Outside of doing this comic, I actually have two other jobs.  First is a day job as a graphic designer (mostly web, as I’m sure you guessed).  The other is as a professor at a local university.  Recently I was asked to give some web design tips to one of the other teachers to help get students started.  Here’s a few of them:

1. Web designing is as much about function as it is about form. Make sure text is readable, links are clear, buttons look like buttons, and you can tell where you are.

2. The site should look branded to the concept in every way possible. Even without the logo, you should know which site you’re on.

4. Web design isn’t print design. People need information and guidance as much as they need a cool graphic.

Nothing rocket science but a pretty good list of what students need to hear to start IMHO.  The rest can be read HERE.

If you don’t get it, you clearly don’t work with HTML.

I like to call this one “Meanwhile, on the Internet…”  I think I’m going to start naming them after all.  I resisted for a while, but we’ll see how this goes.

What’s your favorite insane web ad?

Sent in by Systemic Geoff.  Thanks, Geoff!  Link.

Auto Tuning from Casey Donahue on Vimeo.

It’s a browser plugin that strives to integrate web services.  This way you don’t have to go to Google Maps to use it, you don’t have to go to TinyURL to use it, etc. to make using web services integrated into the very window you already have open.  I’m pumped to see it in action.

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

I read webcomics, did you know that?  Only fitting I guess.  This one touches on my love of bad web design, and the people who tend to ask for it.  One thing I’ve noticed, is that people just love to see comics that talk about themselves.  Like bikers loving when I do a comic about biking, or designers who freak out when they see a comic mentioning bold and italics.  That’s how it goes.  Go read Overcompensating for a good laugh.  Link.