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10 ways to orientate users on your site
Imagine you're driving along and due to a road closure you have to follow those conspicuous yellow detour signs...via [WebDevTips.com]
Improving accessibility for motor impaired users
The unique requirements for motor impaired web users can often be overlooked or poorly implemented...via [WebDevTips.com]
Eye tracking: Eye candy vs. I can do
Eye tracking has been around for decades but has only become commercially available over the past few years. It has been heralded as the next big thing in user research...via [WebDevTips.com]
Split A/B testing
Following on from any website usability study a number of usability problems are usually found. There can often be debate within any organisation...via [WebDevTips.com]
Opening PDFs in a new window with JavaScript
Opening documents such as PDFs in a new window should be automated using JavaScript for the following reasons...via [WebDevTips.com]
Making the LINK tag useful
One tag that is surprisingly under used is the link tag...via [WebDevTips.com]
How to get your webpages onto the web
This guide will take you through the steps required to move your site from your computer onto the World Wide Web for all to see.via [WebDevTips.com]
Focus groups - how to run them
A focus group involves encouraging an invited group of participants to share their thoughts, feelings, attitudes and ideas on certain subject...via [WebDevTips.com]
Preparing your CSS for Internet Explorer 7
Later on this year Microsoft will officially release Internet Explorer 7...via [WebDevTips.com]
Is Google Better Equipped For Search
1 Jul 2009by Matt Hartley
As I read through this article, I found myself a bit shocked at what I was reading. While I expect some level of friction between Google and Bing, I found the comments made by Google about Bing to be a bit antagonizing. Perhaps there is some substance in what Google has said? Maybe it is possible [.... continues
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Real-time Search Needs More Time In The Oven
1 Jul 2009by Matt Hartley
I was reading this article of Robert’s today and for the first time in awhile, discovered that he and I agreed on something! Scoble is of the opinion that Twitter has little value in the long-term value arena. I could not agree more. More over, I would add that the idea of using Twitter as... continues
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Yelp Clone Gets Paid
30 Jun 2009by Matt Hartley
Not totally sure I am feeling the value here? How does yet another “localized” search engine help anyone again? Granted, Yahoo Local is pretty lame, but I am just not sure that this is the right approach. Could be wrong, but I have been to the site and found nothing compelling to make me... continues
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The Fallacy of Page Zooming
18 Jun 2009by Drew McLellan
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Five Interesting Ways To Publish with Perch
11 Jun 2009by Drew McLellan
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Launching Perch
1 Jun 2009by Drew McLellan
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10 Cost Effective Web Development Techniques
18 May 2009by Drew McLellan
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Easing The Path From Design to Development
18 May 2009by Drew McLellan
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Supersleight jQuery Plugin for Transparent PNGs in IE6
12 Mar 2009by Drew McLellan
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The Cost of Accessibility
25 Feb 2009by Drew McLellan
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Do You Really Need a Website?
21 Jan 2009With so much user-generated content around these days, do businesses really need their own websites to establish an online presence? Erika asks some tough questions.
via [evolt.org - Workers of the Web, Evolt!]
De top-10 leugens die klanten vertellen
20 Jan 2009Oorspronkelijke titel/original title: Top 10 Lies told by Clients
Als je commercieel aan de slag gaat, dan is zorgen dat je je werk goed doet maar een klein deel van je taak. Regelmatig zie ik treurige voorbeelden van mensen die met goede bedoelingen aan een opdracht beginnen, en vervolgens verschri... continues
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10volt: Help Move Us Forward!
20 Jan 2009December 14, 2008 evolt.org turns ten years old. 10! We've been busy upgrading our hardware, software, content, and vision, and we could use your help. What could evolt.org offer you that similar communities do not? What do we do well, and what can we do better?
via [evolt.org - Workers of the Web, Evolt!]
When Wikis Go Bad
20 Jan 2009Over the last few years the use of wikis has become really popular. For every wiki evangelist I have met, I have also come across as many who hate wikis. I’ve used them extensively and I too have gone through a love-hate relationship with the wiki. Having recently done some work on ... continues
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HTML and Web Standards Training
12 Jan 2009by Drew McLellan
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The Myth of Stability
29 Dec 2008by Drew McLellan
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Optimizing by Color: How Color Can Affect Site Activity and Performance
21 Dec 2008Improving your use of color may open the door toward improving of the effectiveness of your site or portal. Our research shows that simple color-changes can improve click-through rates, registration numbers, and community activity. This conclusion derives from research at LeerWiki.nl, a Dutch commu... continues
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Save the Validators
21 Dec 2008Any front-end web developer knows how much the World Wide Web Consortium validators have done not just for our markup skills, but for the web itself. Due to the cost of operations these heavily-used and much-appreciated tools are now in jeopardy.
via [evolt.org - Workers of the Web, Evolt!]
The List Tip Tradition
7 Dec 2008Tipping is an evolt.org discussion list tradition; the way a list member voluntarily "pays" for an off-topic, chatty, or high noise-to-signal post.
