Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Scroll/Follow Sidebar, Multiple Techniques
A sidebar that “follows” as you scroll down a page. There are a number of ways to go about it. By Chris Coyier
Make an Editable/Printable HTML Invoice
How to create an editable HTML invoice of your own. By Chris Coyier
A Showcase of Effective Minimalism in Web Design
Minimalism in web design is all about stripping things down to only the necessities – so there is nothing in the way of the content. You’ll find that minimal designs have a focus on typography, simple layouts, and a lack of fancy design elements. So what makes an effective minimal web design? By Henry Jones
10 Usability Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit
Over time certain conventions and best practices have been developed to help improve the general usability of websites during their design and build. This roundup of ten usability crimes highlights some of the most common mistakes or overlooked areas in web design and provides an alternative solution to help enhance the usability of your website. By Chris Spooner
Site Search Trends for Ecommerce Websites
Site search functionality is extremely important for ecommerce websites, especially larger ones. In order for the site to make sales, visitors must be able to find what they are looking for as effectively as possible. By Vandelay Design
45+ Beautiful Web Designs from Germany
There are many German designers and developers using their skills and experience to design and create user-friendly and world-class quality websites. In this web design collection, you will find a fantastic and handpicked selection of creative and successful web designs from "good old Germany". By Sergej Muller
The Evolution of Web Design
Since the first websites in the early 1990’s, designers have been experimenting with the way websites look. Early sites were entirely text-based, with minimal images and no real layout to speak of other than headings and paragraphs. By Cameron Chapman
15 Best Places for Designers to Get Free Stock Photos Online15 Best Places for Designers to Get Free Stock Photos Online
Many places online allow you to obtain high-quality stock photos for free, giving the average starving artist a chance to create wonderful works of art/design without having to use next month’s rent on stock photos.
Best Websites to Download Free JavaScript Code Snippets
Designers often have a lot of code snippets that is used most of the time. There are loads of handy scripts, bits of html and widgets that you can incorporate into your websites and blogs. By Yugu
Design Trends of Spa Websites
Inspired by a showcase on hotel site design over at Onextrapixel, this post explores the design trends and features of well designed spa websites. By Zach Dunn
8 ways we increased ecommerce sales by 10,000%
A 10,000% increase in sales over 5 years. Sounds incredible doesn’t it. Just to make that an even more incredible, their average customer is in their 80s! Who said the elderly don’t use the internet. By Paul Boag
Why Pages Disallowed in robots.txt Still Appear in Google
robots.txt is a useful file which sits in your website’s root and controls how search engines index your pages. One of the most useful declarations is “Disallow” — it stops search engines accessing private or irrelevant sections of your website, e.g. By Craig Buckler
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Usability Expert Gerry McGovern on the importance of good names for links
Usability expert Gerry McGovern about some of the most persistent usability issues on the web, including confusing content, link names, and labels. Here he talks about some work he is doing to research and enhance the online experience for partners and resellers who use Cisco.com.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
54 Cool Examples of Custom Error 404 Pages
If you have a broken link on your site or the pages, which don’t exist any longer, have moved to a new server or have never existed at all, visitors will get an internal error message from the server. However, by default these messages aren’t that helpful. By Yugu
18 Impressive Web Form Validation Scripts to Enhance User Experience
Forms are such a common element on the Internet we tend to blunder through them without too much thought. By Dzineblog
Call to Action Buttons: Examples and Best Practices
Call to action in web design — and in user experience (UX) in particular — is a term used for elements in a web page that solicit an action from the user. The most popular manifestation of call to action in web interfaces comes in the form of clickable buttons that when clicked, perform an action (e.g. "Buy this now!") or lead to a web page with additional information (e.g. "Learn more…") that asks the user to take action. By Jacob Gube
Designing CSS Buttons: Techniques and Resources
Buttons, whatever their purpose, are important design elements. They could be the end point of a Web form or a call to action. Designers have many reasons to style buttons, including to make them more attractive and to enhance usability. By Janko Jovanovic
Retro Colors
Retro colors are a great way to give your website an older/vintage feel; it can give your design a little something different from the regular fully saturated colors that you see often in modern-themed designs. By Tyler Denis
Useful Tips Every Web Designer Should Know About SEO
In the process of developing a web site, there are many professional profiles that work on it, one of these is the SEO profile (Search Engine Optimization). If you are working in a web agency, usually there’s a professional profile that works only on search engine optimization, giving you the freedom to work with image editing, (x)html and css. But if you are a freelance, then you should spare money and do this your self. By Antonio Fullone
The Unwritten Rules of Web Design
In the relative short time that websites have been around, compared to other media, much has been learnt about web design. There aren’t any ‘rules’ beyond web standards and even then, they’re only guidelines. By Tom Kenny
10 Definitive Tips for Writing Captivating Emails
Emails are a great way to reach people, to keep reminding them that your site still exists and that they really should keep checking you out. By Six Revisions.
