Recent site designs, other than this one:

Prospect Heights Community-Supported Agriculture

Fovea Editions

I've designed and taught classes on HTML, Photoshop and Illustrator for City of New York/Parks & Recreation's Computer Resource Center Program and as a freelancer. If you'd like me to design your site, contact me at design~at~ethanhein.com and we'll discuss rates etc.

The web sites I admire, and that I use most often, tend to be functional and low-frills: Craigslist, Google, Memepool. I like pages to load fast, to not crash my computer, and to present their content with minimal clutter or eyestrain. I don't like animation, sound, unnecessary image maps and mouseovers - they make life difficult over slower connections. Instead, I like to use a few well-chosen images, a good color scheme, and spare, well-written text to get the point across.

Here are some of the design books that I draw on most heavily:

• The Visual Display Of Quantitative Information
• The Designer's Guide To Color Combinations
• Web Pages That Suck: Learn Good Design By Looking At Bad Design
• A History Of Graphic Design
• The Elements Of Typographic Style

Need some instruction? I've designed and taught classes on HTML, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Illustrator. I've taught these classes for the New York City government, at the Student Television Arts Center in Long Island, and as a freelancer.

See also my art and design page.