Web Patterns

We could tell you how to make things look pretty, but really, what are web designers today having to consider for tomorrows design and development challenges. Do we all know html, javascript or are we filing through the tutorials and visiting webmonkey as a frequent flyer? Or do we use a wysiwyg program such as dreamweaver to achieve our site goals? Do we know about web hosting, bandwidth etc? All these questions need to be addressed before we emabark on our quest for the best. To Make matters easy for you we have built this site to help you with all your webuilding and marketing online needs. Please see that we have the following areas for view: Web Design, Clip Art, Flash, Usability, Photo albums, Message Boards, Links, Design Glossary, Free Stuff, Ecommerce, Search Engines and Website. We hope you enjoy the site and find it to be a wealth of knowledge. So lets get started...

Introducing Web Patterns

The great thing about recognising a problem pattern, is that once addressed, can be fixed over and over, by one pattern solution.

To read more about patterns I recommend following the links below:

Hypermedia Design Patterns Repository
A nice collection of about 28 patterns covering Interace/Layout, Structure/Navigation, Content Oriented.

Martijn van Welie: Interaction Design Patterns
A large well arranged collection of user interaction design patterns for web, GUI, and mobile device's UI. Good resource!

Jenifer Tidwell: Common Ground -- A Pattern Language for HCI Design 
This work looks at web user interfaces and a web site's information architecture.

Mark L. Irons: Patterns for Personal Web Sites
Recommended reading! These are distilled qualities of the best personal Web sites into a set of patterns. These patterns can be used as guidelines for creating a personal Web site.