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Roadtesting a Sumo Omni Beanbag Chair
30 Nov 2008by Drew McLellan
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CMS Trench Warfare: An Introduction
11 Nov 2008I have been working with large organizations to create or move web and intranet sites from static HTML pages to the company's chosen CMS. My role is that of liaison between the IT department (or whoever manages the project) and end user. By default, my clients tend to be in clerical roles: the fol... continues
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Design for iPhone: a device that thinks different
29 Oct 2008One Saturday afternoon, I agreed to take my daughter to the AT&T store, just to LOOK at an iPhone... touch one... explore a little. MISTAKE. I should have duct-taped myself to the mast — and my wallet to my ass — because next thing I knew (after daughter demoed it as expertly as if... continues
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A Very Simple and Effective Captcha
4 Oct 2008I have a very simple anti-bot spam technique that works extremely well. It requires no javascript, cookies or complicated server weirdness, is fully accessible, has no hidden fields, has negligible overhead and takes just a moment or two to implement. It requires that the user fill out one field wit... continues
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Upcoming IE8: Interview with Bill Gates by Molly Holzschlag
6 Dec 2007by Shirley Kaiser
Fascinating reading to be had about the upcoming IE8 via a new interview of Bill Gates by Molly Holzschlag: Conversation with Bill Gates about IE8 and Microsoft Transparency. Not long after the interview, the official IE Blog also announced the upcoming Internet Explorer 8. Check out the complete po... continues
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Creating a Blog Entry Date Calendar Icon Look with CSS, Mostly
22 Feb 2007by Shirley Kaiser
I've received numerous inquiries about how I created the entry post calendar icon look for Brainstorms and Raves. So today's post shares the basics of the CSS and the two tiny background images I created to achieve the calendar icon look. (1308 words, 2 links, 12 images)
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Inspiration, Insight Behind the New Happy Cog Redesign
10 Feb 2007by Shirley Kaiser
Do you ever wonder what goes into brainstorming sessions and creative ideas from some of the top names in the Web design field? You'll find that and much more with blog posts earlier this week by three creators of the latest redesign of Happy Cog's website - Jeffrey Zeldman, Jason Santa Maria, and D... continues
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Join Us! BrowserCam Subscription via Fundable Available
18 Dec 2006by Shirley Kaiser
The BrowserCam pool via fundable.org that I belong to is up for its annual renewal. It has a few openings for subscribers this time around. This subscription is for the BC-Complete plan, and the cost is US $26 for the 12-month subscription via fundable.org (information below). US $499.95 is the cost... continues
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New Web Accessibility Articles, Accessible Style Switching
12 Oct 2006by Shirley Kaiser
There are lots of great new and recent articles, tutorials, and tips about Web accessibility. Today's post includes links to articles and tutorials on Web accessibility in general, accessible forms, accessible style switching, including my own site's style switching, accessibility and the blind and ... continues
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Part 2: User-friendly Contextual Navigation with Simple PHP Includes
9 Oct 2006by Shirley Kaiser
Building on the previous post, User-friendly Contextual Navigation with Simple PHP Includes, I thought I'd take things one small and simple step further by using PHP once again, this time to add a CSS class for the current page. Then it's easy to use this CSS class to create a helpful visual cue wit... continues
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WebsiteTips.com Relaunch!
23 Mar 2006by Shirley Kaiser
I've been buried the last five months quietly working hard on a major redesign and restructuring of WebsiteTips.com. I'm now excited to announce that the all new WebsiteTips.com is now online. Read the complete post to learn all about it! (426 words, 11 links, 2 images)
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Website Testing: Conquering Cross-browser, Cross-platform Woes
14 Aug 2005by Shirley Kaiser
As I was doing final cross-browser testing for a redesign of SKDesigns, my website design business, the design implementation was working quite well in nearly every mainstream browser for Windows, Mac, Linux, and even the Lynx text-only browser. Unfortunately, though, I found problems with three old... continues
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Web Development Links
CodePaste.Net - Paste and link your .Net code
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XML/SWF Charts > Introduction
XML/SWF Charts is a simple, yet powerful tool to create attractive charts and graphs from XML data. Create an XML source to describe a chart, then pass it to this tool's flash file to generate the chart. The XML source can be prepared manually, or generated dynamically using any scripting lang... continuesWeb 开发与设计师速查手册大全（上） - Web前端 - JavaEye新闻
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40 Free High Quality Hand-drawn Fonts | Graphics
S#arp Architecture: ASP.NET MVC with NHibernate - Billy McCafferty - Devlicio.us
Response to website delay | birminghamnewsroom.com
CSS-Tricks
Pylot | Open Source Web Performance Tool
The Ultimate Joomla Toolbox: Themes, Extensions and Resources | Noupe
Markus Schlegel: Google Page Speed
HTML5 Doctor, helping you implement HTML 5 today
22 Extremely Useful Tools for Web Designers and Developers | Queness
openkapow - Blogs
WebServices - Axis
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Extendio | web design & development
Cult-foo » Multiple file Uploaders
YouTube Architecture | High Scalability
launchly: The home of website launching.
CodeIgniter - Open source PHP web application framework
CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. If you're a developer who lives in the real world of shared hosting accounts and clients with deadlines, and if you're t... continuesCakePHP: the rapid development php framework. Home
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Start a usability test for your web project in two minutes. Submit questions about your site and receive ten responses from our reviewers. The cost is $1014 Most Usefull design cheat sheets and coding cheat sheets | delimitdesign.com
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Design and Code a Slick Website from Scratch – Part I - Nettuts+
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
camen design · Video for Everybody!
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Superfeedr Blog : Aristochat
Transparent iframes in All Browsers
Designers Toolbox: Graphic Design Tools : Lorem Ipsum Text Generator : Create...
analisys - Ruby at ThoughtWorks
superfeedr's aristochat at master - GitHub
Facebox 1.2
Facebox is a jQuery-based, Facebook-style lightbox which can display images, divs, or entire remote pages. It's simple to use and easy on the eyes. Download the tarball, view the examples, then start enjoying the curves.Via Delicious.
