One of the most challenging parts of the web design process is getting design sign off. It can prove time consuming, demoralizing and if you are not careful can lead to a dissatisfied client. What is more you can end up with a design that you are ashamed to include in your portfolio.
How then can you ensure that the design you produce is the one that gets built? How can you get the client to sign off on your design? Below are 10 tips learnt from years of bitter experience.
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An oft repeated question on the online message-boards is how to make web pages render & behave the same in IE, Firefox and other popular browsers. This does not have an easy answer. The incompatibilities are due to the browser wars & the host of non-standard HTML & scripting features that the different browsers have introduced. [...more]
Usability has become a big buzz word, also in combination with websites, and I have read multiple books on the topic in the past years in addition to dealing with the issues every day. What I find most astonishing is how even the most basic rules of usability are ignored on many websites - that is why I decided to make a short list of the worst usability problems I encountered recently.
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The <!–[if IE]> Tag
Problem: Various sizes, margins and padding attributes can display differently in Internet Explorer, this coded snippet can help you sort out these problems.
Add this code with your required settings underneith your pages <style> or external style link:
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Loading an external SWF, levels in Flash
For those who don’t even know about loading external flash files here’s a quick explanation.
You basically start with your main or parent flash movie, now when working with multiple movies you have to remember that each movie including the parent is situated in its own level within the flash environment. The main thing to remember is that all parent flash movies (i.e. the main mo vie from which you wish to load external movies) is running on the _level0. So for example every time you add the action play(); to a frame you are in the eyes of the flash world actually doing this
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Here’s an article for beginners in the practice of CSS Layouts, my reason for writing this one came from remembering the difficulty I once had position elements in CSS. After many frustrating attempts with relative and absolute position techniques I finally found the holy grail of CSS the “Float” attribute!
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Many have written about the Three Click Rule. For instance, Jeffrey Zeldman, the influential web designer, wrote about the three click Rule in his popular book, Taking Your Talent to the Web. He writes that the three click Rule is “based on the way people use the Web” and “the rule can help you create sites with intuitive, logical hierarchical structures”.
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Let’s Face It, web design trends and fads come and go as fast as you can say the word “Trends”. Staying on top of web design trends can be difficult and time consuming, but it is extremely important to not be left behind. One of the best things any web designer can do is to learn the newest trends or fads and put your own spin to them. To stay on top of web design trends you must visit websites, blogs, read books and magazines, which are sometimes difficult to find. The links below are will guide to stay on top of the latest trends in web design.
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After looking for awhile for a script that will crop your image in the browser I decided to put a list together. I found various types of scripts that will accomplish this. The list below is a list of image cropping scripts.
cfImageCropper - This script is written in Coldfusion. The Demo of this script works very well and the code is very simple to implement.
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I really enjoy writing all on my own code and never looked into frameworks. But since I’ve heard these CSS Frameworks save lots of time and are fully tested in all browsers I decided to take a look at them and I put together a list of CSS Frameworks.
- Blueprint CSS framework created by Olav Bjorkoy is a framework that offers an easily customizable grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing. A lot of the CSS in this project is completely based on work by other people, like: Jeff Croft , Nathan Borror, Christian Metts, and Eric Meyer. The Blueprint CSS Framework is available for use in all personal or commercial projects, under both the MIT and the GPL license.
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