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Guide to CSS Font Stacks: Techniques and Resources « Smashing Magazine
CSS Font stacks are one of those things that elude a lot of designers. Many stick to the basic stacks Dreamweaver auto-recommends or go even more basic by just specifying a single web-safe font.
But doing either of those things means you’re missing out on some great typography options. Font stacks can make it possible to show at least some of your visitors your site’s typography exactly the way you intend without showing everyone else a default font. Read on for more information on using and creating effective font stacks with CSS.
Designing Tables 101 :: UXmatters
Tables get a bad rap—especially in the Web world where, once upon a time, Web developers misused them for HTML layout. But tables are still very useful for the purpose for which they were originally intended—a way to show relationships among discrete data points.
Fresh vs. Familiar: How Aggressively to Redesign (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
Users hate change, so it's usually best to stay with a familiar design and evolve it gradually. In the long run, however, incrementalism eventually destroys cohesiveness, calling for a new UI architecture.
15 Best Photoshop Web Layout Design Tutorials | TJ Dzine
Hey, I thought I’d compile a list of some of the best web design photoshop web layout tutorials. Following these tutorials can be very help you improve your photoshop and web design skills. Hope you like them and find them helpful.
BBC NEWS | Technology | First impressions count for web
Internet users make up their minds about the quality of a website in the blink of an eye, a study shows.
Researchers found that the brain makes decisions in just a 20th of a second of viewing a webpage.
They were surprised as they believed it would take at least 10 times longer to form an opinion.
The study, published in the journal Behaviour and Information Technology, also suggests that first impressions have a lasting impact.
John Nack on Adobe: Why your Web content will look darker on Snow Leopard
If you're a Web designer, expect your CSS colors & your untagged/unmanaged images to look darker on Snow Leopard than on previous versions of the Mac OS. You'll also see less of a visible color shift when going from Photoshop to Flash or other unmanaged environments (e.g. Internet Explorer).
Professional Team Management Tips For Creative Folks | How-To | Smashing Magazine
Management is a vast subject, with several sub-categories, such as product, team management and project management. While all are interesting topics, this article focuses mainly on team management and offers some useful tips and ideas to promote discussion and help improve the performance and happiness of your teams.
50 Most Usable RIAs | InsideRIA
Bill Scott and I have reviewed hundreds of RIAs while compiling examples for our book Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions, and subsequent talks and articles. We recently realized that we had amassed quite a list of applications. Thinking other designers and developers might be interested in these resources, we applied two simple criteria to identify the top fifty:
Guide to CSS support in email clients - Articles & Tips - Campaign Monitor
Designing an HTML email that renders consistently across the major email clients can be very time consuming. Support for even simple CSS varies considerably between clients, and even different versions of the same client.
We’ve put together this guide to save you the time and frustration of figuring it out for yourself. With 23 different email clients tested, we cover all the popular applications across desktop, web and mobile email.
As the number of email clients continues to grow, we’ve decided to simplify the web-based version of the guide to focus on the 10 most popular email clients on the market. For the complete report on all 24 email clients across the desktop, web and mobile email world, download the complete guide in PDF format.
Backgrounds In CSS: Everything You Need To Know | CSS | Smashing Magazine
Backgrounds are a core part of CSS. They are one of the fundamentals that you simply need to know. In this article, we will cover the basics of using CSS backgrounds, including properties such as background-attachment. We’ll show some common tricks that can be done with the background as well as what’s in store for backgrounds in CSS 3 (including four new background properties!).
ForeUI - Easy-To-Use UI Prototyping Tool
EaSynth ForeUI is an easy-to-use UI prototyping tool. You can use ForeUI to create skinnable prototype of software or website, and run the interactive simulation in your web browser.
Kill Fees and Six Other Clauses to Consider for Your Contract
I’m not an attorney, but I have read through more than my share of agreements, both for my own business and on behalf of my clients. There are some clauses that are vital, especially when you are providing contracted services. Here is a breakdown of some of the big ones and why you may want to consider working them into your agreement.
A List Apart: Articles: The Case for Content Strategy—Motown Style
Over the past year, the content strategy chatter has been building. Jeffrey MacIntyre gave us its raison d’être. Kristina Halvorson wrote the call to arms. Panels at SXSW, presentations at An Event Apart, and regional meetups continue to build the drum roll. But how do you start humming the content strategy tune to your own team and to your prospective clients? Listen up and heed Aretha Franklin. No, really.
Web Design Tips: Three Ecommerce Web Design Trends | Practical eCommerce
Like fashion and architecture, web design enjoys an ever changing ebb and flow as trends become popular, become mainstream, and then become passé. To maintain a modern and aesthetically-pleasing look, web designers should examine current trends, estimate their staying power, and implement those techniques that will have the best and longest effects.
Best Practices For Effective Design Of "About me"-Pages | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine
The “about me”-page is one of the most overlooked pages in development and one of the highest ranked pages on many websites. In a world that’s becoming increasingly connected through the Web, it’s important that you engage your audience in a personal and friendly way, otherwise you risk just being another faceless web designer among a sea of websites.
Clever JPEG Optimization Techniques | How-To | Smashing Magazine
When people talk about image optimization, they consider only the limited parameters offered by popular image editors, like the “Quality” slider, the number of colors in the palette, dithering and so on. Also, a few utilities, such as OptiPNG and jpegtran, manage to squeeze extra bytes out of image files. All of these are pretty well-known tools that provide Web developers and designers with straightforward techniques of image optimization.
In this article, we’ll show you a different approach to image optimization, based on how image data is stored in different formats. Let’s start with the JPEG format and a simple technique called the eight-pixel grid.
Let's make the web faster - Google Code
What would be possible if browsing the web was as fast as turning the pages of a magazine? We invite you to join us in exploring and innovating across the entire spectrum of performance - from Internet protocols to the browser to website development. Together, let's make the web faster!
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