maybe the search box (if it won't fit in your design elsewhere) The rest just clutter the pages, and can easily be broken down into code and added elsewhere.
New 
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.