Archive for 'Usability'
Supercharge Your Website Maintenance with Xenu’s Link Sleuth
Posted on 25. Jul, 2010 by Smiley Cat: Christian Watson's Web Design Blog.
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I've been using Xenu's link sleuth to do some website cleanup recently and wanted to make sure I was getting the most out of it.
A little research resulted in several useful articles about how much more you can do with this tool than just check for br...
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Getting Real Feedback For Your New Design, Usability Testing
Posted on 24. Jul, 2010 by Valters Bergspics.
Getting feedback is very important in each work, because it really can improve our works, see do others react and understand your design the same way you do and of course to let you understand how your readers,visitors think. There are really many webs...Continue Reading
Design Pattern Collections
Posted on 24. Jul, 2010 by Smiley Cat: Christian Watson's Web Design Blog.
I really enjoyed browsing through this collection of design pattern libraries, gathered together by Erin Lynn Young. Despite my own interest in the subject, there were a lot of sites I hadn't seen before.Continue Reading
Understanding border-image
Posted on 22. Jul, 2010 by Alex.
Understanding border-image. Learn how the border-image shorthand property works in today’s browsers.Continue Reading
A Guide on Layout Types in Web Design
Posted on 22. Jul, 2010 by Alex.
A Guide on Layout Types in Web Design. A nice recap of the many different types of layouts that can be used in web design.Continue Reading
CSS Filters
Posted on 22. Jul, 2010 by Alex.
CSS Filters. A 5 minute microslot on how to make sure the browser you want gets the CSS that you want it to have!Continue Reading
CSS3 Pie
Posted on 21. Jul, 2010 by Alex.
CSS3 Pie. Makes Internet Explorer 6-8 capable of rendering several of the most useful CSS3 decoration features.Continue Reading
What’s the Best Search Box Size?
Posted on 21. Jul, 2010 by Smiley Cat: Christian Watson's Web Design Blog.
Search is an important component of any large website, especially an online retailer with thousands of products. However, when visiting different sites I've seen little consensus on how many characters should be viewable in a search box, even though b...Continue Reading
9 Well Designed, Usable Sites, And What Makes Them Great
Posted on 15. Jul, 2010 by Jacob Creech.
We recently did a showcase of 9 common usability pitfalls, and how to avoid them, and in the comments there were a lot of questions about the websites we think stand out, and do a great job of both usability and design. Today you can see a list of nine...Continue Reading
Ecommerce Copywriting: 11 Product Descriptions Compared
Posted on 11. Jul, 2010 by Smiley Cat: Christian Watson's Web Design Blog.
A recent article on Get Elastic — The 4 Pillars of Ecommerce Copywriting — got me thinking about the '2nd pillar' mentioned in the article, writing to persuade. How do different retailers approach writing persuasive copy for the a product ...Continue Reading
How to Reduce the Loading Time of Your Blog
Posted on 09. Jul, 2010 by Rishabh Agarwal.
One thing that every blog owner wants is that his or her blog should have a faster loading time and should load in a split second. And, with Google using site speed in search rankings now, these things have become more vital and important. A fast load...Continue Reading
To Click or Not to Click
Posted on 08. Jul, 2010 by Smiley Cat: Christian Watson's Web Design Blog.
It's common these days for news-oriented sites to practice 'link hoarding' whereby when referencing a topic, rather than linking out to external websites they link mainly to their own internal archive of content about that topic. Take this example art...Continue Reading
Interactive Media Awards Top 10 Websites of 2009
Posted on 03. Jul, 2010 by Smiley Cat: Christian Watson's Web Design Blog.
I'm not a huge fan of web awards programs, largely because you typically have to pay to be considered and so the pool of contenders is somewhat self-selected. That being said, the IMA is a fairly well established awards program that attracts some good...Continue Reading
Aren’t Websites Supposed to Save Money?
Posted on 29. Jun, 2010 by Smiley Cat: Christian Watson's Web Design Blog.
A $6M website A recent BBC news article writes that the British government spent £94M last year developing and running websites. This includes £4M spent on developing the UK Trade and Investment website alone — a site that averages ...Continue Reading
Taking Advantage of HTML5 and CSS3 with Modernizr
Posted on 23. Jun, 2010 by Alex.
Taking Advantage of HTML5 and CSS3 with Modernizr. Learn how to take advantage of everything in HTML5 and CSS3 that is implemented in some browsers, without sacrificing control over the user experience in other browsers.Continue Reading
eCSStender
Posted on 23. Jun, 2010 by Alex.
eCSStender. A JavaScript library that lets you use CSS3 properties and selectors while keeping your code fork- and hack-free. Check ALA's article as well.Continue Reading
9 Usability And UX Pitfalls: Learn How To Avoid Them
Posted on 15. Jun, 2010 by Jacob Creech.
As the web has matured, design has come along with it, but there are still a number of issues that affect usability and user experience that haven’t matured at the same rate as design. If we want to be ahead of the design curve: get more satisfie...Continue Reading
Are Your Error Messages Easily Understood?
Posted on 15. Jun, 2010 by Smiley Cat: Christian Watson's Web Design Blog.
As I was finishing installing Microsoft Office on my home PC, I was presented with this alert: Microsoft Office installation alert message What does this even mean?! What are the consequences if I say yes? Web application error messages and alerts a...Continue Reading
Website Redesign: Big Bang, Gradual or Evolutionary Approach?
Posted on 10. Jun, 2010 by Smiley Cat: Christian Watson's Web Design Blog.
I'd like to look at three approaches to redesigning a website: Big bang — move completely from an old to a new design in one go Gradual — implement the redesign by sections over time Evolutionary — avoid redesigning altogether and ...Continue Reading
JavaScript Physics Engine
Posted on 02. Jun, 2010 by Smiley Cat: Christian Watson's Web Design Blog.
This is a pretty amazing example of what you can do with JavaScript these days. Click around the screen and don’t forget to try shaking your browser window. It works well in Firefox and is even faster in Chrome. You can learn more about this experim...Continue Reading
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