- RapidWeaver: Rapid Web Site Design for Everyone from Preteens to Pros
- Feb 24, 2006
- Need a site for your business or a blog for your rants? Bryan Hoff shows you how RapidWeaver makes Web site creation fast, painless, and fun! It's powerful enough for professionals, yet easy enough for kids to use, too.
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- Real World Adobe Creative Suite 2: View from the Bridge
- Jun 30, 2006
- Adobe Creative Suite 2 introduces an new application-- Adobe Bridge--for visually managing the different file types you'll work on within the CS2 applications. Just as the Bridge on the starship Enterprise was the main hub for all the ship's departments, the Adobe Bridge helps you work better with all the CS2 applications. In this chapter you'll get an introduction to Adobe Bridge and learn its major features.
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- Recoding iWeb Sites Part 1: How to Combine iWeb Sites with Other Web Design Tools for Even Better Sites
- May 19, 2006
- Apple's iWeb makes creating polished Web pages incredibly easy because you never have to deal with the code. Unfortunately, that also means you can't add Web goodies to your site that require adding pieces of code directly to the page. Fortunately, modifying the code after publishing a site with iWeb is possible, and Ryan Faas fills you in on how to do it.
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- Recoding iWeb Sites Part 2: Manipulating Code for iWeb-Created Page Elements
- Jun 2, 2006
- You like iWeb's overall ease of use, right? But what if you need to do something extra with a few of your pages? You designed a site in iWeb and now want to expand the site with other technologies and using a different Web design tool? In part two of Ryan Faas' series, find out about the type of code iWeb creates and how you can rework it for your own use.
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- Redesigning a Big Umbrella of Websites: The Informit CSS Overhaul
- Nov 5, 2004
- Informit and its many sister sites, all divisions of the Pearson Technology Group, recently united in one code base. How does a huge conglomerate of independent web sites become one system of technologies that works for everyone? Meryl K. Evans tells the tale.
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- Research-Directed Design Methods: Project Definition
- Nov 16, 2009
- Sarah Horto shows the importance of restraint in approaching a new website design project. Project success depends on defining the project purpose and goals before diving into wireframes, navigation, and especially visual design.
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- Responsive Design Workflow: Designing in Text
- Apr 15, 2013
- In this chapter, Stephen Hay discusses responsive design with text, including marking up plain text and converting plain text to HTML.
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- Screen-based Thinking: Let’s Make an App!
- Mar 2, 2015
- In this excerpt from The Best Interface Is No Interface: The simple path to brilliant technology, Golden Krishna takes a second look at today’s screen-obsessed world—how we got here, why we’re still here, why this awful trend is so awful, and how people are moving beyond screens and breaking off their love affair with mundane apps.
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- Seductive Interaction Design: Are You Attractive?
- Jul 13, 2011
- Stephen P. Anderson considers the ways in which feelings and emotions can influence perceived and actual usability.
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- Seeking Simplicity? You’re Probably Looking in the Wrong Place
- May 18, 2011
- How can you “make it simple” when it’s impossible to pin down what “simple” means? No wonder simplicity is so hard to achieve. Giles Colborne explains why having a good definition of simplicity helps you to understand and counter many of the obstacles and objections that will crop up as you try to design your “next big thing.”
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- Set Up a Basic Web Page in Dreamweaver MX 2004
- Sep 23, 2005
- Never built a Web page before? No problem. Author J. Tarin Towers walks you through creating a simple Web page in Dreamweaver MX 2004 that uses tables, links, images, and text. She also shows you how to adjust properties of a page, including the title and page background, as well as how to select and use colors in Dreamweaver.
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- Setting Up Web Site Categories
- Feb 14, 2003
- In the first of three articles on web design, Lynda Weinman overviews the first step in the information architecture process: setting up your categories.
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- Should Mobile Design Principles Be Applied to the Desktop?
- Oct 24, 2012
- Usability experts Raluca Budiu and Jakob Nielsen discuss whether mobile design principles can and should be applied to the desktop.
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- Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design: Remove
- Oct 6, 2010
- Giles Colborne explains the “remove” strategy, which is about removing distractions to bring focus to your project, including learning what’s valuable to users, focusing your resources on delivering value, meeting users’ goals, and removing the distractions of tiny speed bumps that add to the load on the user.
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- Simple and Usable: An Interview with Giles Colborne
- Dec 13, 2010
- Karen McGrane interviews Giles Colborne about his book, Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design, where he discusses the four core solutions for simplifying, advice for designers, and finding “simplicty on the other side of complexity.”
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- Six Principles of Good Commerce Design
- Jul 11, 2003
- On the Web, issues of speed, organization, clarity, and consistency drive your solution. Learn how to keep these aspects and the needs of your customers in mind when working to balance design and style on your Web page.
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- Small Web Sites Can Be Beautiful
- Dec 28, 2001
- A personal website need not be an idle dream. Let author and columnist Ed Tittel explain what you can do and what tools and techniques will let you create and maintain a thriving personal Web world.
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- Starting Your Own Blog: How to Choose the Right Blogging Tool for You
- Sep 9, 2005
- Blogs, blogs, blogs. Seems like they're everywhere these days. But with so many blogging tools out there it can be tough to pick the one you need to get started. Molly Holzschlag helps you out by helping you pick just the right blogging tool for you.
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- Steve Krug Explains Several True Things about Usability Testing
- May 1, 2014
- In this excerpt from Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 3rd Edition, Steve Krug share three true things about usability tests.
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- Steve Krug on Creating Effective Visual Hierarchies
- Apr 29, 2014
- In this excerpt from Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 3rd Edition, Steve Krug explains that the appearance of the things on the page should accurately portray the relationships between the things on the page.
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