Posted on: 04 September, 2008
Author: Frank Woodford
When you are first creating a web design it can be easy to add photo upon photo to your web page. After all, isn't your goal to make your website as appealing as possible? This is a big mistake. ... The more graphics, photos or clip art you add to your page, the slower it will load. And if it loads slow? Your consumer will go elsewhere to find what they are searching for. Would you believe consumers only give a website 7 seconds to prove their value. It's true! So if you're going to get that sale and keep...
Posted on: 05 July, 2006
Author: Florie Lyn Masarate
Ever since the introduction of printing to humankind, people, especially businessmen have found it to be a very helpful invention. For this reason, printing have gained popularity over the past view years. One of the reasons why printing became popular is because they can provide quality prints to their users. Printing will provide many customization options to their users. In addition, printing services will also allow their users to save time, effort and money. However, there are times when a printing expenses can get out of hand. Instead of making you save your money, printing services and techniques make you...
Posted on: 10 May, 2006
Author: John Harris
In the good old days you had no option but to use tables if you wanted to give an impressive presentation on your website. Along came CSS a designer's best friend. There is no web layout that you can create with a table that can not be duplicated with CSS. Why do we (web developers) use tables??? Yes they make for fantastic designs and organized websites but they are not for this purpose. A table should be used for TABULAR DATA not design and layout. That being said, I have sworn off tables and replaced them with the almighty div...
Posted on: 27 October, 2005
Author: Werner Coetzee
If you are thinking about, or you are in the process of creating a new site, you will most definitely find this article interesting and maybe even inspiring. Actually the term interesting is not quite what I thought as I slowly and painfully reconstructed the pages on my mothers website several times over. I wanted to create a site that was going to be both incredibly user friendly and informative, and at the same time earn a bit of revenue from Google Adsense! Why not? So with this great little idea, I blindly set off and started to create what...
Posted on: 25 May, 2005
Author: John S. Britsios
Providing links that allow the user to skip directly to content, bypassing the navigation, enhances the accessibility of your web site. This is recommended for blind or visually impaired users, people who use screen readers, and also for text-browsers, mobile phones and PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants). These links are common on most US, UK, Irish, and other government websites, as well as many universities and private organizations. From the accessibility and usability point of view, it is recommended that you make such links visible. Why? In his article titled "Providing Skip Links", Frank Gayne of frontend.com explains: "Skip links would...
Posted on: 23 March, 2005
Author: Lala C. Ballatan
Are you fond of applying and scrambling old and new design clichés in one helpless web page? Are you one of the thousands not yet enlightened that too much of a good thing is bad? Are you too engrossed in improvising other designs and not coming up with your own? Being a design dinosaur is a common sickness among designers who tend to be exposed and awed in latest design clichés coming out and copying or improvising them to concentrate on making his / her original design. But this practice isnt entirely wrong, though. Theres always some "monkey see, monkey...
Posted on: 15 July, 2002
Author: Michel Fortin
A recent, growing trend on the Internet is the private ... it's a small, ... website that offers ... on a topic that might be of interest to a ... A recent, growing trend on the Internet is the private minisite-- it's a small, password-protected website that offers "insiderinformation" on a topic that might be of interest to a specificaudience. Similar to an ebook, it primarily offers informationthat's geared for a specific group, niche or vertical industry.A private "minisite" is like a small, niche-oriented community,where access is restricted and granted for a fee. Of course, webcommunities are all the rage,...
Posted on: 20 May, 2002
Author: David McKenzie
Have you got too many links on your site?I saw a site today that had only 4 visible links on its home page. 3 of those links were text links and linked to other pages within the same web site. Therefo Have you got too many links on your site?I saw a site today that had only 4 visible links on its home page. 3 of those links were text links and linked to other pages within the same web site. Therefore there was only 1 link to a different site. Is this site operating profitably?I'm really not sure but...
Posted on: 06 May, 2002
Author: Lauri Harpf
In "Why Pop-Ups are ... we looked at the pitfalls ofpop-up ... the most ... of them being the ... surfers feel about pop-ups. As I ... in ... article, whe In "Why Pop-Ups are Pop-Bad", we looked at the pitfalls ofpop-up advertising, the most significant of them being the wayInternet surfers feel about pop-ups. As I mentioned in thatprevious article, when you use pop-ups, you take the risk ofyour visitor count suffering and the reputation of your sitebeing damaged. Despite that, many use pop-ups on their sitesfor a variety of reasons and are reluctant to cease using anadvertising method...
Posted on: 28 February, 2002
Author: Micah D. Cranman
It seems to me that many of you who are new to building websites are having trouble figuring out exactly what makes the ... between a website that's ... and one that doesn't produce resul It seems to me that many of you who are new to building websites are having trouble figuring out exactly what makes the difference between a website that's effective and one that doesn't produce results. For example, I recently received this from Sybren Design Chronicles reader Marvin Baerg: This is a suggestion for an inclusion of an article on site design tips. It would be...