Usability for Rich Internet Applications

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Usability for Rich Internet Applications Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Donna Maurer Published on February 20, 2006 After struggling for years to design Internet applications around the limitations of HTML, I have been very excited by the recent release of a range of … Read more

More usability frosting for your accessibility cake

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More usability frosting for your accessibility cake Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Aaron Gustafson Published on April 20, 2005 Mac users are spoiled. It’s a fact we Windows folks have to live with—when it comes to usable interfaces, Mac applications are far ahead. … Read more

Usability: The Site Speaks for Itself

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Usability: The Site Speaks for Itself Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Book Reviews By James McNally Published on November 29, 2002 As Molly Holzschlag points out in the introduction, “This book exists to help web professionals gain perspective, not from the usability pundits … Read more

UsableNet LIFT for Macromedia Dreamweaver

UsableNet LIFT for Macromedia Dreamweaver Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Product Reviews By Jesse Nieminen Published on April 2, 2002 As the use of visual editors continues to grow, so does the need to improve the end product and ensure that the intended … Read more

User-Centered Design for Large Government Portals

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User-Centered Design for Large Government Portals Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Christopher Rusay Published on January 16, 2003 Web site design for a large federal or state government organization can be chaotic and unpredictable. It is not unusual for a large federal agency … Read more

User Experience

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User Experience Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > Pro Dot Con By Peter Fielding Published on September 24, 2001 In a downward spiral from last month’s discussion of community, I lost a bet with Digisect columnist Stephen Van Doren, and agreed to do a … Read more

User Interface Design for Web Applications

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User Interface Design for Web Applications Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Jean Tillman Published on November 12, 2003 This article could be also be titled “Things I Wish I’d Known Before Designing My Latest Web-Based Application.” You see, I had experience designing Web … Read more

User Interface Design – Taking the Good with the Bad

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User Interface Design – Taking the Good with the Bad Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Mike Padilla Published on July 18, 2006 The key to any successful marriage is compromise. While things may not always go the way you want them to, in … Read more

User Interface Implementations of Faceted Browsing

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User Interface Implementations of Faceted Browsing Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Mike Padilla Published on April 29, 2008 Just as it is important to choose the proper knife when slicing-n-dicing vegetables, it is critical to prescribe a suitable user interface to support faceted … Read more

Dr. U. N. Umesh

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Dr. U. N. Umesh Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Interviews By Craig Saila Published on June 26, 2003 Digital Web: You’ll be talking about the future of e-marketing at the WebVisions 2003 conference. But before we get to the future, let’s talk about the past. … Read more

Variable Scope for New Programmers

Variable Scope for New Programmers Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > Behind the Curtain By Jonathan Snook Published on October 17, 2005 I routinely see new programmers running into trouble with the concept of variable scope. It’s an extremely important concept, however, and one … Read more

Veerle Pieters Interview

Veerle Pieters Interview Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Interviews By Carolyn Wood Published on July 24, 2006 Digital Web Magazine: Veerle, you’ve said that a designer’s own site must be “absolutely dripping with all of your design talent” and indeed, your blog received rave reviews … Read more

Visibone Javascript Card / Javascript Foldouts

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Visibone Javascript Card / Javascript Foldouts Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Product Reviews By Jesse Nieminen Published on December 3, 2002 Web designers and developers are used to reading multiple books to keep their skills sharp. The reference materials that help the developer … Read more

Vision Quest

Vision Quest Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Jonathan Follett Published on August 14, 2006 While the web contains a vast quantity of multimedia content—photographs, audio, video, animations—the primary task required of most internet users is reading. From e-mail to instant messages to blogs … Read more

Visual Architecture: The Rule of Three

Visual Architecture: The Rule of Three Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Carole Guevin Published on April 9, 2001 Overview: Visual architecture is applied to the new media design context and defined as the use of a particular method of building visual information and … Read more

Watch Your COGS

Watch Your COGS Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > The Business End By Nick Gould Published on June 26, 2006 As a rule, small design practitioners are required to spend most of their time and energy just keeping their business going, so they have … Read more

Weblogging vs. The Googliath

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Weblogging vs. The Googliath Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Brandon Olejniczak Published on December 31, 2003 I can’t tell you how many times lately I’ve seen somebody or other point out a blog entry—or seven—listed in the top search results for X service … Read more

Review: Website Optimization

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Review: Website Optimization Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Book Reviews By Andrew Stevens Published on November 11, 2008 Those of you familiar with Andrew King’s previous book, Speed Up Your Site: Web Site Optimization, might assume that this latest offering, Website Optimization: Speed, … Read more

Web 2.0 for Designers

In: Columns > Web 2.0 Design: Bootstrapping the Social Web By Richard MacManus By Joshua Porter Published on May 4, 2005 In Web 1.0, a small number of writers created Web pages for a large number of readers. As a result, people could get information by going directly to the source: Adobe.com for graphic design … Read more

The Web Beyond the Desktop

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The Web Beyond the Desktop Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Dave Shea Published on April 1, 2008 Digital video recorders such as Tivo are popular, in part, because they introduced an idea to TV viewing called time shifting. You no longer need to … Read more

Web Designer’s FREElance Toolbox for Windows

Web Designer’s FREElance Toolbox for Windows Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Brian Reindel Published on June 20, 2005 Freelancing for an extra thick wad of greenbacks to pad your back pocket is every Web designer’s dream. Wrangling up your own clients, managing the … Read more

Web Design 101: Backgrounds

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Web Design 101: Backgrounds Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > Web Design 101 By Paul O’Brien Published on May 21, 2007 The CSS background property allows you to apply background colors and images to elements as required. But there are plenty of strange quirks … Read more

Web Design /files/includes/10.css1: Floats

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Web Design /files/includes/10.css1: Floats Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > Web Design /files/includes/10.css1 By Virginia DeBolt Published on September /files/includes/10.css, 2007 As browsers get better and better, creating layouts with CSS becomes easier and easier. A reliable workhorse in CSS layout options is the … Read more

Web Design 101: Photoshop

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Web Design 101: Photoshop Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > Web Design 101 By Anton Peck Published on April 15, 2008 Photoshop promises great power, but can be more than a little challenging when it comes to clarity and patience. New users can easily … Read more

Web design and integrated marketing

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Web design and integrated marketing Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Dirk Knemeyer Published on November 24, 2003 Web design—particularly the Web interface—is far from an island unto itself. Indeed, Web interfaces are only one tangible extension of an organization’s marketing and communications. This … Read more