Web usability is about designing your web site so that users can achieve their desired goal quickly and easily. Taking time out during development to make sure your site meets usability standards can have a huge benefit to your business.
“A web usability redesign can increase the sales/conversion rate by 100%”
- Jakob Nielson
Designers and developers must make [...]
For some time now typography on the web has been high in the radar of many web designers. Although the web may not be the most friendly enviornment for typography because of browser differences (compared to print) it is still a key part in any design work. This should be no surprise when the key [...]
Microsoft Silverlight is a cross browser implementation of the .Net Framework that delivers interactive applications via the web. It does so by unifying the capabilities of the web server, the web browser and the desktop.
Silverlight improves the potential for developers and web designer to create rich applications that aren’t limited by the constraints of modern [...]
You have a website. People come to it, and within a few seconds they make a decision about whether or not your site is what they are looking for.
How do you capture their interest within those few seconds? First of all you must understand these people. If content is prioritised and targetting to them they [...]
There are many developers who do not consider how their web site might function if a user has JavaScript disabled within their web browser. Unobtrusive JavaScript (UOJS) methodology is a key component that encourages developers to build web pages that do not rely on JavaScript to deliver core content.
Usually the most common way to implement [...]
The W3C is currently developing HTML 5 as an open and royalty free upgrade to HTML 4. Its development is entirely public with over 500 participants including companies like AOL, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Nokia and Opera.
This time around browser vendors and developers are working together to create the best possible version of HTML that [...]
Recently there has been a lot of talk about what software designers should use, or whether they should just skip the entire process and go straight to HTML & CSS. The debate continues, but I want to echo some of the responses made and emphasise that design software in any form is just a tool, [...]
My bookmarks toolbar in Firefox is full with great websites at my fingertips to keep up to date with what is happening in the web design industry. I have recently moved to London from New Zealand and I accidently left my great list of resources behind - whoops! I really should get into online bookmarking!
So [...]