I'd highly recommend starting on the typography front. Being able to design a really impressive looking site in grayscale with nothing but text is a huge advantage for the graphically challenged amongst us. Careful application of colour and images from that point can just add a little polish. "designing for the web" by Mark Boulton is any easy start (go to his 1 day class on the topic if you ever get the chance), anything by Jason Santa Maria after that.
On the design front Dan Rubin did a presentation at @media about 2 years back on trying to bring a level of "feel" (as in making it seem tactile) to your designs which I found particularly useful. A series of interface flourishes that are too subtle to fully notice, but you perceive them nonetheless. Explained why whenever I *cough* copied *cough* used another design for inspiration the original always looked way better no matter how blatant I thought I was being. Glenn @glenngillen http://glenngillen.com/ http://rubypond.com/blog/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
