Web design can be an enjoyable and fulfilling experience. It’s a trade that combines technical skills with creative ability. If you feel comfortable with computer technology and you enjoy creating documents, web design can be a great way to combine the two interests.
That being said, it’s always overwhelming [...]
The cloud computing offers enterprises a new approach to deliver applications and it also presents new challenges for developers aiming to build applications for the cloud. Zend, one of the lead commercial vendors behind the open source PHP language, is now accelerating its cloud development efforts with a number of new [...]
Continue Reading -»When you’re starting a new design, no matter what your design methodology is, you start with a blank page. There is nothing on the Web page – so the first thing you’ll do is put something up on the page.
But do you think about the placement of those elements or do you [...]
There is an excellent site called What is good hypertext writing?. I read through this entire site and realized that there are some great ideas there, and they bear repeating.
Using Links – Don’t let the reader know you’re leading them
Keep it Personalized – Who’s writing your pages anyway?
Good Navigation – [...]
Cool Doesn’t Cut It…
Usability on the Web is crucial if you want to have customers continue to return. Jared Spool has found that 42% of Web users find what they need on any given Web page. This means that 58% do not find what they need.
This means that Usability of Web [...]
They say you never have a second chance to make a first impression, and that the first impression is made within 5 seconds of meeting someone. Well, with Web pages it’s even faster than that.
What does your first page say about your site? Does it grab your readers and hold them, [...]
If people cannot navigate through your site, they will quickly leave. Thus, designing effective navigation on your Web site is crucial. But there are some basic things you need to do before you can start worrying about rollovers or links, images or flash.
Information Architecture
Before you can even start to plan your navigation, you need to [...]