Web Site Metrics

So what's your return on investment (ROI) for the dollars spent on re-designing, promoting, and managing your web site. Here's an interesting article to may help provide some guidance on how to measure your results.

Selling B2B Decision Makers

ClickZ's article, by Bryan Eisenberg, touches on how to best reach the 'decision makers' when running a B2B web site.

Web developer tips

Here's a web site [WebDevTips] to browse for new and experienced developers. They have code generators, forums, 'how to' guides and more.

What We Saw When We Looked Through Their Eyes

News websites have been with us for about a decade, and editors and designers still struggle with many unanswered questions: Is homepage layout effective? ... What effect do blurbs on the homepage have compared to headlines? ... When is multimedia appropriate? ... Are ads placed where they will be seen by the audience?

The Eyetrack

Introduction to Databases

Ever wondered what goes on beneath the glitz and glamour of an impressive e-commerce site? This article, a continuation of Introduction to Databases by Paul Tero, looks at the structure that makes them tick. Read more

Interview with Molly E. Holzschlag on CSS

Respected Web author Molly E. Holzschlag on CSS, presentational hacks, and Dave Shea’s plant counterpart. Read more

Kelly Goto interview

In Digital Web Magazine’s conversation with Kelly Goto, we cover the newest version of her already successful book and the need to move forward with the New Usability. It’s not a new theory, but rather the old theory blended with today’s environment that requires development around shorter cycles. Read more

The Dollars and Sense of Building to Standards

Most articles on Web standards talk about how designing with standards helps control the user experience. Now, Alan K'necht explains how you can embrace XHTML and CSS to benefit your bottom line. Read more

Web Monkey for kids

Are your kids looking for help on starting their own web site. Take them here.

Form and function combined

Although web standards give us a better, faster Internet, not many sites use them. The Web Standards Awards aims to promote web site design using W3C standards by seeking out and highlighting the finest standards-compliant sites on the Internet. By showing you standards-compliant sites that make your jaw drop, we hope to show you that web standards aren't a constraint, they are a liberation.

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.