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The New Shop Window / Home Page’s That Sell

By Matt Davies on April 1st, 2008.

Is your website working for you? Is it driving your sales, is it driving your brand image - or is it simply an after thought? The ugly duckling of the family trudging along your other marketing efforts? With the web becoming so important in business these days, one of the …

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25 Ways To Improve Your Site In 5 Minutes

By Andrew Faulkner on February 12th, 2008.

A while back I wrote 25 Ways To Improve Your Site Today. Many people thought it was useful. I’m trying again now with a twist. I’m offering you, dear reader, tips to improve your site in various ways - each one only taking approximately 5 minutes.

This is starting to …

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Calls To Action - Click Here!

By Matt Davies on February 7th, 2008.

As we go about our online lives we are all exposed to “Calls To Action” on a day by day, and sometimes minute to minute, basis . This article examines what a Call To Action is and how you can make yours stronger than the competition.

What Is A Call To …

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25 Ways To Improve Your Site Today

By Andrew Faulkner on June 10th, 2007.

Yes, the title may look like this post should be on an amateur blog and that it will be full of references to clip art and animated gifs, but this is serious. I’ve compiled a list of what I think are 25 ways to improve your website in as little …

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Don’t make me think - A common sense approach to Web Usability

By Johan on December 25th, 2006.

Steve Krug is a usability expert. Basically he is hired to evaluate websites and see what possible can be improved on usability issues. Web designers normally do not have a budget for usability reports. Therefore we need to do that part in the design process ourselves. Luckily, Mr. Krug just …

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Jorge Frascara about Designing Effective Communications & Communication Design

By Johan on October 25th, 2006.

Wonderful books that deal with a variety of topics including design patterns, web usability, accessibility, design business, search engine optimalisation, CSS techniques, … you name it. These sort of publications can change your perception, broaden your views and give you new ideas. In your life as a webdesigner, interface …

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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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Flash is dead! Long live Flash!

By Phil Renaud on February 22nd, 2006.

Web standardists: I love you guys. I really do. As far as internet users go, web standards advocates will back their bench like nobody else.

It’s part of the reason web standards have come such a long way in such a short time. Of course, there are a bunch more reasons, …

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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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When Less Isn’t Less

By michael on February 2nd, 2006.

A while ago I read an article in Wired about a traffic engineer who removed all the traffic signs from a village in Holland. No street signs, no lane markers, no crosswalks, not even markers to indicate where the road stops and sidewalks begin. …

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Living the highlight - Banners

By Andrew Faulkner on January 11th, 2006.

Something short and sweet:

Noticed some of the basic ‘banners’ on sites these days? Simple solid colour backgrounds on banners are slowly being replaced by a very slight gradient - a highlight at the top of the banner.

Examples:

Pixelpanic
CSS Beauty
Q-design
Capture
Ordered List

Why is this ‘in’? That’s something I …

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