50 Impressive Magazine and Newspaper Styled Web Designs
It is wrong to define the magazine style in web design as magazine style (does that make sense?). It should have, perhaps, been called newspaper or tabloid styled, it does have that look and feel.
By Speckyboy
By Speckyboy
Web Typography
There are many books and articles on typography, but considerably few explore typeface selection and pairing. By Jason Santa Maria
Top 5 Ranking Factors
Here are some ranking factors to take into consideration when thinking of SEO strategies.
Mockingbird
Mockingbird is an online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application.
Saturday, November 07, 2009
Minimal and Modern Layout: PSD to XHTML/CSS Conversion
In this web design tutorial, you’ll see a process for converting a Photoshop mockup to working HTML/CSS template. By Richard Carpenter
How do Web Design and Development Companies find their Clients?
Toni Anicic shares with use some simple steps to help find more clients for you or your company.
The Best Free Fonts of 2009
As this year comes to a close, we can look back and see that 2009 was a big year for typography. By Henry Jones
Web Design Trends for 2010
With a new year on the horizon, it’s time to pack away the old, worn web designs and prepare for the brave, new face of tomorrow. By Jacqueline Thomas
You Can Get There From Here: Websites for Learners
"Content-rich" is not enough. Most websites are not learner-friendly. As an industry, we haven’t done our best to make our content-rich websites suitable for learning and exploration. Learners require more from us than keywords and killer headlines. They need an environment that is narrative, interactive, and discoverable. By Amber Simmons
Can You Say That in English? Explaining UX Research to Clients
The new business meeting was going swimmingly—that is, until the client started asking questions about our design process. Then we unleashed our lexicon of specialized user experience (UX) research terminology. By David Sherwin
CNN’s New Website Design Deconstructed
On Monday, October 26, CNN.com introduced a new website design, making a number of major changes to their information-heavy layout. By Webdesigner Depot
* 25 Jun 10 Tools to Improve Your Site’s Usability on a Low Budget
Testing the usability of your site is one of the smartest things you can do. Usability involves making a website’s interface easier to use and simpler to understand, so that the user’s experience is as enjoyable as possible. By Webdesigner Depot
Best Practices for 6 Common User Interface Elements
The appearance and usability of certain interface elements and functionality are crucial to the success any websites in today’s market. By Webdesigner Depot
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
WebSort
WebSort lets you to conduct remote card sorting online. Create a study, send a link to participants, and analyze the results – all through a simple web-based interface.
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Generating web traffic on a small budget
Search gurus' tips for landing big traffic on a small budget; how Web designers can retain their edge over simple publishing tools. By Ask Business 2.0
Monday, November 02, 2009
The Ails Of Typographic Anti-Aliasing
As printed typography enjoys the fruits of high-DPI glory, proudly displaying its beautiful curves and subtleties, its on-screen counterpart remains stifled by bulky pixels, living in a world of jagged edges, distorted letterforms and trimmed serifs. By Thomas Giannattasio
How to Get Your Ideas Across to Clients
We know all too well the common and frustrating design scenarios clients present us with, such as wanting us to stretch images disproportionally, cramming as much information as possible in a small space so that you need a magnifying glass to read the text, or brushing off design best practices. By Fatima Mekkaoui
Android Icons
Android Icons is a set of 30 free vector icons that are originally developed to be used for Android applications but all are also great for websites.
They come in transparent PNG + EPS formats and can be freely used in personal/commercial projects. By WebResources Depot
The Myth of Usability Testing
In 1998, usability expert Rolf Molich (co-inventor with Jakob Nielsen of the heuristic evaluation method) gave nine teams three weeks to evaluate the webmail application www.hotmail.com. By Robert Hoekman Jr.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Interactivity in Web Design: A Beginner’s Guide
The Internet is a different place than it was 10 years ago. Back then, the only way people could find information was by surfing the Internet using search engines and then jumping from link to link in order to find other websites. By Poonam
Online Web-design tools for the beginner
If you're not an advanced Web designer, and you don't want to pay a company to create a Web site for you, there are services across the Web that can help you create the site you want. By Don Reisinger
Sunday, October 04, 2009
Showcase of Designs Optimized for iPhone
Over the last couple of years, mobile devices have managed to gain mainstream popularity. With iPhone, making mobile Web applications finally usable by broad masses, web design can now be applied to mobile applications as well. By Adeel Raza
7 Ways Of Handling 404 Error Messages
Good article by Web Analytics, on how various sites are dealing with 404 error messages and provide your 7 ways of handling 404 pages on your site.
