Articles by Seth Alling

There are a lot of good sites out on the internet and there are a lot of bad ones, such as this site. But, what about all of the ones in the middle? There are a lot of websites that have potential, yet something is off just enough for them to exist and...

Read Five Common Website Design Mistakes

So the other day, I left my lunch on the kitchen table. (Yes, I make my lunch in the morning because contrary to popular belief, website developers and designers are not rich!) For most people this isn't that much of a problem, but considering that I live forty miles away, it's really not all that simple to just go home...

Read Should I Use Flash on My Website?

I have spent the last few years of my life as strictly a print designer. Even though I began with websites almost fifteen years ago, I felt limited with what I could do. As CSS was just coming out, I switched over to print and figured that I wouldn't ever really go back to web design. From the looks of...

Read Typography & Web Design: Why Go Web-Safe

After spending a lot of time designing many different sites, I have noticed something. Colors can really cause problems, especially if there's too much. But then again, sometimes there is not enough color, which still causes problems. When I first started designing websites, color was everything. It didn't matter whose browser couldn't handle those colors because I didn't care. And the...

Read Increase Website Friendliness with Accent Colors

Compromise. Sometimes I really hate that word. Usually it means that there will be a lose-lose situation. But really, it all depends on how you look at it. When I'm browsing the Web, I analyze how sites look. This is just the designer in me. Actually, I must confess, I analyze everything I see everywhere I go. My wife thinks I'm...

Read Site Layouts: Design vs. Usability