- Web ReDesign: Phase 4—Production and QA
- Jun 14, 2002
- This sample chapter shows a phase of web design that is divided into three sections — Prepping, Building, and Testing — a production workflow aimed at keeping the project's HTML construction on track.
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- Web Site Technology: To Build or To Buy?
- Aug 1, 2003
- June Cohen walks non-technical managers through their choices for building or buying advanced web site technology such as shopping cart software.
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- Web Wilderness Adventure Tours
- Jan 25, 2002
- Just as wilderness areas are good for the soul, the Web can offer rejuvenating opportunities for designers in disorienting, experimental regions. Curt Cloninger tours several "wild" Web sites and tells why you, too, should enter the Web wilderness.
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- Welcome to Flash Catalyst “Panini”
- Oct 25, 2010
- Adobe has recently released a preview of the next version of Flash Catalyst, code-named “Panini.” Chris Griffith takes a look at what Panini has to offer.
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- What Are CSS Sprites?
- Mar 3, 2006
- If you're familiar with Web design concepts, you already know the basics of using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). CSS sprites allow you to create a single file that contains all the images laid out in a grid, requiring only a single image and only a single server call. Jason Cranford Teague shows you how to tame your Web site graphics using CSS sprites to consolidate images into a single file.
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- What Are Web Pages Anyway? A Non-Designer's Guide
- Jul 7, 2006
- Before you begin to create web pages, it’s a good idea to know what they are and how they work. In this chapter you’ll walk through the process of actually creating a couple of practice web pages, using the web authoring software of your choice.
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- What Do People Think of Your Site Design? Here's How To Find Out.
- Jan 12, 2007
- Usability testing is an essential part of the web design diet. In a nutshell, it's a technique for soliciting feedback on the design of a web site. Usability testing is usually conducted on one participant at a time, and attempts to have participants use the site in as close to a real-world setting as possible. Different people have different approaches to usability testing but two things remain consistent—the documents describing what you'll do during the test (the plan) and what came out of the test (the results report). This chapter describes the test plan—the document you prepare in advance of testing—.
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- What Do You Test, and When Do You Test It?: Why the Hardest Part Is Starting Early Enough
- Jan 14, 2010
- If there’s one thing that usability professionals agree on, it’s that you want to start testing as early as possible. Steve Krug shows you how to do it.
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- What Is a Web Designer, Anyway?
- Dec 6, 2001
- Through web design you can reposition yourself from vendor to author, creating content and designing it your way. You can enrich your life; the lives of others; and make your mark on the medium — perhaps on your generation.
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- What PHP Can Do For You
- Jul 19, 2001
- Open source software can be difficult to learn. PHP is an open source Web-scripting language and wonderfully utilitarian tool that, despite its value and general ease of use, has been daunting to pick up, until now. Read on for what PHP can do for you--and ...
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- What the Web Can Do
- Apr 27, 2001
- This excerpt from Putting Your Small Business on the Web by Maria Langer explains how to reduce marketing costs and create a more professional business image for your company on the Web.
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- What's New in Flash 5
- Aug 13, 2001
- Peachpit Press author Katherine Ulrich lists some new features that beginning and intermediate users of Flash will especially appreciate.
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- What’s All This Talk About Web Accessibility, Part 1: Inside Adaptive Technology
- Dec 21, 2001
- What is the Internet world like through adaptive technology? This article by Lisa Jahred takes you inside the adaptive technology experience.
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- What’s New and Improved in Adobe Flash CS5.5
- Sep 29, 2011
- Adobe Flash just keeps getting more powerful as the versions roll on, and CS5.5 is no exception. While those services are very useful, Adobe expert Brian Wood shows us how the latest version of Flash has something for everyone, and walks us through his top ten list of new features.
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- What's Acceptable Search Engine "Spam" Technique?
- Jan 21, 2005
- While there are certainly some shady practices that you can use to "cheat" your way into a better page rank from search engines, some practices that are marked as "spam" can actually be quite innocent. Dave Taylor provides two examples of perfectly innocent web design elements that have been called "spam" by pagerank purists.
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- What's New in Dreamweaver 8?
- Sep 30, 2005
- After years of using Dreamweaver, Matthew David is excited by the latest version's new features for designers and developers. He covers his new favorites in this article.
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- When Search Meets Web Usability: Informational Searches—What Can I Learn?
- Apr 13, 2009
- If you want to get and maintain long-term search engine visibility, then satisfying informational searches is crucial. Here's what you need to know to create informational pages that provide specific content of user interest.
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- Who Am I Writing for, and, Incidentally, Who Am I?
- May 10, 2002
- On the Web the mass audience is crumbling. Jonathan and Lisa Price help you get to know the audience of one.
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- Why Bad Site Design Succeeds
- Oct 19, 2007
- Every so often, bad design wins. Unfortunately, this often results in designers believing that bad design is a good idea. Before you start creating animated GIFs again, take a look at what Robert Hoekman, Jr., has to say about why sites like YouTube, MySpace, and others succeed in spite of their weak designs.
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- Why I Like the Acrobat X UI
- Mar 25, 2011
- If you have been snarly about the new Acrobat X user interface, knock it off. Acrobat expert John Deubert gives you five reasons why it's a real improvement over Acrobat 9.
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