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 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 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
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 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
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
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 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
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 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
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 /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: 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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