{"id":3732,"date":"2013-10-03T12:27:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T17:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/?p=3732"},"modified":"2013-10-03T12:28:51","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T17:28:51","slug":"you-know-code-but-your-design-skills-suck-what-can-you-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2013\/you-know-code-but-your-design-skills-suck-what-can-you-do\/","title":{"rendered":"You know Code but your Design Skills Suck &#8211; what can you do!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/045.png\" alt=\"design skills\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1146\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>Based on a recent forum post where someone with code skills (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) wanted to improve their design skills &#8230; and he was not talking about learning PhotoShop &#8230; actual design skills he was concerned about. My answer:<\/p>\n<p>To begin with, look to design principles:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; alignment<br \/>\n&#8211; whitespace<br \/>\n&#8211; font use<br \/>\n&#8211; color use<\/p>\n<p>If you have your page elements nicely lined up, don&#8217;t use more than two fonts on the page(!), keep your page colors properly matched (no clashing colors) and give the page a lot of breathing room (good use of whitespace) &#8230; that will go a long of making the website look good.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>That all said, design is something that requires a good eye. It is something you can develop to a certain extent, but like a singing voice &#8230; if you don&#8217;t got it, you don&#8217;t got it. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p><strong>So what is the solution?<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Use templates, follow the above principles and keep your designs simple and elegant because they are generally easier to maintain. We teach this stuff (and a lot more) in the <a href=\"http:\/\/library.killersites.com\/\">KillerSites Video Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Stefan Mischook<br \/>\nkillerSites.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/045.png\" alt=\"design skills\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1146\" style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>Based on a recent forum post where someone with code skills (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) wanted to improve their design skills &#8230; and he was not talking about learning PhotoShop &#8230; actual design skills he was concerned about. My answer:<\/p>\n<p>To begin with, look to design principles:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; alignment<br \/>\n&#8211; whitespace<br \/>\n&#8211; font use<br \/>\n&#8211; color use<\/p>\n<p>If you have your page elements nicely lined up, don&#8217;t use more than two fonts on the page(!), keep your page colors properly matched (no clashing colors) and give the page a lot of breathing room (good use of whitespace) &#8230; that will go a long of making the website look good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3735,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions\/3735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}