Form+Function
Bauhaus mottos: “form follows function” and “art and technology - a new unity.” In other words: a practical, no-nonsense approach to design. This is not as easy as it sounds. Simple is difficult to accomplish. A design that serves its purpose with no distractions is BEAUTIFUL.
Design is more than style, layout, or structure. Design is the seamless amalgamation of all these elements.
Structuring content is vital to its effective communication. All content uses semantically correct XHTML - the latest W3C standard for hypertext documents. CSS, the W3C standard for document presentation, is then used to style the structured content. What does this mean? It means that content mark-up is not marred by presentation code, which can lead to problems regarding bloat, accessibility, readability and manageability. Living separately and coexisting peacefully makes sites easier and less costly to maintain.
Influential resources regarding design, web standards and usability.
Art+Design
- Architecture Week
- Bauhaus Museum of Design
- Communication Arts
- Minimalism
- Zaha Hadid CBE
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Ludwig Meis van der Rohe
- Richard Meier
- SF MoMA
Web Standards
- A List Apart
- CSS Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design
- CSS Beauty
- CSS Vault
- Digital Web Magazine
- W3C CSS Standard
- W3C XHTML 1.0 Standard
- Zeldman's Daily Report
Usability
- Chunking Principle
- Jakob Nielsen's Use It
- Navigation 101
- Theory Navigation
- Web Design Practices
- Why index?
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