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Home Sweet Home

By Abhijit Nadgouda on October 5th, 2006.

An aspect of web design that can make or break the website’s appeal is the homepage. While a lot of visitors will be carried by the search engines to the insides of the website, most of them will resurface on the homepage if they are looking for more. From corporate …

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Test your designs in multiple O/S and browsers the easy way…

By michael on September 19th, 2006.

…let someone else do it!

Andrew mentioned Browsershots recently in his 5 development resources that you may not have noticed post and it’s a great tool so I thought I’d expand on that slightly.

I stumbled upon this tool entirely …

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The Tagline Revisited

By Andrew Faulkner on June 17th, 2006.

Today, I felt inspired by Matt’s recent USP/Tagline post. Coupling that with an old article covering big header/banner areas and I have an “old-skool” fadtastic post - examining a very niche graphical trend for both mine and your interest. The trend in …

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Navigating the Winding Roads of Hyperlink Usability

By Jason Spector on May 30th, 2006.

Hyperlinks are like most things in life - there’s a right way to use them and a wrong way. The choices we make in their visual treatment, content, user experience, and accessibility affect the success of your overall site.

Think about it another way. You’re driving down the road a little too slowly (especially to the people behind you) trying to find Main Street, a very common road. What subtle changes would help or hinder your success?

Here are some of the common good and bad practices of hyperlink usability.

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Going back into time: Influences of early 20th century graphic design

By Johan on April 22nd, 2006.

Hey that cool retro look: a proof concept

Let’s go rhetorical question mark on this … Webdesign and graphic design do share some common grounds (how blatantly obvious) when it boils down to grid design, laying out content, mixing it with photography and adding typographic elements, don’t they? But this way …

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How Big Is Too Big?

By Steven Teskey on April 21st, 2006.

In response to the other “header” related post today, I’ve decided to write about my only issue with headers. As I get into designing a site the header and navigation is ussually where I start (after all the planning of course). So after the code is done I procceed to …

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Designers are becoming big-headed

By Andrew Faulkner on April 20th, 2006.

After visiting a bunch of unrelated sites recently, it came to me that they all shared a common design element – huge header areas above the content. Don’t believe me? Then try these out for size:

http://www.ploink-brothers.com/
http://www.catchlight.co.nz/
http://www.danrooddesign.com/
http://en.helldesign.pl/
http://www.attitudedesign.co.uk/

See what I mean? Before …

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On Transparency.

By Phil Renaud on April 17th, 2006.

I sense a designer’s dillema in the near future.

I sense it, because the next release of Internet Explorer is reported to be fully compliant with .PNG graphics and alpha transparency, and like all things that microsoft (or apple or linux or mozilla for that matter), there is certain to be …

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The Secret Lives of Fonts

By Phil Renaud on March 12th, 2006.

I’m nearing the end of my sixth semester of university, and things are going pretty well: I’m clearing a decent grade point average, enjoying my major, and just having wrapped up my semester’s “essay alley”, wherein all my courses require a term paper or two, and getting my results back …

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Who To Design For?

By Steven Teskey on March 2nd, 2006.

Since the beggining of the web, designer’s have asked many questions, but none so very debated as “Do I Design For Me? Or For The User?” Most will tell you for the user (I’d imagine), some will argue otherwise, but where should you put yourself in this ongoing battle? It …

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Ajax - User Interface Libraries and Design Patterns

By michael on February 19th, 2006.

I was originally going to tell you how this book I’ve been reading, Ajax in Action by Dave Crane and Eric Pascarello with Darren James, has made me a Javascript phenom and how I’m putting together amazingly …

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Eyetracking research

By michael on February 3rd, 2006.

I found interesting research involving eyetracking the other day at PoynterOnline. When I went to the home page, I wasn’t quite sure what a site about journalism had to do …

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