Learn To Become a Better Visual Web Designer

www.mlwebco.com – Learn To Become a Better Visual Web Designer – In this video I discuss a few things you can do to become a better visual web designer. I work with a lot of beginners in the web design field and many of them don’t take the time to focus on the visual aesthetics of what makes a site more appealing and slightly better than average. Sites discussed in the video include Best Web Gallery – www.bestwebgallery.com The FWA – http iStockPhoto – www.istockphoto.com Would love to hear any other ideas you may have that helps you become a better visual web designer?

May 2, 2010 | Filed Under Web Design Tutorials 

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16 Responses to “Learn To Become a Better Visual Web Designer”

  1. Conceptskatemedia on February 3rd, 2010 6:50 pm

    Thanks very much, this video really opened my eyes!

  2. mlwebco on February 3rd, 2010 6:53 pm

    Glad it helped.

  3. djmixmind on February 3rd, 2010 7:30 pm

    Man I love your work !

    I need to start doing more Photoshop to Html sites…

    I work with Flash pretty much.

  4. mlwebco on February 3rd, 2010 7:33 pm

    Hey, you can always do both. More of an arsenal in your bag of tricks. I always stuck with the HTML stuff because flash was too hard. There’s always a need for flash experts though.

  5. djmixmind on February 3rd, 2010 7:39 pm

    Yeah you are right, but sometimes I feel like I started backwards cause all my design friends went from Photoshop to Dreamweaver. I started Flash then everything else.

    I feel left out :)

    But all your videos have been helping!!!

    Thanks!

  6. ghanes14 on February 3rd, 2010 7:49 pm

    I get the feeling I someone influenced this video to the top of the pile LOL! I have been looking over the sites and was thinking before re-designing sitting down with paper and writing what I like front the sites, and “attempt” to picture it in my head. Then stress about how I’m going to do it afterwards.

    You mention flash based, I was wonder how does SEO/Flash interact? Like, can search engines crawl the flash content, if not how do flash based sites manage SEO?

  7. mlwebco on February 4th, 2010 12:33 am

    Flash sites can still rank well if they have enough inbound links coming into the site. Also, some flash sites can have HTML pages built into them that the SE’s pick up.

  8. ghanes14 on February 4th, 2010 12:40 am

    Oh ok, gives me something else to think about then. I’m currently looking over the 1 page sites you gave me and writing down what I like from some and notes to go on. If I can figure out some Javascript I got a couple ideas wrote down towards a one page design.

    Example, if you look at #22 in the list, the way he has his navigation where it slides open to display the content on the same page. I like that idea. ^_^.

  9. mlwebco on February 4th, 2010 12:48 am

    Also take a look at this site… wix . com they allow you to create free flash sites.

  10. ghanes14 on February 4th, 2010 12:53 am

    Seems like i’ve heard that before. On those site builder places, maybe it’s just me but seems wrong to use them to build a web site using them for a web design business. If I can’t build myself a site, how am I supposed to do it for others? Just seems wrong somehow lol.

  11. Voidic on February 4th, 2010 11:27 am

    Great video.

    Can you please do a video on color theory and selection?

  12. mlwebco on February 4th, 2010 9:24 pm

    Yes, color theory… good idea. Will add that to the list. ;) Thanks!

  13. ghanes14 on February 5th, 2010 1:12 am

    I was thinking that same thing earlier. I found a site that has glowing lines and found a tutorial on doing it in photoshop. Been playing with it all day, but haven’t been able to do much worth saving yet.

    Is there a way to do the glowing line effect in fireworks?

  14. ghanes14 on February 5th, 2010 1:21 am

    Hey djmixmind, I do not know much about Flash myself. How hard/tricky is it to make a navigation system in flash where someone clicks or rolls over a certain area/button and has info fly in?

    For example, I have a one page website design and wanted a services page, portfolio page and about information. Instead of having different pages, have the information show up in Flash when someone rolls/clicks said area.

    I’m assuming that would be hard and tricky to learn…

  15. djmixmind on February 5th, 2010 1:35 am

    Hey Ghanes Message me so we can talk in better detail.

  16. AndyDOHD1 on February 14th, 2010 8:17 pm

    Great video, and very informative, as always….

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