A simple web design blog
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Images increase download time for end-users and workload for web designers, slowing down the time it takes to fully develop a concept for clients. Furthermore, images can add unneeded clutter and increase search-engine blindness, detracting from the principle of simple web design. You don’t need images to create a deep and beautiful web design. Instead, you can use CSS, typography, and optical effects to do many of the same things and instead only use images when they are clearly needed.
Currently, you can only use about 10 to 15 types of fonts on the web without having to create time-consuming and non-Google friendly images. In order to promote and further the idea of simple web design, it would be better to use plain text. Thankfully, you can use CSS3 web fonts along with other typography techniques to dress up the font on your website.
The semantic web consists of teaching computers to understand the meaning of web content. You should learn the advantages of writing on the semantic web when working on web development projects because search engines (and people) strongly rely and prefer code that makes sense intuitively instead of having to read pages of documentation and confusing inline comments.
Typography is an essential part of web design, and something I know that I could do a better job with. So, I figured I would start to assembly a mini-encyclopedia on some of the elements you can use to create contrast. One of the main complaints I always here is that text is boring, but it doesn’t have to be with the proper contrast. Here’s the how-to on sprucing text up and building an interesting, text-centric design.
