Monthly Archives: July 2007

We all know what a word like table refers to? We all visualise a chair if you say the word. What do you visualise when you are told the word myfocus123? It’s about as meaningful as calling a CSS element Derek – actually that could be more meaningful. When it comes to naming your CSS it is a key to give meaningful names.

We’ve all heard the phrase “Honesty is the best policy”, but how much awareness do you take to this when designing? More and more, I find myself coming back to the points of silent design and websites that ‘just work’ being a key to most online successful projects. The basic policy of honesty is being true to yourself of course and not doing anything your morals say is wrong. You can take this a step further and focus on your design ‘self’ and being honest to that. I’m not really talking about when referring to honesty of design and function, the areas such as ripping another’s work. I think it’s safe to say the mass consensus is this isn’t honest or good designer practice. Really, the ‘honesty’ I am referring to here links more into the brief, the design subject and the market.