The Firefox Explosion

It's fast, secure, open source - and super popular. The hot new browser called Firefox is rocking the software world. (Watch your back, Bill Gates.)

Getting Unstuck

Four tips for getting yourself out of a design jam.

Why standards-compliant HTML matters

High-quality, compact, elegant and standards-compliant code is one of the most obvious tools of good web development nowadays. However, it is sometimes difficult to convince the client to invest in that kind of quality. More info here.

Strategies For Information Gathering--Your Take

There are several points during the Web design process that call for information gathering. In general these tend to be at the beginning of a project.

Gorilla Web Tips Archives

Some brief tips on creating better Web forms.

How keywords impact search engine rankings

Keywords are the key to better search engine rankings. That statement, or something like it, has long been a mantra for Web builders. The statement is still true, but dramatic changes in how the leading search engines rank Web pages has forced a significant change in how the statement is interpreted and applied to optimizing Web pages for search engines. Michael Meadhra explains all this here.

Design your Web site to be search friendly

In this article Robert L. Bogue , you’ll learn the basics of how to control searching and techniques to both ensure that all of your pages get indexed and how to make indexing more valuable for the users trying to find your information.

Goodies: Trinkets for you

Here are four goodies from Zeldman.com.

Web-Design Predictions 2005

The "retro" look is officially out of style for 2005, and it's being replaced by the "wicked worn" look, or so says Forty Media, an Arizona interactive marketing firm.

Cascading Style Sheets Tutorial

Killersites.com offers a tutorial on cascading style sheets.

Site Design Tips to Improve Your Sales

The better-designed your site, the better your chances of making the sale.

How well can you use the web?

The web is getting easier to use - but many of the difficulties encountered are partly down to users themselves, says usability guru Dr. Jakob Nielsen.

GIMP

The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.

Free Web Design Templates

Open Source Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information.

Boosting Your Hits

One of the most talked about subjects is how to get people to the Web page. With millions of Web pages there is sure to be another on your topic and probably lots. So how do you boost hits?

Red Herring Chief Back in Action

After Red Herring sank into the dot-com morass last year, Tony Perkins considered resurrecting the magazine that helped establish him as a Silicon Valley sage.The new venture, AlwaysOn.

Go to AlwaysOn

Making Your Content Management System Work for You: An Interview with Jeffrey Veen

"I find that businesses don't treat their web site as a publication, especially those organizations developing standard content, such as product and service descriptions. Instead, they view their site as a software project -- a product that undergoes a development process and needs to be 'released'." (Christine Perfetti - User Interface 9 Conference)

Personas: Practice and Theory

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"Personas is an interaction design technique with considerable potential for software product development. Personas are more engaging than design based primarily on scenarios." Read this artice by John Pruitt and Jonathan Grudin - Microsoft Research.

A decade of good website design

The web looks very different today than it did 10 years ago.

Back in 1994, Yahoo had only just launched, most websites were text-based and Amazon, Google and eBay had yet to appear. Read Mark Ward's article of the BBC.

The Most Hated Advertising Techniques

Studies of how people react to online advertisements have identified several design techniques that impact the user experience very negatively.