digiwebs Web Design by Designers Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Kimberly Elam Published on August 26, 2008 Designers are, as a rule, a fussy bunch, and when it comes to their own business communications they’re even more so. Designing a website for an award-winning … Read more
Web Design Contracts: Why Bother Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > The Business End By Nick Gould Published on January 22, 2007 Contract-Shmontract, What’s the Point? In law school, one of the things they teach you in Contracts 101 (usually on the first day) … Read more
The Delicate Art of (Web) Design Critique Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Makiko Itoh Published on November 6, 2001 Since I tend to hang around on various web-related mailing lists, I often see numerous requests for design critiques. Increasingly, this leads me to … Read more
Web Design Essentials, and Robin Williams Web Design Workshop Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Book Reviews By James McNally Published on November 6, 2001 These two recent releases from Peachpit Press (the publisher of the Adobe Press imprint) are aimed at web designers … Read more
Web Design for All the Senses Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > Innovating the Web Experience By Dirk Knemeyer Published on January 12, 2005 My friend, Nathan Shedroff, provides many foundations and definitions for the discipline of experience design in his book experience design … Read more
Excerpting “Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites” Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Kevin Potts Published on September 10, 2007 Websites have become the go-to medium for casual information gathering. Google, Wikipedia, Technorati, and other massive information harvesters offer the world near … Read more
Web Design On A Shoestring Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Book Reviews By James McNally Published on November 21, 2003 First things first. In the interest of full disclosure, I contributed something called a market review of this book to the publishers, New … Read more
Web Page Reconstruction with CSS Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Christopher Schmitt Published on July 2, 2002 Page design and markup Before After CSS and well-structured documents are a combination that can’t be beat. This tutorial looks at how to transform a Web … Read more
Web Presentation Patterns Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > Behind the Curtain By Jonathan Snook Published on January 23, 2006 Patterns structure our lives, whether we think about them or not. A regular bedtime—and morning alarm and lunch time—makes your life easier by removing … Read more
Web Redesign 2.0 Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Book Reviews By Krista Stevens Published on January 26, 2005 Working as a Web professional in today’s world, you will get to design a site only once. If you’re good and lucky, you’ll get to … Read more
Web ReDesign: Workflow That Works Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Book Reviews By James McNally Published on January 3, 2002 Overview I’ve been looking for a good book on the process of web design for a while now. David Siegel’s The Secrets of … Read more
Web-Safe Color Palette Discussion Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Makiko Itoh By Nick Finck Published on May 17, 2001 Back in September 2000, Hadley Stern and David Lehn of Razorfish wrote an article for WebMonkey provocatively titled “Death of the Web-Safe Color Palette.” … Read more
Creative Use of PNG Transparency in Web Design Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Jeff Croft Published on May 28, 2007 PNG, GIF, and JPEG The PNG image has been widely overlooked by the web design community—and mostly for good reason. Until recently, it … Read more
Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Book Reviews By Krista Stevens Published on October 6, 2004 The one thing those who work and play in the world of Web design know to be true is that … Read more
What’s happening? A new look at Web pages Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Miraz Jordan Published on November 6, 2001 Web designers have been involved with the Internet for a long time, at least in Internet years. We begin to take the users … Read more
What happens when the people come? Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By David Eames-Harlan Published on September 24, 2001 Every experienced web designer knows that web statistics are important. Okay, now quick, think of a time when you responded directly to changes in web … Read more
What makes those damn clients so difficult? Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Wanda Cummings Published on October 15, 2000 You know the old saying: an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The same holds true in dealing with clients. Oh … Read more
When Design Motivates Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > DigiSect By Stephen Van Doren Published on January 22, 2002 W e all know the story. A highly talented designer goes out on his own, hoping to strike it rich with some highly dynamic, ultra-slick, … Read more
Where Did My Beautiful Internet Go? Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Sean Madden Published on January 29, 2007 Most web designers worth their salt know the phrase web design is a laughably broad term. Designing for the web entails understanding interaction design, information … Read more
Why Do Web Startups Die? Lack of Alphalpha Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Dave Goldenberg Published on June 10, 2008 Internet startups are generally as successful as a nerd in a singles bar. Ventures that get off the ground rarely get knee-high. Why? … Read more
Why Gecko Doesn’t Matter Yet Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Glenn Davis Published on February 7, 2001 Standards support is a wonderful dream. But in this day it is still just that, a dream. It’s a dream yet that Gecko will make a … Read more
Why Opera? Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Interviews By Matthew Pennell Published on January 7, 2008 When we look at the web browsers available today, we are seeing an increasingly high level of web standards support (including some support for new and future standards such … Read more
Why Textpattern? An Interview with the Authors of Textpattern Solutions Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Interviews By Andrea Schwandt-Arbogast Published on July 2, 2007 Digital Web: Web developers have many options these days when choosing a CMS or blogging engine. Why has Textpattern become your … Read more
Why the Tech Industry Needs to Change Its Language Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Jonathan Follett Published on May 15, 2006 The acronyms and jargon that litter the Internet landscape fail to convey meaning because they’re based on confusing technical specifications with no … Read more
Wildform Flix Pro 2.5 Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Product Reviews By Jesse Nieminen Published on July 30, 2002 If you have recently upgraded to Flash MX, then you might ask, “why do I need a separate video processor for Flash?” Well, if … Read more