I Wish I’d Designed… jeffsarmiento.com

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As anyone who’s read my blog on a regular basis will know, I’m a sucker for retro style design, whether that be vintage Victoriana, art deco, or 1950s modern. Today I’m highlighting a site that doesn’t exactly fall into a […]

How To Ruin A Perfectly Decent Website

Screenshot of the worst website in the world.

Yesterday I tweeted an article about what must be one of the worst websites in the world. It must be seen to be believed. Yet although such terrible sites exist, a far more common problem in web design is sites […]

The Golden Ratio – A Basic Intro And A Pedantic Question

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It’s cool to know that when you put together a web page design you’re still using inspiration from two and half millennia ago. Yes, that blog you’re coding is drawing on the principles that went into the design of the […]

The Ultimate Freelance Job Search Page

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Last week one of my long term contracts came to an end … a little more abruptly than I’d been expecting! No dissatisfaction with the quality of work, but the vagaries of the economic climate and the lack of job […]

Web Design Is Incestuous, Boring And Generic

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Most of the many millions of websites that exist are terrible. A large proportion of the rest are merely competent. It’s rare to find something that genuinely pushes the boundaries. It’s amazing how such a young artistic discipline as web […]