3 Web Design Tips for 2012

[sposim94]

Very good videos! Thank you.

[ryanpitts454]

Another great video Michael. Clean cut advice. No doubt i'll taking these tips forward on the next company re-branding meeting. Thanks for making me look good :-D

[shaldipur79]

Nice. Are you familiar with Steve Krug's book Don't Make Me Think?

[thommyjonasson]

You sir, are in my favorite section right now! As a newly started web developer "since 2 months back", information like this is exactly what I need! Thank you!

[romelled]

@mlwebco Hi, I'm somewhat new to professional web designing, although I have designed my personal site off and on practicing/learning for a few years. I started out in actionscript but am learning to take WordPress templates and redesigning them. I have ideas for site layouts but finding how to rearrange them in wordpress takes time to figure out. Anyhow I was wondering if the kidsfirstokc site is backed by WordPress.

[blacknightstu]

@romelled To answer your question, yes! The Kidsfirstokc website is made in wordpress.

[soulofjazzman]

Mike... Man, you are a genious! Just ordered my Mac Pro from Apple to get started on this. Man, you are a HUGE inspiration. Great work.

-Eddie

[edstar83]

Great video as always.

[levernemartin]

mike this is a great video blog. i like the straight to the point direction you take very informative.

[ikazi1]

Regarding the image, though I have scene your video about hating istockphoto but what if I need a more horizontal photo and dont find any?

Please advice!

Qazi

[mlwebco]

@ikazi1 Try taking the photo yourself. You can also use stock photos and crop them similar to the kid in the picture. This causes the stock photo to look slightly different than how it might be used by other websites.

[ikazi1]

@mlwebco Thank you so much buddy! You are Star! I have one more question, in the paragraph of any website, when we are making any mockup for client, should we use RUNNING TEXT (para) as NONE or Crispy? because I belive after the coding it will show like NONE (not crispy). What do you suggest? or is there any technology we can use running text as special font? HTML5? please help!

[damnbassreznor]

I´m beggining in the website design, than you for your videos, i hope to take your training soon...

[mlwebco]

@damnbassreznor Thank you, I'm sure you'll benefit greatly from it.

[SDuplic]

one of the best web design advice on the planet! thank you for the inspiration

[mlwebco]

@SDuplic You're welcome.

[Gamer4everYUP]

Mike, thank you for doing this! Greetings from Europe.. I find you as my inspiration and motivation while I'm just starting out in web design.

Can you make video about elance.com or guru.com , and to share some tips and personal review about it, if possible?

[mlwebco]

@Gamer4everYUP You're welcome, I'll try to add those topics of elance.com to my list of topics.

[maljarlol]

These are good tips but talking about the website you've shown us, the structure is ok, but the colors used in this design is awful and distracting

[mlwebco]

@maljarlol Design is subjective. In my opinion, the colors are kid friendly. Its a website for parents who have kids, so the purple and green is perfect in my opinion for the subject. It's bright, colorful and kid friendly. You have to design for the user, the target audience and for the current brand, not just the colors you would like.

[milan215]

your awesome! really helpful channel for a web designer like me, thanks :)

[mlwebco]

@milan215 Thanks, glad you enjoy my channel.

[sme3750]

Great Video!!!

[mlwebco]

@sme3750 Thanks

[COD5252]

please put a thumbnail of yourself on your uploads,i almost skipped your video and that should have been too bad

[josephmndoza]

thank you!

[mlwebco]

@josephmndoza More than welcome.

[texastobaben]

great presentation

[RaiderBoneDude]

Hey michael, great video! Just a question. How do you go about "breaking the grid" when it comes to the coding in CSS?

[mlwebco]

@RaiderBoneDude You don't have to break the grid in the code. Just break the grid visually. So for example, your markup can be structured using a grid system, but your background and visuals present a different story which draws attention to those areas. Its done using background tricks while keeping your CSS structure in the grid format.

[1995140]

You are soo great at this :)

[mlwebco]

@1995140 Thank you!