Website Design and Development
There's two ways to get a website developed – pay, or design it yourself. If you've chosen the latter, you'll need several things. First, you'll need web hosting. Web hosting can range from $2 to $200 per month, depending on your needs. Consult a web hosting review site for more information. Next, you'll have [...]
10 Usability Principles to guide you through the Web Design Maze
1. Motivate: Design your site to meet specific user needs and goals. Use motivators to draw different user "personae" into specific parts of your site. 2. User task flow: Who are your users? What are their tasks and online environment? For a site to be usable, page flow must match workflow. 3. Architecture – it's [...]
5 Tips for a Better User Experience on Your Site
Any good web publisher knows that it isn’t just content that keep readers reading and visitors returning. Interface design can be just as important as quality content. A bad website design can drive your audience away or seriously erode their confidence, just as they're coming through the door. Without some sound design tactics you [...]
Gearing up for HTML 5
As a web designer / developer, we should be semantic about the ways we do our HTML coding so that I can be readable and understandable for you as the designer/developer as well as a project team mate (if your working on a project development group or team). xHTML is currently the standard but there's [...]
Twitter Tutorials and Tools For Designers and Developers
Twitter appears on innumerable personal and professional websites nowadays, whether it is a simple “Follow me” badge in the header or a display of the author’s latest tweets in the sidebar. No longer a fad, Twitter is now a necessity for every website, not just for sharing your thoughts and keeping in touch with people, [...]
10 Ways to Improve Web Performance (Front End Side)
There are so many ways to boost your website’s performance. These methods vary and some are more involved than others. This article written by Jacob Gube entitled "10 Ways to Improve your Web Performance" focuses on front-end performance since it’s the easiest to work on and provides you the most bang for your buck. and also [...]
