- Steve Krug on Things that Make Us Think
- Apr 28, 2014
- Don't make people puzzle over stuff on your website! In this excerpt from Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 3rd Edition, Steve Krug shares some examples of things that make us think, so you'll begin to notice all the things that make you think in the sites and apps you use. And eventually you’ll learn to recognize and avoid them in the things you’re building.
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- Steve Krug on Why Nothing Beats a Good Tagline!™
- Apr 30, 2014
- Taglines are a very efficient way to get your message across, because they’re the one place on the web page where users most expect to find a concise statement of the site's purpose. In this excerpt from Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 3rd Edition, Steve Krug shares some attributes to look for when choosing a tagline.
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- Stupid User Syndrome: Why We Become Idiots Online (And What Web Designers Can Do About It)
- Jul 18, 2008
- Whether we like to admit it or not, we've all been victims of stupid user syndrome at some point or another. Designing the Moment author Robert Hoekman Jr. outlines the symptoms of this terrible malady as well as what Web designers can do to prevent it.
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- Styling a Photo Collection Using CSS
- Aug 13, 2004
- Eric Meyer walks you through a web page design project to present a collection of photographs for sale.
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- Ten Things You Can Do with CSS (That You Might Not Have Known You Could Do)
- Dec 22, 2005
- If you're doing anything in, on, or around Web design, you probably already know the basics of using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). But just learning a few rules doesn't mean you know everything. There are many subtle (and not-so-obvious) techniques that combine CSS capabilities in ways to get some striking design effects. Jason Cranford Teague shows you 10 of his favorite things to do with CSS (that you might not have known you could do).
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- The Art and Science of Influential Web Content: An Interview with Colleen Jones
- Nov 18, 2010
- Colleen Jones, author of Clout: The Art and Science of Influential Web Content, discusses why influential web content is critical, the three real benefits of social networking, and the biggest mistake most organizations make with regard to their web content.
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- The Art and Science of Influential Web Content: What Rhetoric Really Is
- Dec 1, 2010
- In this excerpt from her book, Clout: The Art and Science of Influential Web Content, Colleen Jones distills many of the useful ideas from the debate on the theory and scope of rhetoric into four principles for web content and offers advice on when to use what principles.
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- The Art of TextEdit
- May 4, 2007
- Need a fast and easy-to-use word processor/page layout program with lists, styles, tables, advanced typography, and support for multiple languages? Ladies and gentlemen, Neale Monks wants to introduce you to TextEdit, which is a viable, attractive alternative to heavyweight word processors.
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- The Best Interface Is No Interface: An Interview with Golden Krishna
- Feb 12, 2015
- User Experience Designer Golden Krishna talks to Peachpit about his new book, The Best Interface Is No Interface: The simple path to brilliant technology , why the screen isn't always the best answer, imagining more elegant answers beyond the screen, and the best and worst examples of user interfaces.
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- The Case for Designing with Progressive Enhancement
- May 14, 2010
- Learn how to create sites that deliver the highly interactive experiences that JavaScript, advanced CSS, and Ajax afford, and at the same time ensure that the very same codebase will work everywhere.
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- The Elements of Table Styles
- Jun 15, 2001
- Programs like Adobe GoLive removed the need for hand-coding the HTML, but tables can still be time consuming to edit and tweak. GoLive 5 introduced Table styles, a tool for applying cell and row colors, text formatting, and other information.
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- The Elements of User Experience: The Scope Plane: Functional Specifications and Content Requirements
- Feb 17, 2011
- There are two main reasons to bother to define requirements: so you know what you're building and so you know what you're not building. Jesse James Garrett examines the importance and process of defining the scope of your website, including defining requirements and functional specifications.
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- The Future of Web Standards
- Nov 12, 2009
- This chapter starts by connecting the dots between web standards, "Web 2.0," Search engine optimization (SEO), and other industry-leading ideas that can make even a businessperson who is indifferent to technology sit up and roll over. This chapter is also for web designers and developers who want to understand what the best web standards have in common, where they came from, and where they (and we) are going.
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- The Infographics Complexity Challenge: Presentation and Exploration
- Oct 3, 2012
- An information graphic is a tool for the designer to communicate with readers, and a tool for readers to analyze what’s being presented to them. It doesn’t matter if you see yourself as an engineer or as an artist: If you create infographics and visualizations, the balance you achieve between these two dimensions will define whether or not your work is good.
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- The Inspiration Bookshelf: The Best Books for Design, Learning and User Experience
- Jun 4, 2012
- Julie Dirksen, author of Design For How People Learn, shares her "Inspiration Bookshelf" for designers, listing books and websites that are special, not only in the content, but also in the way that they were written and designed.
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- The Mobile Future of UX
- Oct 14, 2011
- Robert Hoekman, Jr. talks about the profound impact PC Free and the mobile revolution in general will have on web designers.
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- The New Face of Podcasting: Creating Video Podcasts Using iMovie, GarageBand, and iWeb in iLife '06
- Jun 9, 2006
- The ease of podcast creating in iLife '06 can turn any Mac owner into the online equivalent of a radio star. But what if you want to star in your own online TV series? The answer is video podcasting, and Ryan Faas says it isn't much harder to put together than a traditional audio podcast.
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- The Next Generation Responsive Web Design Tool: Macaw
- May 15, 2014
- With the advent of responsive design on the web, workflows and roles have been changing on web teams. Because of this, a flood of responsive design tools has come about that can also write semantic HTML and clean CSS. Macaw is one. Adobe expert Brian Wood dives into Macaw and explores a typical responsive design workflow using it.
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- The Next Level: Creating an Inline Random Graphic in Dreamweaver CS3
- Jul 13, 2007
- Spice up your Web pages with the easy-to-use Dreamweaver CS3!
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- The Right Way to Link To Pages On Your Site
- Jan 14, 2005
- What is the best way to code internal links throughout your site to optimize your visibility for search engines? In some cases, like weblogs, the difference between a relative link and an absolute link can mean a significant difference in searchability.
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