45+ Inspiring Examples of Vintage in Web Design
Who said old style was never been cool in web design? In fact, using Vintage photo, paper and fashion became trendier now a day. By Naldz Graphics
The Creative Critique : A Concept Feedback Review
Being members of a creative community, you're always looking to improve our designs and hone our skills as we refine our craft. One great way to strengthen your designs is through constructive feedback on your concepts and on the executions of your ideas. By Angie Bowen
27 Best WebSites to Download Free Seamless Patterns
Searching for a perfect background for your design is always a bit difficult process, To make the Pattern Searching process little bit easier for you, here i’ve listed 27 best websites to download beautiful seamless patterns, hope you find this collection useful. By Dzineblog
Create a webdesign company layout in Photoshop
In this article, Jean-Baptiste Jung will show you how to create a modern looking Photoshop design for your web design company.
25 of the Best Websites of Bands and Musicians
Websites from various types of entertainment-related industries can often be a source of design inspiration. Bands and musicians need to have a website that is attractive to visitors and provides all of the necessary information that fans will want to find. By Vandelay Design Blog
5 Ways To Be Incredibly Persuasive On The Web
A website that isn't persuasive will fail to convince users they should spend the time to perform what actions are required to convert. By StylizedWeb
How to Add a Fixed Position Banner to a Website
One trend in web design that has been gaining popularity is the use of fixed position banners that remain at the bottom of the browser as visitors scroll vertically. By Steven Snell
15 Top Premium Template Websites For Web Designers
Compiled here are a list of 15 top premium template sites. On these premium websites, there are many templates listed covering WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento, Blogger, Flash and pure HTML and CSS templates. By WebDesignDev
Getting started with Wireframing
Jack Franklin, brings us a nice intro to wireframes. He explains what they are, how they can benefit you as a web designer and information on using grids and so much more.
A Guide to Website Promotion
David Silvester shares with us his 5 most important points to optimising a website.
A shorthand for designing UI flows
Flows are just as important to good interfaces as individual screens are. Customers don’t land on screens from out of nowhere. Specific sequences of actions lead customers through your app as they try to accomplish their tasks. By Ryan Singer
How to Effectively Organize your Photoshop Layers
Imagine what it’s like opening a Photoshop file (PSD), only to find a jumble of poorly labeled layers and folders, plus a heap of unchecked hidden layers and other half-baked ideas that didn’t make it to fruition. By Josh Sears
Interview with Web Usability Guru, Jakob Nielsen
In this article, the focus is on web usability and more specifically, on the views of world renowned usability expert, Jakob Nielsen. By Walter Apai
The History of Web Browsers
The tool that we use to browse our favorite websites has a (relatively) long and rich history. By Jacob Gube.
10 Easy jQuery Tricks for Designers
There are plenty of jQuery tricks and techniques out there, and the vast and powerful jQuery library can meet almost anyone’s JavaScript’ing needs. By Kayla Knight
Why Your Next Website Should be Designed with Wireframes
Getting a design to click can take time. In many cases, it takes several rounds of revisions to even get to an effective starting point. What can you do to give yourself a better chance at designing something great sooner? By Zach Dunn
OptimalSort
Optimal Usability is a consulting company in New Zealand. They've run numerous information-architecture projects and got frustrated with the limitations of existing card-sorting tools. Check out OptimalSort.
Beyond Goals: Site Search Analytics from the Bottom Up
Avinash Kaushik demonstrated that site search analytics (SSA) is a powerful tool you can use to assess customer intent quantitatively. In SSA, as with all flavors of web analytics (WA), you can work from the top-down; by starting with clear, measurable metrics based on your organization’s goals, you can benchmark and continually optimize the performance of your content and designs. By Lou Rosenfeld
Internal Site Search Analysis: Simple, Effective, Life Altering!
Understanding of your site visitors’ intent is one of the most delightful parts of web data analysis. In this article, you'll learn five ways to analyze your internal site-search data—data that’s easy to get, to understand, and to act on. By Avinash Kaushik
Testing Search for Relevancy and Precision
Despite the fact that site search often receives the most traffic, it’s also the place where the user experience designer bears the least influence. By Jonh Ferrara
Saturday, October 03, 2009
Search Results Design: Best Practices and Design Patterns
If you’ve been assigned to design or provide the architecture for a large e-commerce project or other information-heavy website whose success depends on content findability, it is vital that the design and layout of the search functionality for that website is considered carefully. By Louis Lazaris
How To Respond Effectively To Design Criticism
Winston Churchill once said: “Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” By Andrew Follett
63 Popular And Promising Web Design Blogs
It’s difficult to create something exceptional when you are working to a strict deadlines. If you can’t come up with a good idea in a stressful situation, it’s best to take a break and look for inspiration. By Andrew Valums
Search Engine Ranking Factors
Some information regarding top 5 ranking factors, along with negative ranking factors. Information by SEOmoz.org.
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