Entries tagged with tag: design
Sunday, May 29th, 2005
Create mini tabs using standard and compatible CSS and HTML
With the helpful concepts explained on Eric Meyer’s article, a while ago I turned to inline one of the nicest horizontal menus in its simplicity: the famous Mini Tabs by Dan Cederholm. I thought I’d share here the results.
Inline Mini Tabs
Tags: css, html, web design, navigation, interface design
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Saturday, May 28th, 2005
What is a Landing Page?
A landing page is the page visitors arrive at after clicking on your promotional creative.
Your landing page has to convince the visitor to stay and (depending on your goal):
* Fill out a form (but people hate filling out forms)
* Provide personal details (but […]
Tags: marketing, usability, web design
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Thursday, May 26th, 2005
Browse all fonts installed on your computer, using this online font browsing tool. No installation required!
STC :: fontBROWSER ::
Tags: graphic design, typography, tools
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Thursday, May 26th, 2005
CSS styling of unordered lists to create tabbed menu navigation with high quality and refined graphics.
Sliding Doors of CSS: A List Apart
Tags: html, css, html lists, web design
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Thursday, May 26th, 2005
Each of these patterns (which are more general) and techniques (more specific) are intended to help you solve design problems. They’re common problems, and there’s no point in reinventing the wheel every time you need, say, a sortable table — plenty of folks have already done it, and learned how to do it well. Some […]
Tags: interface design, design patterns, design
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Thursday, May 26th, 2005
There are lots of different mediums that good colour and typography should be used - magazines, books, posters, signage and (most applicable for us) screens. How we use colours and fonts (and just as importantly, how we use the spaces in between them) is the most telling aspect of web design - these things more […]
Tags: design, graphic design, typography
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2005
Having tried, trusted and standardised approach to Web development would go a long way to helping avoid the mistakes we all see over and over again. We need a Web methodology. However, finding a methodology that seems suited to Web development is not easy; making it work in the real world is even harder.
As the […]
Tags: web design process, web design methods, web production phases
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2005
Most tutorials on the styling of CSS lists for menus use unordered lists, which, for people starting out with CSS, can be a little difficult to grasp as the use of unordered lists requires extra styling to remove the bullets.
In this tutorial I demonstrate how to style a Definition List, which is equally suitable for […]
Tags: html, css, html lists, web design
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2005
Web Design Practices is a site devoted to helping designers understand what design practices are currently in use on the Web—and aims to gather research about the usability of commonly-employed design practices.
The data presented on this site are intended to inform design decisions, not dictate them. Common practice does not necessarily equate with best practice—and […]
Tags: web design, interface design, usability, design patterns
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2005
Essential Fonts For Designers | 300 Free Truetype Fonts You Should Have
Tags: graphic design, typography, fonts
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