Tag: WEB DESIGN

digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2007/11/21/ten-tips-for-web-design-magic/';Now that we've harangued you to upgrade your Web site, take advantage of business blogs, read your Web stats/, incorporate search engine tips and use Web 2.0 themes, it's time to choose a Web design firm to make all of the above happen for your small business. Google "web design" and spend the rest of your ...

Virtual Hosting has an excellent article up detailing 23 actionable web design lessons that we can learn from eye-tracking studies. Most of the items are common sense: people scan web pages rather than read them, people look at the top left corner of the page first, people ignore banner ads, people ignore fancy formating that looks like ads, etc. But why do people interact with pages in this ...

In the world of web developers there are two standard ways of laying out a web page. The classical way is to use tables and structure your web page like you would an Excel Spreadsheet or a Word document. The second is to use Cascading Style Sheets that let you create elements on the page and position them according to your needs. For a large variety of reasons CSS based layouts are the way to ...

AOL -- this blog's parent company -- has launched a redesigned home page, and you know, there's something awfully familiar about the layout. We just can't quite put our finger on it. The portal's easier to navigate, has a nice set of links on the lefthand side -- oh yeah, and it looks almost exactly like the Yahoo! home page. The wise-crackers at digg are having a field day with this one. One of ...

A List Apart wants some information from you for a new survey they have released online. Statistics have never been compiled for the Web Design profession, including designers, developers, project managers, writers and editors. This survey is aiming at tracking such questions as who we are, where we live, job titles, skills, education, and background. By filling out the 37 question survey ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/10_rules_for_your_small_business_home_page'; If you're in business and reading this article, chances are your company has a Web site. Before we all go to Web 2.0, does your site measure up to Web 1.0? Let's check how your site stands up to Web pages that "suck." Read on to learn how you might be sending your potential customers fleeing in terror. ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/design/CSS_Tinderbox_open_source_web_design_DLS_Design_Tip'; Today's Design Tip, the second in a recently re-launched series, brings some open source layouts to your web design tool box. The CSS Tinderbox features some Creative Commons licensed basic layouts that can easily lay the foundation for many of your design projects. All the layouts have previews available, ...

Microsoft is busy completing its first crack at knocking on Adobe's door by developing a suite of web and graphic design software called Expression Studio. The scheduled launch date is for the middle of 2007, and it will be selling for about $599 as a package. The software suite will include Expression Web, a revamped FrontPage, Expression Blend which is an interactive design tool previously ...

Here's an ingenious way to create a palette of colors that work well together for your next design project - Color Palette Generator. Simply supply the site with an image that contains colors you enjoy, and it will select a set of colors from the image that are complimentary to one another, and match the image's colors. As stated on the site, this can be useful for design projects that rely on a ...

I just got back from some much needed R & R, and since I left before the most recent Homeland Security PR campaign terror scare, I spent a lot of time on the TSA website the last few days of my vacation trying to figure out the ever-changing array of prohibited items. It wasn't much help. It seemed like they were updating the regs hourly, but the website only every couple of days, and then in ...

If your software or web design project is struggling through the fog, let Porchlight show you and your team the way. This web-based project management and bug tracking service offers user-specific milestone and project tracking, so members of your team only need to see the tasks that matter to them. Email updates and RSS feeds for projects, as well as a subscribe-able calendar for upcoming ...

The million-dollar question: will Microsoft's Expression package (which includes Graphic, Interactive, and Web Designer flavors) dethrone Adobe as king of multimedia creation? Today, according to Techworld, Microsoft's Expression Web Designer will be released as a Community Technology Preview today. The big difference between this tool and Adobe's Dreamweaver? According to the one guy quoted in ...