Comments on: Dominance: Creating Focal Points In Your Design

By: How To Control Flow Within Your Web Designs - Speckyboy Design Magazine

How To Control Flow Within Your Web Designs - Speckyboy Design Magazine — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:13:56 +0000

[...] in a design you’ll create what’s known as an entry point. Something that stands out from everything else so that most people looks at it first. From there [...]

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:28:24 +0000

I noticed that a couple of weeks ago when looking at the site on my iPhone. I’m using a plugin to create the mobile version and I also explicitly set the width of each image here in the post. I assume the plugin won’t resize images like it does everything else.

I have some ideas for a solution, but I have to test them and see if they work. Most likely the solution will require using relative measurements for the images instead of absolute px, but I still want to ensure everything works well here on the site.

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:25:08 +0000

Thanks.

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:24:54 +0000

Thans Danny. I’m a big believer in the Don’t Make Me Think method of web design. I think there are times when forcing people to think can actually enhance a design, but for the most part the less your visitor has to think about what to do the better.

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:22:03 +0000

Thanks Theo. I’m glad you enjoyed the post.

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By: Bogdan Pop

Bogdan Pop — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:07:20 +0000

Interesting read, but did you know that you can only see part of the attached images in the mobile version?

By: Anything Graphic

Anything Graphic — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:11:31 +0000

Very well explained…

By: Danny Foo

Danny Foo — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:39:12 +0000

This is what I’ve called; Don’t Make Me Think for Web Designers. LOL!

But yes, I agree and practice this in all my website design work. Especially when all websites are very goal oriented.

By: Theo

Theo — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:31:51 +0000

Very good article, well explained.

Thank you.