When trying to redesign your website, you may get stuck since there’s so many different ways you could take it. You may also run into the problem of not knowing how you even want it to look. In this article, I’m going to show you every version of my new design, from the first concept, to the final result, and explain what I did and why. This should hopefully help you on your next redesign as well.

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In this article, I am going to explain some important things that you need to know in order to be a good web designer, from CSS and XHTML code to good design practices and standards. After reading this, my goal is to help you stop designing boring, unmemorable websites and start making ones that really convey the message and make everyone happy.

Having spent over 6 years designing websites that were not what they should have been (granted Web 2.0 hadn’t come yet), I think that I can do a good job of helping people skip the “crap era” of designing and go straight to making good designs, and then improving on that.

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Over the last couple of days, I’ve been reading up on how to improve as a music producer (more specifically, a Trance music producer). One thing that really got to me was a suggestion that you should take one of your favorite songs, and try to remake it. I chose a song called “Make Me Believe” by Daniel Kandi. I’m actually very pleased with the results on my remix/remake.

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By now, everybody pretty much knows that valid web site code is pretty important, especially if you want your site to render fast, correctly and have clean code. A few years ago you could debate that conforming to the W3C standards wasn’t necessary, and that tables were still more useful than CSS, but those days are over.

So it’s no wonder that many web designers have really begun taking interest in their own code, making sure it is valid, while at the same time making it work in IE (damn you!). Keeping that in mind, you would think the pioneers of “Web 2.0″ would make sure their web site would keep with this new standard. Unfortunately, you’re wrong.

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