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Website of the week: Web Concepts

Web Concepts specializes in creative and dynamic web site design for small to medium-sized businesses and charitable organizations.

Opera Dragonfly alpha

Welcome to Opera Dragonfly alpha, the foundations of Opera's upcoming Developer Tools. Debug JavaScript, inspect CSS and the DOM, and view any errors – Opera Dragonfly makes developing using Opera easier than ever, both on your computer and mobile phone. Check out our alpha release for a taste of things to come.

Thoughts on Interaction Design

Interaction Designers are the shapers of behavior. Behavior is a large idea, and may, at first blush, seem too large to warrant a single profession. But a profession has emerged nonetheless. This professional category includes the complexity of information architecture, the anthropologic desire to understand humanity, the altruistic nature of usability engineering, and the creation of dialogue. These topics are discussed in the four sections of this text.

SEO Basics, introduction to Search Engine Optimization

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the on-going process of making sure that your web site performs as well as possible on specific search engine searches.

This article aims to explain the absolute basics of SEO that every web site designer, developer, or owner should know.

Explaining Web 1.0, Web 2.0 & Web 3.0

It seems that everyone has their own idea of what Web 2.0 means. That is one of the pitfalls to using a single buzzword to define everything you see on the internet.

Google Analytics How-To Videos

If you've recently signed up for Google Analytics, but aren't sure how to start interpreting and acting on your data, you can find a couple of videos at Conversion University Playlist on YouTube to help you out.

For an under-10 minute lesson on the data to look at first, what it means, and what to do about it, watch Beginning Analytics: Interpreting and Acting on Your Data. Also embedded here:

Stylish Design

This website is founded and operated by Robert and Andrei. Working in the art and advertising industry for over eight years, along with his team of well experienced writers, share insight into the world of art, culture, and design.

50 Tips to Speed Up Your Website

By now, nearly everyone knows that an effective Web site must be speedy. Users have short attention spans and are generally not willing to wait for a bloated Web site to load. Take advantage of these tips, tools and resources, and you'll have a much better time capturing visitors' attention.

Top 25 Web Design Blogs

Review this great blog site covering the top 25 web design blogs.

Useful Podcasts For Designers And Developers

Podcasting is an engaging medium that is available in both audio and video formats. Podcasts often refer to audiocasts, but now with iPods and other media players being able to play video, videocasts are just as popular. Check out this site about a podcast for those who design, develop or run websites.

5 Steps to Successful Behavioral Targeting

Ad network, web analytics tool vendors, agencies etc. all now claim to have behavioral targeting capabilities. Weather they really have the behavioral targeting capabilities or not is a topic of another blog topic.

40 Excellent Web Based Tools to Help You Design from Anywhere

In today’s busy world it can be hard to be tied down to one computer. With web based applications becoming so advanced it is now possible to still get work done anywhere there is a computer without installing any software. From image editing to Word documents, you can do it all online.

Here are 40 excellent web based tools to help you design from anywhere.

20 Sources for Outstanding Photoshop Brushes

Having a wide variety of brushes gives designers a larger toolset when creating images. Grunge brushes can be used to create a textured site design, floral brushes can help fill empty voids and even more brushes can be used to create nice little touches. Check it out.

CSS Menu Writer debuts

Launched today, WebAssist Professional’s CSS Menu Writer™ for Dreamweaver takes the pain out of creating standards-compliant horizontal or vertical navigation menus with nested fly-outs.

The Nine Pillars of Successful Web Teams

Jesse James Garrett talks about how every web team has its own take on dividing up roles and responsibilities and implementing processes for design and development. Formal titles, job descriptions, and reporting structures can vary widely. But the best teams he's encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of distinct competencies necessary for success.

IA Summit: Content page design best practices

Luke Wroblewski's presentation on Content Page Design Best Practices talks about a framework for thinking about how to optimize content pages for the dynamic ecosystem of the Web instead of the structured hierarchy of a Web site.


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Information Architecture

Here's a great slide show from Peter Morville, covering search patterns.

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Does Flash irk me?

On Veerle's blog, she replies to many readers who likely assume that she has a natural distaste for anything Flash related. It’s not because she prefers HTML/CSS that she doesn't like it or hate it as some people do. Flash/Flex have their place. With that out of the way let’s continue…

Enhancing Dashboard Value and User Experience

Part 1 of this series, The Challenge of Dashboards and Portals, discussed the difficulties of creating effective information architectures for portals, dashboards and tile-based information environments using only flat portlets, and introduced the idea of a system of standardized building blocks that can effectively support growth in content, functionality, and users over time.

42 Must-Bookmark Resources for Web Designers - Inspiration, Design, Color, Fonts and More

Whether you are just starting out or a seasoned veteran these tools, tutorials, lists and other resources are great sites for any web designer.

Draw With the Line Tool in Flash CS3

The line tool can be used to draw lines in Adobe Flash CS3. In this video tutorial, you will learn how to draw with the line tool in Flash CS3.

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Create a Sleek, High-End Web Design from Scratch

This tutorial puts together a high-end web design using a crisp, thin font, gorgeous background images and clever use of space and layout. You can easily use the technique to create your own unique designs.

Firefox 3's new bookmarking system

Firefox 3 introduces a few new features to bookmarks that I think makes them much, much easier to use, more useful in general, and much more useful in particular for catastrophically disorganized folk like me. The three main features being introduced are: Bookmark Stars, Bookmark Tags, and Smart Bookmark Folders.