Friday, July 09, 2010

Web Designer as The Artist, Scientist And Philosopher

Web professionals have to be both flexible and creative to meet the needs of each client — and these characteristics often transcend the design and development process. By Alexander Dawson

E-commerce: Fundamentals of a Successful Re-Design

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E-commerce re-designs can double your sales over night…permanently, but they can also cut them in half. By Peter Crawfurd and Michael Yang

FAQ Pages: Best Practices and Examples

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FAQ pages are a vital part of many websites. While not every site needs one, if you’re selling something, providing a service, or giving information about a complex subject, an FAQ can make life much easier for your visitors. By Noupe

Get More Done: 10 Tips for a More Productive Web Design Process

Most web designers would love to get more done in a given day. Those that don’t probably wish they could get the work they do have done faster, giving them more free time. The good news is that you can do both: shorten your work day and get more done. By Cameron Chapman

When Designers And Developers Work Together

Even in today’s fluctuating job market, one rule that still remains constant and true is to always play to your strengths. By Robert Bowen

Cross-Cultural Web Design

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As soon as you publish a website, it’s instantly available all over the world. But just because it can be viewed globally, that doesn’t necessarily mean it will be well-received in other parts of the world. To achieve true global reach for your websites you need to be aware of cross-cultural differences and make sure you design accordingly. By Christian Arno

Wednesday, July 07, 2010

250 Quick Web Design Tips (Part 2)

250 Quick Web Design Tips (Part 2)


This is the second part of a 2-part series. In this second part, we will cover development and marketing tips. By Alexander Dawson

Create a CSS3 Call to Action Button

Create a CSS3 Call to Action Button

Andrew Roberts shares methods for making a slick call to action button using only CSS.

Getting Started with the iPhone SDK

Getting Started with the iPhone SDK

This article is a general overview of making iPhone apps using the iPhone software development kit (SDK). By Amber Weinberg

Supersize that Background, Please!

With an advertising world keen to use every inch of a medium for brand or product experience, it is becoming increasingly popular to design websites with full-browser backgrounds. By Bobby Van Der Sluis

Yahoo! Style Guide

The Yahoo! Style Guide Writing, editing and creating content for the digital world

Check out Yahoo! Style Guide website for some great tips on writing for the web.

Thursday, July 01, 2010

Banner Ads: Excellent Examples for Inspiration

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Advertising is everywhere, especially on the Web. Most websites have some sort of web banner advertisements on them. For some websites, such as big design blogs, advertising is the main source of income. By Andy Johnson

10 iPhone Apps Every Web Designer Should Know About

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With the huge development in mobile device technology in the past few years coupled with the ever-increasing media business sector, it time web designers started taking advantage of some of the fantastic mobile applications to make our job a bit easier? By Rob Thomas

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Mock-up and Design

Try Paper Browser for templates to draw on.

Planning your E-Commerce Website

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Whether theming an e-commerce website or doing a full-scale build, one of the most important parts in the whole process is the planning. By Kyle Prior

Top 10 Flash Content Management Systems

Top 10 Flash Content Management Systems

When it comes to Flash, there are some conflicting views. There is a misconception that that Flash web pages are not seen by search engines and can’t be indexed at all. Others reckon that Flash sites are not user-friendly and load for ages. By Tatiana Titkova

The Web Strategy Pyramid: A Well-balanced Web Strategy

The Web Strategy Pyramid

In these days of Twitter, Facebook, forums, blogs and more, it can be tempting to skip over the basics and dive headfirst into an oh-so-tempting dish of social media or SEO "tricks." By Jason Schubring

250 Quick Web Design Tips

250 Quick Web Design Tips (Part 1)

As web professionals, we’re always looking for ways to improve our knowledge and skills. Tips, tricks and checklists are often one of the most underused yet potentially useful models of providing great, quick and easy to follow pieces of useful information. By Alexander Dawson

PSD/HTML Conversion: Code a Clean Business Website Design

PSD/HTML Conversion: Code a Clean Business Website Design
In this PSD/HTML conversion tutorial, Chris Creed will take a PSD web design template that he showed how to construct in a previous tutorial and turn it into a functional HTML/CSS template.

Stop Forking with CSS3

Stop Forking Around with CSS3

It seems like virtually every day there’s a fantastic new example of something amazing you can do with CSS3. By Aaron Gustafson