Design Concepts—How To Use The Principles Of Design To Communicate Your Concept

How does a concept help you design a website? Once you decide on a design concept, how do you actually use it. These are questions I’d like to address today in what will be the last post in this short series about design concepts.

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Design Concepts—Creative Thinking And Exploration To Develop And Select Ideas

A good concept can make your design more interesting. It can add depth and meaning to your work. A concept helps you generate new and related ideas. It also guides your thinking and design decisions. Your ability to develop concepts, your creativity, can help you stand out from other designers. So how do you go about developing a concept for a project?

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Design Concepts—Gathering Information And Inspiration

A concept is your general idea for solving a problem, but you can’t solve a problem until you know what the problem is.

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Design Concepts—An Overview

I’m often asked questions about how to come up with a concept for a design and I’m usually surprised because I don’t consider myself an expert on the subject.

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DNS And HTTP Performance Case Study For This Site

One reason I’ve been writing about performance this year is so that I can better learn how to improve the performance of this site. There were changes I knew I should make before starting, like enabling a caching plugin. I used to have one setup, but somehow left it behind the last time I moved to a new host.

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