[thelist] Design Help

There's a graphic design book that may help you well with the aesthetics.
Anyway, it's quite interesting:
A Primer of Visual Literacy
Yves Zimmermann
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973

Hope it's useful.

Manuel Delgado, México City

"Atkins, Chris" wrote:

> > if you don't "have" it, then maybe focus on your talents. many people end
> > up
> > frustrated doing half-code, half-design. concentrate on the things you're
> > good
> > at, and outsource the rest to a friend. you'll end up feeling better, and
> > producing better work.
> >
>         [Atkins, Chris]  This is a great point, especially considering the
> value
>         of time to market, i.e. the speed you can get the job done.
> Besides,
>         spending time with a good designer means something is bound to rub
>         off -- even if that thing is the realization that design isn't your
> thing.
>
>         <tip type="css">
>         With IE4+ you can use CSS to utilize the system palette in your
>         applications.
>
>         For example:
>
>         .buttonUp {color:buttontext;
>                          background-color:buttonface;
>                          border:2px buttonshadow outset;
>                        }
>         .buttonUp {color:buttontext;
>                          background-color:buttonface;
>                          border:2px buttonshadow inset;
>                        }
>
>         You can read more at:
>         http://www.webreference.com/dhtml/column24/index.html
>
>         </tip>
>
>          Christopher Atkins
>
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