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"“Fortunately” for us designers, not everyone seems to understand what makes or breaks a Web design. Granted, Web design is to a large extent a creative process and can therefore be called more art than science. But because it is intrinsically a medium of presentation, some rules (or at least principles) apply. By following some simple pointers, anyone should be able to create a visually pleasing design and take one step closer to fame. Okay, it’s not that simple, and talent and experience do matter, but anyone can turn their home page into something prettier within mere minutes.

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So what makes something pretty? It is not Flash. Not to say that Flash has no merit, but Flash alone doesn’t make a design good; some nasty Flash websites are out there. Also, one doesn’t have to be a great illustrator to make appealing designs. Instead, look at Web design as a symbiosis of different elements. No single element counts the most; rather, the sum of the elements makes a design look good.

These elements are the 7 key principles that make a Web design look good:

* Balance,
* Grid,
* Color,
* Graphics,
* Typography,
* White space,
* Connection."

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"Superfish is a JQuery plugin especially dedicated to menus. It allows many improvement from what you can achieve with HTML and CSS as such as hover support for IE6, animations, keyboard accessibility and more."

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"The tiny navigation in your site decides if a two second long visit is memorable or not! Spice up your web user interface with this colelction of easy to use yet eye catching navigation plugins and tutorials."

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"The iPod-style menu provides easy navigation of complex nested structures with any number of levels. The entire menu sits within a fixed-size area, and when a node is selected, by default a “Back” link appears below the menu to allow navigation to previous (parent) menus, or set options to show breadcrumb links above the menu options to both deliver feedback and allow quick access to nodes higher up in the hierarchy."

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Create a side tab that expands content for a feedback form or contact info. Make your own image to use as a tab and apply this plugin to any div to hide the content off the right, left, top or bottom of the screen, It animates to show the content, when the handle/tab is clicked.

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I often think at the actual economic crisis, I am a man in a constant precariousness and I look for some good solutions to improve my daily connection with the world. Well, I have a only solution: create things, make unique stuff. I apologize. I don’t know the secrets to save the world (I’m not Batman!), but I can make good stuff in Web Design, so with the today post I will explain how to create a clean and almost serious (hard thing for me) web design for a company.

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Welcome to Part 1 of Building a website with Web Premium CS4. In this tutorial series, you'll get step-by-step instructions to develop a website for a fictional travel services company, Adventure Tours. The website includes a home page and several other pages to market the company's travel services.

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The Online Wireframe Application

* smoothen the planning process
* get a clearer picture of site informations
* provide a precise framework for designers & programmers
* build up a more intense project relationship with clients
* improve the communication process

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iPlotz allows you to rapidly create clickable, navigable mockups and wireframes for prototyping websites and software applications.
Create a project, add wireframe pages with design components and discuss your creations with others.

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As you already seen in our previous showcase of Corporate Website Designs that a perfect layout, A good design and nice resources can produce a creative output. Layout, textures and patterns are used more often than one may think but the outcome of different combination can result verity of excellent designs. However, When it comes to corporate website design you need to take care about many things which includes simplicity, readability, presentation and accessibility.

In this presentation, you’ll find variety of highly-creative, beautiful and most importantly inspirational corporate designs which is easy to accessible and convenient to approachable. The main purpose here is to stimulate your creativity and to inspire your imagination to design or redesign your work site to show your skills to potential clients.

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As always, my roundups are very small because I focus on quality over quantity. You can keep your 54 of this and 88 of that. Here’s 5 high quality web-based tools for improving user experience that I think are simply the best at what they do. And you’ll get no less from me.

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A corporate website, just like the business, is a prime example of large scale thinking. As you’ll see in this article, a company’s web identity is brought together by a combination of several websites, each with branches and divisions of their own.

In this edition of our Website Anatomy Class series, we’ll take a look at some of the best practices and design trends behind successful corporate websites.

Along the way we’ll also be looking at some design elements to avoid, as well as how corporations are using social media to expand their customer service reach.

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Remember the era of the sitemap? Matt Everson has rev'd it up again with SlickMap CSS a nice visualization that runs on top of a simple set of ul lists.

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A designer doesn’t have to reinvent the wheel with each new wire frame diagram, of course. Every page in a site will share some elements, even when the pages don’t follow the same template.

These common elements are the must-have items, which, if absent, can cause visitors to experience frustration and resentment that may linger long after they’ve moved on to other sites. Alienating visitors and creating a negative brand impression will not help the site-owning organization achieve its business goals, nor will it save money. For example, every page needs clearly labelled navigation so the visitor can easily move from one page to the next and from one section of the site to another without having to go back to the home page.

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jsTree is a javascript based, cross browser tree component. It uses jQuery and Sarissa (optionally). jsTree is absolutely free (licensed same as jQuery – under both GPL and MIT – whichever suits your needs).

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With the recent ADF release a new component is introduced: The panelDashboard component. A component that is easy to use and offers a very visual presentation. With this component we can quickly create a dashboard that consists of panelBox components that can each provide their own content. The dashboard lays these panelBoxes out in a grid - we can specify the number of columns in the grid. With a minimum of configuration (just by adding dropSource components) we can make the panelBoxes drag-and-droppable, allowing the user to reconfigure the dashboard. These re-configurations can be persisted at session level or (using MDS) across sessions. In this post I will explain some of the features of this panelDashboard component, and I will show some usages.

PanelDashboard is not a component you will use all over the place, but one that will certainly be useful for the home page/portal like dashboard that exist in many applications.

Here are some steps you can take to use the PanelDashboard.

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I’ll shortly be writing an article on optimizing the portal performance from the UI side and I thought it would be good to first touch on the subject of UI customization itself beforehand. In this post, I’ll also highlight some of the lessons we learnt over the years along a common journey with many fantastic and innovative customers. They have been the main drivers of several of the features now available in the portal. Although I vaguely recall doing something on one or two 4.0/4.1 portals, I would say that that my portal history really starts with version 4.5., so I’ll talk about UI customization from there onwards.

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The jQuery Address plugin provides powerful deep linking capabilities and allows the creation of unique virtual addresses that can point to a website section or an application state. It enables a number of important capabilities including:

* Bookmarking in a browser or social website
* Sending links via email or instant messenger
* Finding specific content using the major search engines
* Utilizing browser history and reload buttons

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Work through each of the guidelines in each list and mark your site as either conforming or not conforming to the guideline.

Remember that all guidelines are context specific. If you feel that a guideline does not apply to your site, it's OK to ignore it.

The guidelines are purposefully expressed as positive statements, so that when you feed the results back to the design team you can identify some strengths of the design before you launch into the problems.

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When someone works on a website design, it is important that the look will remain same in all browsers. But creating a consistent interface for users is a constant struggle for every application designer. Building consistency on the web is especially tough because the visual rendering differences across browsers and operating systems are wildly different and almost arbitrary in what can and cannot be done. This technique will show you how to make submit buttons that appear the same across all browsers.

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