There is much hype surrounding website UI design, and a large variety of tools claiming to help optimise the said interface; however, the most useful piece of theory I have found on the topic is dated 1998 and was written by somebody called Talin, whose home page now returns a 404. It was written with reference to program design rather than website design, but I think these 14 principles apply cross-topic.
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Concept for a web application also meant to integrate with facebook; concept didn’t go ahead, but I quite like it, personally. Comments, feedback, constructive criticism would be much appreciated!
Continue reading...Sunday, November 2, 2008
Finally got the time to do these – just some RSS icons in a few different colours and sizes. You can just right-click and save image to your computer. Alternatively there is a link to a zip archive containing all the icons at the bottom of the page. All the images are transparent png files – [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 23, 2008
This is my most recent website design and development project; it went live on Monday and I spent the past three days making sure everything runs smooth, but I think it’s now ready to fly on its own. The website uses table-less, CSS-based layouts; functionality includes secure (passport-protected) areas; contact forms; ad rotators; RSS feeds; customer [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 8, 2008
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An overview of Opera's new free Web Standards development course and a short incursion into the new HTML5 elements and attributes that will potentially change the way we optimise a page for both the user and the search engines.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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