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user-experience.org - Keith Instone, User Experience professional

The essence of a website is self-service. There are three core things that self-service needs to get right: convenience, speed, and price. Convenience means task achievement with minimum effort. Speed means that you get in and out of a website as quickly as possible. People are cheap on the Web.
The three core principles of great […]

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 […]

I have always been bothered by how difficult it is to subscribe to RSS/Atom feeds. Consider the user experience — Someone sees an orange button with an unfamiliar acronym, they click it, and the browser starts spewing undecipherable code. Peter wrote about this a while back, and considering how much excitement there has been in […]

Javascript is a wonderful tool to enhance the usability of web sites. It is the extra layer above the mark-up “what is this text” and the CSS “how should it be displayed”. Javascript adds a new dimension, the “how should this element behave”.
On the following pages we will discuss and see how we can use […]

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 […]

When marking up content which could be defined in some way as a list, you should consider using an unordered list (
) for presentation. Not only does it improve the readability of your HTML code, it also applies meaning to content which would otherwise have none.

Unordered lists: more than just bullets

A techinque to present the comment form always fixed related to the scrolling content. Jonathan Snook presents a short explaination on how to implement this comment-stimulating web page layout. The technique is based on fixed positioning using CSS.
Comments: Behind the Scenes - snook.ca

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“Web-Dev-Bookmarks” is a list of essential web-sites, tutorials, references and examples (related to CSS Navigation Menus, CSS- & HTML-Techniques, Layouts, Accessibility, Usability, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) etc.) which make the life of web developers […]