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Posted by Miles Evans

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Over the last month or so I have been busy redesigning some of my best earners (not this website) over to slick new web 2.0 interfaces. I suspected that making some simple graphical changes might actually increase conversions and so far this is very much the case. I found that by making some small but trendy design changes improved visitor confidence enough to really effect my earnings. I am not talking about functionality here at all but merely design and layout - there are a million articles online for working with AJAX.

Having said that it was a real bitch finding tutorials and solid info for designing for web 2.0. Here are some of the best…

  • The Web 2.0 Design Kit by Tommy Maloney is a fantastic guide for mastering soft shadows, gradients, patterns, and of course rounded corners. Tommy is a great teacher and explains this stuff ain’t all that tough from a Photoshop design perspective.
  • Is it just me or do rounded corners make you want to spend money? Ok admit it, while nothing new rounded corners are pretty much the craze with the 2.0 web space. Design mirrors culture and one look at the consumer electronics space should illustrate that corners are hella cool. Corners can also come off like Liberace. With that in mind take a look at Schillmania’s very informative article on building More Rounded Corners with CSS. His inline dialogue boxes are very schwing.
  • Tabalicous. Zebra tables. Mountain top corners & drop shadows oh my! Alistapart gives the lowdown on everything bleeding edge relating to design and really should be in your RSS list if it already isn’t. Start in their design category.
  • Gradiants. Here is a top notch gradiant tutorial. If that is not enough here is a list of a few more.

  • Aussie designer Miles Burke has a web 2.0 color palette you can download and import straight into Photoshop. Get your pastel on.
  • Alessandro has an article on Zoom Layouts with references and code samples.
  • Max Kiesler explains why The Big Font Conspiracy isn’t actually just trendy but design smart.
  • Jakob has an interesting take on building your own web 2.0 layout. Step by step.
  • Fontshop has a decent article on The Logos of Web 2.0.
  • I have a lame penchant for cartoons in my design. I have actually lost friends over it. This is something I will eventually shake, but for now you can grab some professional and free comic fonts from blambot.
  • For inspiration you might check out: InspirationKing, cssimport, or cssbeauty.

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Thanks guys. If anyone has any more tutorials along these lines please post them.

What a wonderful example of how utterly unaware many 'web designers' are of what design actually is.

Design isn't about applying a veneer of style to a functional device. It isn't about learning Photoshop or Illustrator techniques, HTML or CSS. Design is not about gradients fills, rounded corners and big Web 2.0 text. And it certainly isn't just about making stuff look cool.

Design is about communication and interaction. It is about knowing what you're trying to say and how you are going to get your messages across. It is about what something does and how it's used. Don't confuse it with art. Design is about reason and justification albeit with regard to feelings, sensations and emotions in a cultural context.

We need to turn away from our computers sometimes and forget about software and code. They are just tools. We need to consider our visual ideas at a deeper level. Effective design lies at the heart of a project, not as an afterthought.

Good grief. You are reading way too much into this article dude. It's a list of recent tutorials I found useful. That's it, that's all.

I guess you got a bit of my pent up frunstration there :)
Always up for some debate though...

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http://tom.ma/screenblog is still the best inspiration imho

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