Persona and Role of Design Documentation

As personas have become part of the design orthodoxy, they have become a target of often intense debate. Andrew Hinton digs deep down into the origins of the persona to find how a great idea has lost much of its original context and reflect on how modern business uses (or misuses) design documentation.

Findability.org

A "selective, seriously incomplete, and perpetually evolving collection of links to people, software, organizations, and content related to findability." Despite its disclaimers, it offers a wide spectrum of links to topics, people and organizations.

Better Living Through Taxonomies

Large websites and intranets can benefit from improved methods of search and navigation. These include site maps, A-Z indexes, sophisticated search engines, and generally improved navigational design—and playing a potential role in all of these methods is well-planned taxonomy.

Taming the World Wide Web

A rising tide of companies are tapping Semantic Web technologies to unearth hard-to-find connections between disparate pieces of online data.

G0-Daddy's Hail Mary TV-to-Web Strategy

Once again, GoDaddy saved its biggest ad blitz for the Super Bowl. And once again, the goal was to drive as many viewers as possible to the end zone: GoDaddy.com

Common sense web design with Steve Krug

Steve Krug, the author of Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, is a highly respected usability consultant, and he has worked with companies like Apple, Netscape, AOL, BarnesandNoble.com, Excite@Home, and Circle.com. Krug's book is packed with practical techniques for developing a highly usable web site. Before you create or redesign your web site, make sure your designer has read Krug's book.

SEO for FireFox

Are you curious why a certain page on Google or Yahoo! ranks better? Do you ever wonder how many links your competitor has, but don’t feel like logging into your SEO tools? If so, the SEO for FireFox extension is for you. Created by Aaron wall - it will save you countless hours of research frustration and complexity.

8 web design mistakes that developers make

An excellent website takes a particularly savvy blend of both great design and great code. Because of this, you often find designers having to figure out code and developers trying their hand at design.

100 Photoshop tutorials for creating beautiful art [w/pics]

Each tutorial starts as a thumbnail that can be hovered over to display more information. A truly great resource.

Getting your site indexed before you launch

Most SEO articles focus on what to do after you launch your site. What tends to be neglected is the advantage that you can gain by getting your site indexed before you launch. With a little planning and a few hours of work it's easy to be indexed by Google, Yahoo, and MSN before your site goes live.

The Name Game: Using Keywords in URL Filenames

Keywords...an often overlooked aspect of site design and SEO that can clearly bring benefits.

Browershots

Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. When you submit your web address, it will be added to the job queue. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server here.

CrazyEgg - Measuring Web Site Usability

How can you measure the usability of your site? A number of new tools for tracking site visitors are raising the bar for website statistics tools. Particularly, instead of tracking the flat lists of usage and showing you illegible user paths, the next generation of site trackers is focused on giving you the insights on how people use a site. CrazyEgg, offers innovative ways of doing just that.

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Google PageRank: What Do We Know About It?

Everybody is using it, but (almost) nobody really knows how it works. Google PageRank is probably one of the most important algorithms ever developed for the Web. PageRank, only one of hundreds of factors used by Google to determine best search results, helps to keep our search clean and efficient. But how is it actually done? How does Google PageRank work, which factors do have an impact on it and which don’t? And what do we really know about PageRank?

Adobe Flash Tutorials

This article provides hand-picked professional Flash tutorials which can enrich your design skills and improve the quality of your works. Most sources can serve as the entry point for further tutorials.

101 CSS Techniques of all time...Part 1

CSS has fundamentally changed web design, it has provided designers with a set of properties that can be tweaked to make various techniques to make your pages just look right.

Here's a round-up of 101 CSS techniques designers use all the time. The second part will be coming soon, stay tuned and Enjoy!

9 Essential Principles For Good Web Design

Web design can be deceptively difficult. Getting a design that is both usable and pleasing, delivers information and builds brand, is technically sound and visually coherent...

Web Design File

Web Design File is informational common site where it introduces the Web site where a novel, wonderful technique is used. In the WEB design production, the refined Web site where creative that stimulates designer’s inspiration is high is filed.

How to use Keywords in Web Site Design

A good website needs to be user friendly and have the potential to be ranked in good position in Search Engines. The key to success lies in the right choice of keywords that are known both to the search engines and the visitor alike.

Geek Trends: 15 Footers with great usability

Footers are becoming an essential strategy to engage visitors. Leaders in the industry are moving toward implementing effective footer features and creating a place for presenting, displaying and branding to their audiences in a very personal way by providing intuitive nature.