Procreate Painter 7 Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Product Reviews By Jesse Nieminen Published on November 6, 2001 Not long after I wrote my Painter 6 review, Metacreations sold off all of its graphics products to other companies to focus on its web-centric … Read more
Process Design Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > DigiSect By Stephen Van Doren Published on May 14, 2001 The Trials and Tribulations Every designer/developer team goes through a process when designing and implementing a web site. That process is the topic of this column—not … Read more
The Principles of Design Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > Design in Theory and Practice By Joshua David McClurg-Genevese Published on June 13, 2005 Starting with the Basics This column is about Web design—really, it is—though it may at times seem a bit distant … Read more
Principles and Elements of Design Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > Design in Theory and Practice By Joshua David McClurg-Genevese Published on April 17, 2006 In the last three articles, we discussed the fundamental concepts of design. We started with the principles of design—the … Read more
Presenting: Preparation, Process, and Pizzazz Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Lea Alcantara Published on April 9, 2008 When the organizers of SXSW let me know that my panel proposal was accepted and I was going to be one of the presenters at the … Read more
Preparing for Widescreen Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Mike Madaio Published on March 27, 2006 How to build dynamic-width pages now The proliferation of widescreen laptops means several things: DVDs look great from airplanes and hotel rooms Widescreen desktop monitors are not far … Read more
Preparing for Widescreen Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Mike Madaio Published on March 27, 2006 How to build dynamic-width pages now The proliferation of widescreen laptops means several things: DVDs look great from airplanes and hotel rooms Widescreen desktop monitors are not far … Read more
Preparing for standard-compliant browsers, Part 2 Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Makiko Itoh Published on July 9, 2001 This is Part 2 of two articles written specifically with web designers rather than coders in mind, about preparing for World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) … Read more
Preparing for standard-compliant browsers, Part 1 Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Makiko Itoh Published on April 30, 2001 Why You Should Care Standards-compliance has been an issue for web building community for some time and in the last months has really come to … Read more
ppk on JavaScript Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Book Reviews By Mike West Published on November 13, 2006 Very few development resources have embedded themselves in my brain to the degree that Peter-Paul Koch’s QuirksMode has. His was one of the first websites … Read more
Portable Social Networks, The Building Blocks Of A Social Web Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Ben Ward Published on July 1, 2008 Social networks as we know them—MySpace, Facebook, Twitter—each keep identity and personal relationships separate from one another. Every time you join … Read more
Pictoplasma, anime, and DSOS1 Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Book Reviews By Meryl K. Evans Published on February 27, 2002 Art books are reaching new heights and Pictoplasma is one of the first I’ve seen of this new genre. The others are Anime … Read more
Being a PHP Lumberjack Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Daryl L. L. Houston Published on March 23, 2005 How many times have you sat staring blankly at a screen trying to track down an elusive bug? We all know the drill: Stare at … Read more
PHP For Designers In: Articles By Matt Mullenweg Published on March 31, 2004 I first considered calling this “PHP for the aesthetically inclined,” but that sounded pretentious and I’ve always been fond of using the term “designer” in a more universal sense. I have a grand romantic notion of a “designer” being not just the … Read more
PHP and XML Sitting in a Tree Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Kerri Hicks Published on February 4, 2007 There are scores of ways to store, work with, and retrieve data on the web. Simple databases, relational databases, XML, even custom flat files … Read more
PHPitfalls: Five Beginner Mistakes to Avoid Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Daryl L. L. Houston Published on October 6, 2004 What, a beginner make mistakes? Cruising through developer forums, we’ve all seen it: A new post with a subject line that reads: newbie … Read more
Photoshop vs Fireworks Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Interviews By Nathan Smith Published on July 22, 2008 Photoshop. Fireworks. If you’re a serious web designer (and not using the GIMP) you’re going to be using one or the other. But which is best? I recently … Read more
Photoshop Plugin Roundup 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 Third party developers have further expanded the power of Photoshop as a creative and production tool. for several years. Here are a few recent arrivals … Read more
Peter Morville and Lou Rosenfeld Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Interviews By Meryl K. Evans Published on December /files/includes/10.css, 2002 IA Process Challenges Organizations, Businesses, and Uses IA Process Digital Web: We hear about Little IA and Big IA; tell us about these definitions and … Read more
Peter Merholz and Nathan Shedroff Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Interviews By Meryl K. Evans Published on October 8, 2002 Understanding UCD Business of UCD The Process Understanding UCD Digital Web: What is user-centered design (UCD)? What are its benefits? Problems? Peter Merholz: Contrary to … Read more
Persuasive Navigation Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > IAnything Goes By Jeff Lash Published on December 17, 2002 Persuasive navigation is navigation that persuades a user to do something. That something can be anything that you want the user to do—buy a product, sign … Read more
By Ashmita Goswami Published on January 8, 2003 Before pursuing specific recommendations for Ford.com, Razorfish created this document to illustrate the complexity and considerations of the globalization process. The document defines common globalization terms, discusses reasons companies go global and methods of identifying and prioritizing of markets, identifies challenges faced by companies that have pursued … Read more
Perfection Meets Reality Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > View Source By Garrett Dimon Published on November 13, 2006 It’s easy to sit back and preach about how a web team should operate, but it’s rare that we really consider and appreciate the realities … Read more
Packaging Design for Web-based Products Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Luke Wroblewski Published on December 4, 2006 Rip. Crinkle. Pop. The sounds of unpacking that eagerly anticipated product you just brought home from the store are music to the ears. Each successive layer … Read more
Organizing Images with a Database Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Matt Thommes Published on May 30, 2005 With the advent of Flickr, images have proven to be a powerful way to communicate on the Web—even more effective than words. Flickr is a massive … Read more