Once in a while I like to design something simple. Very simple that it doesn’t even have a graphic to represent one thing. Some people especially those who aren’t a designers or has no artistic mind, don’t really appreciate the minimalist design. As Leonardo Da Vinci once says “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”. Anyway, here are my list of inspiration.
I almost forgotten that Alexa was still around. I used to be a ranking freak, I monitor Google PR, Alexa ranking and my traffic. Though I have to admit, that is the only success I was looking for back then. Seriously, who really cares about all these if not of advertisers now.
A lot of Wordpress powered sites tend to run slower than others, especially those that receive tons of traffic everyday. I’m sure no one in the right mind would mind about slow loading website, even though the traffic is not huge. Not only will this result a bounce back rate, it may also over using your CPU usage, especially the PHP queries. I personally did a lot of Wordpress websites, my blogs, clients sites and some e-Commerce sites too, they all need to optimised correctly to cut down the PHP queries and loading speed.
A lot of time we have argument about who copying who and who steal who. Actually there’s a very thin line in between copy and steal. My understanding on copy is to exactly extract from a existing design; while stealing is to get some part or even a “feel” of a existing design.
Are those services killing we as a web designer? Not exactly, there are beneficial among web designer too. Especially yhose who work freelance. Pre-made template, has been inspiration for me, I don’t buy it, I just browse around, like CSS gallery. To save web designer time and hassle, PSD to XHTML service is a powerful weapon.
This is not a new topic, nor stunning topic on the Internet. There are thousand if not million introduction to XHTML and CSS, but some of them having too much text really bounce back the newbie. Especially those students who are actually force to learn it. Recently I joined into a web company, 3 new comers including me. There’s one from multimedia background, and what surprise me was that he did not know how to code a web in XHTML/CSS, instead, he has been learning a lot about table layout.
