Posts Tagged ‘readability’
Do aesthetics need to be compromised for the sake of usability?
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Posted in Design on the 06-11-2009 | 25 Comments
Gerry McGovern seems to believe designers are more concerned with aesthetics than usability. Do you agree? Is either more important?
131. Version Control
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Posted in Podcast on the 20-08-2008 | Comments Off
In this weeks show Ryan and Stanton return to talk about the importance of version control and answer your questions on project management and invoicing applications, download sizes and page weight.
119. Fluid Elastic
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Posted in Podcast on the 28-05-2008 | 10 Comments
On this week’s show Ed Merritt joins us to discuss fluid, elastic layouts and we take a look at PHP Designer, a feature rich code editor.
117. Friendly
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Posted in Podcast on the 14-05-2008 | 19 Comments
On this week’s show, we review woopra, a google analytics alternative and we explore why friendly urls are so important and what tools are out there to help you set them up.
103. Bargain basement
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Posted in Podcast on the 04-12-2007 | 21 Comments
On this week’s show: Paul looks at doing usability testing on a budget. Marcus explores the perfect working environment and we review writemaps an excellent online tool for creating site hierarchies.
Show 97: FoWA
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Posted in Podcast on the 09-10-2007 | 17 Comments
On this week’s show: Paul proposes tactics for overcoming design by committee. Marcus talks about extracting a budget from clients and Dan Cederholm compares pixels, ems and percentages.
Paying the price of tables
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Posted in Tech/Development on the 18-05-2006 | 11 Comments
Barely a week goes by that I fail to rant about why we should banish table based design and yet here I sit struggling because I failed to heed my own advice.
The humble hypertext link
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Posted in Design on the 19-01-2006 | 8 Comments
The ability to link one web page to another is so fundamental to the web that it is often overlooked as just too darn obvious. Amidst more exciting subjects like AJAX, accessibility or web 2.0 the humble hypertext link is often forgotten. Well, no more. I am here to make a stand, to campaign for the rights of this downtrodden tag.
Making content accessible
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Posted in Accessibility on the 03-10-2005 | 1 Comment
Isn’t it funny how so many people who claim to be committed to website accessibility (myself included) tend to ignore the more subjective criteria of the WAI guidelines?
Design 101: Colour
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Posted in Design on the 15-10-2004 | 3 Comments
In the first of my series on the basics of good web design I tackled how to handle branding. In this article I want to deal with the more subjective issue of colour. How do you choose the right colour palette?
Art direction on the web
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Posted in Design on the 29-06-2004 | No Comments
Your site might be the easiest to use, most accessible site in the world but without a good concept it may well fail to sell.
Colour on the web
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Posted in Design on the 16-06-2004 | 2 Comments
How to choose the right colours for your website
