10 Principles of Effective Web Design

Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric design has established as a standard approach for successful and profit-oriented web design. In order to use the principles properly we first need to understand how users interact with web-sites, and how they think.

Blasting the Myth of the Fold

Jeff Parks had the opportunity to speak with Milissa Tarquini on her article, Blasting the Myth of the Fold. They talk about how this long held rule in web design is being de-bunked by web analytics and user testing, as well as how this will impact design and development processes based on screen resolution and browser compatibility.

Read the article or listen to the podcast.

Be the Bot

In a rare case when you’re not able to view the solution even by accessing the Google Cache, you can use Be The Bot.

First look: Firefox 3 beta 4 brings new Vista hotness

Mozilla has officially released Firefox 3 beta 4, which includes new icons for Vista. Ars takes a first look at the new features and concludes that Firefox 3 is almost ready for widespread adoption.

30 Fonts that all designers must own

Here are 30 of the Best Fonts / Type Faces that every designer must own sorted by alphabetical order.

iPerceptions

A friend of mine, and well known web analytics guru, Avinash Kaushik, has called out attention to a great site for gathering feedback from your customers...and it's free.

You can check out their program at iPerceptions. If you like to see a YouTube video [09:52] by Avinash, explaining this great program, go here.